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An Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) police car. (Photo: OPP)

Police make arrest after man with gunshot wounds dropped off Tuesday at Cobourg hospital

Northumberland OPP continue to investigate; victim has been identified and is in stable condition in Toronto hospital.
100 Women Who Care Kawartha Lakes presented a $14,550 donation to the Fenelon Falls Senior Citizens' Club on March 1, 2023 in Lindsay. (Photo courtesy of 100 Women Who Care Kawartha Lakes)

100 Women Who Care Kawartha Lakes donates $14,550 to Fenelon Falls Senior Citizens’ Club

Club will use the funds to improve the rental facilities at Fenelon Falls Senior Citizens Centre,
New Stages Theatre brings (left to right, top and bottom) Shawn Wright, Beau Dixon, Linda Kash, and Peyton LeBarr to Market Hall Performing Arts Centre in downtown Peterborough on March 26, 2023, for a one-night-only staged reading of acclaimed Canadian playwright Daniel MacIvor's bittersweet comedy "New Magic Valley Fun Town". (kawarthaNOW collage of supplied photos)

All-star cast performs staged reading of ‘New Magic Valley Fun Town’ in Peterborough on...

New Stages brings Shawn Wright, Beau Dixon, Linda Kash, and Peyton LeBarr to Market Hall stage for playwright Daniel MacIvor's bittersweet comedy.
Toronto-based Americana singer-songwriter and guitarist Jerry Leger, who recently released his new four-song EP "Live From Paradise", is performing an early Friday evening show at Jethro's Bar + Stage in downtown Peterborough. (Photo: Laura Proctor)

nightlifeNOW – March 9 to 15

Featuring live music listings at pubs and restaurants in Peterborough and the greater Kawarthas region.
In 2023, Globus Theatre is celebrating its 20th anniversary season, including 17 years as company-in-residence at the Lakeview Arts Barn at 2300 Pigeon Lake Road in Bobcaygeon, by presenting an extended season of plays, music, and comedy as it continues its capital campaign to purchase the Lakeview Arts Barn. (Photo: Dahlia Katz)

Globus Theatre is celebrating its 20th anniversary with an extended season of plays, music,...

Bobcaygeon professional theatre company will present nine mainstage shows and four one-night-only performances in 2023.
The musical comedy "Something Rotten!" opened on Broadway in 2015 where it played for 708 performances. A love letter to musical theatre and a satirical spectacle that pokes fun at everything audiences adore about Broadway, The Peterborough Theatre Guild's production runs for 10 performances in April and May.

‘Funniest musical comedy in at least 400 years’ opens at the Peterborough Theatre Guild...

Running from April 28 to May 13, Broadway hit 'Something Rotten!' is a hilarious spoof of Shakespeare and a love letter to musical theatre.
Peterborough Public Library

Peterborough Public Library to be recognized as Gord Downie & Chanie Wenjack Fund Legacy...

Legacy Spaces are safe and welcoming places encouraging conversations and education about Indigenous history and reconciliation.
A Cobourg police vehicle. (Photo: Cobourg Police Service)

Cobourg police seek witnesses following early Tuesday morning shooting

Man was dropped off at Northumberland Hills Hospital suffering critical gunshot wound.
SIRCH Community Services of Haliburton County is auctioning off a 104-square-foot bunkie built by participants in SIRCH's Basics of Carpentry program, which gives trainees the carpentry skills they need to gain employment in the construction industry. The auction runs from March 9 to 25, 2023 at nonprofitbidding.org, with proceeds supporting SIRCH programs. (Photo courtesy of SIRCH Community Services)

Bid on a bunkie and support SIRCH Community Services in Haliburton County

Valued at $8,000, bunkie was built by participants in not-for-profit organization's Basics of Carpentry employment training program.
Former Peterborough mayor and city councillor Jack Doris (second from right) in the 1980s with the late Peter Adams (left) when he was MPP for Peterborough, community activist John Taylor (the late father of kawarthaNOW publisher Jeannine Taylor), and the late community activist Bruce Knapp, during a fundraiser for McKellar Hamilton Park, now known as the John Taylor Memorial Park. (Photo: Jeannine Taylor)

Former Peterborough mayor and city councillor Jack Doris has passed away

First elected in 1967, Doris was city's longest-serving municipal politician until his retirement in 2014.

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