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The story of The Greatest Show’s unlikely 1988 production at Peterborough’s Del Crary Park is worthy of a small book. In composer/author R. Murray Schafer’s notes to the performers describing his ...
Last updated: October 6, 2022 There are five candidates running to be the next mayor of Peterborough. Read through who they are and what they’re promising in our round-up below. The Peterborough ...
Peterborough’s oldest housing co-op is an oasis of affordability. Could more like it help solve the housing crisis?
Peterborough’s average rent for a two-bedroom unit with new tenants hit $1,791 in 2023, according to the CMHC. (Photo: Will Pearson) Peterborough’s apartment vacancy rate dropped to 1.0 percent in ...
Jackson Pind is a mixed Settler-Anishinaabe Historian of Indigenous education who focuses on the history of Indian Day Schools in Ontario. He is currently an Assistant Professor, Indigenous ...
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 Currents had a busy year in 2023. We posted more than 60 articles to our website. We released 10 podcast episodes. And we sent 30 email newsletters to our audience of 4,900 subscribers.
Chris Lawson and Emily Minthorn said they were blindsinded when they received an eviction notice this spring. Their landlords said their daughter needed to move into Lawson’s and Minthorn’s East City ...
Malaika Collette is an eighteen-year-old climate activist from Peterborough. In November, she attended the COP26 United Nations Climate Change Conference as an observer. (Photo courtesy of Malaika ...
Jonathan Semugaza with his well-loved Pentax K1000 film camera. (Photo taken by Will Pearson , then developed and scanned by Peterborough Photo Service) When photographer Jonathan Semugaza has a paid ...
Learn how Curtis Creek was diverted from its natural route — and how the City has restored its ecology in some places.
The Peterborough Drug Strategy was started in 2009 as a way to bring different organizations together to coordinate a joint response to the drug crisis.