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There will be plenty of cooked corn smothered in butter for the entire family to enjoy during the annual Corn Roast event at Lang Pioneer Village Museum in Keene on August 17, 2025. Find out the many ways 19th-century settlers used corn, watch a variety of harvest-related and historic demonstrations, enter a corn-on-the-cob eating contest, and more. (Photo courtesy of Lang Pioneer Village Museum)

Celebrate harvest season 19th-century style with a Corn Roast at Lang Pioneer Village Museum...

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Family-friendly event on August 17 features threshing demonstrations, wagon rides, live music, cooked corn, and more.
In advance of the free festival weekend at Nicholls Oval Park, the Peterborough Folk Festival is presenting Ottawa indie rocker Nixon Boyd (guitarist with Hollerado) at The John at Sadleir House in downtown Peterborough on Friday night with VanCamp and I, The Mountain opening. (Photo: Adam Crosby)

nightlifeNOW – August 14 to 20

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Featuring live music listings at pubs and restaurants in Peterborough and the greater Kawarthas region.
At a media event on August 14, 2025, the Rotary Club of Peterborough unveiled conceptual plans for a $1.5-million accessible playground at Riverview Park and Zoo in partnership with the zoo. Rotary has launched a community campaign called Project ROAR to raise funds for the new Rotary Accessible Playground, which is its latest legacy project. (Rendering: Basterfield & Associates Landscape Architects)

Rotary Club of Peterborough unveils plans for a $1.5-million accessible playground at Riverview Park...

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Community members encouraged to support Project ROAR fundraising campaign, with Rotary matching donations up to $125,000 this year,
An Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) boat in the water. (Photo: OPP)

33-year-old man drowned in Lake Dalrymple in Kawartha Lakes on Tuesday night

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The man went swimming off a boat but did not resurface; police recovered his body on Wednesday.
An Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) police car. (Photo: OPP)

One person seriously injured in head-on crash on Highway 28 north of Apsley

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The driver of one of the vehicles was transported by air ambulance following Monday afternoon collision.
An out-of-control brush fire began burning south of Kirkfield in Kawartha Lakes on August 11, 2025. Prospect Road is closed from County Road 48 to Eldon Station Road for emergency services to control the fire. (Photo: Ontario Provincial Police)

Crews are battling a new out-of-control fire near Kirkfield in Kawartha Lakes

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The brush fire, which started on Monday afternoon, has grown from five hectares in size to 35 hectares.
An open house for the City of Peterborough's 2012 Municipal Cultural Plan (MCP) held in the fall of 2010. (Photo: 2012 MCP)

City of Peterborough hosting ‘initial’ community consultation in advance of developing a new Municipal...

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'Create the Culture You Want' consultation includes three open houses on August 12, 14, and 19 and an online survey.
Crews responding to a forest fire east of Burnt River in Kawartha Lakes on August 9, 2025. The fire has grown from five hectares in size to 27 hectares. (Photo: Patrick Porzuczek / Facebook)

Two forest fires remain out of control in Burnt River in Kawartha Lakes and...

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Crews are making progress in fighting the fires, but hot and dry conditions and wind potential could worsen the situation.
A water bomber collecting water on 4 Mile Lake on August 10, 2025 to fight a 27-hectare forest fire just east of Burnt River in Kawartha Lakes. (Photo: Patrick Porzuczek / Facebook)

County Road 49 closed east of Burnt River in Kawartha Lakes as crews continue...

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Crews and water bombers are also fighting an out-of-control fire in Marmora and Lake in Hastings County.
HAL019, a forest fire burning out of control in the area of County Road 49 and County Road 121 between Bobcaygeon and Kinmount in Kawartha Lakes, pictured from Bass Lake. (Photo: Laura Mclennan / Facebook)

Four active forest fires are burning in the Kawarthas region

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Three of the fires are located in Kawartha Lakes and one is located in Hastings County.
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