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    • Longtime Peterborough businessman Ernie Ferguson with his beloved wife Mona, who passed away in 2022. Due to serious health issues, Ferguson chose to pursue medical assistance in dying and, on May 12, 2025, passed away peacefully in his home surrounded by family at the age of 97. (Photo courtesy of the Ferguson family)

      Longtime Peterborough businessman Ernie Ferguson has passed away at 97

      Four Counties Addiction Services Team (Fourcast) is hiring a variety of staff members to support its 24/7 men's residential treatment program in the recently renovated Paddock Wood property off Armour Road in Peterborough. (Photo: Mortlock Construction / Instagram)

      Fourcast recruiting staff for new men’s detox and treatment program in…

      Dr. Tosin Tifase is one of the new family physicians working in the City of Peterborough. Working on a fee-for-service model at Northcrest Pharmasave Pharmacy's medical clinic, Dr. Tifase has rostered 2,200 patients according to an update from the city's economic development director and physician recruitment coordinator on the physician recruitment pilot project presented to city council on May 12, 2025. (Photo: City of Peterborough)

      11 new physicians have engaged with Peterborough’s physician recruitment pilot project,…

      Flanked by Peterborough Century 21 Lakers board member Len Powers (left) and player Dylan Hutchison (right), Peterborough Regional Health Centre (PRHC) Foundation president and CEO Lesley Heighway dons a Peterborough Century 21 Lakers jersey at the Peterborough Memorial Centre on May 12, 2025 for an announcement of a partnership between the Lakers and the PRHC Foundation to support the $60 million Campaign for PRHC. (Photo courtesy of Peterborough Century 21 Lakers)

      Peterborough lacrosse fans can support world-class healthcare close to home this…

      First held in 1990, the Great Gilmour Street Garage Sale takes place on the Saturday following the Victoria Day weekend, with residents along the entire length of Gilmour Street as well as neighbouring streets participating in the popular event. (Photo: Linda McIlwain)

      Peterborough’s Great Gilmour Street Garage Sale returns on May 24

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    • Elyse Saunders from Peterborough, Tebey from Peterborough, and Sacha from Warkworth have each received multiple nominations for the Country Music Association of Ontario's 2025 CMAOntario Awards, with Daryl Scott from Douro and Jesse Slack from Peterborough receiving a nomination for Songwriter of the Year. The CMAOntario Awards Show will be held on June 1, 2025 at The Music Hall in Hamilton. (kawarthaNOW collage of promotional photos)

      Five country music artists in the Kawarthas region nominated for CMAOntario…

      Cambridge-based roots singer-songwriter Craig Robertson, who released his sixth album "Running the Other Way" last September, performs at Jethro's Bar + Stage in downtown Peterborough on Friday night. (Publicity photo)

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      Lindsay Unterlander as Henrietta Leavitt, Lela Fox-Doran as Wiliamina Fleming, and Laura Lawson as Annie Cannon in the Peterborough Theatre Guild's production of "Silent Sky" by Lauren Gunderson, which ran from March 21 to April 5, 2025 at the Guild Hall in Peterborough's East City. The production won three awards and nine honourable mentions at the Eastern Ontario Drama League (EODL) Full-Length Festival awards brunch on April 27 at The StoneHouse Hall in Peterborough. (Photo: Julie Gagne)

      Peterborough Theatre Guild wins three Eastern Ontario Drama League awards for…

      Having just finished performing in the extended run of Mirvish Productions' staging of "Come From Away" in Toronto, award-winning performer Lisa Horner will be leading a musical theatre masterclass on Sundays in June at Linda Kash's Peterborough Academy of Performing Arts. Open to adults and youth ages 12 and older of all skill levels, Horner will lead participants through learning to perform their favourite songs with a focus on finding confidence and having fun. (Publicity photo)

      Come From Away’s Lisa Horner to bring musical theatre masterclass to…

      encoreNOW for May 5, 2025 features (from left to right, top and bottom) The Traveling Milburys, Peterborough Singers, The Plowboys, The Lowest of the Low, "You Can't Take It With You", and "Alice in Wonderland". (kawarthaNOW collage)

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    • 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…

      Andrew Nokes, founder of Creativity by Code and ReziLink, shakes hands with Eduard Yonathan, founder of SanoStrategy. Both tech entrepreneurs are clients of the Innovation Cluster, which serves early-stage small and medium-sized businesses in the cleantech, agritech, health and medical tech, nuclear, and digital tech sectors. (Photo: Bryan Reid for Innovation Cluster

      Innovation Cluster helps tech entrepreneurs scale their businesses and thrive

      Light post banners on Hunter Street East in Peterborough's East City installed by the volunteer-led East City Village Business Improvement Area, which is merging with the Peterborough Downtown Business Improvement Area as part of a one-year pilot agreement. (Photo: Bruce Head / kawarthaNOW)

      Peterborough Downtown Business Improvement Area (DBIA) will now represent businesses in…

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    • 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…

      Rain gardens are not only visually pleasing, they are designed to hold water for up to 24 hours after a heavy rain, and also act as mini habitats. The City of Peterborough Rain Garden Subsidy program, delivered in partnership with GreenUP, offers up to $1,000 toward the cost of installation for city residents. (Photo: GreenUP)

      Why rain gardens are taking root in Peterborough

      Social enterprise Ampere is inviting community members of all ages to a workshop in Lindsay on April 26, 2025 where they'll be be among the first to test and build Ampere's new solar power kit, valued at $150. Registered participants will be able to take the kit home at no cost. (Photo: Ampere)

      Families can build their own solar power kit for free at…

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