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A conceptual rendering of the $62-million arena complex under construction in Morrow Park at Lansdowne and Park streets. (Illustration: Perkins&Will)

City of Peterborough’s new $62-million arena complex to be named Miskin Law Community Complex

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City council's general committee endorsed staff recommendation that would see local litigation firm provide $600,000 to the city over 10 years.
An OPP police car with lights flashing. (Photo: Ontario Provincial Police)

Police say a 79-year-old woman found dead in Fenelon Falls last week was murdered

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An arrest warrant has been issued for 48-year-old Stephen Whiteway of Fenelon Township, who is charged with second-degree murder.
The Peterborough Downtown Business Improvement Area (DBIA)'s second annual 'Halloween in the BOOro' takes place on October 28, 2023 and features free family-friendly activities including trick or treating and late-night shopping at more than 40 downtown businesses, with scary and not-so-scary characters wandering downtown streets, a kid-friendly haunted house, and a self-guided interactive Halloween scavenger hunt. Leading up to the event, downtown businesses will also be competing in a Halloween window display contest running from October 13 to 31. (Graphic: Peterborough DBIA)

Spooky family fun returns to downtown Peterborough with ‘Halloween in the BOOro’ on October...

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You can also vote for your favourite downtown Halloween window display beginning Friday, October 13.
Dr. Simon Adams officially began working at Ross Memorial Hospital as a general surgeon in September 2023. (Photo courtesy of Ross Memorial Hospital)

Ross Memorial Hospital in Lindsay has a new full-time general surgeon

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Originally from England, Dr. Simon Adams will perform endoscopies and surgeries for hernias, gall bladders, bowel cancers, and more.
A police cruiser outside the Kawartha Lakes police station. (Photo: Kawartha Lakes Police Service)

Two teens charged with armed robbery of Lindsay store

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16-year-old boy and 13-year-old boy wearing disguises entered William Street North store early Saturday morning brandishing a hatchet.
Anishinaabe artist Josh Morley is one of three artists who will be developing project proposals to integrate art into City of Peterborough infrastructure projects in support of climate change awareness and adaptation and sustainability-related initiatives during a three-month residency for the city's Change Makers Artist Residency Program. (Photo via wearepulld.com)

Three artists selected to help integrate art into City of Peterborough infrastructure projects

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Ann Jaeger, Dimitri Papatheodorou, and Josh Morley will participate in three-month residency for city's Change Makers Artist Residency Program.
Cobourg mayor Lucas Cleveland, Cobourg police chief Paul VandeGraaf, Cornerstone Family Violence Prevention Centre executive director Nancy Johnston, Port Hope police chief Tim Farquharson, and Port Hope mayor Olena Hankivsky during an announcement on October 5, 2023 of a $100,000 provincial grant that Cobourg police and Cornerstone will use to expand their intimate partner abuse program first piloted in 2017. (Photo courtesy of Cobourg Police Service)

Cobourg police and Cornerstone Family Violence Prevention Centre receive $100,000 provincial grant for intimate...

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Grant will be used to expand program's geographical reach, establish a full-time position, add services for sexual assault victims, and more.
A mobile phone sitting on a harvest table covered with squash and fall leaves displaying kawarthaNOW's Thanksgiving Monday 2023 holiday hours story. (kawarthaNOW photo)

What’s open and closed on Thanksgiving Monday 2023

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Holiday hours for 294 selected businesses, organizations, and services in Peterborough, Lindsay, Cobourg, Port Hope, and across the greater Kawarthas region.
A pharmacist prepares to administer a shot of Comirnaty, the updated Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine for COVID-19 that targets the new omicron XBB subvariant, in Orlando, Florida, on September 14, 2023. (Photo: Joe Burbank / Orlando Sentinel / The Associated Press)

New COVID-19 Moderna XBB.1.5 vaccine now available for Peterborough area residents

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Peterborough Public Health is vaccinating residents in two highest priority eligible groups for vaccine that targets new omicron XBB subvariant.
OPP logo on police car door

99-year-old Kawartha Lakes man dead after farm accident

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Man was working on tractor on farm north of Downeyville on Thursday evening when it rolled onto him.
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