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    • Kawartha Lakes police vehicle. (Photo: Kawartha Lakes Police Service)

      Kawartha Lakes police rescue man who jumped into the Scucog River…

      Community Care Peterborough (CCP) invites residents to take part in a gaming night on June 7, 2025 at the North Kawartha Community Centre in Apsley to raise money for CCP supports and services provided by the Apsley office. (Photo: CPP)

      All fun and games: Apsley residents can support Community Care Peterborough…

      Representatives of the federal, provincial, and municipal governments, the private sector, and more gathered in Cobourg on May 22, 2025 to announce that construction is underway on a 1,125-kilometre fibre optic network that aims to offer reliable high-speed internet to 11,000 unserved or underserved homes and businesses in Northumberland County by the end of 2025. (Photo: Northumberland County)

      11,000 homes and businesses in Northumberland County to have access to…

      Port Hope's Furby House Books will be transported back in time on June 22, 2025 during a typewriter social led by Barb Brittain-Marshall. The snail-mail enthusiast will be bringing some of the typewriters in her large collection for participants to experiment with, or to write poems, letters, and songs. The drop-in event will run from 12 to 2 p.m. in celebration of International Typewriter Day on June 23. (Photo courtesy of Barb Brittain-Marshall)

      Port Hope blogger encourages slowing down with a ‘typewriter social’ at…

      Fleming College students are assisting a research project that is evaluating whether "bee hotels," which are human-constructed structures that offer nesting spaces for solitary native bee species, have a net-positive impact on native bees. Three bee hotel designs are being tested in public parks, community food gardens, and pollinator gardens across the City of Kawartha Lakes. (Photo: Fleming College)

      Fleming College studying the impact of ‘bee hotels’ on native bee…

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    • Cailin Stadnyk and David Sylvestri, who starred in the extended run of the award-winning global sensation "Come From Away" at Toronto's Royal Alexandra Theatre, are bringing their cabaret show "Lights, Love and Lyrics" to Globus Theatre in Bobcaygeon for one night only on June 14, 2025. The tribute to the great love songs of movies and musicals is produced by their "Come From Away" co-star Lisa Horner and also features "Come from Away" pianist Richard Evans and bassist Jon Maharaj. (Graphic: Globus Theatre)

      ‘Come from Away’ stars bring a one-night-only cabaret to Globus Theatre…

      Award-winning virtuoso harmonica player Carlos del Junco will be performing with his band The Blue Mongrels as a quartet at the Lakefield Jazz, Art & Craft Festival at Isobel Morris Park on July 12, 2025. (Photo via Carlos del Junco website)

      Virtuoso harmonica player Carlos del Junco headlining this year’s Lakefield Jazz,…

      Daryl Scott, Jesse Slack, and Owen Riegling received the Songwriter(s) of the Year award at the CMAOntario Awards on June 1, 2025 for their work on Riegling's song "Moonshines," which also won Single of the Year. (Photo via Jesse Slack/Instagram)

      Peterborough country artists Daryl Scott, Jesse Slack, and Elyse Saunders pick…

      In support of their self-titled debut double album, "glitter folk" trio LeVolume (wife-and-husband team Jenny Whiteley and Joe Wright with Julian Brown) are performing at the Gordon Best Theatre in downtown Peterborough on Saturday night. (Photo via levolume.com)

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      The winners of the second annual Peterborough Arts Awards in 2019 were Charlie Werger (Beth McMaster accepting on his behalf), Nimkii Osawamick, Beau Dixon and Patti Shaughnessy (Lisa Dixon accepting on Beau's behalf), Alice Williams, Hilary Wear, and Ryan Kerr. After a five-year hiatus due to the pandemic, the Electric City Culture Council (EC3) announced the return of the awards in November 2024, with the winners celebrated at a reception on June 12, 2025 at the Canadian Canoe Museum. (Photo: Bianca Nucaro-Viteri for kawarthaNOW)

      Tickets now available for Peterborough Arts Awards reception on June 12…

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      Innovation Cluster launches new program to help skilled tradespeople transition from…

      The Peterborough County courthouse and administration building located at 470 Water Street in Peterborough. (Photo: Google Maps)

      Peterborough County hosting free May 29 session for local businesses interested…

      A sold-out crowd of 200 people attended the Peterborough and Kawarthas Chamber of Commerce's inaugural Luminary Awards celebration at the Great Hall of Trent University's Champlain College on May 8, 2025, which saw awards in five categories that recognize women at all stages of their careers presented to Sheena Howard, Jenisha Sanjit Arora, Rachel Stark, Tiffany Arcari, and Jeannine Taylor. (Photo: Jordan Lyall Photography)

      Five Peterborough-area women in business honoured at inaugural Luminary Awards celebration

      Darryl Breadner has sold 4 Aces Auto Centre, the auto repair company at 485 Parkhill Road East in Peterborough he founded over 20 years ago, to The Mufflerman Inc. According to a media release from The Mufflerman, Breadner and all existing employees will remain with the business, and 4 Aces will continue to operate as an independent auto mechanical garage within The Mufflerman Group. (Photo: 4 Aces Auto Centre)

      4 Aces Auto Centre in Peterborough acquired by The Mufflerman

      Sky Haven Equestrian Centre & Retreat in Bethany is one of the tourism-related businesses in Kawarthas Northumberland that has taken advantage of the Acceler8 personalized business mentorship program from Regional Tourism Organization 8 (RTO8). Refreshed for 2025, the program is now accepting applications in advance of the upcoming tourism season. (Photo: Sky Haven Equestrian Centre & Retreat)

      Tourism operators in Kawarthas Northumberland can apply for Regional Tourism Organization…

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    • Between the lone line of tandem bicycles and the bright colours, a TandemEyes group ride is hard to miss on a summer evening. Here, the group passes through Jackson Park in Peterborough on the way to the Orange Corners trestle bridge. (Photo courtesy of TandemEyes)

      Visually impaired people in Peterborough can enjoy cycling thanks to TandemEyes

      Families attending Five Counties Children's Centre's 'Ready for School' event in Cobourg in August 2024 prepare to board a school bus to see what the ride entails. Offering supports for children who may face greater challenges due to physical, developmental, or communication needs, the events are returning in Peterborough, Cobourg, and Lindsay in spring 2025 to provide families with even more time to prepare. (Photo: Five Counties)

      Five Counties is helping special needs kids heading to school in…

      Lock 31 (Buckhorn) on the Trent-Severn Waterway. (Photo: Parks Canada)

      Trent-Severn Waterway opens for boating season in time for the Victoria…

      The osprey, which is the official bird of the City of Kawartha Lakes, can migrate more than 250,000 kilometres during its 15-to-20-year lifetime. (Photo courtesy of City of Kawartha Lakes)

      How to celebrate World Migratory Bird Day on May 10 in…

      Madeleine Endicott and Steve McMurtry have reduced their total energy consumption by 43 per cent and their greenhouse gas emissions by 86 per cent by installing cellulose insulation in the interior walls of their century home near Bonnerworth Park in Peterborough, improving their attic insulation, and replacing their natural gas furnace with air source heat pump. The City of Peterborough's new Better Homes Peterborough program provides city homeowners with low-cost financing to complete similar energy efficiency retrofits that enhance residential building performance. (Photo: Clara Blakelock / GreenUP)

      New City of Peterborough program offers homeowners low-interest loans for energy-saving…

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