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A Peterborough Transit bus. (Photo: City of Peterborough)

Starting January 2, kids 12 and under can ride Peterborough Transit for free

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Pilot program will run during all of 2022 and will be funded through city's climate change fund.
Dr. Fady Abdelsayed is one of four interventional radiologists at Peterborough Regional Health Centre (PRHC), one of the busiest interventional radiology centres in Ontario outside of downtown Toronto. Each year, Dr. Abdelsayed and his colleagues perform almost 6,000 interventional radiology procedures, a minimally invasive treatment that can result in an overall reduction in recovery time with less trauma to the patient. (Photo: Michael Hurcomb)

Interventional radiology: medicine’s ‘best kept secret’

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To meet growing demand, Peterborough Regional Health Centre needs community support to help renovate and upgrade its interventional radiology facilities.
Residents 80 years of age and older receiving their first doses of the Pfizer vaccine at the COVID-19 immunization clinic in Peterborough on March 21, 2021. (Photo: Jeannine Taylor / kawarthaNOW)

Peterborough Public Health hosting walk-in COVID-19 booster vaccine clinics for residents 70 and over

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December 30 clinic at Healthy Planet Arena for residents 80 and over, January 1 clinic for residents 70 to 79.
Police and the fire marshal are investigating a fire at this apartment building on Station Street in Bancroft on December 26, 2021. (Police-supplied photo)

Two treated in hospital and released following early morning fire in Bancroft on Boxing...

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Police and fire marshal are investigating fire that broke out in an apartment building on Station Street.
Mark Graham, CEO of the Canadian Mental Health Association Haliburton, Kawartha, Pine Ridge, accepts a $50,000 donation from the Kinsmen Club of Peterborough that will support a new mobile mental health and addictions clinic for the greater Kawarthas region launching in 2022. (Photo courtesy of CMHA HKPR)

$60,000 in donations will support new mobile mental health and addictions clinic in greater...

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Kinsmen Club of Peterborough donates $50,000 and Peterborough Police Services Board donates $10,000 for clinic launching in 2022.
On December 24, 2021, the same day when Ontario reported a record-high 9,571 new COVID-19 cases, Premier Doug Ford toured a new mass vaccination clinic at the International Centre in Mississauga. At full capacity, this clinic will be able to administer approximately 19,000 vaccinations per day. The new mass vaccination clinic will be open seven days a week. (Photo: Premier's Office)

Health ministry issues statement after Ontario reports record-high 9,571 new COVID-19 cases

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'We expect they will continue to increase over the coming days and weeks' with hospital admissions also expected to rise.
Freezing rain and snow at night

Wintry mix of weather in northern Kawarthas region late Christmas Eve into Christmas Day

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Precipitation will begin as snow or ice pellets Friday night with risk of freezing rain by morning.
15-year-old fiddler Irish Millie, pictured here performing a Facebook Live concert with her father Murray for Music From Scotland on December 23, was scheduled to perform at the Black Horse in downtown Peterborough on Wednesday, December 29. Marc Roy is now performing instead. (Photo: Music From Scotland / Facebook)

nightlifeNOW – December 23 to 29

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Featuring live music listings at pubs and restaurants in Peterborough and the greater Kawarthas region.
Rare Peterborough is one of four restaurants that have proactively closed for indoor dining temporarily due to close contacts with positive COVID-19 cases. Rare has contacted all diners who were at the restaurant on December 14, 2021 after a guest who dined there on that date tested positive. (Photo: Rare / Facebook)

Four Peterborough restaurants decide to temporarily close due to COVID-19

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Rare, One Fine Food, Capra Toro, and The Night Kitchen announce temporary closures due to close contacts.
Peterborough Regional Health Centre is located at 1 Hospital Drive in Peterborough and Ross Memorial Hospital is located at 10 Angeline Street North in Lindsay. (Photos: PRHC and Ross Memorial Hospital)

More restrictive visitor policies now in effect at Peterborough Regional Health Centre and Ross...

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Effective December 23, restrictions intended to help protect health and safety of patients and staff as omicron variant spreads.
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