Kevin MacLean, Author at Niagara Now

Sports: Corcoran and Peters top shooters in Business Ladies league

Lightning forced cancellation of the early shotgun start for Monday’s Business Ladies league at the Niagara-on-the-Lake Golf Club, but the late-afternoon groups were able to compete.

UPDATED: Hot enough for you? Water safety warnings elusive at Queen’s Royal Beach despite dangerous E. coli levels

The region has changed how it lets you know that water problems might be lurking at the local beach, including E. coli levels. And it is now up to beach-goers to figure it out.

Sports: Golfers hit the links to celebrate Canada’s birthday

Resplendent in red and white, members of the Niagara-on-the-Lake Golf Club’s nine and 18-hole women’s leagues celebrated their annual Canada Day scramble on Tuesday.

Driver pleads guilty to fatal hit-run — for second time

Deputy Crown attorney Todd Morris urged him to send Moore to jail for 12 months, while defence lawyer Jeffrey Manishen argued that a two-year sentence of house arrest was more appropriate.

Business: NOTL’s John Scott receives honorary degree from Niagara College

Niagara-on-the-Lake resident John Scott has received an honorary degree from Niagara College in recognition of his contributions to the school and to Canada’s corporate community.

Sports: Seventh hole is for the birds at NOTL Golf Club

At this time of year, besides large trees, large bunkers and wind-whipped Lake Ontario, there’s a new wrinkle: dive-bombing by red-winged blackbirds.

Sports: Wild times as Meszaros scores trifecta with another 37

On the fairways, Jim Meszaros continued an incredible hot streak, becoming top dog in Tuesday’s Woofs league, shooting 1-over 37 — for the third straight week.

NOTL man asks Court of Appeal to throw out Marotta defamation suit

In seeking to have the entire case dismissed, Hall had argued his comments on the NOTL 4U Facebook group should be considered protected speech under Ontario’s anti-SLAPP legislation.

Sports: Howe-Hull scores season’s first hole-in-one at NOTL club

NOTL’s Erin Howe-Hull notched the first hole-in-one of the season Monday evening at the Niagara-on-the-Lake Golf Club. Standing on the tough par-3 ninth hole, Howe-Hull drove her tee shot 167 yards into the cup for her first-ever ace.

Editorial: Slow down, you’re moving too fast

“Take responsibility for your actions: it might hurt financially, but the wisdom of obeying the speed limit near a school (whether kids are present or if it’s late at night) seems like something right out of Driver Ed 101,” writes Kevin MacLean.

Sports: Green wins Hunter Cup, Robitaille sizzles with 79

After bringing unseasonably wet weather with daily deluges of rain, Mother Nature finally relented this week and golfers hit the links in Niagara-on-the-Lake Golf Club league play.

Editorial: The first step on a difficult journey

“Curtailing or controlling some of the objectionable projects that people have protested about — with more such developments coming — will be difficult,” writes Kevin MacLean. “Because we’re not just fighting developers, we’re fighting provincial mandates.”

Editorial: Figuring out what NOTLers really want

“Whether you want to retain NOTL as an idyllic place to live and wish we could pull up the drawbridge to keep outsiders away, or you embrace it as “wine country” … the reality is our wee town is growing, it is changing and it will never be what it once was,” writes editor emeritus Kevin MacLean.

Editorial: Building a stronger Canada, together

“As Canadians, we (and our leaders) need to set aside divisions, to fight collectively for what is best for our nation, to work together to help those in our society who need it most — and to build a stronger Canada that can withstand the winds of Trumpian blustering while boosting opportunities and making life safer and more affordable for all,” writes Kevin MacLean.

Sports: NOTL runner battles heat to finish her 6th London Marathon

Slow and steady is Margot Devlin’s running motto and in 22 Celsius heat, with no breeze, her strategy was the right one: “It was brutal,” she told The Lake Report. “It was hard on a lot of the participants and the medics and ambulances were very busy with heatstroke victims.”

Opinion: Signs of times as election race comes down to wire

“With new party leaders, new platforms and the spectre of Donald Trump, past voting patterns might mean little,” writes Kevin Maclean. “And while on some streets in urban NOTL, the Kaiser signs outnumber Baldinelli signs six to one, the rural constituency seems far more blue than red.”

Sports: ‘Allez, allez’ — NOTL senior adds Paris Marathon to collection

Margot Devlin completed her first Paris Marathon on Sunday — and the 20th of her career. She also has run the New York City Marathon a dozen times, London’s five and two in Niagara.

Sports: NOTL Wolves U18 team edged out in OMHA tourney

After a stellar season in which the Wolves were a dominant force, winning 40 games and only losing twice, they were crowned Niagara District champs two weeks ago and earned a spot in the provincial finals.

Sports: U18 NOTL Wolves in OMHA finals for second straight year

With 40 wins and only two losses this season, the members of the Niagara-on-the-Lake Wolves U18 rep team have one more major milestone on their radar: bringing home a provincial hockey championship.

Editorial: An unnecessary election — and a vital one

The upcoming federal election is “vital for the Tories,” writes editor emeritus Kevin MacLean, “who hope to gain power, and to the Liberals, who want to revamp and legitimize their party under newly crowned leader Mark Carney.”

Editorial: An unnecessary provincial election

Somehow Premier Doug Ford, his anointed PC candidates and members of his re-election team can keep a straight face when they repeatedly tell us we “need” a provincial election “right now” to give

Chemerika family ‘devastated’ by ‘preventable’ death of father, court told

The Crown is seeking a 12-month jail sentence and a five-year driving ban for Richard Alan Moore, who has pleaded guilty to failing to stop at an accident causing death. The sentencing hearing will resume May 1 at 10 a.m. in person before Superior Court Justice Michael Gibson.

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