Home Authors Articles by kawarthaNOW

Articles by kawarthaNOW

kawarthaNOW
6077 Articles
Our generic staff writer account, covering breaking and local community news. Follow kawarthaNOW on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and Pinterest.
Daily COVID-19 update for Peterborough and the greater Kawarthas region - June 13, 2020

Daily COVID-19 update for Peterborough and the greater Kawarthas region – June 13, 2020

Cases and deaths as reported by regional health units: Peterborough Public Health; Haliburton, Kawartha, Pine Ridge District Health Unit; and Hastings Prince Edward Public Health.
Looking south on George Street in downtown Peterborough. (Photo: Peterborough DBIA)

City of Peterborough cancels weekend closure of George Street in downtown Peterborough

Downtown businesses were critical of attempt to increase physical distancing among pedestrians because of pop-up patios,
OPP logo on police car door

American man arrested in Ontario for Bancroft cannabis grow-up 19 years ago

Joe Dan Bates was also wanted by Texas police.
Wedding ceremony (public domain photo)

Ontario allows even more people to attend wedding and funeral ceremonies

Limit increased to 30 per cent of venue capacity for indoor ceremonies or 50 people for outdoor ceremonies.
Daily COVID-19 update for Peterborough and the greater Kawarthas region - June 12, 2020

Daily COVID-19 update for Peterborough and the greater Kawarthas region – June 12, 2020

Cases and deaths as reported by regional health units: Peterborough Public Health; Haliburton, Kawartha, Pine Ridge District Health Unit; and Hastings Prince Edward Public Health
Two families dining together

Ontarians can now expand their ‘social circle’ to include 10 people

You can hug and kiss people in your social circle, which can include extended family members and friends,
A detail from "We Are... We Can... We Will..." by artist Miriam Terry, which cannabis retailer Medicine Wheel Natural Healing is raffling off to raise funds for Alderville Women's Shelter in honour of missing and murdered indigenous women. Medicine Wheel owner and Alderville First Nation member Rob Stevenson will match all funds raised from the raffle. Medicine Wheel celebrates its third anniverary on June 20, 2020, the day before National Indigenous Peoples Day. (Photo courtesy of Medicine Wheel)

Medicine Wheel raising funds for Alderville Women’s Shelter in honour of missing and murdered...

Owner and Alderville First Nation member Rob Stevenson will match funds raised from raffle of painting.
George Street in downtown Peterborough will be closed to vehicles from 3 p.m. on Friday, June 12th until the evening of Sunday, June 14th so that people can visit downtown businesses while maintaining physical distancing. The City of Peterborough made the announced the day before downtown restaurants can reopen their patios as part of the Ontario government's stage two reopening of the province's economy. (Photo: Patrick Stephen / Peterborough DBIA)

No cars allowed on George Street in downtown Peterborough this weekend starting Friday afternoon

City is closing street from McDonnel to King so people can maintain physical distancing when visiting businesses including restaurants.
Daily COVID-19 update for Peterborough and the greater Kawarthas region - June 11, 2020

Daily COVID-19 update for Peterborough and the greater Kawarthas region – June 11, 2020

Cases and deaths as reported by regional health units: Peterborough Public Health; Haliburton, Kawartha, Pine Ridge District Health Unit; and Hastings Prince Edward Public Health.
The beaches at Beavermead Park and Roger's Cove in Peterborough's East City are now open and Peterborough Public Health will begin testing water quality. Lifeguards will not be available at the beaches until June 27, 2020. (Photo: Bruce Head / kawarthaNOW.com)

Peterborough beaches are open, but wading and splash pads remain closed for now

Sport and Wellness Centre, art gallery, library, zoo, child care centres also remain closed, with plan to open museum in July,

Become a #kawarthaNOW fan

30,406FollowersLike
25,232FollowersFollow
17,705FollowersFollow
4,416FollowersFollow
3,569FollowersFollow
3,010FollowersFollow

Sign up for kawarthNOW's Enews

Sign up for our VIP Enews

kawarthaNOW.com offers two enews options to help readers stay in the know. Our VIP enews is delivered weekly every Wednesday morning and includes exclusive giveaways, and our news digest is delivered daily every morning. You can subscribe to one or both.




Submit your event for FREE!

Use our event submission form to post your event on our website — for free. To submit editorial content or ideas, please contact us.