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International Compost Awareness Week 2022 runs from May 1 to 7. Composting is one way we can help to reverse climate change by taking action in our own backyard. (Photo: Karen Halley)

Celebrate International Compost Awareness Week by learning how composting can help reverse climate change

GreenUP explains how composting reduces methane and helps us grow healthy plants that sequester carbon.
Peterborough Police Service

LOCATED – Peterborough police seek public’s help locating missing 22-year-old man

Devonte Cappa was last seen in Peterborough April 13, has ties to Brampton area.
The Peterborough, Victoria, Northumberland and Clarington Catholic District School Board created this graphic to announce its decision to fly the Pride flag at school board facilities during June 2022.

Peterborough Catholic school board votes to fly the Pride flag this year

Majority of board votes in favour of motion in contrast to a decision last year that led to protests.
Sarah Patterson, a Grade 4 student with Down Syndrome at St. Anthony Catholic Elementary School in Port Hope, preparing to throw the ceremonial pitch at the Blue Jays game at the Rogers Centre in Toronto on April 25, 2022. Sarah was recognized for her participation in the Jays Care Foundation affiliate school program, which her teacher Allison Jacques ran from February to April. (Photo: Jays Care Foundation / Twitter)

Port Hope student Sarah Patterson throws ceremonial pitch at Blue Jays game

Grade 4 student at St. Anthony Catholic Elementary School celebrated for her participation in Jays Care Challenger Baseball program.
Built in 1908, Peterborough Collegiate Vocational School is one of five historic building featured during Doors Open Peterborough, a free family-friendly event on May 7, 2022. (Photo courtesy of City of Peterborough)

Doors Open Peterborough returns as in-person event on May 7

Five repurposed historic buildings will be featured along with three walking tours.
An initial artist's rendering of the Jalynn Bennett Amphitheatre to be constructed at Trent University's Catharine Parr Traill College in downtown Peterborough. (Graphic courtesy of Trent University)

Construction of new outdoor amphitheatre in downtown Peterborough set to begin this summer

Jalynn Bennett Amphitheatre at Trent University's Traill College will be 'new home for arts and culture' in historic downtown.
The Warsaw Road Bridge on Parkhill Road between Television Road and Armour Road. (Photo: Bruce Head / kawarthaNOW)

Peterborough swing bridges to be temporarily closed for spring maintenance

From 9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., Warsaw Road Bridge will be closed April 26 and Maria Street Bridge will be closed April 27.
One of several photos that white nationalist and neo-Nazi Kevin Goudreau, a Peterborough resident, has posted on his social media accounts in the past showing his swastika tattoo.

Peterborough police charge neo-Nazi Kevin Goudreau in hate bias crime

Goudreau faces charges of uttering threats and criminal harassment for threatening his 2SLGBTQ+ neighbours on March 31.
Ontario minister of labour, training and skills development Monte McNaughton announced the Better Jobs Ontario training program at Fleming College's School of Trades and Technology in Peterborough on April 25, 2022. (kawarthaNOW screenshot of Facebook video)

Ontario labour minister visits Fleming College in Peterborough to announce expanded training program

Second Career program renamed Better Jobs Ontario and expanded to include those on social assistance, self-employed, and more.
Karen Cooper of the Omemee Legion talks about the Legion's exterior renovation plans with Kawartha Lakes Mayor Andy Letham, Legion President Bill McQuade, Deputy Mayor Tracy Richardson, and Haliburton-Kawartha Lakes-Brock Laurie Scott on April 21, 2022. (Photo: Office of Laurie Scott)

Omemee Legion will use $123,200 provincial grant to build new outdoor patio

Legion one of nine not-profit organizations in Haliburton-Kawartha Lakes-Brock receiving grants from Ontario Trillium Foundation's Resilient Communities Fund.

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