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They successfully advocated for a new climate plan. Now they say they'll fight to ensure it gets implemented.
The Kawartha Pine Ridge District School Board is mulling millions of dollars of spending cuts as it grapples with a projected deficit of nearly $16.6 million. (Photos: Will Pearson) The Kawartha Pine ...
Vivian Chong performed her one-woman show “Blind Dates” at Market Hall on March 20, 2025. (Photo: Alex Karn) When blind playwright, composer and Dora Award nominated performer Vivian Chong brought her ...
This 1.37-acre property’s 2024 property tax bill was $5,882. (Photo: Will Pearson) One of the biggest privately owned lots and development opportunities in downtown Peterborough is expected to be ...
The Peterborough Currents podcast dives into the 2025 municipal budget in its latest episode. (Photo: Will Pearson) Last year, when city councillors approved the 2024 city budget with a 7 percent tax ...
Peterborough’s children’s aid society has operated at a deficit in recent years as core provincial funding has decreased. (Photo: Will Pearson) Ontario Minister of Children, Community and Social ...
An archaeological crew is excavating the site of a 19th-century church that once stood on George Street. (Photo: Brett Throop) Archaeologists have unearthed a stone foundation belonging to one of ...
How did the City of Peterborough evolve from a small town plot in the 1820s to the much bigger city that we know today? Through a series of incremental boundary expansions that, one by one, added to ...
Local representatives from the three Abrahamic faiths during the 2014 Abraham Festival in Peterborough. (Photo courtesy of the Abraham Festival) You’re reading the September 13, 2024 edition of the ...
This year’s IOAD event in Peterborough featured music and poems performed in front of a backdrop of white crosses. (Photo: Alex Karn) Families gathered at Millennium Park on Friday, August 30 to ...
KPRDSB says it needs millions more for student transportation and special education. (Photos: Will Pearson) Peterborough’s public school board is calling for a boost to provincial education funding as ...
The PRHC Foundation has announced a campaign to raise $60 million to improve care at the Peterborough hospital. But why do communities have to fundraise for healthcare in the first place?