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

Police recover body of boater whose canoe capsized on Peter Lake in Hastings County

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39-year-old Sovann Chhay of Ottawa went missing on Saturday afternoon.
Hunter Jones's pregnant girlfriend took a video of a confrontation with an unidentified man (left) who threatened Jones and his girlfriend after they pulled into a parking spot for expecting mothers or parents with young children at Loblaw's Real Canadian Superstore in Peterborough on August 13, 2022. The man's minivan, which contained a gun in the glove box the man displayed to Jones. is pictured in the background. (Screenshot courtesy of Hunter Jones)

Man and pregnant girlfriend threatened by driver with gun in Peterborough grocery store parking...

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The couple had pulled into an expecting mothers parking spot when a man driving a minivan began threatening them .
Opioids (stock photo)

Regional health units issue opioid alerts for Peterborough, Kawartha Lakes, and Northumberland County

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Nine drug poisonings in Peterborough in 48 hours, 'disturbing' rise of overdoses in Kawartha Lakes and Northumberland County.
Kawartha Lakes police have released a photo from video surveillance of a suspect in a robbery of a Queen Street convenience store in Lindsay on August 12, 2022. (Police-supplied photo)

Kawartha Lakes police seek suspect in Friday robbery of Lindsay convenience store

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Male suspect approached counter of Queen Street store and brandished a weapon.
OPP logo on police car door

Two Ottawa residents killed after their plane crashes in Port Hope field

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Alvin Crosby and Suzanne Parent died after Piper Cherokee went down near a private airstrip on Saturday night.
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