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Peterborough is the seat of the District Council of Peterborough. It is the largest town in the council area. Peterborough is in the state electorate of Stuart and federal Division of Grey. Peterborough at one point in time had its own town council (Corporation of the Town of Peterborough) [16] surrounded by the district council.
Peterborough This Week is a section of the Peterborough Examiner website. From 1989 to 2023, it was a weekly non subscription-distribution newspaper in Peterborough, Ontario . It is one of three newspapers in the Kawartha Division of Metroland Media , a company that owns newspapers across Ontario.
Its website, Peterborough Today, is updated six days a week. The PT's sister paper, the Peterborough Citizen (1898), was a weekly paper delivered free to many homes in the city. The Peterborough Herald and Post (1989, a replacement for the Peterborough Standard , established 1872) ceased publication in 2008. [ 154 ]
Central Park is a Green Flag-awarded public park in Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, north of the city centre. Attractions include a paddling pool, sandpit, tennis courts, formal gardens, an aviary, bowling greens, a croquet lawn and a café. Various shows are held throughout the year, including dog shows and a Viking heritage day. [1]
The change of name in May 1919 to The Times and Northern Advertiser, Peterborough, South Australia was made in response to the government's wish to remove Germanic placenames, but was not done gladly. [8] He founded the Booleroo Magnet and purchased the Orroroo Enterprise from Colonel Tom Hancock in 1928 and took over the Weekly Times of ...
Corporate Town of Peterborough council, c. 1901. The Corporate Town of Peterborough was a local government area in South Australia centred on the town of Peterborough.It came into existence on 7 October 1886 when it separated from the surrounding District Council of Yongala.
On May 16, 1997, the block aired an hour-long magic special, All-Star TGIF Magic (which aired in place of Family Matters and Boy Meets World in the 8:00 p.m. ET slot that week), coinciding with the May 19 airing of the special David Blaine: Street Magic (the first of several magic specials featuring Blaine—who co-hosted that night's block ...
In 1795, Peter Smith Sr., a partner of John Jacob Astor's who built his fortune in the fur trade, founded Peterborough, naming the town after himself. Smith moved his family to Peterborough in 1804 and built the family home there, in what at the time was near-wilderness. His son Gerrit changed the spelling of the name to Peterboro.