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Crowds at the Purple Onion Festival, an annual harvest festival celebrating the local economy including local food, in Peterborough's Millennium Park in 2017. (Photo: Peterborough Downtown Business Improvement Area)

Peterborough’s Purple Onion Festival has been cancelled

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Transition Town Peterborough has cancelled September 25 celebration in Millennium Park 'due to ongoing logistic issues' with the city.
An OPP police car with lights flashing. (Photo: Ontario Provincial Police)

68-year-old woman dead in Thursday morning collision near Bancroft

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Carole O'Brien died after two vehicles collided on Highway 28 near Belton Road.
Canadian alt-punk rocker Bif Naked performs at The Venue in downtown Peterborough with opening acts Cassie Noble and Burning Bridges on Friday, September 16. (Promotional photo)

nightlifeNOW – September 15 to 21

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Featuring live music listings at pubs and restaurants in Peterborough and the greater Kawarthas region
Breanna White of White Willow Loft, a vintage and farmhouse-inspired home decor store at 351 Kent Street West in Lindsay, was one of seven entrepreneurs in the spring 2022 cohort of the Starter Company Plus program in the City of Kawartha Lakes who received a $5,000 grant to grow her business. Applications for the program's fall cohort are open from September 15 to October 13, 2022. (Photo: White Willow Loft / Facebook)

Applications now open for Kawartha Lakes Starter Company Plus program

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Entrepreneurship program for start-ups begins October 20 with applications due by October 13.
The Ganaraksa Forest has been closed since the May 21, 2022 derecho storm, described as the largest natural disaster to ever impact the forest. Since the storm, there have beeen multiple logging operations, including salvage harvest operations of storm-damaged trees, along with trail-clearing recovery work. (Photo: Ganaraska Region Conservation Authority)

Ganaraska Forest to reopen September 30 but for members only

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Designated trails will be open for all recreational uses, with some areas of East Forest restricted to non-motorized use only.
Montreal's next-generation choreographers Zack Martel and Santiago Rivera Laugerud perform in Fall For Dance North's "In Blue Rooms," part of the Toronto dance festival's Heirloom second season Public Energy Performing Arts is partnering with Fall For Dance North to bring a perforamnce of the world-premiere work to the Peterborough Square courtyard, featuring four dancers and jugglers performing to live music by a trio of musicians, on September 25, 2022. (Photo: Bruce Zinger)

Magical performance of dance, juggling, and live music coming to Peterborough Square courtyard September...

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Public Energy and Fall For Dance North present world premiere of 'In Blue Rooms' as part of second season of Heirloom outdoor performance series.
Penny Barton Dyke (middle), Shantal Ingram (left), and Emily Beall (right) at the Edwin Binney's Community Garden Farm Stand at 50 Mary Street West in Lindsay. Barton Dyke is retiring as executive director of United Way for the City of Kawartha Lakes after more than 17 years in the position. Ingram and Beall are the organization's new co-executive directors. (Photo courtesy of United Way for the City of Kawartha Lakes).

After more than 17 years, Penny Barton Dyke retiring from United Way for City...

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During tenure as executive director, Barton Dyke led organization through transformation and helped establish Edwin Binney's Community Garden in Lindsay.
Clouds of smoke on the morning of September 13, 2022 in Peterborough's west end. (Photo: Andrew MacDonald / Twitter)

71-year-old Peterborough man facing arson charge after Tuesday morning house fire

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Peterborough police and fire services responded to fire on Woodglade Boulevard in the city's west end.
Workers at the urban park near the intersection of Charlotte and Aylmer streets in downtown Peterborough on September 13, 2022. (Photo: Bruce Head / kawarthaNOW)

Peterborough’s new urban park to be named ‘Quaker Foods Urban Park’

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Councillors endorse PepsiCo Canada sponsorship agreement that would generate $260,000 for the city over 15 years.
Glenn Wright (middle) and Margaret Cunningham and Jennifer Lopinski of the Community Foundation of Kawartha Lakes with a $7,500 for A Place Called Home at the non-profit organization's recently completed emergency shelter at 64 Lindsay Street South. (Photo courtesy of Community Foundation of Kawartha Lakes)

Wright Family Fund donates $7,500 to A Place Called Home in Lindsay

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Donation administered by Community Foundation of Kawartha Lakes will support homeless people in Kawartha Lakes and Haliburton.
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