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An OPP police car with lights flashing. (Photo: Ontario Provincial Police)

Two dead in separate collisions in Peterborough County where vehicles went into ditches

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Two Saturday evening collisions happened north of Buckhorn and north of Norwood.
Severe thunderstorm

ENDED – Severe thunderstorm warning in effect for southern Peterborough and Kawartha Lakes late...

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Total rainfall amounts could be in excess of 50 mm.
Victoria Park Beach in Cobourg. (Photo: Town of Cobourg)

The Beach Report for August 19 to 25, 2022

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Water quality testing results for beaches in Peterborough, Kawartha Lakes, Haliburton, Northumberland, and Hastings and Prince Edward.
ReFrame Film Festival creative director Amy Siegel and festival director Jay Adam pictured in 2019. (Photo: ReFrame Film Festival)

Peterborough’s ReFrame Film Festival announces departure of festival director and creative director

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Festival board seeking new festival director for when Jay Adam leaves in September, with creative director Amy Siegel staying on until late fall.
After working for years as a composer, multi-instrumentalist, and performer with some of the world's most celebrated circus companies, Montreal's Hallarsen (Ben Nesralla) is returning to his folk singer-songwriter roots steeped in the traditions of old-time, bluegrass, and country music. Hallarsen is performing at the Black Horse in downtown Peterborough on Wednesday, August 24. (Promotional photo)

nightlifeNOW – August 18 to 24

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Featuring live music listings at pubs and restaurants in Peterborough and the greater Kawarthas region.
Shelagh Grant, who passed away in 2020 at the age of 82, was an award-winning author, historian, Arctic expert, and avid canoeist who was involved in the founding of the Canadian Canoe Museum in Peterborough and was a long-time supporter.

Family of late Peterborough historian Shelagh Grant donates $250,000 to new Canadian Canoe Museum

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An expert on the Arctic and an avid canoeist, Grant was involved in museum's founding and was a long-time supporter.
An OPP police car with lights flashing. (Photo: Ontario Provincial Police)

78-year-old Alberta man dead after Wednesday motorcycle crash in Cramahe Township

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Patrick Lamping died at scene of crash on County Road 21, passenger taken to hospital with unknown injuries.
Peterborough mayor Diane Therrien appeared on The Dean Blundell Show on August 17, 2022 to speak to the reaction to her f-bomb laden tweet about the Romana Didulo followers who tried to 'arrest' Peterborough police officers the previous weekend. (kawarthaNOW screenshot)

Peterborough mayor Diane Therrien’s f-bomb tweet goes viral

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'Mayor of Peterborough' trends on Twitter after Therrien responds to Saturday incident at local police station.
In the Globus Theatre production of Norm Foster's "Screwball Comedy," Katherine Cappellacci plays a plucky woman trying to break into the male-dominated world of newspaper journalism in the 1930s in competition with Jack Copland as an arrogant ace reporter. The play runs for 11 performances from August 17 to 20 at the Lakeview Arts Barn in Bobcaygeon. (Photo: Rebecca Anne Bloom / Globus Theatre)

‘Screwball Comedy’ at Bobcaygeon’s Globus Theatre an homage to zany comedies of 1930s

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Norm Foster's play starring Katherine Cappellacci, Sarah Quick, James Barrett, and Jack Copland runs for 11 performances August 17 to 27.
A thunderstorm over Bobcaygeon in Kawartha Lakes in May 2022. (Photo: Jay Callaghan / CalTek Design)

ENDED – Severe thunderstorm warning in effect for Peterborough and Kawartha Lakes Tuesday night

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Locally heavy rainfall amounts of 50 mm within one hour are possible.
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