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Chrystia Freeland, deputy prime minister and minister of finance, along with ministers Maryam Monsef, Kinga Surma, and Dave Smith announced a historic agreement to bring high-speed internet to nearly 280,000 rural Ontario households in hundreds of communities across the province.

Since 1944, the Rotary Club of Fenelon Falls has been changing its community and the world for the better through its volunteer service. This year, in addition to its help with the Fenelon Falls COVID-19 vaccination clinics, the Rotary Club of Fenelon Falls is making a gift to help fund the community’s new CT Scanner at Ross Memorial Hospital.

Members of the City of Kawartha Lakes Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) seized over 6,000 plants under a Cannabis Act (CA) warrant that interrupted the illegal production of cannabis at a local Kirkfield residence.

Recreation facilities including fitness centres, swimming pools, Lindsay Recreation Complex Arena, select halls and community centres are open now with COVID safety protocols in place.

The Lindsay Business Hub had its grand opening recently, with Mayor Andy Letham and local MP Jamie Schmale in attendance.

Ramona and Larry Kozak, owners of the Lindsay Business Hub, say in a media release that the building will “reinvent Lindsay’s workspace.”

If you have a second dose appointment scheduled after August 3, the local health unit is asking you to immediately rebook sooner or ‘walk in’ for your COVID-19 vaccine.

With the more infectious Delta variant now being the most common strain of COVID-19 in Ontario, the Haliburton, Kawartha, Pine Ridge District Health Unit is urging anyone age 12 years and older to get their second vaccine dose as soon as possible.

With all Kawartha Art Gallery youth programming on hold due to COVID-19 pandemic safety protocols, what the future of the Gallery’s Summer Art Camp youth programming would look like was a concern for the gallery.