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The Kawartha Home Hardware building at 24 Queen Street, which was destroyed by fire on October 9, 2025, is being demolished because of extensive structural damage and urgent safety concerns. (Photo: James Forrester)

Lakefield’s Queen Street closed for another week as demolition of fire-ravaged Kawartha Home Hardware...

Selwyn Township is encouraging residents and visitors to support downtown businesses, which remain open to serve customers.
For the past 27 years, the CPKC Holiday Train has been touring Canada and the United States to raise money, food, and awareness for the important work that food banks do in their communities. Professional musicians play free concerts from the brightly decorated train's stage, with CPKC donating to the local food bank at each stop and encouragingall attendees to make a monetary or food donation of their own. (Photo: CKPC)

CPKC Holiday Train stopping in Cobourg on November 29

Raising awareness and funds for food banks, the train's Cobourg stop will feature a free concert by Canadian country artists Jade Eagleson and Teigen Gayse.
Veteran Peterborough singer-songwriter and guitarist Pat Temple performs his signature blend of western swing, jump blues, rockabilly, and roadhouse soul with The Hilo Players (Kyler Tapscott, Rob Foreman, and Brian Ferguson) at the Peterborough Musicians Benevolent Association's Deluxe Live show at The Social in downtown Peterborough on Saturday afternoon, also featuring Dave MacQuarrie and Corey Biswanger of The Wild Cards. (Photo: Pat Temple and the Hilo Players / Facebook)

nightlifeNOW – October 16 to 22

Featuring live music listings at pubs and restaurants in Peterborough and the greater Kawarthas region.
Trent/Fleming School of Nursing dean Dr. Hugo Lehmann and associate dean Dr. Ellen Buck-McFadyen, nurse practitioner and Trent University clinical instructor Erinne Stevens, donors Brad Holland and Bryan Davies, and Trent University provost and vice-president Dr. Mark Skinner in front of the new donor-funded community health outreach vehicle that the Peterborough Community Health Centre will use to improve primary healthcare services to rural and Indigenous communities in Peterborough County while also providing nursing students with practical experience. (Photo courtesy of Trent University)

Trent University and Peterborough Community Health Centre launch new outreach vehicle to serve rural...

Donor-funded vehicle will provide low-barrier primary healthcare in Havelock, Ennismore, and Hiawatha while offering hands-on experience for nursing students.
Theatrical performer Naomi Duvall, singer-songwriter Georgia Fisher, and drag performer Sahira the Djinn are three of the six artists participating in the inaugural "Rough Cuts" presented by Public Energy Performing Arts at The Theatre On King in downtown Peterborough on October 25, 2025. Along with filmmaker Angel Hamilton, theatre artist and spoken word artist Charlotte Kennedy, and multidisciplinary artist Hartley Stephenson, the artists will test-drive their works-in-progress before an audience. (All photos by Andy Carroll)

Peterborough artists to share their works-in-progress in inaugural ‘Rough Cuts’ on October 24

Public Energy Performing Arts invites audiences to share in the creative process with six participating artists at The Theatre On King.
Demolished in 2015, the Millbrook Correctional Centre was Ontario's only maximum security prison for short-term inmates and was in operation from 1957 to 2003. Local actor and writer Lindsay Wilson is working with Millbrook's 4th Line Theatre to write a play about the former prison called "The Penn," named after the Millbrook restaurant her grandparents ran from 1957 to 1963. (Photo: mikeonline.ca)

4th Line Theatre hosting community reminiscence event this fall about former Millbrook prison

October 25 gathering at Millbrook Legion will aid in development of Lindsay Wilson's forthcoming play 'The Penn'.
A Peterborough police car with lights flashing at night. (Photo: Peterborough Police Service)

Peterborough man faces multiple charges after violent disturbance in East City

Police say the 37-year-old used a two-by-four to smash a business window, damage vehicles, and assault a resident on Monday night.
United Way Peterborough & District CEO Jim Russell and Bev Assinck of Peterborough Action for Tiny Homes (PATH) hold up clothing on October 8, 2025 during the launch of the annual Coats for Community campaign at PATH's location at 385 Lansdowne Street East in Peterborough. (Photo: United Way Peterborough & District)

Donations begin this week as United Way Peterborough & District and PATH kick off...

Donations of winter essentials will be accepted October 16-18 and then throughout the fall and winter to support people in need of all ages.
Volunteers with "Porch Pirates for Good" will be driving around Peterborough on October 25, 2025 to collect donated items for Kawartha Food Share that residents leave on their front porches. In the last five years, the Porch Pirates for Good food drives have brought in over 185,000 pounds of food and over $20,000 in monetary donations. (Photo: Kawartha Food Share)

‘Porch Pirates for Good’ food drive returns to Peterborough on October 25

City residents are asked to leave a bag of non-perishable food items on their front porch for Kawartha Food Share.
Port Hope police recovered $7,021 in stolen goods from three Toronto women in a shoplifting scheme in Port Hope and Cobourg. (Photo: Port Hope police)

Three Toronto women charged after $7,000 shoplifting scheme in Port Hope and Cobourg

Police say suspects used long skirts modified with zippered compartments to conceal stolen goods.

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