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Lab analysis of a nasal swab for COVID-19. (Stock photo)

Ontario reports 2,578 new COVID-19 cases, including 21 in greater Kawarthas region

No new cases in Peterborough but 10 new cases and 1 new death in Northumberland, 5 new cases in Kawartha Lakes, 4 in Haliburton, and 2 in Hastings Prince Edward.
Premier Doug Ford packing bottles of disinfectant into boxes during a tour of Charlotte Products in Peterborough on July 30, 2020. Charlotte Products has ramped up production of its cleaning products during the pandemic and is facing a shortage of bottles for its products. Along with a $1 million provincial investment, Peterborough's Merit Precision is investing $1.3 million for an expansion that will allow it to supply bottles to Charlotte Products. (Photo: Government of Ontario)

Ontario invests $1 million in Peterborough’s Merit Precision to manufacture bottles for hand sanitizers...

Bottles will be used by Peterborough cleaning product company Charlotte Products to meet growing product demand.
Centennial Place long-term care home in Millbrook. (Photo: Centennial Place / Facebook)

Ontario reports 3,422 new COVID-19 cases, including 12 in greater Kawarthas region

7 new cases in Hastings Prince Edward and 5 in Peterborough, with 2 new outbreaks at congregate living homes in Lakefield and Millbrook.
COVID-19 tests in a laboratory. (Stock photo)

Ontario reports 3,056 new COVID-19 cases, with 1 new death in Peterborough

Regional active cases increase to 145, with 12 new cases in Peterborough, 9 in Northumberland, 7 in Hastings Prince Edward, and 1 in Kawartha Lakes.
A "temporarily closed" sign on a store window. (Stock photo)

Applications now open for Ontario Small Business Support Grant

Grant provides up to $20,000 for small businesses required to temporarily close or restrict services under the province-wide shutdown.
Nicole Myers-Mitchell is the inaugural general manager of The Grove Theatre, a new outdoor performance venue in Fenelon Falls in the City of Kawartha Lakes that is staging its first production in summer 2021. (Photo: Roseneath Theatre)

The Grove Theatre in Fenelon Falls hires Nicole Myers-Mitchell as its first general manager

Inaugural production at new 450-seat outdoor performance venue will take place in summer 2021.
A Kawartha Lakes police vehicle blocks access to Pigeon Lake Road east of Lindsay after a police shooting on November 26, 2020 that resulting in a 33-year-old suspect and an OPP officer being seriously injured. The suspect's one-year-old son was found fatally shot in the man's pickup truck. (Photo: CBC)

SIU has yet to interview the three officers who discharged their firearms in deadly...

November 26 confrontation left a 33-year-old man fatally wounded and his infant son dead at the scene from a gunshot wound .
A COVID-19 test being conducted in a laboratory. (Stock photo)

Ontario reports 2,998 new COVID-19 cases, including 19 in greater Kawarthas region

Regional active cases increase slightly to 136, with 10 new cases in Northumberland, 5 in Peterborough, and 4 in Hastings Prince Edward.

Cobourg’s outdoor rink reopens Saturday with new mandatory mask requirement

Rink was temporarily closed while municipal staff reviewed province's stay-at-home order.
Police car lights. (Stock photo)

40-year-old man dies after being struck by a vehicle on George Street in Peterborough

Pedestrian struck on Thursday night was transported to a Toronto hospital where he succumbed to his injuries.

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