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Adam Scott Collegiate Vocational Institute in Peterborough. (Photo: Google Maps)

Three COVID-19 cases confirmed at Adam Scott CVI in Peterborough

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School says Peterborough Public Health does not believe cases were transmitted through the school.
"I miss playing with others - no orchestra or musical theatre productions. On the bright side, I'm learning to sing with Melody Thomas on Zoom." - Joy Simmonds, Cellist / "My work with The Peterborough Singers and the McDonnel Street Gospel Quartet is silenced." - Colin MacAdam, Singer (Photo: Julie Gagne)

The Essential Project: cellist Joy Simmonds and singer Colin MacAdam

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A visual documentation by photographer Julie Gagne of how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected Peterborough artists and arts organizations.
Cars lined up at the drive-through COVID-19 testing centre at Eastgate Memorial Park in Peterborough on September 22, 2020, when 460 people were tested. (Photo: Peterborough Regional Health Centre / Twitter)

Ontario reports 409 new COVID-19 cases, including 4 in Peterborough

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Reports unavailable today for Kawartha Lakes, Northumberland, Haliburton, and Prince Edward and Hastings counties.
Treetop Trekking offers aerial courses and ziplines at six adventure parks across Ontario, including one in the Ganaraska Forest near Port Hope. (Photo courtesy of Treetop Trekking)

Treetop Trekking voted as top outdoor attraction in Ontario’s Choice Awards

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Company, which operates an adventure park in Ganaraska Forest, also a finalist for Attraction Ontario's attraction of the year award.
Dr. Barbara Yaffe, Ontario's associate chief medical officer of health, prepares for a media conference about COVID-19 testing at Queen's Park on September 24, 2020. She was joined by Dr. Vanessa Allen, chief of medical microbiology at the Public Health Ontario Laboratory, Ontario Health president and CEO Matthew Anderso, and Ontario's chief coroner and COVID-19 testing lead Dr. Dirk Huyer. (CPAC screenshot)

Only Ontarians showing COVID-19 symptoms or at high risk of getting the disease should...

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Ontario government revises its testing guidelines to shift focus away from untargeted asymptomatic testing.
Phoenix and Felix Whiskeyjack. (Police-supplied photos)

LOCATED – Peterborough police seek missing 13-year-old twins

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Phoenix and Felix Whiskeyjack were last seen Wednesday morning in the north end of Peterborough
In the "The Haunting of Bly Manor", Victoria Pedretti plays a young American nanny in the 1980s who is hired by a man to look after his orphaned niece and nephew at the family manor in the English countryside, where things get creepy. The original Netflix series premieres on Friday, October 9th. (Photo: Eike Schroter/ Netflix)

What’s new on Netflix Canada in October 2020

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Featuring The Haunting of Bly Manor, Hubie Halloween, My Next Guest Needs No Introduction With David Letterman, season six of Schitt's Creek, and more.
Ontario Premier Doug Ford, accompanied by health minister Christine Elliott and Shoppers Drug Mart president Jeff Leger, at a media conference on September 23, 2020 at Shoppers Drug Mart in Huntsville, where he announced COVID-19 tests for people without symptoms will be available at 60 pharmacies in Ontario. (CPAC screenshot)

COVID-19 tests coming to pharmacies Friday as Ontario reports 335 new cases

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1 new case to report in Peterborough, 2 new cases to report in Northumberland.
Hydro One crews installing smart switches on lines in the Picton area in September 2020. (Photo: Hydro One)

Planned power outage Sunday in southern Haliburton County and northern Kawartha Lakes

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Power will be out for around eight hours for 6,000 customers while Hydro One installs new equipment in area.
At a media conference at Queen's Park on September 22, 2020, Ontario Premier Doug Ford and health minister Christine Elliott announced "the largest and most comprehensive flu shot campaign in Canada's history" as the first element of the province's COVID-19 fall preparedness plan, entitled "Keeping Ontarians Safe: Preparing for Future Waves of COVID-19". (CPAC screenshot)

As Ontario reports 478 new COVID-19 cases, highest increase since May, government announces flu...

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'First pillar' in fall preparedness plan announced as province also reports a jump in school cases and hospitalizations.
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