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Some of the 14 local bands and musicians who are donating their time and talents at Showplace Performance Centre in downtown Peterborough on March 26, 2025 for the fifth Peterborough Performs - Musicians United Against Homelessness benefit concert for United Way Peterborough & District include (left to right, top to bottom) The Spades, Little Fire Collective, Alyssa Morrissey, Georgia Rose, Michael Bell, Joanna and Danny Bronson, The Weber Brothers Band, Rick and Gailie Young with their Peterborough All-Star Band, The Hippie Chicks, Bread & Soul, Melissa Payne, and Kate Suhr. (kawarthaNOW collage of photos by Andy Carroll, Stuart Roberts, Linda Tough, Peter Rellinger, Wayne Eardley, and more)

Peterborough Performs returns for its fifth time to raise funds to address homelessness

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March 26 event at Showplace will feature 14 musical acts on two stages with proceeds supporting the United Way.
Peterborough police car. (Photo: Peterborough Police Service)

Peterborough police charge part-time course instructor at Trent University with sexual assault

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Incident involving non-consensual touching of a student is alleged to taken place off-campus on December 10.
Police car lights. (Stock photo)

Selwyn teen seriously injured in single-vehicle crash on Highway 28 Thursday night

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Police and emergency crews were notified of collision by 'crash detection' feature on driver's cell phone.
Juno award-winning singer-songwriter and harmonica player Paul Reddick performs with his band at Jethro's Bar + Stage in downtown Peterborough on Saturday night. (Photo: Scott Doubt)

nightlifeNOW – December 12 to 18

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Featuring live music listings at pubs and restaurants in Peterborough and the greater Kawarthas region.
Raised in eastern Ontario and a graduate of McGill University, Dr. Mimi Van Der Leden obtained her MD-PHd from the University of Illinois College of Medicine in Chicago in 1994 and has since been practising in the U.S. She will be joining the Kinmount and District Health Centre and plans to begin seeing patients in early February 2025. (Supplied photo)

Family doctor returning to Canada from the U.S. to join Kinmount and District Health...

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Dr. Mimi Van Der Leden plans to begin seeing patients from Kinmount, Trent Lakes, Kawartha Lakes, and Haliburton County in early February.
Kawartha Lakes residents within the town limits of Bobcaygeon, Fenelon Falls, Lindsay, and Omemee will begin disposing of their household organic waste for curbside collection as of January. The municipality is providing residents included in the curbside organics collection program with a 45-litre organic waste bin on wheels for curbside collection, as well as a small seven-litre bin for kitchen use. (Photo: City of Kawartha Lakes)

New organics curbside collection coming to Bobcaygeon, Fenelon Falls, Lindsay, and Omemee in the...

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Kawartha Lakes program intends to divert household organic waste from the landfill.
Located on the Escarpment Trail at the front of Ken Reid Conservation Area near Lindsay, the Illuminated Forest features a one-kilometre trail of trees decorated with thousands of lights. (Photo: Kawartha Conservation)

The Illuminated Forest is back for its third year at Ken Reid Conservation Area...

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Open nightly during the holidays, trees along the Escarpment Trail are decorated with thousands of lights
As a result of advanced DNA testing technology, Peterborough police have identified remains found at the bottom of the Otonabee River in 1988 as those of Gerald Durocher, pictured in this undated photo. Born in November 1949, Durocher would have been 38 years old at the time he was murdered. (Police-supplied photo)

Advanced DNA testing helps Peterborough police identify murdered ‘Otonabee River Man’, whose remains were...

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The skull of 38-year-old Gerald Durocher was found 36 years ago at the bottom of the Otonabee River in Peterborough.
Snow plow on highway during snow squall

Snow squall watch in effect for northern Kawarthas region Wednesday night through Thursday

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Northern Kawartha Lakes will receive brunt of lake effect snow squalls, with 30-60 cm or more of snow possible.
The organizers of the annual Kawartha Tri-Sport Tournament presented a donation of $15,000 to Five Counties Children's Centre on November 22, 2024, as part of the $72,000 raised during the ninth annual tournament held from September 13 to 16 in Ennismore. (Photo courtesy of Kawartha Tri-Sport Tournament)

Kawartha Tri-Sport Tournament in Ennismore donates $72,000 to five Peterborough-area charities

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Beneficiaries of 9th annual event include Hearts 4 Joy, Hospice Peterborough, Five Counties Children's Centre, and more.
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