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Paul Rellinger
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Paul Rellinger a.k.a Relly is an award-winning journalist and longtime former newspaper editor still searching for the perfect lead. When he's not putting pen to paper, Paul is on a sincere but woefully futile quest to own every postage stamp ever issued. A rabid reader of history, Paul claims to know who killed JFK but can't say out of fear for the safety of his oh so supportive wife Mary, his three wonderful kids and his three spirited grandchildren. Paul counts among his passions Peterborough's rich live music scene, the Toronto Maple Leafs, slopitch and retrieving golf balls from the woods. You can follow Paul on Twitter at @rellywrites.
The Innovation Cluster's LevelUP program coordinator Ann-Majella McKelvie (left) and program lead Zahra Shafiei (right) present Her Yes Club founder Carmen Doucette (middle) with $10,000 after the entrepreneur won the Innovation Cluster's LevelUP Pitch Competition on April 30, 2025 at the Market Hall. One of eight graduates of the LevelUP program who pitched their business ideas to a panel of judges, Doucette created her business as a solution to her own problem of finding last-minute childcare she could trust for her own two young girls. (Photo: Bryan Reid)

Business connecting moms with trusted daycare providers wins Innovation Cluster’s LevelUP Pitch Competition

A panel of judges at Market Hall event awarded $10,000 to Carmen Doucette of Her Yes Club, with Monica Singh of Happy Cramps the runner-up.
Some of the estimated 50 people who gathered at Peterborough City Hall on April 28, 2025 to protest Mayor Jeff Leal's use of a racial slur while giving a guest lecture at Trent University in March. (Photo: Jeannine Taylor / kawarthaNOW)

City Hall protest calls for Peterborough Mayor Leal’s resignation over use of racial slur

Trent University student association organized event after filing complaint with city's integrity commissioner.
Dave Ball as the White Rabbit, Colleen Furlan as Alice, and Anika Venkatesh as the Cheshire Cat in Bad Hats Theatre's family musical "Alice in Wonderland" at the Sudbury Theatre Centre. The production comes to the Capitol Theatre in Port Hope with 19 performances from May 16 to June 1, 2025. (Photo: Juan Echavarria)

Bad Hats Theatre goes down the rabbit hole with ‘Alice in Wonderland’ at Port...

Acclaimed musical reimagining of the classic children's story by Fiona Sauder runs for 19 performances from May 16 to June 1.
Macayla Vaughan as the Narrator with the children's chorus during a media rehearsal for "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat" at the Peterborough Theatre Guild, which is bringing the famous musical to the stage at Showplace Performance Centre in downtown Peterborough for eight performances from April 25 to May 4, 2025. Director Robert Ainsworth has written an introduction to the play, which is based on the character of Joseph from the Bible's Book of Genesis, featuring a teacher telling the story to her class. (Photo courtesy of the Peterborough Theatre Guild)

Peterborough Theatre Guild closes out its season with ‘Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat’

Annual spring musical takes to the Showplace stage from April 25 to May 4 with local community theatre standout Robert Ainsworth at the helm,
encoreNOW for April 21, 2025 features (from left to right, top and bottom) Colin Linden, Tak Kwan with the Kawartha String Orchestra, "Menopause The Musical", Caity Gyorgy, "The Boy in the Moon", and The Shuffle Demons. (kawarthaNOW collage)

encoreNOW – April 21, 2025

Featuring Colin Linden, Kawartha String Orchestra, Menopause the Musical, Caity Gyorgy Quartet, The Boy in the Moon, and The Shuffle Demons.
Ontario premier Doug Ford, flanked by Peterborough County warden Bonnie Clark and Peterborough-Kawartha MPP David Smith, visited Peterborough County on April 13, 2025 along with emergency preparedness and response minister Jill Dunlop to discuss the county's response to the ice storm and its financial impacts. (Photo: Office of MPP Dave Smith)

Doug Ford pledges provincial support in Sunday visit to ice storm-ravaged Peterborough County

Warden Bonnie Clark met with the premier and emergency preparedness and response minister Jill Dunlop at the Douro-Dummer public works depot.
After being a tenant since 2014, the New Canadians Centre in Peterborough has purchased the historic St. James United Church at 221 Romaine Street effective April 1, 2025. The church's congregation and theatre troupe St. James Players will continue to use the church as tenants, while the New Canadians Centre will offer rental opportunities beginning in June for the building's gym, the 350-seat Wesley Hall performance venue, and other meeting areas. (Photo: Bruce Head / kawarthaNOW)

After over a decade as a tenant, New Canadians Centre in Peterborough assumes ownership...

As part of agreement that was two years in the making, the church congregation and St. James Players will remain as tenants of historic Romaine Street church,
The four major party candidates for the Peterborough riding in the federal election — Conservative incumbent Michelle Ferreri, Green Party candidate Jazmine Raine, Liberal candidate Emma Harrison, and NDP candidate Heather Ray — in front of a packed chapel at Lakefield College School on April 8, 2025 for a debate hosted by the Peterborough and Kawarthas Chamber of Commerce in partnership with the Peterborough & The Kawarthas Home Builders Association and the Central Lakes Association of Realtors. (Photo: Paul Rellinger / kawarthaNOW)

Peterborough federal election candidates make their case before a packed Lakefield College School chapel

Hosted by the local chamber and partners, the first debate of the campaign sees candidates express views on a number of issues.
encoreNOW for April 7, 2025 features (from left to right, top and bottom) Peterborough Pop Ensemble at the Market Hall, Paul DeLong's ONE WORD at Peterborough's Sadleir House, Lunch at Allen's at Port Hope's Capitol Theatre and Lindsay's Academy Theatre, J.P. Cormier at Bancroft Village Playhouse, PJ Thomas at Peterborough's Take Cover Books, and the Peterborough Theatre Guild's production of "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat" at Showplace Performance Centre. (kawarthaNOW collage)

encoreNOW – April 7, 2025

Featuring the Peterborough Pop Ensemble, Paul DeLong's ONE WORD, Lunch At Allen's, J.P. Cormier, poet PJ Thomas, and the Peterborough Theatre Guild's spring musical.
A rendering of Brock Mission's proposed 52-unit, six-storey co-ed transitional housing apartment building to be constructed at 738 Chemong Road in Peterborough, adjacent to the existing Cameron House women's shelter. (kawarthaNOW screenshot of City of Peterborough video)

Peterborough residents’ group to issue legal challenge of Mayor Jeff Leal’s use of strong...

Northcrest Neighbours for Fair Process argues Brock Mission's transitional housing project is being 'rushed through without proper oversight, transparency, or consultation'.

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