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Peterborough Regional Health Centre's COVID-19 assessment centre opened in April 2020 to respond to the community need for COVID-19 assessment and testing. In December 2022, the clinic expanded its services to provide assessment, testing, and treatment for patients with respiratory symptoms from colds and flu as well as COVID-19. (Photo: PRHC)

Peterborough and Lindsay hospitals are both closing their COVID-19 clinics

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Expanded to treat cold and flu as well as COVID-19, PRHC clinic closes after March 31 and Ross Memorial Hospital clinic closes March 24.
On May 21, 2022, a derecho windstorm moved across southeastern Ontario, resulting in sustained winds of up to 120 kilometre per hour that toppled hydro transmission towers and broke utility poles, damaged homes, and uprooted trees, with broken branches also taking down power lines and damaging property. (Photo: Bruce Head / kawarthaNOW)

Four municipalities in greater Kawarthas region receiving almost $1.2 million in provincial disaster recovery...

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Funding under Municipal Disaster Recovery Assistance program will cover extraordinary costs and damage as result of May 21, 2022 wind storm.
Pictured here in 1999, Joyce Echaquan was a 37-year-old Indigenous woman and mother of seven who died on September 28, 2020 in a Quebec hospital. Before her death, she recorded a Facebook Live video that showed her screaming in distress and health care workers abusing her. She was later given morphine, despite her concerns she would have an adverse reaction to it, and died later that day of a pulmonary edema. (Photo: Alice Echaquan)

Ensuring health equity for all means eliminating racial discrimination

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Peterborough health and political leaders speak out on International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination.
Hikers at the base of the James Cooper Lookout Trail in Haliburton Highlands during the annual Hike Haliburton Festival, one of four festivals in the greater Kawarthas region among the list of the top 100 festivals and events in Ontario by Festivals and Events Ontario. (Photo: Hike Haliburton Festival / My Haliburton Highlands)

Four festivals in greater Kawarthas region among top 100 festivals and events in Ontario

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Awards presented to Hike Haliburton Festival, Tweed & Company Theatre in Hastings County, Port Hope Arts Festival, and Port Hope Candlelight Festival.
Members of the Peterborough Peace Council at their monthly vigil on the corner of George and MacDonnel streets in Peterborough on March 28, 2022. The group, which has held its monthy vigil consistently for the past eight years, will apply to form a local chapter of World Beyond War, a global nonviolent movement to end war and establish a just and sustainable peace. (Photo courtesy of Peterborough Peace Council)

Peterborough Peace Council aims to become first Ontario chapter of global World Beyond War...

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Group will hold its 96th monthly vigil in a row on March 27, and will 'reclaim' Mother's Day at May 11 presentation.
The Ontario Maple Syrup Producers Association's Maple Weekend takes place on April 1 and 2, 2023, when many producers offer trips to the sugar bush, free samples of fresh maple syrup and confections, pancake breakfasts, sugar-making demonstrations, taffy on snow, horse-drawn sleigh rides, and more. (Photo: Ontario Maple Syrup Producers Association)

Maple syrup season is in full swing in the greater Kawarthas region

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Season culminates first weekend of April with Sunderland Maple Syrup Festival and Maple Weekend.
Cars on a snow-covered road during a winter storm. (Stock photo)

Winter weather travel advisory in effect for Kawarthas region this weekend

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Snow squalls and scattered bands of heavy snow expected with snowfall amounts of 5 to 10 cm possible.
A photo used to promote the original table reading of Toby McShane's one-act black comedy "Cherubs" in London, U.K. in 2021. Ctrl-ART-Del, a new theatre company in Haliburton Highlands producing theatre by and for young adults, is producing the Canadian premiere of the play at the Northern Lights Performing Arts Pavilion in Haliburton on March 31 and April 1, 2023. (Photo: Thais Silva)

New theatre company in Haliburton Highlands working to ‘reboot’ theatre for young adults

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Ctrl-ART-Del presents its inaugural production, the Canadian premiere of black comedy 'Cherubs', in Haliburton on March 31 and April 1.
Containment barriers in place for a fuel oil spill, discovered on March 16, 2023, at the south end of Jackson Creek where it empties into Little Lake in downtown Peterborough. (kawarthaNOW screenshot of video by Christina Abbott)

Another fuel oil spill discovered in Jackson Creek in downtown Peterborough

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City of Peterborough is working to clean up the spill where creek meets Little Lake, the same location of a fuel spill last August .
Warkworth musician Matthew Holtby, who recently released his single "This Old Heart", and Millbrook's Deanna Earle will be opening for Port Hope country-folk singer-songwriter Nickola Magnolia at the Ganaraska Hotel in Port Hope on Saturday night. (Photo: Bryan Reid)

nightlifeNOW – March 16 to 22

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Featuring live music listings at pubs and restaurants in Peterborough and the greater Kawarthas region.
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