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    • Soap bubbles helped celebrate the United Way Peterborough & District's official launch of its 2025-26 community campaign on September 25, 2025 at the Healthy Planet Arena, where the organization unveiled its $1.6 million campaign goal. (Photo: Jordan Lyall Photography)

      United Way Peterborough & District launches ambitious $1.6 million community campaign

      Peterborough-Kawartha MPP Dave Smith, Peterborough police chief Stuart Betts, Peterborough County OPP inspector and detachment commander Chris Galleazza, and representatives from Peterborough Regional Health Centre (PRHC) and the Canadian Mental Health Association Haliburton, Kawartha, Pine Ridge (CMHA HKPR) gathered at the Peterborough police station on September 26, 2025 for an announcement of $426,860.34 in funding over the next two years under the province's Mobile Crisis Response Team (MCRT) Enhancement Grant. (Photo: Peterborough Police Service)

      Ontario government providing over $426,000 in funding for mobile crisis response…

      Participants walk to the Gdinuhwendimin "We Are Related" Friendship Garden at Bobcaygeon Beach Park following a Remembrance Ceremony held by the Truth and Reconciliation Community Bobcaygeon and the Mishkoden Centre for Indigenous Knowledge at Boyd Heritage Museum on September 30, 2024. (Photo: John MacLennan)

      Commemorating National Day for Truth and Reconciliation across the greater Kawarthas…

      Peterborough photographer Heather Doughty raising funds for YWCA Peterborough Haliburton

      Bigger and better this year, the fourth annual Cancer Takedown spirit-raising fundraiser is returning with a second show of song, stories, and solidarity to shine a light on the mental burden of cancer. The fundraiser for cancer care at Peterborough Regional Health Centre will be held at Lindsay's Flato Academy Theatre on November 4, 2025 and returning to Market Hall Performing Arts Centre in Peterborough on November 5, 2025. (Graphic and photos courtesy of Amy Kemp)

      ‘Cancer Takedown’ spirit-raising fundraiser returns for its fourth year with shows…

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    • Montreal alt-pop singer-songwriter Maïa Davies, whose album "Lovers' Gothic" won the 2025 Juno Award for Adult Contemporary Album of the Year, performs at Jethro's Bar + Stage in downtown Peterborough on Friday night with Toronto singer-songwriter Andy Stochansky. (Photo: Jen Squires)

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      With the help of local musician and producer John Crown (left), longtime Peterborough singer-songwriter Mark Beatty (right) has released his debut album "Audiodacity" at the age of 65, recording 12 original songs from among the 3,000-plus he has written during his career. Two of the songs on the album were produced and mixed by Peterborough native and LA-based Grammy award-winning producer Greg Wells, with the remaining songs produced and mixed by Crown and James McKenty. (Photo: Paul Rellinger / kawarthaNOW)

      Longtime Peterborough musician Mark Beatty’s debut album a long time coming

      Poets Jon Hedderwick and Ziysah von Bieberstein creating spontaneous works at the Take-Out Poetry Cart during Artsweek 2023. For Artsweek 2025, running from September 28 to October 5, von Bieberstein will again be one of the featured poets for the Take-Out Poetry Cart at various locations, while both Hedderwick and von Bieberstein are two of the artists who will perform during The Soul Buffet, a new Artsweek event on October 5 at 2 p.m. in the Peterborough Square courtyard that celebrates Black culture, food, and the oral traditions of spoken word within the Black community featuring BIPOC artists and artists who are allies. (kawarthaNOW screenshot of Michael Morritt video)

      Artsweek Peterborough returns September 28 with eight days of free visual…

      Public Energy Performing Arts presents Mozambican-Canadian dance artist and choreographer Pulga Muchochoma for a double bill of dance performance called YEBO at Market Hall Performing Arts Centre on September 25, 2025. (Photo: Omer Yukseker)

