Peterborough City Council will consider recommendations from the City’s DEI Progress Update at their next meeting on Monday April 20th. The report includes proposed outlines for new DEI and anti-racism training for councilors, and an amendment which would ban the use of racial slurs, including the n-word, under the council Code of Conduct, regardless of…
Trent Radio met with Samuel Hall, director, producer, composer, and playwright of the brand new musical, “Years With You”. The world premiere of this production is happening on April 2nd, 2026, at The Theatre On King. Because of funding received from the Trent IMPACT Microgrant Program, tickets to the show are free (currently sold out)….
Trent Radio met with Riverview Park and Zoo’s Matt Dixon, Operational Support Manager for Animal Care, to discuss their new Sulawesi Forest Turtle hatchling. The turtle, named Indy, hatched February 9th. The Sulawesi Forest Turtle is critically endangered and the Riverview Park and Zoo is the only zoo in Canada working to maintain this species….
Trent Radio met with Kate Huband, psychotherapist and workshop facilitator, to discuss Hospice Peterborough’s new grief support program for older teenagers and young adults. The support groups meet at Hospice Peterborough from 6-7:30pm on Wednesdays; the older teen group (16-18) meets the first and third Wednesdays, while the young adult (19-25) group meets the second…
Since 2005, ReFrame Film Festival has been showcasing international documentary film with a focus on social and environmental justice. Trent Radio met with Athena Emmanouil, student intern at ReFrame, to get a look behind the scenes. Among the films being shown at ReFrame is Mr. Possibility, directed by local filmmaker Matt Snell, who sat down…
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…
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…
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…
