Thursday, September 25, 2025
Home Authors Articles by Natalie Hamilton, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter

Articles by Natalie Hamilton, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter

Natalie Hamilton, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
605 Articles
Based in Northumberland County, Natalie Hamilton is an award-winning journalist with more than 20 years of experience. Her reporting is funded by the Government of Canada through its Local Journalism Initiative.
Dr. Ashley O'Toole, a Royal College-trained dermatologist from Peterborough, is operating a new outpatient dermatology clinic at Campbellford Memorial Hospital. (Supplied photo)

Campbellford hospital welcomes Peterborough dermatologist to run outpatient clinic

Natalie Hamilton, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter -
Dr. Ashley O'Toole will offer dermatological care, including for suspected skin cancers, for patients referred to Campbellford Memorial Hospital clinic.
Peterborough 4-H member Ella Doris, Farms at Work manager Emma Macdonald, and farmer and auctioneer Jason McIntosh anticipate an upcoming online auction to benefit the farm communities of Peterborough and the Kawarthas. (Photo courtesy of Farms at Work)

First-ever agricultural benefit auction supports farm communities of Peterborough and the Kawarthas

Natalie Hamilton, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter -
Residents can buy products directly from local farmers when bidding opens March 11,
Call2Recycle president Joe Zenobio (third from left) with Peterborough city councillors Gary Baldwin, Joy Lachica, and Kevin Duguay on October 17, 2023 at the launch of an awareness campaign to encourage Peterborough residents to recycle their used batteries. As part of the awareness campaign and coinciding with changes to the city's waste management program, residents received boxes they can use to collect their used batteries for recycling. (Photo: Call2Recyle)

Kawartha Lakes and City of Peterborough receive nod for battery recycling efforts

Natalie Hamilton, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter -
Call2Recycle Canada recognizes the municipalities for collectively preventing over 12,000 kilograms of batteries from going to landfills.
The measles, mumps, rubella (MMR) vaccine was developed by American microbiologist Maurice Hilleman in 1971. Before the introduction of the first measles vaccine in 1963 and subsequent widespread vaccination, major epidemics occurred approximately every two to three years and caused an estimated 2.6 million deaths each year. An estimated 128,000 people (mostly children under the age of five) still died from measles in 2021, despite the availability of a safe and cost-effective vaccine. (Photo: Eric Risberg / The Associated Press)

‘We are urging residents to avoid bringing home measles as their souvenir’: Peterborough medical...

Natalie Hamilton, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter -
Both area health units issue 'urgent call' for childhood vaccinations as March break approaches.
With a 12 per cent decline in land actively farmed in Ontario over the past 15 years, Peterborough-based non-profit organization Farms at Work has launched a free online resource designed to improve access to agricultural land by helping farmers and landowners across the province find each other. (Photo: Dave Cavanagh)

New online tool aims to ‘keep farmland in farming’ by linking Ontario farmers and...

Natalie Hamilton, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter -
'Protecting agricultural land and our capacity to feed ourselves is paramount': Farms at Work board chair.
A view of the August 21, 2017, total solar eclipse from Madras, Oregon. (Photo: NASA / Gopalswamy)

Thousands expected to converge in Northumberland County to experience rare total solar eclipse on...

Natalie Hamilton, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter -
With Brighton, Colborne, Grafton, Cobourg, and Port Hope along path of totality, county and partners share safety messages.
A welcome mat outside the door of a house. (Stock photo)

‘We believe housing is a right’: One City Peterborough

Natalie Hamilton, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter -
Non-profit charitable organization's supportive housing program provides homes for about 50 residents.
At the School of Trades and Technology at its Sutherland Campus in Peterborough, Fleming College offers various welding programs, including introductory welding courses as well as a Welding Techniques program and a Welding and Fabrication Technician program. (Photo: Fleming College)

Accessible welding program for people with disabilities launched at Fleming College in Peterborough

Natalie Hamilton, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter -
JA-NEO and Council for Persons with Disabilities initiative aims to 'empower community members with disabilities' and equip them for work in skilled trades.
David Marshall (bottom right), chair of the board of health for the Haliburton, Kawartha, Pine Ridge District Health Unit (HKPRDHU), speaks during a media conference on February 28, 2024 when the HKPRDHU board of health and the board of health for Peterborough Public Health announced a decision to voluntarily merge the two health units. Also pictured is Joy Lachica (top left), chair of the board of health for Peterborough Public Health, Dr. Thomas Piggott (top right), medical officer of health for Peterborough Public Health, and Dr. Natalie Bocking (bottom left), medical officer of health for HKPRDHU. (kawarthaNOW screenshot)

Leadership of proposed merged health unit ‘a major consideration in the next few months’

Natalie Hamilton, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter -
Peterborough and Haliburton, Kawartha, Pine Ridge boards of health to work out details after voting to merge the health units.
Community Care Northumberland's annual Easter cookie fundraiser from March 1 to 18, 2024 supports its Meals on Wheels program in Northumberland County. Each $20 box contains five individually wrapped, decorated Easter cookies from Roda's Kitchen in Cobourg. (Photo: Roda's Kitchen)

Northumberland residents can buy Easter cookies to help seniors and people with disabilities eat...

Natalie Hamilton, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter -
Community Care Northumberland's cookie fundraiser running March 1 to 18 supports Meals on Wheels.
1...525354...61Page 53 of 61

Become a #kawarthaNOW fan

31,500FollowersLike
25,580FollowersFollow
17,676FollowersFollow
4,576FollowersFollow
3,679FollowersFollow
3,104FollowersFollow

Sign up for kawarthNOW's Enews

Sign up for our VIP Enews

kawarthaNOW.com offers two enews options to help readers stay in the know. Our VIP enews is delivered weekly every Wednesday morning and includes exclusive giveaways, and our news digest is delivered daily every morning. You can subscribe to one or both.




Submit your event for FREE!

Use our event submission form to post your event on our website — for free. To submit editorial content or ideas, please contact us.

EDITOR'S PICKS

SIGN UP FOR OUR ENEWS




© Copyright kawarthaNOW® 1996 - 2025. All rights reserved. Unauthorized distribution, transmission, or republication strictly prohibited. Trademarks owned by kawarthaNOW include kawarthaNOW®, Keep It In The Kawarthas®, Web Sites That Work®, Kawartha Localist™, Know Your Locals™, businessNOW™, musicNOW™, artNOW™, nightlifeNOW™, encoreNOW™, and KNosh™.