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The proposed location for the new Canadian Canoe Museum. (Photo: Google Maps)

Canadian Canoe Museum wants to build new museum at Johnson Park in Peterborough

City-owned property is located just north of Beavermead Park across from Eastgate Memorial Park
Ontario Premier Doug Ford during a Queen's Park media conference on November 25, 2020, announcing the province's public health advice on safely celebrating the holiday season. (CPAC screenshot)

Stick to your own household when celebrating holiday season, Premier Ford urges

Ontario reports 1,373 new COVID-19 cases and 35 deaths as active cases in greater Kawarthas region climb to 65 with 13 new cases.
COVID-19 lab test swabs. (Stock photo)

Ontario reports 1,009 new COVID-19 cases, with data glitch affecting case count for today...

There are 12 new cases to report in greater Kawarthas region, increasing number of active cases to 56.
George Clooney directs and stars as Augustine in "The Midnight Sky", a science-fiction film about a brilliant and aging astronomer in the Arctic who works to stop a team of astronauts from returning home after Earth suffers a mysterious global catastrophe. ALso pictured is Caoilinn Springall as Iris, the mysterious child Augustine encounters at his remote outpost. (Photo: Netflix)

What’s new on Netflix Canada in December 2020

Featuring George Clooney's The Midnight Sky, Chadwick Boseman final film Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, Gary Oldman in Mank, Alien Worlds, and more.
Barrett's Tree Farm is located at 3141 Williamson Road North in Cobourg. (Photo: Barrett's Tree Farm)

Where to harvest your own Christmas tree in the Kawarthas in 2020

COVID-19 protocols in place at tree farms, high demand for trees expected this year because of the pandemic.
The Convivio Chorus perforrming at the annual "In From The Cold" Christmas concert at Market Hall Performing Arts Centre in downtown Peterborough in December 2015, raising funds for YES Shelter for Youth and Families. With a live concert not possible this year because of the pandemic, a selection of favourites from the past 20 years of In From The Cold concerts will be broadcast on Trent Radio on December 11 and 12, 2020, and streamed from Trent Radio's website. (Photo: Linda McIlwain / kawarthaNOW.com)

The concerts of Christmas past: ‘In From The Cold’ radio broadcast raises funds for...

Selections from 20 years' worth of In From The Cold concerts will be broadcast and streamed on Trent Radio on December 11 and 12.
Lab analysis of a nasal swab for COVID-19. (Stock photo)

Ontario reports a record 1,589 COVID-19 cases, including 18 in greater Kawarthas region

3 new cases and 1 new death in Peterborough, 7 new cases in Hastings and Prince Edward counties, 6 in Northumberland, 1 in Kawartha Lakes, and 1 in Haliburton.
The body of missing 24-year-old Trent University student Brett LeBlanc, who was legally blind, was recovered from the Otonabee River in Peterborough on November 23, 2020. (Police-supplied photo)

Search for missing Trent University student Brett LeBlanc ends in tragedy

Police find body of 24-year-old man, who was legally blind, in Otonabee River on Monday afternoon,
Fairhaven is a municipal long-term care home facility located at 881 Dutton Road in Peterborough. (Photo: Fairhaven)

Third COVID-positive resident of Fairhaven in Peterborough passes away

Seven more residents and one more staff member have recovered, leaving six active resident cases and two active staff cases.
41-year-old Jason David Gerrow of Lindsay has been arrested and charged with theft after home video surveillance captured him allegedly stealing a package from the front porch of a Wellington Street home in Lindsay. (Police-supplied photo)

Lindsay ‘porch pirate’ identified using home video surveillance

41-year-old Jason David Gerrow was also arrested and charged in October after being captured on video stealing a cannabis plant.

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