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PHS 50/50 Lottery Returns and It’s a Win Win

The Peterborough Humane Society is bringing back its Spring 2026 PHS 50/50 Lottery starting Thursday, April 9, marking the fifth edition of a fundraiser that has quickly turned into one of the community’s more successful […]

Miss Advice… Any Questions?

Dear Miss Advice,It’s April in Peterborough and I made the mistake of putting my winter coat away. Now I’m cold, damp, and furious. Was that naive?— Seasonally Betrayed in the North End Dear Betrayed,Yes. Deeply […]

CITY HALL: March 30 — Towers, Tweaks, and the Things Left Unsaid

Monday night at City Hall had that familiar rhythm: a few big ideas dressed as progress, a handful of procedural tune-ups, and a long list of things everyone knows are urgent but somehow never quite […]

HorrorScopes: April 2026

Aries April hands you a fresh start and you immediately treat it like a demolition derby. You’re full of energy, confidence, and just enough self-awareness to ignore all three. You’ll start something bold — a […]

CITY: Upward Momentum, Ground-Level Silence

City Hall this week leaned hard into the future — glass, steel, and planning language — while the present sat patiently off to the side, waiting to be invited into the conversation. The main attraction […]

Dear Miss Advice

Dear Miss Advice,I matched with a man on a dating app who says he’s “very involved in the Peterborough arts scene.” Is that a red flag?— Cautiously Cultured in East City Dear Cautiously,Not a red […]

Trent Radio’s Fundrai$io Is Back, Because Community Radio Doesn’t Keep Itself Alive

This April, Trent Radio launches the third year of Fundrai$io — its week-long, slightly cheeky, entirely necessary fundraiser celebrating the scrappy miracle of community radio. Running Sunday, April 12 through Saturday, April 18, the annual […]

St. Patricks Day: Revealed

St. Patrick’s Day may be the most successful act of historical rebranding ever pulled off by the Church. What began as a feast day tied to the spread of Christianity in Ireland now lurches through […]

St Patrick’s Day: Green Beer and Some Bad Decisions

St. Patrick’s Day in Peterborough arrives the way these things always do — not as a polite cultural observance, but as a green-flecked civic spell, a licensed excuse for daytime drinking, loud guitars, and the […]

CITY: Towers First, Questions Later

City Hall this week spent a fair bit of time talking about height — specifically how high Peterborough might soon reach into the sky — while a few of the city’s more stubborn problems sat […]

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