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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.
Upset residents confronted workers at Bonnerworth Park in Peterborough on November 6, 2024 as heavy machinery began preparatory work for the city's $4.4 million redevelopment of the greenspace, which would see the installation of an expanded skateboard park, a new bike pump track, and 14 pickleball courts. Since then, construction work at the park has continued, despite efforts by the Friends of Bonnerworth Park citizen group to get a hearing in court for a stop-work injunction. (Photo: Taras Pater)

Two major setbacks for citizen group fighting City of Peterborough’s Bonnerworth Park redevelopment

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Friends of Bonnerworth Park has learned its legal counsel is withdrawing from the case and a court hearing won't happen on November 25.
New Stages Theatre's artistic director Mark Wallace was one of 33 delegations to Peterborough city council on November 12, 2024 during a public meeting on the city's 2025 draft budget, which proposes a 25 per cent across-the-board cut to city funding for 75 community organizations. The cuts would save $286,000, which is less than one per cent of one per cent of the city's $411 million operating budget. (kawarthaNOW screenshot of City of Peterborough video)

‘These cuts will be more damaging to the city’s economic future than any dollars...

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Peterborough city council hears from 33 public delegations on draft budget, including 17 community organizations that would be affected by proposed 25% cuts.
A rally is taking place on November 12, 2024 at Peterborough city hall to protest a proposed 25 per cent reduction in funding to arts and social services organizations in the city's 2025 draft budget. The rally will take place at 4 p.m., prior to a public meeting at 6 p.m. where where city council's general committee will hear from members of the community about the draft 2025 budget. (Graphic: Community Race Relations Committee of Peterborough)

Rally planned for Peterborough city hall Tuesday afternoon to protest proposed cuts to community...

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The city's draft 2025 budget proposes a 25% across-the-board funding cut affecting 75 arts and social services organizations.
Trent Valley Archives Theatre's second history play is a fictionalized account of the perilous six-week journey of the John Barry, the last of the nine Peter Robinson emigrant transport ships to leave Ireland for Canada in 1825. Written by Ed Schroeter and Gerry McBride based on the journals of the ship's surgeon, "Crossing Over" will be performed from May 29 to 31, 2025, at Market Hall Performing Arts Centre in downtown Peterborough. Tickets are available now for the production, which is a fundraiser for Trent Valley Archives. (AI-generated image via Freepik)

Trent Valley Archives Theatre’s new play depicts the John Barry’s perilous six-week voyage from...

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Running from May 29 to 31, 2025, 'Crossing Over' commemorates the 200th anniversary of Irish settlers arrival in the Peterborough area.
Peterborough City Hall is located at 500 George Street in downtown Peterborough. (Photo: Bruce Head / kawarthaNOW)

City of Peterborough’s draft 2025 budget includes 25% cut to community organizations and elimination...

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Elimination of Art Gallery of Peterborough funding among 'discretionary' reductions to reduce proposed property tax hike from 7.8% to 5%.
Peterborough Mayor Jeff Leal announced the release of the 15-recommendation report of the Mayor's Task Force for Housing Creation at a media event on November 5, 2024 in front of of Ashburnham Realty's six-storey building currently under construction along the Rotary Greenway Trail just north of Robinson Street in Peterborough's East City. (Photo: Bruce Head / kawarthaNOW)

‘Build, build, build’: Peterborough mayor Jeff Leal releases task force on housing creation report

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Report includes 15 recommendations to speed up development, cut building costs, and foster partnerships.
Members of the Mayor's Task Force for Housing Creation, a group of builders and housing development professionals that will assist the City of Peterborough as it works to meet its provincially assigned target of 4,700 new housing units by 2031, meeting with Peterborough Mayor Jeff Leal. (Photo: City of Peterborough)

Peterborough Mayor Jeff Leal to release housing creation task force report

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Media event takes place in East City at site of Ashburnham Realty's six-storey residential development along the Rotary Greenway Trail.
Peterborough marketer, volunteer, and fundraiser Phillip Jolicoeur was named Business Citizen of the Year at the Peterborough and the Kawarthas Chamber of Commerce's annual Business Excellence Awards at Showplace Performance Centre in downtown Peterborough on October 29, 2024. (Photo: Phillip Jolicoeur / Facebook)

Marketer, volunteer, and fundraiser Phillip Jolicoeur named Peterborough’s Business Citizen of the Year

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Peterborough and the Kawarthas Chamber of Commerce handed out its annual 2024 Business Excellence Awards at Showplace Tuesday night.
A promotional photo from 4th Line Theatre for "Wild Irish Geese" written by and starring Peterborough's Megan Murphy (right) and directed by Kim Blackwell. The play, which tells the story of the impoverished Irish settlers who came to Peterborough in 1825 under an emigration plan administered by Upper Canada politician Peter Robinson, makes its world premiere at the Winslow Farm in Millbrook from July 29 to August 30, 2025. Earlier in July, 4th Line will also present the world premiere of "The Housekeeper" by Ian McLachlan and Robert Winslow, which is the fourth in a series of plays by McLachlan and Winslow about the Barnardo children. (Photo: Wayne Eardley / Brookside Studio)

Megan Murphy’s ‘highly anticipated’ play about Irish settlers in Peterborough debuts at 4th Line...

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Along with 'Wild Irish Geese', Millbrook outdoor theatre company will present world premiere of Ian McLachlan and Robert Winslow's play 'The Housekeeper'.
Sam Sayer and Owen Walsh, who run the Love you, Mean it restaurant in downtown Peterborough, are two of the 24 local entrepreneurs operating 21 businesses that are participating in Community Futures Peterborough's first intake of the provincially funded Starter Company Plus program. The not-for-profit organization, which is the new home of the Business Advisory Centre previously delivered by Peterborough & the Kawarthas Economic Development, announced the participants at a media event in the lobby of the Venture North building in downtown Peterborough on October 25, 2024. (Photo courtesy of Community Futures Peterborough)

21 local businesses to participate in Community Futures Peterborough’s revamped Starter Company Plus program

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Upon successfully completing the program, participating entrepreneurs will receive up to $5,000 to start or grow their businesses.
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