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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.
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,
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