Before the start of the fall term, food service at The Trend — the dining space at Trent University’s downtown campus, Catharine Parr Traill College — were replaced by vending machines. According to the university’s Foodservice Advisory Committee, the reasoning for The Trend’s end of operation is due to the absence of undergrad students living…
Trent Radio met with Ty McKeen, director of Anne Shirley Theatre Company (ASTC)’s next production, 5 Lesbians Eating a Quiche, a sapphic comedy set in 1956. Willow Brown, a first-year student at Trent, will be playing the role of Ginny Cadbury, the newest member of the Susan B. Anthony Society, the play’s group of quiche-eating…
Dr. Sylvie Bérard, a French Studies professor at Trent University, has been awarded the 2025 Governor General’s Literary Award for Translation for her translation of The Tiger Flu by Larissa Lai, translated into French as Les Sœurs de la Muée. The Governor General’s Literary Award is considered one of the highest literary distinctions in Canada….
Peterborough Currents is an independent, community-centered, local news outlet in Peterborough, Ontario. Though it was founded in 2017, Currents changed its organizational structure in February 2025; according to their website, “a privately owned business was no longer the appropriate organizational structure for a news outlet that citizens had come to value so deeply.” In Summer…
A local BIPOC-led organization, Diverse Nature Collective (DNC), is starting a series of P.A. day camps for racialized youth. The first instance will be a nature-focused P.A. day camp for Black Youth on Oct. 24th. DNC Founder, Patricia Wilson, hopes the camp will “create an affinity space for black youth to recreate outside, to learn…
The City of Peterborough is recommending residents subscribe to Alertable, a free community notification system. “Peterborough has faced several significant emergencies recently. The ice storm this past March, also the windstorm in May of 2022, had major impacts across the city,” says Stephanie Sisson, Emergency and Risk Management Advisor for the City of Peterborough. “During…
With the fall term underway, Trent University students are being introduced to the wide range of services offered through the university’s library and archives. Student Experience and Outreach Librarian Alison Ridgway says the library is not only a place for study but also a hub for research support, events, and technology. Students can book one-on-one…
Kawartha Pine Ridge District School Board trustee Steve Russell says a new elementary school in Millbrook, set to open in fall 2027, will help relieve years of overcrowding. The $24.2-million project is now in the design phase, with community input and municipal partnerships shaping its development. Russell also pointed to recent boundary adjustments in Peterborough…
Helen Whalen, President of Anne Shirley Theatre Company (ASTC), sat down with Trent Radio to share details on their next play, 5 Lesbians Eating a Quiche, slated for January, 2026. The levy group will be holding auditions for the play late September, with applications opening the first week of September. Signups for crew members will…
Peterborough now has a new free weekly newspaper, Peterborough Weekly, reaching 40,000 homes in the city and surrounding areas. Edited by Alex Karn, the paper launched four weeks ago to fill a gap left since the closure of Peterborough This Week in 2019. Focusing on grassroots community stories, local events, and resident perspectives, the paper…
