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Police car lights. (Stock photo)

Peterborough police seek suspect in early-morning shooting

A man in the Park and Romaine Street area was found with gunshot wounds to his leg.
Jasbir Raina has been hired as the City of Peterborough's new commissioner of infrastructure and planning services. (Supplied photo)

Jasbir Raina is Peterborough’s new infrastructure and planning services commissioner

Raina was most recently commissioner of public works and engineering for the City of Brampton.
The 18-hole disc golf course at Haute Goat in Port Hope, designed and built by TinLid Canada, features distinct short and long layouts to satisfy all calibre of disc golf enthusiasts. (Photo: Haute Goat)

Port Hope’s Haute Goat expands with 18-hole disc golf course

200-acre farm known for its goats and alpacas also hosts a weekly disc golf league and a team event on June 26.
Owner Deanna Guttman pictured in 2019 in front of her wall of yarn at Needles in the Hay in downtown Peterborough, one of seven yarn shops participating in this year's Cottage Country Yarn Crawl running from June 11 to September 6, 2022. (Photo: Amy E. LeClair)

Two ‘yarn crawls’ take place this summer in the greater Kawarthas region and beyond

Both the eight-stop Cottage Country Yarn Crawl and the 13-stop Southeastern Ontario Yarn Crawl kick off on June 11.
The Peterborough Area Roller Derby (PARD) league is hosting "Post Pandemic PARDy: Down with the Sickness", their first match since the pandemic began, at Douro Community Centre on June 18, 2022. (Photo: PARD)

Peterborough Area Roller Derby returns for the first time since pandemic began

'Post Pandemic PARDy: Down with the Sickness' match takes place at Douro Community Arena on June 18.
Car on flooded road during heavy rain

Significant rainfall for greater Kawarthas region Monday night into Tuesday

Showers and isolated thunderstorms will move across region with total rainfall amounts of 25 to 50 mm expected.
Peterborough writer Erica Richmond (right) with her $530 donation to the Canadian Mental Health Association, Haliburton, Kawartha, Pine Ridge. During May, Richmond announced she would donate half of the proceeds of her children's book 'Pixie and the Bees'. (Photo courtesy of CMHA HKPR)

Peterborough writer Erica Richmond raises $530 for CMHA’s Trans Peer Outreach Program

Open Sky Stories founder donated half the sales of 'Pixie and the Bees', her children's book about living with anxiety.
Team Rubicon Canada is a charitable organization that sends skilled disaster response teams of volunteers (including military veterans, first responders, and dedicated civilians) into areas requiring assistance. (Photo: Team Rubicon Canada)

Team Rubicon arrives in Peterborough to help low-income seniors and others with storm clean-up

Teams of 'greyshirts' will prepare fallen trees and limbs for green waste collection by the city.
Heavy rain coming out of a downspout. (Stock photo0

Significant rainfall forecast for Haliburton County Monday into Tuesday

Showers and isolated thunderstorms will move across region with total rainfall amounts of 25 to 50mm expected.
Some of the damage in the Ganaraska Forest caused by the May 21, 2022 derecho storm. The Ganaraska Region Conservation Authority (GRCA) expects it will be weeks before the forest will reopen for public use. (Photo: GRCA)

Ganaraska Forest remains closed until further notice due to May 21 storm damage

Conservation authority says derecho is 'largest natural disaster' to affect southern Ontario's largest forest.

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