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ZimArt founder, owner, and curator Fran Fearnley will be closing her Rice Lake gallery of Zimbabwean stone sculpture after the current season, which ends on Thanksgiving 2023. She founded the gallery in 2000 after returning from a two years volunteering in South Africa, where she was introduced to Shona sculpture in neighbouring Zimbabwe. (Photo via Hello Boss Girl / Facebook)

This year is the final season of ZimArt’s Rice Lake Gallery near Bailieboro

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Owner and curator Fran Fearnley founded Canada's only outdoor gallery of hand-carved Zimbabwean stone sculpture in 2000.
The Truck & Tractor Pull is returning to the Ennismore Shamrock Festival, running from July 21 to 23, 2023. The festival also features a dance, free family fun day, a craft show, and more. (Photo: Selwyn Township)

Truck & Tractor Pull returns to Ennismore Shamrock Festival in July

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Annual family-friendly festival runs from July 21 to 23 with most activities at the Robert E. Young Recreation Complex.
Through a $300-million partnership with the Canadian and Ontario governments and the Eastern Ontario Regional Network (EORN), Rogers will deliver mobile connectivity to 113 municipalities and Indigenous communities in eastern Ontario by building more than 330 new cellular towers and upgrading over 300 existing sites by 2025. (Photo: Rogers Communication)

High-speed wireless internet comes to more locations in Peterborough and Northumberland counties

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Increased availability of Rogers 5G mobile services part of $300-million EORN Cell Gap Project.
Dignitaries attending the groundbreaking ceremony of the new Extendicare 256-bed long-term care home in Peterborough on June 13, 2023 included Extendicare president and CEO Dr. Michael Guerriere, Ontario long-term care minister Paul Calandra, Peterborough mayor Jeff Leal, and Peterborough-Kawartha MPP Dave Smith. (Photo courtesy of Extendicare)

Groundbreaking ceremony held for new 256-bed long-term care home in Peterborough

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To be completed by fall 2025, new Extendicare Peterborough facility will serve an additional 84 people on the province's long-term care waitlist.
The printing press at The Lindsay Post circa 1910. Kawartha Lakes Museum & Archives project staff are digitizing issues of historial Lindsay newspapers published from 1915 to 1973 and uploading them to the Internet Archive. Along with newspaper issues, the project will digitize 4,000 negatives that belonged to the late journalist, author, and historian Alan Capon. (Photo courtesy of Kawartha Lakes Museum & Archives)

Kawartha Lakes Museum & Archives digitizing Lindsay’s newspaper history

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Museum is also digitizing 4,000 negatives that belonged to the late journalist, author, and historian Alan Capon.
As part of the Nogojiwanong Indigenous Fringe Festival's family day on June 24, 2023, "Tiger" Will Mason will be performing songs and sharing stories for the whole family. Mason has performed on stages for over half of his life, including as an actor and a professional musician. In 1986, an Anishinabe elder gave him the spirit name "Kahntahwi-wim'tchi'get", which means "Maker of Beautiful Music". He combines native contemporary sounds, with bluegrass, Americana, Canadiana, country rock, blues rock, folk, and more. (Photo: Tiger Will Mason / Facebook)

Families invited to enjoy free activities on June 24 at Nogojiwanong Indigenous Fringe Festival

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Taking place on Saturday afternoon at Trent University, family day features music and stories, games and craft vendors, information booths, food, and fun.
Canadian children's music duo Splash'N Boots (Taes "Boots" Leavitt and Nick "Splash" Adams) will be performing at the 34th annual Peterborough Folk Festival in Nicholls Oval Park on August 20, 2023. (Photo: Jen Squires)

Juno-winning children’s music duo Splash’N Boots to perform at Peterborough Folk Festival on August...

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34th annual music festival includes two days of admission-by-donation music and more at Nicholls Oval Park on August 19 and 20.
The City of Peterborough's bulk wood annual sale includes 250 to 300 trees of various sizes, averaging 18 inches in diameter, removed from municipal property by the city's forestry staff. The submission deadline for quotes is July 7, 2023. (Photo courtesy of City of Peterborough)

City of Peterborough invites quotes for annual sale of bulk wood

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Sale includes 250 to 300 trees of various sizes removed from municipal property by the city's forestry staff.
'Queen of the Fringe' Alex Dallas will perform her award-winning and critically acclaimed one-woman show "Horseface" for one night only at Globus Theatre in Bobcaygeon on June 15, 2023. (Photo: Alex Dallas)

Globus Theatre brings Alex Dallas’s hilarious and harrowing ‘Horseface’ to Bobcaygeon for one night...

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Veteran fringe comedian's critically acclaimed one-woman show recounts her experiences with men behaving badly.
Lang Pioneer Village Museum's Sawyer-Massey traction steam engine was manufactured in Hamilton, Ontario, in 1921. This 17-horsepower engine is equipped with a single ground drive and is just strong enough to move its own weight at very low speed. (Photo courtesy of Lang Pioneer Village Museum)

Dads of all ages will enjoy the Father’s Day Smoke & Steam Show at...

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Family-friendly event on June 18 features antique tractors and steam engines, tractor games, historic demonstrations, a tractor parade, and more.
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