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Hospital workers belonging to the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) gathered outside of Peterborough-Kawartha MPP Dave Smith's constituency office on Chemong Road in Peterborough on July 30, 2024 to protect the Ontario government's use of private clinics to deliver publicly funded health care services previously delivered at public hospitals. (Photo: CUPE's Ontario Council of Hospital Unions / Facebook)

Hospital workers protest health care privatization at Peterborough-Kawartha MPP Dave Smith’s office

Ontario government is expanding the use of private clinics to deliver publicly funded services including MRIs and CT scans and surgeries.
Peterborough police car. (Photo: Peterborough Police Service)

LOCATED – Peterborough police searching for missing Norwood teen

14-year-old Phillip Aron was last seen in downtown Peterborough on July 29.
Phone scam

Cobourg resident almost defrauded of $47,000 in FINTRAC phone scam

Scammer posed as representative of federal financial intelligence unit and claimed warrant was out for the victim's arrest.
Cobourg police are seeking to identify this person of interest in connection with four break-and-enter incidents at businesses in the Town of Cobourg that occurred on July 22 and 26, 2024. (Police-supplied photo)

Police seek person of interest in four break-and-enters in Cobourg

One business was broken into on July 22 and three other businesses suffered break-ins on July 26.
Young boy swimming in the water

The Beach Report for July 26 to August 1, 2024

Water quality testing results for beaches in Peterborough, Kawartha Lakes, Haliburton, and Northumberland, and Hastings and Prince Edward.
Established in 1974 by James Hamilton, the miniature train ride at Peterborough's Riverview Park and Zoo features a miniature replica of an 1860 locomotive that is old and needs to be replaced. (Photo: Riverview Park and Zoo)

Miniature train ride at Peterborough’s Riverview Park and Zoo out of service until further...

Train's locomotive is almost 50 years old and requires increasing maintenance and repairs.
Veteran Canadian country-folk musician Lou Moore (The Good Brothers, Tommy Hunter) performs in the Lounge at Hollow Valley Resort in Dorset on Saturday night with Michael McMaster on bass and backup vocal. (Photo: The Indie Distributor)

nightlifeNOW – July 25 to 31

Featuring live music listings at pubs and restaurants in Peterborough and the greater Kawarthas region.
Police car lights. (Stock photo)

Police investigating hate crime assault in Peterborough’s East City

A group of four young men spit at victim and then knocked his turban off his head and stomped on it.
Operated by the Ontario government, Central East Correctional Centre is a medium/maximum security prison just north of Lindsay that was built in 2002 and has a capacity for over 1,000 adult male and female offenders in both remanded and sentenced custody. (Public domain photo)

Two inmates of Central East Correctional Centre in Lindsay charged with first-degree murder

Fellow inmate Andre Taillefer was found seriously injured in his cell on July 17 and died in hospital six days later.
An Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) boat in the water. (Photo: OPP)

One dead, one seriously injured after two personal watercraft collide on Crowe River north...

40-year-old man who died was a passenger on a personal watercraft that was struck from behind on July 20.

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