New nurse practitioner will start seeing patients in mid-April
Residents of Niagara-on-the-Lake without a family doctor will soon have local options for primary health care services thanks to the long-awaited...
Members of the public are questioning the Niagara-on-the-Lake Public Library board’s handling of the fallout from a column written by its now-ousted CEO and...
NOTL native works out and practises with OHL club daily
A year ago at this time, Niagara-on-the-Lake’s Kaleb Dietsch was winding up his minor hockey...
After months of planning and debate, council voted Tuesday to approve the 2024 budget.
All in, property owners will be paying 6.75 per cent more in town taxes than they...
The town may be back to two horse-drawn carriage operators in 2024.
Laura Sentineal, who owns Sentineal Carriages with her husband, Fred, asked council to...
An American organization cited by NOTL library CEO and chief librarian Cathy Simpson in a controversial column has been mischaracterized, its executive director says.
In...
In last week’s article, I explained why it is that we prune deciduous shrubs from late winter to early spring, which I have summarized in the next paragraph.
In this week’s article, I will be going through some basic tips to help take away the mystery of pruning.
In general, the best time to prune any deciduous woody plant is just before the new growth starts in spring (the late dormant period: March to mid-April).
Pruning at other times can rob the plant of stored food and energy. It may also mean a loss of flowers or fruit.
With that said all...
The women’s auxiliary annual Easter bazaar and bake sale came and went in a flash, but left the long-term residents of Pleasant Manor a little more enriched in its...
Wine aficionados and foodies had the delight of enjoying an international spread at Reif Estate Winery over the weekend.
Visitors to the 52-year-old winery on Niagara Parkway were sampling six different kinds of cuisine with their wines.
Richardson Matias was busy rolling sushi and torching salmon on behalf of Danny’s Sushi from Niagara Falls.
Originally from the Philippines, he has been cooking with Danny’s Sushi for two years.
Matias seared the top of a salmon nigiri dish and glazed it with a spicy teriyaki sauce before offering it to a pair of diners with two sushi rolls, one with white tuna and cucumber,...
Whose cup o’ Joe gets the judges jonesing the most?
If you asked some of the folks at Starbucks in Virgil last Thursday afternoon, Scooter Sousa brewed the best.
Sousa, who works at a Fort Erie Starbucks, was the winner of the company’s district-wide barista contest held in NOTL and has the opportunity to move up to increasingly higher levels of the competition.
The finals will take place in June in Seattle, where 23 of the company’s best will go mug-to-mug with their signature drinks.
Starbucks will send the winner on a free trip to Hacienda Alsacia, the company’s coffee farm in Costa...
Here are all the people involved in the upheaval at the Niagara-on-the-Lake Public Library:
At the centre of the controversy
Cathy Simpson: Former chief librarian and...
This year's scouting Kub-Kar races in Niagara brought together both current Cub Scouts and scouts who blazed their own trails years ago.
Eight-year-old Charlie Squire...
A new chief is stepping up to lead the way at Music Niagara for another season of celebrating Niagara's talented and passionate musicians.
Paul Shelestowsky, a supporter of Music Niagara for...
Angela Seeger's 'What's in the trunk?' performance showcases some of your favourite stars
Angela Seeger got her start in musical theatre and formed her first band at 19.
“It’s one of...
Monica Harris
Special to The Lake Report
As the executive director of the Foundation Against Intolerance & Racism, I am compelled to address several misrepresentations and falsehoods that were...
Music Niagara and St. Mark's Church are teaming up to present a performance from a chamber choir hailing from Western Canada.
On Tuesday, March 26, Edmonton's Cantilon Chamber Choir will...
Steffanie Bjorgan knows there’ll be a large crowd of hungry mouths to feed come April 28.
That’s when Red Roof Retreat will host its annual fundraising pasta dinner and Bjorgan,...
Dear editor:
It's absolutely shocking to read that an employee of a Canadian public Library has lost her job over the free expression of her views on the very subject...
The fight to compensate a seasonal farmworker injured on the job in Niagara-on-the-Lake is likely to continue despite the man’s death earlier this year.
David Arruda of the Toronto-based IAVGO...
The issue of a roadway illegally built on conservation land in Glendale may be resolved, but it raises questions about what the town can do to protect the natural...
Next stop, Kingston.
The Niagara-on-the-Lake U18 Wolves rep team has qualified for the provincial championship tournament and will compete for top honours in Kingston from April 5 to 7.
Defenceman Calo Zambito's third-period goal Thursday night in Fort Erie was all NOTL needed.
They skated away with a 1-1 tie and the point they earned was enough to give them the series win over the Meteors four points to two.
The teams had tied game one 1-1 last Monday and NOTL took game two 3-0 at home on Wednesday.
The series win means the Wolves will compete with seven other teams from across the...
Cathy Simpson, the CEO of the Niagara-on-the-Lake Public Library, was fired Tuesday morning over the controversial content of an op-ed column published by The Lake Report.
The Feb. 22 opinion piece, “Censorship and what we are allowed to read,” focused on Freedom to Read Week, but drew strong criticism from a few in the community over its promotion of some of the principles espoused by...
Cindy Grant and volunteers have been busy putting together 130 Easter hampers for clients of Newark Neighbours to be distributed on March 28.
Porch pickups will be held on Saturday, March 23 and the organization is short on supplies needed to fill the hampers.
“Shelves are extremely bare. I don’t think I’ve ever seen them this bare, so we are really in need of everything,” Grant...
Somethin’s cookin’ over at the Niagara-on-the-Lake Public Library.
Kids came out to make apple crumble and miniature pizzas at the library for one of its March Break activities last Thursday.
It was a messy good time for six-year-old Mark Stewart, who displayed great enthusiasm when it came time to smash graham crackers for the apple crumble topping.
“I just loved the library programs," said Mark's mother, Julia...
The Niagara Regional Police's human trafficking unit searched a rural property on Read Road on Tuesday morning.
A large number of officers, including those from...
With its many farms and wineries, Niagara-on-the-Lake is a town with deep agricultural roots.
And with that comes the risk of fires that threaten buildings,...
Esther Battista’s family pet Chico is almost 154 years old. In dog years.
Even among Niagara-on-the-Lake's famously aging populace, that is far older than any other resident.
Battista’s family got the Bichon Frisé when she was just 11 years old and now she's turning 32, married with a baby — and Chico is still a part of the family.
His exact age is unclear.
Records from examinations of Chico's molars during one of his first veterinary visits estimate...
Even though it doesn’t seem like we have had much winter yet, spring is definitely here — or at least, that is what a robin told me.
One of the first tasks in the garden is pruning deciduous shrubs.
I believe that the success, and longevity, of any garden is due to proper pruning techniques.
Pruning is more than just cutting down the tips of the branches. That is part of it, but it's one of the...