The new design would keep the theatre’s current face on Queen Street while constructing an entirely new building behind it, what executive director Tim Jennings called a “ghost façade.”
The town has salvaged a few key pieces of the Glencairn Hall property for their heritage significance and wants to use them in a commemorative display to honour the building’s legacy.
A new proposal to put up an 18-metre-tall cellphone tower at the northeast corner of Nelson Park is causing a bit of static and buzz among Niagara-on-the-Lake residents.
Frank Kappel described his brother, Michael, as an athlete who was intensely focused and formed strong connections with his teammates.
Festivities are underway in Niagara-on-the-Lake, with a weekend of peach-themed treats and all-ages fun, as two festivals take place.
Niagara-on-the-Lake council is on its annual August break, with meetings scheduled to resume Sept. 9.
Coun. Andrew Niven, who called the first draft an “exciting and important milestone,” recommended the town include more specific goals and targets.
Following council’s rejection of the special events permit, the tulip farm’s co-founder Frank Boendermaker told The Lake Report he’s working with the town and that it wouldn’t be “appropriate” to assume what the future of the fall festival will be.
A wedding held in the courtyard of 124 on Queen Hotel & Spa this spring became the centre of a neighbour’s complaint and the subject of a bylaw investigation.
Niagara-on-the-Lake will host its ride on Aug. 10, beginning at 10 a.m. at the NOTL Community Centre. All proceeds support breast cancer research, advocacy and education.
During the in-person event, Shaw Festival staff led tours of the existing theatre for groups of Niagara-on-the-Lake residents.
The town says that while the wording in the new official plan may look different, its dedication to the neighbourhood and creating a secondary plan for it hasn’t changed.
Niagara-on-the-Lake town council has approved a $500,000 pledge over five years to support the NOTL Museum’s Memorial Hall expansion — as long as its federal grant application is also successful.
After this summer, a collection of 200-year-old bricks may be all that’s left of the historic Glencairn Hall, as its charred remains are hauled off the property and the site is cleared.
NOTL is in the home stretch of having a new plan that’ll guide how the town will grow and how its land will be used — and, it hopes, one that the province will give a thumbs up to.
Council passed a bylaw reducing speed limits on 34 road sections, most of which were previously set at 80 kilometres an hour. Most of the new limits are 70 km/h, with a few sections dropping to 60 or 50 km/h.
Coun. Wendy Cheropita said there hasn’t been enough consultation with the community on the future of the short-term rental bylaw.
After the Shaw Festival’s open house last week at the Royal George Theatre, some Niagara-on-the-Lake residents are feeling more optimistic about the planned rebuild — while others remain cautious.
Niagara-on-the-Lake’s council has endorsed the use of a new tool to make places in town more accessible, paving the way for businesses to start using them this fall.
A lawyer for Two Sisters Resorts Corp., the developer behind the upcoming Parliament Oak hotel, argued that charging for underground parking is inconsistent with the approach taken by several other municipalities in Niagara.
“It’s the pool that is the problem,” says Old Town resident Murray Weaver, arguing that without a pool, the vacation rental property in his neighbourhood wouldn’t attract large, noisy outdoor gatherings.
An indoor pickleball court could be coming to Niagara-on-the-Lake: the NOTL Pickleball Club wants to create a space where residents and visitors can play year-round.
The municipal heritage committee is exploring ways to commemorate Glencairn Hall, a 19th-century heritage home on 14785 Niagara River Pkwy. that was engulfed in flames the early morning of April 16.
A group of homes next to Lake Ontario in west Niagara-on-the-Lake may soon be bundled together into a new condo development.
The Lake Report spoke with locals and tourists last Friday, who shared mixed opinions about the state of parking in Old Town. One restaurant manager says guests often voice the same concern: “There isn’t enough and it’s too expensive.”
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