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

Police confirm Travis Nickerson’s body was found in Alnwick-Haldimand Township on Sunday

22-year-old resident of Hastings had last been seen on September 8.
Since 1996, the annual Tim Hortons Smile Cookie campaign has raised more than $75 million for thousands of local charities and community groups. (Photo: Tim Hortons)

Buy Tim Hortons Smile Cookies this week and support Community Care Peterborough

All local proceeds from annual campaign running September 19 to 25 will support registered charity's Give A Meal and Give A Drive programs.
Toronto-based musical comedian Anesti Danelis and all-Filipina Tita Collective. (Photos by Dahlia Katz and Tita Collective)

Double bill of award-winning comedy shows coming to Peterborough September 30

Anesti Danelis will perform 'This Show Will Change Your Life' and the Tita Collective will perform 'Tita Jokes' at the Market Hall.
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

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

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

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

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

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...

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...

During tenure as executive director, Barton Dyke led organization through transformation and helped establish Edwin Binney's Community Garden in Lindsay.

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