Cobourg, ON (December 2, 2022) – The Town of Cobourg would like to advise residents of a Special Weather Statement issued for Northumberland County on Saturday, December 3, 2022.
A Special Weather Statement is in effect from early Saturday morning through to the afternoon. Potentially damaging winds with gusts of up to 70km/h ahead of a cold front are expected.
Residents are advised to prepare for the following possible impacts:
Potential utility outages
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Cobourg, ON (January 19, 2022) – In response to tomorrow’s forecasted extreme cold warning, the Town of Cobourg would like to ensure residents are prepared for temperatures that are expected to reach -20 degrees Celsius with the wind chill values. Extreme cold warnings and wind chill creates an elevated risk to health such as frost bite and hypothermia. Risks are greater for young children, older adults, people with chronic illnesses, people working or exercising...
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(Issued July 28, 2020 at 8:20 p.m. EST) – The Haliburton, Kawartha, Pine Ridge (HKPR) District Health Unit has advised the Town of Cobourg to shut down swimming at West Harbour and to post no swimming signs immediately due to high E. Coli bacteria readings found in the water. According to SGS Canada Inc., a leading provider of comprehensive water quality testing that meets all provincial and national regulatory requirements, including the Safe Drinking Water Act...
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Cobourg, ON (July 27, 2020) – At 4 p.m. today, the Town of Cobourg lifted the local State of Emergency that has been in place since March 19 in alignment with the COVID-19 declared provincial emergency that came to an end on July 24. On July 21, 2020, Bill 195, Reopening Ontario (A Flexible Response to COVID-19) Act, 2020 received Royal Assent.  This new Act was proclaimed on July 24, 2020. 
On March 19, 2020 the Town of Cobourg declared a State of Emergency...
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Cobourg, ON (April 17, 2020) – Planning for emergency responder relief efforts are well underway in the Town of Cobourg as the Victoria Park Campground transforms into a relief base camp for first responders and frontline medical workers in need of respite and/or self-isolation from possible exposure to COVID-19. 
The Town of Cobourg’s Emergency Control Group in collaboration with the Cobourg Police Service are pleased to announce the near completion of...
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