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Wilma Marling of Kirkfield with her $100,000 prize. (Photo courtesy of OLG)

Kirkfield resident wins $100,000 in instant scratch lottery

Wilma Marling won top prize in Power 5s game.
A photo of 14-year-old Liam DiGiacomo supplied by the City of Kawartha Lakes Police Service. He was last seen in Lindsay on April 7, 2019.

Kawartha Lakes police locate missing 14-year-old boy

Liam DiGiacomo was last seen in Lindsay on April 7.
Registration is now open for the 11th annual YWCA Walk a Mile in Her Shoes, taking place on May 24, 2019 in downtown Peterborough. You can participate as an individual or in a team during the event, which raises funds for YWCA Peterborough Haliburton's Crossroads Shelter. Red high heels are optional; you can walk in any shoes you are comfortable wearing. (Photo courtesy of YWCA Peterborough Haliburton)

Registration now open for Walk a Mile in Her Shoes fundraiser for YWCA Peterborough...

11th annual charity walk on May 24th raises funds for local women and children fleeing abuse.
The West End Riverboat Band (John Williams on clarinet, Ben Lee on tenor banjo, and Chris Adriaanse on double bass) will be performing old-time New Orleans jazz and folk at The Arlington in Maynooth on Saturday, April 6th and then again at the Black Horse Pub in downtown Peterborough on Sunday, April 7th. (Publicity photo)

nightlifeNOW – April 4 to 10

Live music listings at pubs and clubs in Peterborough and The Kawarthas for the week of Thursday, April 4 to Wednesday, April 10.
The White Lightning Shopping Bus in Fenelon Falls during a test run in July 2018. The free bus service will run every Tuesday making stops at locations in Kawartha Lakes including Lindsay, Fenelon Falls, Bobcaygeon, Omemee, and more. (Photo: White Lightning Bus Tours)

Free weekly rural transportation service launching in Kawartha Lakes

Privately operated White Lightning Shopping Bus runs every Tuesday starting April 30th.
During the First Friday Art Crawl, Oksana Hawrylak and Olenka Kleban of Folk Camp Canada will be at Watson & Lou (383 Water St.) to demonstrate how to make "Pysanky" (Ukrainian Easter eggs) just in time for Easter. It's one of many events taking place in downtown Peterborough on on April 5, 2019. (Photo: Folk Camp Canada / Instagram)

What’s happening at First Friday Peterborough

Monthly art crawl returns to downtown Peterborough on April 5.
The winners and honourable mentions of Community Care Peterborough's 2018 Grandparent of the Year Award at a reception at Princess Gardens Retirement Residence in Peterborough on June 6, 2018. Nominations for this year's award are open until May 16, 2019. (Photo: Dean Ostrander)

Nominations now open for Peterborough’s 2019 Grandparent of the Year

Children from grades 2 to 6 can nominate a grandparent or special older person in their lives.
Public Energy, Peterborough's supporter of innovative contemporary performing arts, will be celebrating its 25th anniversary on May 25, 2019 in downtown Peterborough. Pictured is Barbara (Eva) Dametto's "The Serpent and the Lotus", performed during Public Energy's Emergency #21 festival of dance and performance in Peterborough in March 2015. (Photo: Public Energy)

Celebrate 25 years of performing arts in Peterborough with Public Energy on Saturday

'The P(art)y Ball' on May 25 will feature artists from every era of the organization's history.
"Healthy loons, healthy lake". Bird Studies Canada is looking for citizen scientists who can report on the loon population at their lakes over the summer and submit data for the annual Canadian Lakes Loon Survey. (Photo: Sandra Horvath)

Be a citizen scientist this summer and help our loons and lakes

Bird Studies Canada seeking volunteers to participate in the annual Canadian Lakes Loon Survey.
The Government of Canada is investing $10 million to support the construction of the new Canadian Canoe Museum will be built on a Parks Canada site adjacent to the Peterborough Lift Lock National Historic Site on the Trent-Severn Waterway. (Rendering: heneghan peng / Kearns Mancini Architects)

Federal government investing $10 million in Peterborough’s new Canadian Canoe Museum

Funding will support construction of the new facility beside the Peterborough Lift Lock.

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