The County of Peterborough has approved the Official Plan (OP) amendments and granted draft plan approval with conditions for a subdivision just south of the Village of Lakefield.
Keziah Holden, general manager of planning presented two reports to county council last week in regards to the Triple T Holdings Ray’s Creek subdivision commonly referred to as Lakefield South.
According to Holden’s report, the complete subdivision application is for a 910-unit subdivision planned for lands located in the Lakefield South development area. It includes properties at 2036 7th Line and 3358 Lakefield Road together with two additional properties that currently have no municipal address. The proposed subdivision consists of 263 lots for single-detached dwellings, 65 lots for multi-residential (townhouses), 10 lots for apartment buildings, two blocks for environmental protection, four blocks for stormwater management, and four blocks for walkways and parkland. The subdivision also includes a network of internal roadways intended to be transferred to the Township in the long-term.
The 2025 LAWS Doggie Dash took place at Isabel Morris Park in Lakefield on Saturday afternnon. Participants were to raise a minimum of $100 to take part in the 1.5km or 2.5km walk. Pictured above are Peyton and Logan Madge of Lakefield having some cotton candy before the walk began.
Some changes are coming to community safety zones and speed limits around schools this fall.
The County of Peterborough approved the Consolidated Speed Limit By-law and Community Safety Zone By-law last week which would bring all schools into conformity with the recently passed School Signage and Pavement Markings Policy and Community Safety Zone Policy.
A report from Doug Saccoccia, general manager of engineering & construction stated that his team reviewed 12 school zones within the County for the consideration of changes.
These schools included:
• Apsley Public Schoo
l• Buckhorn Public School
• Crestwood Secondary and Intermediate School
• Lakefield College School
• Lakefield District Public School
• Millbrook/South Cavan Public School
• North Cavan Public School
• Our Lady of Wayside Catholic School
• Rhema Christian School
• St. Joseph Catholic Elementary School
• St. Martin Catholic Elementary School
• Warsaw Public School
Changes for schools within the East Kawarthas were outlined in the report as:
Apsley:
The Lakefield Literary Festival has announced the winners of the 27th annual Young Writers Contest.
This year saw over 100 incredible entries from secondary schools across the city and county of Peterborough. Judges chose winners in six categories and a recipient to be honoured with the Lucille Strath Award.
Lakefield Literary Festival 2025 Young Writers Contest Winners are:
Junior Fiction: The Departed Train, Laura Oakes, Crestwood
Junior Non-Fiction: Covid Days: A Memoir, Susie Wang,
Lakefield College School
Junior Poetry: Mother Earth, Susie Wang, Lakefield College School
Senior Fiction: Euphony, Sophie Wigglesworth, Wayside Academy
Senior Non-fiction: Right Now: The Ambivalence of Growing Up, Grace Gavard, Adam Scott
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.
