It has been a sad week for Canadian journalism. The bad news started quietly Sept. 12 with word the Glengarry News, a 131-year-old family-owned newspaper in Alexandria, Ont., north of Cornwall, was closing.
It was a frenzied NOTL-focused scavenger hunt on four wheels. Unsuspecting Niagara-on-the-Lake residents, visitors and business operators encountered a non-military invasion Saturday morning as nearly 100 road rally participants scurried around town trying
Had he lived, Terry Fox would now be 65 years old, a pensioner. His landmark birthday fell about six weeks ago, on July 28. But it’s impossible to see him as a senior citizen.
Despite retiring from civic life after decades of community work in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Jim Collard knew he wasn’t quite done. Born and bred in NOTL, he spent 30 years on town council, served on numerous
Niagara New Democrat MPP Wayne Gates is reintroducing legislation to cancel the basic tax charged on Ontario wines, a move the wine industry has been aggressively lobbying the Doug Ford government to make.
NOTL’s Kaleb Dietsch knew that every new step on his hockey career path would be a learning experience. Having just completed the week-long training camp of the Ottawa 67’s of the Ontario Hockey
Yolanda Henry’s hot putter worked its magic as she shot 85 to lead all competitors in the Niagara-on-the-Lake Golf Club’s 18-hole women’s league on Tuesday. She needed only 28 putts on her round
It’s September and that means a lot of things, but especially it means that children are back at school. You’d think that as a society – and since we were all kids ourselves
One of the toughest and most stressful competitions returned to the Niagara-on-the-Lake Golf Club on Friday as couples flailed away in the annual Matrimonial Cup tournament. The tourney pairs couples in what is
Swimming the Niagara River from Queenston to Queen’s Royal Beach is a daunting prospect at the best of times. Those waters can be swift-moving and tricky. The 12-kilometre journey is not for the
And thanks to Sailor for the Sea Clean Regatta protocols, the event generated just two bags of garbage after hundreds of meals over the week After almost a week of racing on
Before we get into this week’s Arch-i-text, I want to correct an inadvertent error in last week’s column about the role of the town’s urban design committee. When I submitted my overly long
A great week of doubles tennis culminated on the weekend with the crowning of men’s and women’s champions and consolation winners at the Niagara-on-the-Lake Tennis Club. The women’s championship ended when Coral MacKenzie
The annual Chautauqua Open golf tournament last week attracted 60 players, its biggest turnout ever, and raised about $700 for the community association. “Sixty golfers is the most we have ever had,” organizer
The Niagara-on-the-Lake Pickleball Club will soon triple the number of indoor courts its members can play on, thanks to a pilot project in conjunction with the Central Community Centre on York Road. The
Completing 14 out of 15 tasks would generally inspire compliments. In sport, winning 14 of 15 games, stopping 14 of 15 shots, hitting 14 of 15 from the floor … all exceptional efforts.
Inaugural fundraiser for museum could become an annual event More than 700 homes in Niagara-on-the-Lake are over a century old and Catherine Novick sees this as a great, untapped historical legacy that
Familiar names topped the leaderboard at the Niagara-on-the-Lake Golf Club’s junior championships on Sunday. Sam Walker was crowned junior boys champ and Keira Dexter took the junior girls title, both for the third
The Niagara Thunderhawks U7 team got a taste of what it’s like to play in the big leagues on Saturday as they participated in the first U7 Extravaganza hosted by the Burlington Blaze.
The Wood Trophy is staying at the Niagara-on-the-Lake Golf Club. A team from NOTL recaptured the historic cup for the second straight year (and eighth time since 2012) by coming out on top
Niagara-on-the-Lake has a problem with people driving too fast in quiet residential areas. Just ask the folks who live in some of those quiet residential areas. Actually, that’s exactly what The Lake Report
Two Niagara-on-the-Lake lacrosse teams returned home as divisional champions after a weekend tournament in Grimsby. The U9 major Niagara Thunderhawks team won the Zone 9 U9 “B” divison championship Saturday with a 10-2
The Davis Cup is coming home – to Niagara-on-the-Lake. The most prestigious trophy in international men’s team tennis – which Canada won last fall for the first time ever – will be in
“The joint was rockin,’ goin’ round and round.” With apologies to the late, great Chuck Berry, his lyrics might be appropriate locally almost 70 years later. It won’t be long now that Niagara-on-the-Lake residents, visitors
A mother and son from London, Ont., are facing a long list of charges in connection with a series of break-ins at Niagara businesses, including four locations in Niagara-on-the-Lake. Niagara Regional Police detectives
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