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Community Care City of Kawartha Lakes CEO Ryan Alexander cuts the ribbon at the new $15-million Community Health Centre at 21 Angeline Street North in Lindsay on March 1, 2024. (Photo courtesy of Community Care City of Kawartha Lakes)

New $15-million Community Health Centre in Lindsay officially opens

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Community Care City of Kawartha Lakes began planning the purpose-built facility more than a decade ago.
Peterborough police are investigating a suspicious fire at a vacant former rooming house at the corner of Water and London streets, pictured in October 2020. The building was boarded up after being gutted by a fire in 2019 and, prior to that, had been the scene of multiple police investigations over several years. (Photo: Google Maps)

Peterborough police and Ontario Fire Marshal investigating suspicious fire at former Water St. rooming...

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Vacant heritage building had been gutted by a fire in 2019 and was previously the scene of multiple police investigations.
Indie alt-rockers Metric (James Shaw, Emily Haines, Joules Scott Key, and Joshua Winstead) will perform a free-admission concert at Del Crary Park in Peterborough on July 17, 2024 as part of Peterborough Musicfest's 37th season. (Photo: Justin Broadbent)

Juno award-winning indie alt-rockers Metric to perform a free-admission concert at Peterborough Musicfest on...

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Festival organizers will announce more performers and dates for the 37th season in the coming weeks.
Agave by Imperial's 'Chocolate Champurrado', a Mexican hot chocolate made with masa corn, whipped cream, and crushed chilies for a little extra kick, and topped with homemade buñuelos, received the most online votes during the second annual Peterborough Hot Chocolate Fest which took place in downtown Peterborough in February. (Photo courtesy of Peterborough Downtown Business Improvement Area)

Agave by Imperial crowned champion of downtown Peterborough’s second annual Hot Chocolate Fest

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Mexican restaurant's 'Chocolate Champurrado' took first place, with The Dirty Burger, Milk + Tea Shop, and Dreams of Beans also receiving honours.
Representing around 400 businesses in the downtown core, the Peterborough Downtown Business Improvement Area (DBIA) is a non-profit organization that works to promote and enhance commercial activities, aesthetics, and overall development of Peterborough's downtown. (Photo: Peterborough DBIA)

After almost 5 months without an executive director, Peterborough DBIA launches search for a...

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Applications will be accepted online via The Phelps Group until March 19.
Desmond Vandenberg, who bought The Black Horse Pub at 450 George Street North in downtown Peterborough in 2018, put the property up for sale in August 2023. (Photo: REALTOR.ca)

Black Horse Pub in downtown Peterborough is under new ownership

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Desmond Vandenberg, who purchased the property in 2018, says new owners plan to continue pub's 'long-standing legacy'.
Monique Mojica and Barry Bilinsky perform in "Izzie M: The Alchemy of Enfreakment", presented by Nozhem First Peoples Performance Place and Public Energy Performing Arts at Trent University on March 8 and 9, 2024. (Photo: Jillian Sutherland)

‘Izzie M: The Alchemy of Enfreakment’ explores settler exploitation of Indigenous culture

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Creator Monique Mojica drew upon her own family's experience in an amusement park sideshow in the 1930s.
An Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) police car. (Photo: OPP)

Former Cobourg public school principal charged with historical sexual assault on student

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Now 78, Douglas Kennedy was previously convicted in 1993 for another sexual assault against a student.
When black bears emerge from winter hibernation there is little natural food available, so they will search for other food sources including garbage and bird feed. (Photo: Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry)

Ontario government and OPP remind public to be cautious around black bears

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Black bears are coming out of hibernation early this year because of mild weather.
Tweed & Company Theatre general manager Emily Mewett and artistic director Tim Porter with their Top 100 Festival or Event award from Festivals and Events Ontario in Niagara Falls, Ontario on February 28, 2024 in recognition of the theatre company's 2023 season. Based in Hastings County, Tweed & Company Theatre owns and operates the Marble Arts Centre in Tweed and The Village Playhouse in Bancroft. (Photo: Festivals and Events Ontario)

Six festivals in greater Kawarthas region among top 100 festivals and events in Ontario

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Awards presented to Hike Haliburton Festival, Tweed & Company Theatre, Port Hope Arts Festival, Port Hope Candlelight Festival, Bancroft's Rockhound Gemboree, and Buckhorn Festival of the Arts.
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