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Liz Pead was on her way to the 2019 Kawartha Yarn and Fibre Festival when she found herself lost on Oak Street in Fenelon Falls — and now she lives there.

Whether a school, a municipal facility, a place of worship or a local business, a building’s appearance is likely to garner comment.

When she nominated Sergeant Brendan Johnston as her police hero, Erin Broderick wrote an emotional nomination. Her husband, Constable Mike Broderick, died by suicide on Nov. 5 last year.

Parks Canada has announced that due to ongoing mechanical issues, the Kirkfield Lift Lock will remain closed to all boater and land-based visitors for the foreseeable future.

The Director of the Special Investigations Unit (SIU), Joseph Martino, has reasonable grounds to believe that three Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) officers committed criminal offences in relation to the death of 18-month-old Jameson Shapiro in November 2020.

A book published by the Ottawa Huron Tract History Association — A History of Pandemics in Kawartha Lakes — tells the stories of pandemics in our community from the very old to present day.

Ninety-five years ago the world was introduced to The Hardy Boys, a series of juvenile detective stories ghostwritten by prolific Canadian journalist Leslie McFarlane (1902-1977) under the pen name Franklin W. Dixon.