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Bruce Head is kawarthaNOW.com's managing editor, chief technical officer, and a contributing writer. If he has any spare time, he enjoys songwriting, playing acoustic guitar, and taking photos of Cait the border collie.
Artist collective Atelier Ludmila is presenting "Granny and The Starchild Winter Solstice Celebration" on Friday, December 21, 2018 in downtown Peterborough, featuring a drummer-led lantern parade and five special stages with dancers, musicians, and puppets performing in and around Peterborough Square. Pictured is the 2017 lantern parade, led by the Starchild. (Photo: Andy Carroll)

Celebrate the return of the light on the winter solstice

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'Granny & The Starchild Winter Solstice Celebration' takes place in downtown Peterborough on Friday night.
Sana Virji and Ribat Chowdhury, co-founders of Ribitt, which has recently raised $600,000 in seed round funding for an additional expansion of the company's free mobile rewards app to businesses across Canada. (Photo: Ribitt)

businessNOW – December 17, 2018

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Featuring Ribitt, Flying Colours Corp, Mike's Tattoo, The Food Forest, natural gas for Fenelon Falls, business events in the New Year, and more.
Acclaimed musician Bahamas (Afie Jurvanen) is performing at Showplace Performance Centre in downtown Peterborough on Monday, March 25, 2019. (Publicity photo)

Peterborough Folk Festival bringing Bahamas back to Showplace in March

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Toronto musician's latest critically acclaimed record 'Earthtones' nominated for a Grammy.
Trent University student Sarah Miller received her promotion to shodan (first degree black belt) during a ceremony at the Trent Judo Club on December 10, 2018. She is the first female at the club to obtain a black belt. (Supplied photo)

Trent Judo Club celebrates its first female black belt

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Trent University nursing student Sarah Miller began practising judo when she was three years old.
Seven Peterborough-area entrepreneurs have received $28,000 in grants as part of the sixth intake the Starter Company Plus program, funded by the Government of Ontario and administered by the Peterborough & the Kawarthas Business Advisory Centre. (Photo: Peterborough & The Kawarthas Economic Development)

businessNOW – December 10, 2018

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Featuring Starter Company Plus grant recipients, Kavtek and Monaghan Lumber, Venture13, Bloom Digital Media, upcoming business events, and more.
Serena Ryder's new video for the title track from her new record "Christmas Kisses" supports the Ontario SPCA by featuring more than 20 dogs, with some dressed in festive outfits and some giving kisses to their humans. Several dogs and their owners from the Kawarthas appear in the video. (Screenshot)

Serena Ryder’s new video features several Kawarthas pooches and their owners

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'Christmas Kisses' supports Ontario SPCA while promoting Millbrook musician's new Christmas jazz record,
The lobby of VentureNorth in downtown Peterborough, the location of many of the area's economic development organizations, is decorated for the holidays in advance of a Christmas celebration, one of several business-related holiday celebrations on the afternoon of December 4, 2018. (Photo: VentureNorth)

businessNOW – December 3, 2018

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Featuring VentureNorth, City of Peterborough, Brianna Gosselin, Ella & Duke Salon and Spa, Boardwalk Board Game Lounge, MyDaughter Life Enrichment Service, and more.
Dr. Wilbert Willoughby Belch with his replica penny-farthing "high wheel" bicycle in 1967 at Canada's centennial celebration in Jackson Park in Peterborough. You can see the replica bike as part of the The Bicycle Museum's pop-up exhibit at the Peterborough Public Library, which opens on December 3, 2018 and runs until January. (Photo courtesy of The Bicycle Museum)

Experience Peterborough’s rich cycling history at the Peterborough Public Library in December

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The Bicycle Museum pop-up exhibit features a replica high wheel bicycle and historical images.
Peterborough resident Rob Wilkes took this photo earlier in November 2018 of an eastern coyote walking down a sidewalk on Waterford Street near downtown Peterborough, across the Otonabee River from Rotary Park. Also known as a coywolf, the animal originated as a coyote-wolf hybrid 100 years ago in Algonquin Park, and has since also bred with domesticated dogs. (Photo courtesy of Rob Wilkes)

Have you seen a coywolf in Peterborough?

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From Peterborough to the northeastern U.S., the population of this made-in-Ontario coyote-wolf hybrid is increasing
The City of Kawartha Lakes has launched its Million Dollar Makeover funding program to support property and business owners in improving the commercial, mixed-use, or heritage designated residential buildings. Loans are available to property and business owners across the City of Kawartha Lakes and matching fund grants are available to properties within the downtown areas of Lindsay, Omemee, Coboconk, Norland, and Fenelon Falls. (Photo: City of Kawartha Lakes)

businessNOW – November 19, 2018

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Featuring Kawartha Lakes' Million Dollar Makeover, Farm Family of the Year, TD Canada Trust donation, Cubs' Lair finalists, Boardwalk Cafe, Lindsay Christmas tree giveaway, and more.
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