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Millbrook photographer David Harry is hosting a photography fundraiser for Millbrook Community Care, offering discounted mini-shoots from September 29 to October 1, 2023. Each session will include 20 to 40 proofs and eight edited photos ready to be printed. The sessions can be used for family photos, couple portraits, dog portraits, or anything else the client wants. (Photo: David Harry)

Millbrook photographer David Harry is hosting a fundraiser for Community Care this weekend

Peterborough police car. (Photo: Peterborough Police Service)

43-year-old man arrested after $10,000 jewellery heist from Peterborough home

Ian Attridge paddles a canoe with Sue Sauve as Georgie Horton Baptiste takes photos among mnoomin (wild rice) beds in the Kawarthas, a traditional food of the Michi Saagiig Anishinaabeg. (Photo courtesy of Ian Attridge)

We’re all paddling on the same river: reconciliation is a journey, not a destination

Women United founding chair and donor Maryam Monsef (middle) with representatives of the United Way Peterborough & District and the two recipient organizations of the inaugural Women United Fund, Kawartha Sexual Assault Centre and Peterborough Child and Family Centres, at an announcement on September 27, 2023. (Photo courtesy of United Way Peterborough & District)

United Way Peterborough & District announces recipients of inaugural Women United Fund

Moderna's Spikevax monovalent COVID-19 vaccine provides better protection against the new Omicron XBB.1.5 subvariant. On September 12, 2023, Health Canada approved the use of the vaccine for all Canadians six months of age and older. Pictured is an earlier Moderna vaccine. (Photo: Miguel Tremblay / CC BY-SA 4.0)

Updated Moderna COVID-19 vaccine will soon be available for Ontario residents

On April 17, 2023, the City of Peterborough provided a demonstration of the new collection trucks for the city's new green bin program for organic waste coming this fall, including the automated equipment that will be used to pick up and empty the large green bins during curbside collection. (Photo: City of Peterborough)

Around 28,000 households in City of Peterborough to begin receiving green bins

OPP logo on police car door

Kawartha Lakes OPP arrest 82-year-old Oshawa man in connection with historic sexual assault case

Eileen and Tom James (middle) travelled from British Columbia to donate a family heirloom to the Northumberland County Archives and Museum on September 26, 2023. The pair of shoes was worn by their ancestor Marguerite Pentland in 1860 during a gala dance with the Prince of Wales after he officially opened Cobourg's Victoria Hall. Also pictured at Victoria Hall in Cobourg are Northumberland County Archives and Museum curator Katie Kennedy (left) and Northumberland County warden Mandy Martin. (Photo courtesy of Northumberland County)

British Columbia couple donates historic shoes to Northumberland County Archives and Museum

Members of 100 Women Peterborough gathered in person for the first time since the pandemic began on September 19, 2023 at Ashburnham Funeral Home and Reception Centre, where the collective philanthropy group chose Hospice Peterborough to receive member donations, projected to be $10,800. Hospice Peterborough was the first-ever organization to receive a donation from 100 Women Peterborough after the group formed in 2018. (Photo courtesy of 100 Women Peterborough)

100 Women Peterborough to donate $10,800 to Hospice Peterborough

A sign promoting the 1996 Peterborough Exhibition is one of the items the Peterborough Agricultural Society will be selling off in an online auction. According to a statement from the society on September 26, 2023, the City of Peterborough has invoked a buy-out clause in the Morrow Park agreement with the society, meaning both the society and the exhibition will have to find a new home after 135 years at Morrow Park. (Photo: Jason MacIntosh Auctions)

After 135 years at Morrow Park, the Peterborough Agricultural Society and Peterborough Exhibition will need to find a new home

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