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Labour Day celebrates worker solidarity, as pictured in this memorial for workers at Millennium Park in Peterborough erected by the Peterborough and District Labour Council. The council is hosting a Labour Day Celebration on September 2, 2019 from noon to 3 p.m. at Nicholls Oval Park in Peterborough featuring children's entertainment and live music. (Photo: Peterborough and District Labour Council)

What’s open and closed on Labour Day 2019

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Holiday hours for 264 selected businesses, organizations, and services across the Kawarthas.
Peterborough-born indie folk-pop band I, The Mountain, who just successfully crowd-funded their debut full-length album, is performing at The Church-key Pub & Grindhouse in Campbellford on Saturday, August 31st. (Photo: Bryan Reid)

nightlifeNOW – August 29 to September 4

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Live music listings at pubs and clubs in Peterborough and The Kawarthas for the week of Thursday, August 29 to Wednesday, September 4
St. Peter's on-the-Rock, "the island church" on Stoney Lake, was built in 1914. As part of the church's final summer service at 10:30 a.m. on September 1, 2019, there will be a solemn remembrance of the victims of the boat crash on August 24th that claimed the lives of two 31-year-old men and injured four others. (Photo: Ward Strickland)

Remembrance of victims of tragic Stoney Lake boat crash to be held on Sunday

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September 1st service at St. Peter's on-the-Rock will honour lives lost and injured and recognize those who helped during the tragedy.
AC/DC tribute band Salute AC/DC is performing on August 31, 2019 at The Venue in downtown Peterborough, the first in a series of four fundraising concerts presented by opioid advocacy group Ptbo Strong. Three more concerts happen at The Venue in September, when Ptbo Strong will also be launching a coupon booklet featuring more than 40 local restaurants. (Photo: Salute AC/DC / Facebook)

Ptbo Strong launches fundraising concert series on International Overdose Awareness Day

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Opioid advocacy group presents AC/DC tribute band Salute AC/DC at The Venue in Peterborough on August 31, with three more fundraisers in September.
Decorated and lit canoes and kayaks fill the two tubs of the Peterborough Lift Lock during the annual Lock & Paddlee event on August 24, 2019. The fourth annual event, presented by the Peterborough Lift Lock National Historic Site of Canada (Parks Canada) in co-operation with The Canadian Canoe Museum, was held in the evening for the first time. (Photo: Justen Soule / Trent-Severn Waterway)

Paddlers light up the Peterborough Lift Lock at fourth annual Lock & Paddle

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For the first time ever, August 24 event featured a lighted paddlecraft parade, lighted night-time lockage, and free overnight camping.
Two boats were involved in a night-time crash on August 24, 2019 in Young Bay, located on the far shore in this photo, which shows Crowes Landing at Stoney Lake. (Photo: Wikipedia)

Two men dead after Stoney Lake boat collision on Saturday night

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Police recover missing man's body following crash involving six people on two boats.
An inspector with Peterborough Public Health sampling water quality at a local beach. (Photo: Peterborough Public Health)

The Beach Report for August 23 to 31, 2019

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Water quality testing results for beaches in Peterborough, Kawartha Lakes, Haliburton, and Northumberland
Newcomer Antonia Gentry and Brianne Howy star as the titular daughter and mother in "Ginny & Georgia", a Netflix original young adult series that has drawn comparisons to the hit series "Gilmour Girls". Production crews and actors will be in Cobourg from August 26 to 28, 2019, when Cobourg will stand in for the picturesque New England town of Wellsbury, Massachusetts. (Photos: Netflix)

New Netflix series being called the next ‘Gilmore Girls’ is filming in Cobourg

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Filming for 'Ginny & Georgia' takes place August 26 to 28 in downtown Cobourg and other locations.
The Fraser Melvin Band (Jonathan Hyde, Alex Furlott, Fraser Melvin, Andrew Moljgun) bring their mixture of blues, roots, and R&B to the Black Horse in downtown Peterborough on Saturday, August 24th. (Publicity photo)

nightlifeNOW – August 22 to 28

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Live music listings at pubs and clubs in Peterborough and The Kawarthas for the week of Thursday, August 22 to Wednesday, August 28.
Huge Shops Ontario Inc. has been selected to apply for a retail operator licence for a cannabis store at 566 Frank Hill Road in Fowlers Corner. Huge Shops is a Toronto-based cannabis retailer that has a strategic alliance with Chairman's Brands, parent company of Coffee Time, and Cobourg-based cannabis grower FSD Pharma of Cobourg invested $14 million in Huge Shops to acquire at least 10 Coffee Time stores as recreational cannabis suppliers. (Photo: Google Maps)

Coffee Time in Fowlers Corners may become the first legal cannabis store in the...

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Huge Shops Ontario one of 42 operators approved in latest lottery to apply for a retail operator licence.
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