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    • 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…

      The late Kathryn Peeters pictured in June 2023 holding her Barbara McArthur Award of Distinction from the City of Kawartha Lakes, along with city councillor Charlie McDonald, kawartha Lakes Accessibility Advisory Committee chair Diane Engelstad, Kawartha Lakes Inclusion, Equity, Diversity and Accessibility (IDEA) Partner Christine Briggs, and Mayor Doug Elmslie. A new Youth Accessibility Award, to be presented at the Accessibility Awareness Recognition Awards in 2026, will be named after Peeters. (Photo: City of Kawartha Lakes)

      City of Kawartha Lakes to honour local champions of inclusion and…

      A rendering of TVM Group's proposed 17-storey residential-commercial building at 90 Hunter Street East beside Mark Street United Church in Peterborough's East City, which includes a four-storey parking garage. If approved by the city, the building would be the tallest in Peterborough, although a 30-storey apartment building is being proposed by another developer on the other side of the Hunter Street bridge behind the Peterborough County building. (Graphic: RAW Design Inc.)

      ‘Intensification has been directed by the city’ developer says as backlash…

      Peterborough Mayor Jeff Leal chairing a city council meeting in 2023. (kawarthaNOW screenshot of City of Peterborough video)

      Integrity commissioner finds Peterborough mayor contravened city council’s code of conduct

      Cobourg police constable Josalyn Hilts and Northumberland Hills Hospital social worker Morgan Emerson of the Mental Health Engagement and Response Team (M-HEART), which has been expanded with increased after-hours support for residents experiencing mental health issues or substance use concerns. (Photo: Cobourg Police Service)

      Cobourg police and Northumberland Hills Hospital expand mobile mental health crisis…

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    • 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…

      Heading into its 36th season on August 14 to 17, 2025, the Peterborough Folk Fest has become an integral community-oriented event that continues to prioritize its long-term sustainability as one of the only admission-free folk festivals in Ontario. As a volunteer-run event, the festival relies on sponsorships and community donations as operational costs continue to increase. (Photo courtesy of Peterborough Folk Festival)

      ‘Stuff like this does not happen in other places’: The making…

      Linda Kash played Ebeneezer Scrooge while Kerry Griffin played all other characters during New Stages Theatre's production of "A Christmas Carol Comedy" at Peterborough's Market Hall in December 2024. The comedians will be teaming up once again for an unscripted evening of improv with special guests, presented by the Traill College and New Stages at the William and Nona Heaslip Foundation Summer Festival, which will take place on Thursday evenings from June 5 to August 28, 2025 at Trent University's downtown Jalynn Bennett Amphitheatre. (Photo: Dahlia Katz)

      New Stages Theatre to present free outdoor performances at the Jalynn…

      Trent Valley Archives Theatre's play "Crossing Over" is a fictionalized account of the cross-Atlantic journey of the John Barry, one of the nine emigrant transport ships that brough over 2,000 Irish settlers to the Peterborough region 200 years ago. In this scene from a play rehearsal, John Keleher (Hugh Foley, right) brings petty thief Tim Ryan (Kaza Hesselink, second from right) to the ship's surgeon and superintendent William Burnie (Ashley Parker, left) for shipboard justice as Mr. and Mrs. Hagarty (Lucas Pronk and Cathy Brand) look on with worry, as they have secrets of their own to keep. (Photo courtesy of Trent Valley Archives Theatre)

      Trent Valley Archives Theatre’s play ‘Crossing Over’ celebrates 200th anniversary of…

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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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