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    Host Grignon speaks with Charlie McDonald about the downtown reconstruction happening in Lindsay and its effects on the local businesses on Kent Street West; Barbara Doyle about the popularity of trivia nights as she hosts the Olde Gaol Museum's trivia night fundraiser at the Pie-Eyed Monk Brewery; and joins Mike ...

Whitnall, Catherine, Kawartha Lakes This Week, 18 Mar 2020     Local arts groups were hit by coronavirus closures as part of the entertainment and recreation sectors ordered to close as part of the state of emergency. Many turned to online platforms to share virtual exhibits, but wide-sweeping closures and cancellations continued to take place. Some organizations faced grant submissions held ...

Sobanski, Sarah, Kawartha Lakes This Week, 24 Aug 2020     Kawartha Lakes staff were optimistic that they were ready if there was a second wave of COVID-19. The Olde Gaol Museum asked the city to consider relief funding for the museum due to being hard hit by the pandemic and losing its mostly senior volunteer base, emphasizing the need to ...

Whitnall, Catherine, Kawartha Lakes This Week (Kawartha Lakes, ON: Kawartha Media Group, 2004), 12 Jan 2021     The pandemic may have kept the public out of the Olde Gaol Museum in Lindsay, but that doesn't mean that the building was empty as staff and volunteers were hard at work creating virtual exhibits and Museum At Home attractions.

    There are unique challenges in vaccinating the population of Kawartha Lakes – and our medical officer of health, Natalie Bocking, is up to that challenge. Close Kicks’s first single, The House We Built, was already a hit. But then one of the country’s biggest podcasts called and made it bigger. ...

Kawartha Lakes This Week, 20210420     Article from Kawartha Lakes This Week about the Olde Gaol Musuem collecting COVID-19 stories from residents and business'