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    • The General Electric factory complex at 107 Park Street North in downtown Peterborough, which began operations in 1891 as the Canadian Works of the Thomas Edison Company and later continued under General Electric. The site includes a complex of 33 buildings built between 1891 and 1981 and used for industrial manufacturing and ancillary purposes. In 2018, General Electric ceased its manufacturing activities on the site, with most of the buildings now decomissioned with machinery and equipment removed. (Photo: Google Earth)

      Partial demolition proposed for historic General Electric factory complex in downtown…

      Members of the Eastern Ontario Wardens' Caucus (EOWC) at Queen's Park in Toronto in May 2025. EOWC represents 13 counties and single-tier municipal governments across eastern Ontario and advocates for the needs of over 800,000 residents. (Photo: EOWC)

      Eastern Ontario Wardens’ Caucus opposes VIA Rail Canada’s pilot project to…

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      Police charge 31-year-old Port Credit man with manslaughter in connection with…

      The late Gerry Smith, who passed away in 2024 at the age of 62, was a sergeant with the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) who retired in 2017 after 30 years of service. (Photo via Peterborough County OPP)

      Smith-Ennismore Community Police dedicating Bridgenorth office to late OPP sergeant Gerry…

      Peterborough County Warden Bonnie Clark with Peterborough and Kawarthas Chamber of Commerce president and CEO Brenda Whitehead, both wearing orange shirts in recognition of National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, during the second annual Warden's Breakfast in the Peterborough County Agricultural Heritage Building at Keene's Lang Pioneer Village Museum on September 30, 2025. (Photo: Jeannine Taylor / kawarthaNOW

      At Warden’s Breakfast, Bonnie Clark provides updates on challenges facing Peterborough…

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    • Warsaw-based consultant Rudy Massimo recently published a memoir titled "Where the Trails Lead: One man's journey of adventure, adversity and leadership." Originally written for his three adult children, the memoir chronicles the outdoor adventures Massimo has taken throughout his life, while weaving in life lessons learned from decades spent in leadership positions and his complicated personal relationships. (Photo courtesy of Rudy Massimo)

      Rudy Massimo shares stories of adventure and leadership in his memoir…

      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…

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    • Joel Wiebe (middle) receiving the James Gordon Carnegie Memorial Award from the Ontario Chamber of Commerce in April 2025. After almost five years with the Peterborough and Kawarthas Chamber of Commerce, including the past three as vice president of government relations and operations, Wiebe is leaving the chamber on October 3, 2025 to take on the role of senior advisor, community relations with Alto, Canada's first high-speed railway, which is currently under development. (Photo: Ontario Chamber of Commerce)

      After five years, Joel Wiebe leaving the Peterborough and Kawarthas Chamber…

      Three of the 150 women who participated in the 2024 She Owns It Women's Entrepreneurship Conference. Presented once again by the Business & Entrepreneurship Centre Northumberland (BECN), the third annual event takes place on November 6, 2025 at the Best Western Plus Cobourg Inn & Convention Centre. (Photo: BECN)

      Registration open for 3rd annual ‘She Owns It’ women’s entrepreneurship conference…

      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…

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    • Mycelium, the part of a fungus hidden under the soil, connects to the roots of trees and provides a network through which trees communicate and transfer carbon nutrients to one another using chemical signals. The reciprocity between species mimic that which can be found through connections in community. (Photo: Yvonne Hollandy / GreenUP)

      Rooted in connection: what forests can teach Peterborough about climate action

      Learn how 19th-century settlers preserved the fall harvest and prepared for the winter during Applefest at Lang Pioneer Village Museum in Keene on October 5, 2025. (Photo: Hailey Doughty)

      Celebrate apples and the fall harvest season during Applefest at Lang…

      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…

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