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Celebrating Excellence: Finalists Announced for 2025 Business Excellence Awards

The Peterborough and the Kawarthas Chamber of Commerce has unveiled the nominees and finalists for the 2025 Business Excellence Awards, a tradition that shines a spotlight on the people and organizations shaping the region’s economy […]

The Night Peterborough Blinked

City Hall crackled Monday night like a power line in a storm. On the table: a provincial mandate that says Peterborough has to cough up 4,700 new homes by 2031 or risk punishment from Queen’s […]

Towering Ambition: How Peterborough’s Skyline Became a Numbers Game

Peterborough is waking up to a new skyline—and it’s not subtle. A seventeen‑storey glass-and-concrete tower is about to crash into East City’s backyards, a stark symbol of the province’s housing mandate and TVM Group’s relentless […]

Ribfest 2025: Smoke, Sauce, and Summer Vibes Take Over Crary Park

Peterborough’s Ribfest returned in 2025 with the kind of smoky, saucy energy that reminded everyone why it’s a summer staple. This year, the festival moved to a new location at Del Crary Park, giving attendees […]

Where the Music Took Over: Gussapalooza 25

It wasn’t Woodstock, but for three days in Cookstown, Ontario, it sure felt like the spirit was alive again. Fields packed with dreamers, guitars slung in every direction, voices carrying across the late-summer air—Gussapolooza 2025 […]

Nicholas Campbell: Peterborough’s Rockabilly Dynamo Is Just Getting Started

At 20 years old, Nicholas Campbell has already earned the buzz of being “the real deal.” Like a young wolf raised in the honky-tonks and record shops of Peterborough, he picked up a guitar at […]

Gussapolooza 2026: Ontario’s Indie Summer Camp for the Restless and Ready

August 21–23, 2026Cookstown There are festivals that arrive with corporate banners, fenced-off VIP kingdoms, and beer prices that make you reconsider the entire social contract. Then there is Gussapolooza, the scrappy, all-ages, plug-in-and-find-out weekend that […]