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Megan Murphy is organizing "Spare A Square #2", a Peterborough-wide porch food drive on October 24, 2020 to restock the shelves at Kawartha Food Share. Pictured is Megan with some of the over 24,000 pounds of food donations collected during the first Spare A Square porch food drive on March 23, 2020. (Photo: Megan Murphy)

COVID-safe ‘Spare A Square’ porch food drive returns to Peterborough on October 24

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This Saturday, volunteers will collect bags of non-perishable food items and more for Kawartha Food Share.
Halloween trick-or-treaters wearing masks during the pandemic. (Stock photo)

Trick-or-treating this year is okay, with some changes, except in Ontario’s four urban hotspots

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Ontario's chief medical officer of health provides guidance for safely celebrating our first pandemic Halloween.
COVID-19 tests in a laboratory. (Stock photo)

New COVID-19 cases in Ontario drop to 658, with another new case in Peterborough

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5 new deaths, over 75% of new cases are in the province's 4 urban hotspots.
Police and emergency services respond to a boating accident on Chemong Lake off the shores of Curve Lake First Nation on October 18, 2020. Of the four people on a capsized fishing boat, one male is dead, another male is missing, one female has life-threatening injuries, and another female has minor injuries. (Photo courtesy of Maris Lubbock)

Police recover body of missing man in Chemong Lake boating accident

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Boat with four people fishing off shores of Curve Lake First Nation capsized, one man died, one man was missing, and one woman sustained life-threatening injuries
Grammy award-winning record producer Greg Wells has launched the Don Skuce Memorial Music Collective to honour the memory of the late Don Skuce, pictured here at the now-closed Moondance Music in Peterborough in Feruary 2018. Skuce passed away in June 2018 away at the age of 66 after a long battle with an incurable cancer. (Photo: Jeannine Taylor / kawarthaNOW.com)

Grammy award winner Greg Wells launches Don Skuce Memorial Music Collective to support Peterborough-area...

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Peterborough native, now a record producer and musician in Los Angeles, is honouring his friend, the late Peterborough musician and guitar luthier.
Police released this photo of a single-vehicle collision on Glamorgan Road in Haliburton County on October 16, 2020. 44-year-old Jeffrey Teatro of Haliburton later died in hospital from injuries he sustained in the collision. (OPP-supplied photo)

Haliburton man dead after single-vehicle collision on Friday night

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44-year-old Jeffrey Teatro was transported to hospital where he was later pronounced deceased.
A COVID-19 test swab in a laboratory. (Stock photo)

Ontario reports 805 new COVID-19 cases (including 2 in Peterborough), with 10 deaths

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17 more hospitalizations, with 5 more people admitted to ICUs and 6 more patients on ventilators.
Ontario Premier Doug Ford announcing York Region will move into a modified Stage 2 during a media conference at Roche Canada in Mississauga on October 16, 2020. (CPAC screenshot)

With 712 new COVID-19 cases today, Ontario moves York Region into a modified Stage...

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1 new case in Peterborough and 2 new cases in Hastings and Prince Edward counties.
These face masks, branded with the Peterborough Regional Farmers' Market logo and produced by Madderhouse Textile Studios and the Newcomer Sewing Crew, are available for purchase at the market merchandise booth. The Peterborough Regional Farmers' Marke reeturns to its indoor winter location at Peterborough Square on October 17, 2020, with COVID-19 safety measures in place. (Photo: Peterborough Regional Farmers' Market)

Peterborough Regional Farmers’ Market returns indoors to Peterborough Square on Saturday

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COVID-19 safety measures developed with Peterborough Public Health and Peterborough Square will be in place.
According to the Peterborough Performing Arts Recovery Alliance, a coalition of 13 arts organizations and live performance venues in Peterborough and the surrounding region, the future of local performing arts is in immediate jeopardy due to the continuing pandemic. For example, Market Hall Performing Arts Centre in downtown Peterborough is still carrying $10,000 in monthly expenses, despite having reduced its pre-pandemic expenses by between $30,000 to $50,000, with no revenue coming in. (Photo; Bradley Boyle)

Peterborough’s performing arts community in ‘desperate financial situation’

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Coalition of 13 local arts organizations and live performance venues issues plea for immediate relief and multi-year funding support.
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