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Vancouver-based arts company Hong Kong Exile will perform NINEEIGHT and Room 2048 at the Market Hall in Peterborough on September 21, the first presentation of Public Energy's 2017-18 season. (Photo: Remi Theriault)

Public Energy kicks off its 24th season with a double bill of cutting-edge multimedia...

Hong Kong Exile performs NINEEIGHT and Room 2048 on September 21 at Peterborough's Market Hall.
Shari Keys-Williams and George Eliadis were killed on July 15 after a car crossed the centre line and hit a group of motorcyclists. Both leave behind children. (Photo: Shari Keys-Williams / Facebook)

Unlicensed driver charged in death of two motorcyclists in Haliburton in July

George Eliadis and Shari Keys-Williams were killed on July 15 after their motorcycles were hit by a car.
Police car lights. (Stock photo)

Woman killed by tractor trailer while crossing Highway 7 near Peterborough

Accident closed down highway between Burnham and Drummond Line for four hours on Sunday night.
Breast cancer survivor Amy Semple (fourth from left) joins Mohan Joshi, pharmacist/owner of the Shoppers Drug Mart at High Street and Lansdowne in Peterborough, and his team to celebrate the kickoff of the 2017 Shoppers Drug Mart Growing Women's Health Campaign. Proceeds from this year's campaign (on now until October 6th) will support the Peterborough Regional Health Centre (PRHC) Foundation's $1.9 million effort to fund three new state-of-the-art mammography machines for PRHC's Breast Assessment Centre. (Photo: PRHC Foundation)

Shoppers Drug Mart raising funds for mammography machines at Peterborough Regional Health Centre

Customers can make a donation at any of four Shoppers locations in Peterborough until October 6.
Singer-songwriter Jerry Leger will be performing a duo show with Dan Mock on bass at Marley's Bar & Grill in Buckhorn on Saturday, September 16. Leger, whose latest record Nonsense and Heartache produced by Michael Timmins is long listed for the Polaris Music Prize, has toured with Ron Sexsmith, The Sadies, Fred Eaglesmith, Danny Michel, Skydiggers, and more. (Photo: Laura Proctor)

nightlifeNOW – September 14 to 20

Live music listings at pubs and clubs in Peterborough and The Kawarthas for the week of Thursday, September 14 to Wednesday, September 20.
Tickets are on sale now for the 18th Annual Awards of Excellence Gala on Friday, November 3 at Elmhirst's Resort in Keene. Elmhirst's Resort is offering special room rates for those booking with the Gala.

Sixty local businesses nominated for Kawartha Chamber’s Awards of Excellence

Finalists to be announced in mid-October followed by gala awards ceremonly on November 3
Ontario Provincial Police

Police bust marijuana grow op in Bethany

Thousands of plants seized, three people charged.
One of two Mallard ducks that survived after a group of 14 ducks became suddenly ill in Peterborough on Sepetember 3, 2017 and died. The Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry has now confirmed it is leading the investigation into the incident rather than the federal government. (Photo: Judy Raymond)

MNRF is now leading investigation of 12 duck deaths in Peterborough

In addition to pesticides and poison, avian cholera and avian botulism are possible causes of sudden die off.
As one of the many events during Peterborough Pride Week (September 15 to 24), award-winning queer comic Elvira Kurt will be performing her "Homesexual Panic" stand-up show during the "Act On It!" Pride Party presented by Mysterious Entity on Saturday, September 23 at 8 p.m. at Catalina's in downtown Peterborough. (Publicity photo)

Elvira Kurt closes out Peterborough Pride Week running September 15 to 24

Award-winning comic's performance part of Mysterious Entity cabaret night at Catalina's on September 23.
Celebrate Indigenous heritage at the annual Curve Lake Pow Wow takes place on September 16 and 17 at Lance Wood Park at Curve Lake First Nation.

What’s new from the Kawartha Chamber of Commerce & Tourism – September 13, 2017

Featuring Buckhorn Hop, Kawartha Outdoor Adventure Weekend, Apsley Autumn Studio Tour, Curve Lake Pow Wow, and more.

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