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Selwyn native J.R. Avon scored the game-winning goal when the Peterborough Petes defeated the North Bay Battalion 3-2 on May 8, 2023 at to take the Eastern Conference championship in seven games. (Photo: David Pickering)

Peterborough Petes defeat North Bay Battalion in seven games to capture Eastern Conference championship

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The Petes advance to OHL final for first time in 17 years, with game one against the London Knights on May 11.
Canada's only free-admission accredited zoo, Peterborough's Riverview Park & Zoo is home to more than 150 animals and over 40 species, including squirrel monkeys. (Photo: Riverview Park and Zoo)

Peterborough’s Riverview Park & Zoo briefly closed Monday morning due to a fire

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Zoo says emergency response plans were successful and all animals and staff are safe.
Dr. John Beamish presents at Hospice Peterborough's annual general meeting in 2018. One of the founding members of Hospice Peterborough in 1988, Dr. Beamish served in many roles at the organization before becoming its medical director in 2018. (Photo: Hospice Peterborough)

Hospice Peterborough’s medical director Dr. John Beamish has retired

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A founding member of Hospice Peterborough, Dr. Beamish has been a tireless advocate for hospice palliative care for more than four decades.
Peterborough band Charlie Horse (Alan Black, Clifford Maynes, Trevor "Tiny" Davis, and JP Hovercraft) performs rarely heard country songs recorded by The Rolling Stones along with "country-fried" Stones favourites at The Ganny in Port Hope on Saturday afternoon. (Photo courtesy of Charlie Horse)

nightlifeNOW – May 4 to 10

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Featuring live music listings at pubs and restaurants in Peterborough and the greater Kawarthas region.
An Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) police car. (Photo: OPP)

Fatal head-on collision on County Road 2 between Cobourg and Port Hope Thursday morning

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County Road 2 has been closed between Loveshin Road and Apple Orchard Road .
Peterborough writer Erica Richmond with her first book "Pixie and the Bees", which is based on her own experience of living with an anxiety disorder. During Mental Health Month in May, Richmond is donated half of the sales of the book, illustrated by Peterborough artist Brooklin Holborough, to Peterborough Youth Services. (Photo courtesy of Erica Richmond)

Peterborough writer is again raising funds for a local charity during Mental Health Month

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During May, author Erica Richmond is donating half of the sale proceeds of her children's book 'Pixie and the Bees' to Peterborough Youth Services.
Scott Williams and Lea Tran of Wildflower Bakery, a European-style bakery in Havelock best known for its sourdough bread and croissants. One of three Peterborough-area entrepreneurs to receive a $3,000 seed grant and three-month mentorship the 2023 'Spark' Mentorships and Grants Program to develop their tourism-related business ideas, Williams' award-winning idea is to offer sourdough bread-making workshops. (Photo courtesy of Peterborough & the Kawarthas Economic Development)

Three Peterborough-area entrepreneurs one step closer to making new tourism ideas a reality

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Connor McIlveen and Glyne Pease, Katie Jackson, and Scott Williams are winning applicants of 2023 'Spark' Mentorships and Grants Program.
An Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) police car. (Photo: OPP)

Police investigating racist graffiti at Squirrel Creek Conservation Area south of Peterborough

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Two separate incidents of mischief involve spray-painted words deemed to be racial in nature .
Ryan Sheedy as Drew Sullivan, James Barrett as his father Harry, and Anna Silvija Broks as Harry's neighbour Gin in a rehearsal for Norm Foster's poignant comedy "Mending Fences", which runs for 11 performances from May 10 to 20, 2023 at the Lakeview Arts Barn in Bobcaygeon. (Photo: Rebecca Anne Bloom, R. A. Bloom Creations and Photography)

Bobcaygeon’s Globus Theatre kicks off its 20th anniversary season with Norm Foster’s ‘Mending Fences’

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Poignant comedy running from May 10 to 20 at Lakeview Arts Barn stars James Barrett, Anna Silvija Broks, and Ryan Sheedy.
Kawartha Conservation is installing two "wind phones" at Ken Reid Conservation Area in Lindsay, intended to help people deal with the grief of losing a loved one by "talking" to them on a disconnected rotary dial phone. The first wind phone was installed in Otsuchi, Japan in 2010 by a garden designer after he lost his cousin to cancer, who subsequently opened it to the public following the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami that killed more than 15,500 people, including over 1,200 people in Otsuchi. (Photo: Kawartha Conservation)

Kawartha Conservation installing two ‘wind phones’ at Ken Reid Conservation Area in Lindsay

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Disconnected telephones allow people to have one-way conversations with loved ones who have passed away.
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