North Kawartha Township is currently looking into solutions for maintaining a portion of Julian Lake Road, that is currently un-assumed, after a group of residents petitioned council seeking help.
During the last council meeting, Donald Linders gave a delegation to council presenting a petition and summarizing the need for township help in maintaining all of Julian Lake Road.
Linders started his delegation by showing council the large portion of Julian Lake Road that currently has very little, to no service provided by the township. He noted that the majority of Julian Lake Road serviced by the township abruptly stops, leaving the four residents on fire Route 28 to maintain the remainder of the road, down to the boat launch.
Kawartha Home Hardware hosted a Customer Appreciation BBQ at their empty lot on Queen Street in Lakefield on Saturday. Pictured above, Ellen Hinan was taking no chances dunking her son Jacob in the tank during the event.
Candidates have officially all filed their papers to run in this year’s municipal election.
Friday Aug. 21 marked the deadline for residents to sign up to run in the municipal or school board election process.
Election Day is October 26, 2026. In the coming weeks the Lakefield Herald will be publishing profiles on each candidate in Douro Dummer, North Kawartha, Selwyn, and Trent Lakes.
In Douro Dummer, there are a total of 17 candidates running in the municipal elections.
During the voting period (which starts on October 13), residents will be able to cast their vote using internet and telephone voting systems and on Election Day there will also be paper ballots to be counted by tabulator.Candidates include:
Mayor:
• Heather Watson
• J. Murray Jones
• Peter Leahy
Patrick Leahy appeared before council at Douro-Dummer’s August 7 council meeting to request some grant money to help complete a community project.
Leahy requested between $1,000 and $1,200 from the community grant fund to help subsidize the Historical Graves Recording Project through an organization called Historic Graves Ireland.
Plans are currently being made for work that is set to take place around Peterborough County in September of this year. Historic Graves Ireland has professionally recorded, digitized, and preserved the headstones of 1000 out of the 3000 Irish cemeteries and graveyards, operating with a community engagement methodology.
Work on the project commenced last Summer when archaeologist John Tierney, who holds the title of director of Historic Graves Ireland, landed in Douro to begin the organization’s first work on North American gravestones.
This short documentary is a portrait of a tiny town, Lakefield, Ontario, and its independent weekly, the Herald. Across North America, newspapers are dying, but in Lakefield, Terry McQuitty, the town paper’s publisher, carries on a rich, 150-year-old tradition. Set to the pace of small-town life, Unheralded is a testament to the vital role newspapers can still play, and the close bond between reporter and reader.
