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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.
An Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) police car with lights flashing. (Photo: OPP)

Police investigating home invasion on Fife’s Bay Road in Selwyn Township

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Three masked men forcefully entered the home and tied up the lone occupant early Thursday morning.
This week, we're featuring two local musicians performing in downtown Peterborough. On Friday night, indie alt-rockers Doses (pictured, from left to right, Eric Pill on bass, Colin Kennedy on guitar, Matt Goody on drums, and Peterborough's Dylan Ireland on vocals) perform at Erben with special guests The Manic Boys and Girls Club from Toronto, and singer and musician Beau Dixon will take to the stage at Jethro's Bar + Stage supported by Rico Browne, Curtis Cronkwright, and Sam Weber. (Photo: Doses)

nightlifeNOW – February 29 to March 6

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Featuring live music listings at pubs and restaurants in Peterborough and the greater Kawarthas region.
Volunteer John White works on a children's bike at B!KE - The Peterborough Community Bike Shop. The non-profit charitable organization is holding its annual Kids' Bike Build on April 14, 2024 and is seeking donations of used children's bikes that can be refurbished and given away to local organizations working with children and families. (Photo courtesy of B!KE)

Peterborough’s community bike shop once again seeking donations of used children’s bicycles

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B!KE will refurbish donated bikes on April 14 and give them away to organizations working with children and families.
The City of Peterborough has awarded celebrated First Nations artist Vanessa Dion Fletcher a commission to create an artwork for the city's new $62-million community complex currently under construction at Lansdowne and Park streets. (Photo via Vanessa Dion Fletcher website)

Indigenous artist Vanessa Dion Fletcher chosen to create artwork for Peterborough’s new community complex

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Commissioned artwork will be installed in the atrium and will be unveiled when the $62-million complex opens this fall,
Maude Rose Craig with her Lieutenant Governor's Ontario Heritage Award for Youth Achievement, flanked by Ontario Heritage Trust board chair John Ecker and Ontario's lieutenant governor Edith Dumont, at the awards ceremony in Toronto on February 22, 2024. (Photo: Dahlia Katz)

Lakefield College School student Maude Rose Craig receives Lieutenant Governor’s Ontario Heritage Award

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Craig recognized with youth achievement award and a scholarship for her work with Millbrook's 4th Line Theatre over more than a decade.
Flash freeze, frozen puddle, winter. (Stock photo)

Temperatures expected to drop Wednesday from well above freezing to below freezing in a...

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Flash freeze warning in effect for northern Kawarthas region, with special weather statement in effect for southern region.
Paramedics at Roger's Cove in Peteborough's East City on February 27, 2024 after responding to a report of a woman who fell into the water after walking along the ice on the shoreline. (Photo: Bruce Head / kawarthaNOW)

Peterborough police and emergency services respond to woman in distress at Rogers Cove

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A witness says the woman was walking along the shoreline ice when she fell in the water.
Pictured at a media event on February 22, 2024, Peterborough musician Dan Hick will take the stage at Peterborough Performs for the first time on Thursday, March 7th. The fourth annual fundraiser for the United Way of Peterborough & District features 16 local acts on two stages, with performers donating their time and talents in support of people experiencing homelessness in Peterborough. (Photo: Paul Rellinger / Peterborough Performs)

March 7th Peterborough Performs benefit concert is final event of United Way’s 2023-24 campaign

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Fundraiser for people experiencing homelessness features 16 local acts at Showplace Performance Centre, with a 52-item virtual auction now open for bids.
Holy Cross Catholic Secondary School students Jonah Heuchert and Ella Doris play the lead roles in the Peterborough high school's production of the play "Shakespeare in Love", based on the award-winning film of the same name starring Joseph Fiennes and Gwyneth Paltrow that was released in 1993, when Holy Cross Catholic Secondary School was founded. (Photo courtesy of Holy Cross Catholic Secondary School)

Peterborough high school students mount stage version of award-winning film released before they were...

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Holy Cross Catholic Secondary School presents three performances of the play 'Shakespeare in Love' from February 28 to March 1.
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