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Editorial: This one’s for YOU

For 15 weeks, starting way back on Feb. 18 and ending on May 27, we celebrated individuals and groups across Niagara-on-the-Lake who were nominated as Pandemic Heroes. From health care workers to restaurateurs,

NOTL health team vaccinates 150 at special clinic

With military-like precision, a team of doctors, nurses and staff from the Niagara North Family Health Team vaccinated about 150 people Wednesday at a special clinic at the old Niagara-on-the-Lake hospital. “We're very

Editorial: Thank a firefighter

Flames break out. Vehicles collide. A person collapses. A pooch gets trapped down a steep embankment.  When life and trouble happens, who ya gonna call? Inevitably, it is the fire department that responds first and

Editorial: A solution for Ryerson Park

It's been a good week for residents living near NOTL's Ryerson Park. Going back to last fall, people residing near the lakeside park finally had had enough with traffic, parking and other related

Niagara Shores Park could reopen next summer

Lakeside park could help ease traffic problems around nearby Chautauqua neighbourhood   Niagara Shores Park, a natural gem on Lake Ontario with beautiful sunsets and stunning views of the Toronto skyline, could be

Editorial: Let’s learn from our mistakes

Who is tired of lockdowns, shutdowns, restrictions, lineups, masks, sanitizers, social distancing, physical distancing, no congregating, no socializing, etc.? Perhaps the better question is: Who isn't tired of all that – and more?

Editorial: Rand Estate deserves better

It seems like forever, people and communities have had a love-hate relationship with developers and development. Whether it was the burgeoning GTA starting in the late 1970s or downtown Toronto where highrise condos

Editorial: Time to #StayHome, again

Finally, Premier Doug Ford can indeed honestly say he listened to the scientific and medical experts. Let's hope he was not too late in coming to that epiphany. In announcing on Wednesday that

NOTL pharmacy gets first 400 shots of vaccine

But with 4,000 on wait list, Simpson's doesn't yet know when supply will be replenished   A Niagara-on-the-Lake pharmacy began distributing 400 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine this week to some of the estimated 4,000

Town seeks comments on tough new parks bylaw

Niagara-on-the-Lake’s new parks bylaw, which among other things bans barbecuing, limits opening hours and prohibits drinking alcohol, has had a rough ride in some circles since it was passed last week. Now the

Electrical problem blamed for massive NOTL fire

An electrical malfunction caused a massive fire last month that did more than $1 million in damage to businesses housed in three huge, repurposed former barns on Townline Road, the Ontario fire marshal says. The

Editorial: Debate, sure. Threats, never

A year into what might someday be known as the “COVID Era” everyone wishes some of our precious personal freedoms were not still being curtailed. And if you operate a small business that

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