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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 redevelopment plan for Bonnerworth Park in Peterborough approved by city council on April 8, 2024 would see much of the park's existing greenspace removed to accommodate 16 pickleball courts, an expanded skate park, a bike pump track, and an 80-vehicle parking lot. According to the Save Bonnerworth Park group, the greenspace is used year-round for kites, frisbee, snow forts, skiing, and dog walking. (Photo: Save Bonnerworth Park website)

‘Save Bonnerworth Park’ gaining traction in its bid to reverse Peterborough city council decision...

New website offers lawn signs and online petition urges city council to 'consider the impact' redevelopment of greenspace will have on the park's neighbourhood.
Sir Sandford Fleming College, Sutherland Campus. (Photo: NGA Architects)

Fleming College union local presidents vow ‘to hold the college accountable’ in wake of...

Lack of 'engagement, transparency and collaboration' alleged in lead-up to college's cancellation of 29 programs.

encoreNOW – April 29, 2024

Peterborough Theatre Guild closes out its 2023-34 season, Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons are paid tribute in Lindsay, Trent Valley Archives Theatre stages its inaugural production, and more.
Fleming College has campuses in Peterborough (pictured), Lindsay, Haliburton, and Cobourg. (Photo: Fleming College)

Fleming College suspends 29 programs, citing ‘adverse effect’ of ‘significant external events’

Affected faculty and staff told province-imposed cap on international students a factor in increased budgetary pressures.
Peterborough County Warden Bonnie Clark (left) responds to a question as Peterborough and Kawarthas Chamber of Commerce president and CEO Sarah Budd looks on at the Chamber's Warden's Breakfast event held at Lang Pioneer Village Museum in Keene on April 23, 2024. (Photo: Jeannine Taylor / kawarthaNOW)

Peterborough County Warden Bonnie Clark provides food for thought at sold-out breakfast event

During the Chamber-hosted event at Lang Pioneer Village, Clark shared her thoughts on challenges facing the county and its eight townships.
Community Futures Peterborough announced its new Climate Change and Environment Fund at an event at Charlotte Products on Fisher Drive on Earth Day (April 22, 2024). Pictured from left are Peterborough & the Kawarthas Economic Development director of business attraction, retention and expansion Jamey Coughlin, Peterborough GreenUP executive director Tegan Moss, Peterborough County Warden Bonnie Clark, Peterborough Mayor Jeff Leal, Charlotte Products CEO Matt Strano, and Community Futures Peterborough executive director Devon Girard. (Photo: Paul Rellinger / kawarthaNOW)

Community Futures Peterborough announces new ‘green’ loan fund program on Earth Day

Prime rate loans up to $100,000 from Climate Change and Environment Fund aim to get more local businesses to adopt greener practices and strategies.
Written, produced, and edited by Peterborough filmmaker Rob Viscardis, "My Dad's Tapes" is a feature documentary that chronicles director Kurtis Watson's discovery of a trove of home videos recorded by his father Leonard before he took his own life in 2009 and Watson's subsequent painstaking search for some answers in connection with his father's suicide. Pictured is Watson (left) watching the videos with members of his family. (Screenshot courtesy of Paradigm Pictures / Outsideinside)

Peterborough filmmaker’s latest work premieres in early May at Toronto’s prestigious Hot Docs festival

Rob Viscardis wrote, produced, and edited 'My Dad's Tapes', which chronicles a son's search for answers years after his father's suicide.
In "Girl in the Goldfish Bowl" by Morris Panych, 10-year-old Iris (Lindsay Wilson, right) is convinced a mysterious stranger named Mr. Lawrence (Stew Granger, left) is the reincarnation of her pet goldfish, whose death she believes has precipitated everything that has gone wrong in her world. The Peterborough Theatre Guild's production runs for 10 performances from May 3 to 18, 2024. (Photo courtesy of Peterborough Theatre Guild)

‘Girl in the Goldfish Bowl’ closing the curtain on the Peterborough Theatre Guild’s 2023-24...

Morris Panych's award-winning satirical comedy brings 4th Line Theatre's Kim Blackwell back to where her lifelong theatrical journey began.
Peterborough's Patrick Steeves, who was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease in 2022, will be making the 19,341-foot trek to the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro in August 2024 as a member of Team Fox raising funds for the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research. As a member of Team Fox, Steeves must raise at least $10,000 for the foundation. He will cover the costs of the trip out of his own pocket. (Photos: Patrick Steeve /Stephan Bechart)

Peterborough’s Patrick Steeves prepares to climb Mount Kilimanjaro to the benefit of Parkinson’s disease...

Diagnosed with the neurological disorder in 2022 after the onset of symptoms four years earlier, the longtime teacher is committed to fundraising $10,000.
Left to right, top and bottom: The Fretless, Valdy, Jane Bunnett and Maqueque, The Canterbury Tales, Matthew Good, Charlie Petch, and the Capitol Theatre Red Carpet Gala. (kawarthaNOW collage)

encoreNOW – April 15, 2024

Superb musical storyteller Valdy in Bancroft, The Fretless brings its award-winning folk/roots strings sound to Lakefield, Port Hope's Capitol Centre celebrates its upcoming season, and more.

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