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The Kawartha Fall Festival, taking place at Ken Reid Conservation Area near Lindsay from October 1 to 10, 2022, will feature family-friendly activities including a birds of prey demonstration on Sunday, October 2 with Royal Canadian Falconry. (Photo: Janet Griffin)

Kawartha Fall Festival takes place October 1 to 10 at Ken Reid Conservation Area...

Kawartha Conservation's inaugural festival will feature family-friendly activities, special guests, up-close animal encounters, birds of prey demonstrations, guided hikes, and more.
"Village by Lantern Light" takes place on the evenings of Friday, September 16 and Saturday, September 17, 2022 at Lang Pioneer Village Museum in Keene. (Photo: Elizabeth King)

Experience 19th-century life after dark at Lang Pioneer Village Museum in Keene in September

'Village by Lantern Light' takes place on September 16 and 17 and features wagon rides, demonstrations, and more.
Performance poet Charlie Petch won the 2022 ReLit Award for poetry for their debut collection "Why I Was Late." (Photo: Janice Jo Lee)

POSTPONED – Award-winning performance poet Charlie Petch aims to teach you how to ‘Be...

Workshops take place September 5 to 7 at The Theatre On King in Peterborough with a performance and open mic on September 9 and 10.
Labour Day celebrates the collective accomplishments of the labour movement in improving working conditions and justice for workers, as symbolized by this memorial in Millennium Park erected by the Peterborough District Labour Council and dedicated to workers past, present, and future. A post-pandemic economic recovery plan that invests in environmentally sustainable industries could create millions of sustainable jobs for Canadians, vibrant and resilient communities, and improve the lives of marginalized workers. (Photo: Lester Balajadia)

What’s open and closed on Labour Day 2022

Holiday hours for 294 selected businesses, organizations, and services in Peterborough, Lindsay, Cobourg, Port Hope, and across the greater Kawarthas region.
Emergency road closed

Labour Day long weekend begins in tragedy after fatal collision on Highway 115 near...

Police identify victim as 35-year-old Nathan Wagstaff of Peterborough.
A trillium in Pipers' Woods, a 61-acre mature woodlot in Peterborough County. The two owners have donated the property to Kawartha Land Trust to ensure the forest's flora and fauna will not be disturbed by future development or logging. Situated on limestone bedrock with shallow soil, the older trees and abundance of wildflowers on the property took many years to establish themselves. (Photo courtesy of Kawartha Land Trust)

Property owners donate their 61-acre Peterborough County woodlot to Kawartha Land Trust

Pipers' Woods property is home to species at risk including the butternut tree, eastern wood-pewee, and wood thrush.
Maple Blues Award winning Emily Burgess & The Emburys are performing at the Black Horse in downtown Peterborough on Saturday, September 3 with Emily also playing a solo show at the Beamish House Pub in Port Hope on Sunday afternoon. (Photo: Adam Guppy)

nightlifeNOW – September 1 to 7

Featuring live music listings at pubs and restaurants in Peterborough and the greater Kawarthas region.
The Peterborough Theatre Guild's last full-length production was the musical "Annie," which ran at Showplace Performance Centre in April and May 2022 after being delayed multiple times over two years because of the pandemic. In 2022-23, the Peterborough Theatre Guild will present a full season of eight show. (Photo courtesy of Peterborough Theatre Guild)

Peterborough Theatre Guild announces return to stage with full season of eight shows

Productions in 2022-23 include Constellations, Our Place, Rumors, The Little Prince, The Crucible, Gibson and Sons, Something Rotten!, and The Long Weekend .
The Canadian Canoe Museum in Peterborough is permanently closing the doors at its Monaghan Road location at 4 p.m. at September 5, 2022. The museum will reopen at its new waterfront facility currently under construction at 2077 Ashburnham Drive in summer 2023. (Photo: Samantha Moss / kawarthaNOW)

Only a few days left to visit Peterborough’s Canadian Canoe Museum at Monaghan Road...

The museum will close after Labour Day to prepare to reopen in its new waterfront facility in summer 2023.
A Kawartha Lakes police vehicle blocks access to Pigeon Lake Road east of Lindsay after a police shooting on November 26, 2020 that resulting in a 33-year-old suspect and an OPP officer being seriously injured. The suspect's one-year-old son was found fatally shot in the man's pickup truck. (Photo: CBC)

Three OPP officers face manslaughter charges in November 2020 shooting of infant in Kawartha...

Nathan Vanderheyden, Kenneth Pengelly, and Grason Cappus have also been charged with criminal negligence causing death.

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