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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.
Sarah McNeilly makes her 4th Line Theatre acting debut in "Crow Hill: The Telephone Play", which runs from July 3 to 28 at the Winslow Farm in Millbrook. McNeilly plays the role of switchboard operator Alice Cameron, a character inspired by the life of Ona Gardner, a switchboard operator for Beatty Telephone System, owned by Dr. Alexander Carruthers Beatty in Garden Hill (north of Port Hope) for more than 30 years in the early twentieth century. (Photo: Jeannine Taylor / kawarthaNOW.com)

‘Crow Hill: The Telephone Play’ inspired by one of Ontario’s first rural telephone companies

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4th Line Theatre in Millbrook opens its 2018 summer season with third restaging of acclaimed play from July 3 to 28.
Showplace Performance Centre in downtown Peterborough launches its 2018-2019 fall/winter season with a concert by Steve Earle on Tuesday, September 4, 2018. Other concerts include Dewey Via, John McDermott, Elton Rohn, Raine Maida & Chantal Kreviazuk, Liona Boyd, Natalie MacMaster & Donnell Leahy, Roch Voisine, Jesse Cook, and tributes to Fleetwood Mac, ABBA, and Andrew Lloyd Webber as well as the ever-popular Classic Albums Live shows featuring Supertramp, Queen, and Elton John. (Photo: Chad Batka)

Showplace opens fall/winter season with legendary Steve Earle

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Downtown Peterborough performance venue unveils diverse lineup into 2019.
This 1968 Ford Mustang, owned by Cavan resident Ralph Heaslip, will be among the many vintage rides displayed Saturday, July 7th as the Millbrook Classic Car Show returns to the village's downtown. He's just the third owner of the vehicle, which was bought new at a Ford dealership in Bowmanville and has just 68,000 original miles on the odometer. (Photo courtesy of Ralph Heaslip)

Vintage rides like a ’68 Mustang return to King Street in Millbrook

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Annual Millbrook Classic Car Show takes over the village's downtown on Saturday, July 7th.
Don Skuce at the now-closed Moondance Music in February 2018. He passed away in June 2018 at the age of 66 after a long battle with an incurable cancer. (Photo: Jeannine Taylor / kawarthaNOW.com)

Longtime guitar guru Don Skuce dead at age 66

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Retired owner of Ed's Music Workshop forged a unique bond with countless musicians over several decades.
Peterborough blues/roots veteran Rick Fines will be performing an electric show with his band on June 9, 2018 at the Kawartha Craft Beer Festival in Millennium Park in Peterborough, and a solo acoustic show in Kinmount on July 12, 2018. (Publicity photo)

Electric or acoustic, Rick Fines is always at home playing the blues

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Veteran roots singer-songwriter performs at Peterborough's Kawartha Craft Beer Festival on June 9 and in Kinmount on July 12.
Peterborough Regional Farmers’ Network president Neil Hannam (centre), flanked by Peterborough DBIA executive director Terry Guiel and AON president and CEO Brad Smith, announced Tuesday (May 22) that the group’s new farmers’ market will be located in the Citi-Centre Courtyard off Aylmer Street between Charlotte and King streets in Peterborough. The Peterborough Regional Farmers' Market opens June 9, 2018 and will continue each Saturday morning into the fall. (Photo: Paul Rellinger / kawarthaNOW.com)

New Saturday farmers’ market debuts June 9 in downtown Peterborough

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AON owned Citi-Centre Courtyard welcomes the Peterborough Regional Farmers' Network to its space off Aylmer Street.
The crowd at The Canadian Canoe Museum applauds after Garfield Mitchell, director of the W. Garfield Weston Foundation and a member of the Weston family, announced a gift of $7.5 million to The Canadian Canoe Museum’s capital campaign to build a new facility on the Trent canal beside the Peterborough Lift Lock. The announcement of the largest ever one-time private gift to a charitable organization based in Peterborough took place on May 16, 2018 at the museum's current location on Monaghan Road in Peterborough. (Photo: Jeannine Taylor / kawarthaNOW.com)

The Canadian Canoe Museum relocation project gifted $7.5 million

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W. Garfield Weston Foundation makes the largest ever one-time private gift to a local charitable organization.
Juno award-winning indie rock band Wintersleep from Nova Scotia will be performing at 2018 Peterborough Musicfest on Saturday, July 21. (Photo: Scott Munn)

Peterborough Musicfest announces its 2018 summer concert line-up

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Performers include The Trews, A Flock of Seagulls, Wintersleep, Terri Clark, Tebey, Dwayne Gretzky, and more;
City councillor Diane Therrien announced Thursday (May 3) that she is seeking election as Peterborough's mayor. The Town Ward representative made the announcement before a large and very receptive crowd of supporters gathered at Artspace on Aylmer Street. (Photo: Paul Rellinger / kawarthaNOW.com)

Diane Therrien seeking election as mayor of Peterborough

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Town Ward councillor says it's time to focus on the basics of jobs, taxes and infrastructure and 'make sure we get them right'.
A plaque honouring the late Bill "Mr. Slo-Pitch" Bowers was unveiled Wednesday morning (May 2) in Bowers Park off Brealey Drive in Peterborough. Among those remembering Bowers' milestone contributions to the game at the local, provincial and national were (from left) City of Peterborough recreationist Terry Lynn Johnston, Bowers' son Dan (who travelled from North Dakota for the dedication), and his close friends and Peterborough Slo-Pitch Association colleagues Bob and Maureen Lewis. (Photo: Paul Rellinger / kawarthaNOW.com)

‘Mr. Slo-Pitch’ Bill Bowers immortalized with plaque

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Friends and colleagues remember him as a passionate ambassador of the game he loved and first brought to the city in 1976.
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