      Public Energy welcomes Mozambican-Canadian dance artist and choreographer Pulga Muchochoma to…

      encoreNOW for September 22, 2025 features (from left to right, top and bottom) Brewfest at 100 Acre Brewing Company, "Billboard In Concert: 1986" at Port Hope's Capitol Theatre, Artsweek in Peterborough, Foley's Irish Pub at Showplace's Cogeco Studio in Peterborough, The Dreamboats at Performing Arts Lakefield, and Bryan Adams "Roll with the Punches" tour at the Peterborough Memorial Centre. (kawarthaNOW collage)

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    • Rose Terry, Manager of the Business Advisory Centre and Corporate Communications at Community Futures Peterborough, leads growth-stage business entrepreneurs during the first workshop in SOAR, a free training program launched by Community Futures Peterborough and supported by Scotiabank. Over the course of four months and four different cohort programs, successful applicants will learn through expert-led workshops, have access to one-on-one consultations, and learn from other local business owners. (Photo courtesy of Community Futures Peterborough)

      Community Futures Peterborough helps growth-stage businesses SOAR to success

      The Home Building Centre at 220 Lindsay Street South in Lindsay was recognized as the best home building centre in central Canada at Home Hardware Stores Limited's annual Proud of My Home Achievement Awards in Toronto on September 10, 2025. (Photo: Home Hardware Stores Limited)

      Home Building Centre in Lindsay named Home Hardware’s best home building…

      Community Futures Peterborough (CFP) is launching its six-part "Entrepreneurship 101" workshop series for fall 2025. Pictured is CFP loans manager Braden Clark, who will deliver the "Funding Fuel - Explore Funding and Financing" workshop on Wednesday, October 22. (Photo: CFP)

      Community Futures Peterborough’s expanded ‘Entrepreneurship 101’ series this fall features three…

      The Peterborough and the Kawarthas Chamber of Commerce will announce the recipients of the 23rd annual Peterborough Business Excellence Awards at an event on October 22, 2025. (Photo: Peterborough and the Kawarthas Chamber of Commerce)

      Nominees and finalists announced for 2025 Peterborough Business Excellence Awards

      Venture13, Northumberland County's Innovation and Entrepreneurship Centre, was launched in 2018. Facilities include the VentureZone Co-working Space, the Venture13 MakeLab, as well as the offices of anchor organizations making up the V13 Board of Partners. (Photo: Venture13 / Facebook)

      Town of Cobourg unveils fall lineup of economic development sessions for…

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    • Through the City of Peterborough's Rain Garden Subsidy Program, eligible homeowners receive up to $1,000 toward the cost of designing and installing a rain garden, with support from GreenUP. The pilot program is coming to a close in fall 2005. Pictured is a rain garden at the east-end home of Peterborough resident Sheila Day, who took part in the program. (Photo: Yvonne Hollandy / GreenUP)

      GreenUP looks at the people and plants behind three rain gardens…

      Kelly and Tony Doyle share a moment with their youngest child, 11-year-old Max, who received life-changing treatment at Five Counties Children's Centre as a baby. (Photo courtesy of Five Counties Children's Centre)

      The Doyle family thanks Five Counties Children’s Centre for changing the…

      Restoration Wednesday volunteers Stephanie Larstone (left) and Sophia Ibrahim (right) remove invasive common buckthorn and other undesirable plants with GreenUP landscape steward Andréanna Sullivan at Ecology Park. The crew cleared the area ahead of a restoration planting. (Photo: Yvonne Hollandy / GreenUP)

      Restoration Wednesdays at GreenUP Ecology Park in Peterborough grow community and…

      Students from Queen Mary Public School show off their transit passes for Grade 8 Transit Quest, a transit encouragement campaign organized by Active School Travel Peterborough. Transit ridership in youth is important for building life skills, accessing extracurricular opportunities, and fostering independence. (Photo: Natalie Stephenson / GreenUP)

      Step into the new school year with active school travel in…

      A student enrolled in the Peterborough Suzuki School of Music, a non-profit membership organization fostering piano music education for children through performance and community enrichment opportunities. The school promotes the Suzuki Method, a music education philosophy that believes any child can learn to play an instrument in the same way any child can learn a new language. (Photo courtesy of Lenore Parajka)

      Peterborough Suzuki School of Music prioritizes learning piano through listening and…

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