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Lindsay Barr and Melissa Payne are the headliners for 'Labour Jam Weekend', a free two-day music festival featuring 11 local musicial acts performing in the courtyard of Peterborough Square in downtown Peterborough on September 2 and 3, 2022. (Photos: Samantha Moss / Bryan Reid)

‘Labour Jam Weekend’ brings two days of free live local music to downtown Peterborough

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Lindsay Barr and Melissa Payne headline line-up of 11 musical acts performing at 'groovy' music festival in Peterborough Square courtyard September 2 and 3.
Some of the $38,000 worth of stolen laptops and tablets, government-issued identification cards, cheques, and banking and tax documents Cobourg police recovered from the vehicle of a 30-year-old Cobourg man, who faces 42 charges with more charges pending. (Police-supplied photo)

Cobourg man faces 42 charges after police recover over $38,000 in stolen property

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Laptops, tablets, and documents were allegedly stolen from vehicles and mailboxes including in Durham and York regions.
Runner Joel Kimmett (left), Eileen Kimmett, Clay Williams, and Julie Chatten (representing Peterborough-Kawartha MPP Dave Smith) at the Peterborough Lift Lock on August 23, 2022, the fourth day of the annual Canal Pursuit for Mental Health, a 700-kilmetre relay run from Port Severn to Ottawa. Williams began the run in 2015, which has since raised almost $100,000 for Mood Disorders Society of Canada, to raise awareness and end the stigma around mental health issues. The Canadian flag has been signed by hundreds of people Williams has met during the eight years of the run, including the first two years when he ran the entire route himself. (Photo courtesy of Eileen Kimmett)

700-km relay run from Port Severn to Ottawa raising awareness and funds for mental...

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Ending the stigma around mental health issues a key goal of Clay Williams, who began the Canal Pursuit for Mental Health in 2015 .
The existing federal electoral districts in the greater Kawarthas region with the boundary changes proposed by the Federal Electoral Boundaries Commission for Ontario. (Graphic: kawarthaNOW from Federal Electoral Boundaries Commission for Ontario)

Proposed federal electoral map means significant changes for Peterborough and greater Kawarthas ridings

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Peterborough-Kawartha riding would get smaller and shift south, Hastings-Lennox and Addington and Haliburton-Kawartha Lakes-Brock ridings would get larger.
An OPP police car with lights flashing. (Photo: Ontario Provincial Police)

Two dead in separate collisions in Peterborough County where vehicles went into ditches

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Two Saturday evening collisions happened north of Buckhorn and north of Norwood.
Severe thunderstorm

ENDED – Severe thunderstorm warning in effect for southern Peterborough and Kawartha Lakes late...

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Total rainfall amounts could be in excess of 50 mm.
Victoria Park Beach in Cobourg. (Photo: Town of Cobourg)

The Beach Report for August 19 to 25, 2022

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Water quality testing results for beaches in Peterborough, Kawartha Lakes, Haliburton, Northumberland, and Hastings and Prince Edward.
ReFrame Film Festival creative director Amy Siegel and festival director Jay Adam pictured in 2019. (Photo: ReFrame Film Festival)

Peterborough’s ReFrame Film Festival announces departure of festival director and creative director

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Festival board seeking new festival director for when Jay Adam leaves in September, with creative director Amy Siegel staying on until late fall.
After working for years as a composer, multi-instrumentalist, and performer with some of the world's most celebrated circus companies, Montreal's Hallarsen (Ben Nesralla) is returning to his folk singer-songwriter roots steeped in the traditions of old-time, bluegrass, and country music. Hallarsen is performing at the Black Horse in downtown Peterborough on Wednesday, August 24. (Promotional photo)

nightlifeNOW – August 18 to 24

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Featuring live music listings at pubs and restaurants in Peterborough and the greater Kawarthas region.
Shelagh Grant, who passed away in 2020 at the age of 82, was an award-winning author, historian, Arctic expert, and avid canoeist who was involved in the founding of the Canadian Canoe Museum in Peterborough and was a long-time supporter.

Family of late Peterborough historian Shelagh Grant donates $250,000 to new Canadian Canoe Museum

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An expert on the Arctic and an avid canoeist, Grant was involved in museum's founding and was a long-time supporter.
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