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76-year-old Peterborough resident dies after losing control of ATV in North Kawartha

Driver died on Easter Sunday after vehicle collided with several trees.
Champlain Annex is a student residence at Trent University in Peterborough. (Photo: Trent University)

COVID-19 outbreaks declared at Trent University’s Champlain Annex and Thomas A. Stewart Secondary School...

Regional active cases at 251 with 10 new cases in Hastings Prince Edward and 7 in Peterborough.
COVID-19 tests in a laboratory. (Stock photo)

Ontario reports 6,098 COVID-19 cases over past 2 days, with 69 new cases in...

Regional active cases spike to 250, with 22 new cases in Hastings Prince Edward, 20 in Peterborough, 14 in Northumberland, 7 in Haliburton, and 6 in Kawartha Lakes.
In the hilarious fringe theatre hit "Three Men on a Bike", David Difrancesco, Matt Pilipiak, and Victor Pokinko play a trio of hapless upper-middle class gentlemen who get caught up in the great European bicycling craze at the end of the 19th century. The play, running July 6th to 17th, is one of eight productions planned at Globus Theatre at the Lakeview Arts Barn in Bobcaygeon this summer. (Photo: Pea Green Theatre Group)

Globus Theatre in Bobcaygeon announces summer season going ahead with comedy, mystery, music, and...

Pandemic willing, COVID-safe season has been extended by a month to accommodate limited seating capacity.
COVID-19 lab test swabs. (Stock photo)

Regional active COVID-19 cases climb to 198 with 13 new cases in Peterborough and...

Provincial numbers and reports for Kawartha Lakes, Northumberland, and Haliburton unavailable on Good Friday
Canada's National Advisory Committee on Immunization (NACI) has recommending the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine only be used on people under the age of 65, due to limited information on its efficacy among older adults. Ontario will be distributing 19,500 doses of the vaccine to Hamilton, Toronto, Guelph, Peterborough, Simcoe-Muskoka, and Peel to immunize 60 to 64 year olds. (Photo: Wikipedia)

Residents 70 and over in greater Kawarthas region can now book vaccine appointments through...

AstraZeneca vaccine also available for residents 55 and over at selected pharmacies in Peterborough, Kawartha Lakes, Northumberland, and Hastings County.
A COVID-19 test swab in a laboratory. (Stock photo)

Ontario’s reports 2,557 COVID-19 cases, including 39 in greater Kawarthas region

Regional active cases climb to 190 with 16 new cases in Hastings Prince Edward, 8 in Peterborough, 8 in Kawartha Lakes, 6 in Northumberland, and 1 in Haliburton.
Ontario Premier Doug Ford announced a province-wide COVID-19 shutdown on April 1, 2021. The four-week shutdown takes effect on April 3. (CPAC screenshot)

Ontario entering four-week province-wide shutdown effective Saturday

Shutdown is an attempt to bring more contagious and virulent COVID-19 variants of concern under control.
Adalsteinn Brown, co-chair of Ontario's COVID-19 science advisory table, presented a sobering assessment of the pandemic in Ontario at a technical media briefing at Queen's Park on April 1, 2021. (CPAC screenshot)

Ontario’s top health experts recommend month-long province-wide stay-at-home order

Sobering assessment of COVID-19 pandemic says variants of concern are 'killing faster and younger'.
Tessa Plint, a former researcher with Western University in London, poses with a statue of the giant beaver at Yukon Beringia Interpretive Centre. The bear-sized rodent is thought to have gone extinct more than 10,000 years ago during the last ice age. (Photo: Western University)

Residents of the Kawarthas report multiple sightings of a giant beaver

Bear-sized rodent with large incisors last roamed North America more than 10,000 years ago.

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