About 100 people attended Wiens’ campaign barbecue in Virgil, where supporters put development and property taxes at the top of their list of priorities for the next council.
The hike replaced the annual Hummel Family Healing Cycle Ride — this year’s fundraiser raised $25,000, which was matched by the Hummel family to total $50,000 for the organization.
Legends became reality at RiverBrink Art Museum this past weekend, as its riverside grounds were filled with myth-inspired art installations for its third-annual art installation festival.
Volunteers sold donated produce, jam, chutney and baked goods on the sidewalk outside the Victoria Street church in Niagara-on-the-Lake and donated antiques at an estate sale inside.
Since the lemonade stand began five years ago in 2021, it’s raised more than $10,000 to support Niagara Dog Rescue, which helps homeless and unwanted dogs find a new home.
Two new names were added to Niagara-on-the-Lake’s Sports Wall of Fame on Friday, honouring youth soccer coach Kurt Hamm and former Ontario Hockey League player Gary Friesen.
A Broadway musical that swept the Tony Awards and set a new record at the box office this summer is coming to Niagara-on-the-Lake this week. Performances are set for Aug. 28 to 30.
The Artists’ Village’s residences for actors and other peformers with the Shaw Festival opened in February. The apartments have been nearly full since April.
The Shaw Festival is celebrating the opening of a campus that will house dozens of performers who put on the theatre company’s productions, plus education and outreach programs.
The parish, founded in 1826, is celebrating its 200th anniversary, and the annual peach festival is one stop in a season of bicentennial events being held this year.
Nancy Wardle puts the people behind Niagara’s harvest on canvas in a new portrait exhibition, arguing residents admire farms while often overlooking the workers who sustain them.
A night of rain threatened the outdoor grounds of the Kinsmen Club of Niagara-on-the-Lake’s biggest fundraiser, but the fields dried in time and more than 300 classic cars rolled into the 26th annual Show and Shine on Sunday.
The art centre’s board chair says this donation will help it expand its programs, support artists and improve the spaces the centre shares with the public.
Rain and flooding across Niagara could not keep an estimated 1,000 to 1,500 visitors from the NOTL Museum’s annual Heritage Festival on Monday, where the public got its first real look inside the former home of museum founder Janet Carnochan.
Thunderstorms rolled over the Niagara Pumphouse Arts Centre around 11 a.m. Sunday, forcing Art at the Pumphouse to close hours early and cancelling a full afternoon of demonstrations, live music and in-person sales.
The St. Davids Lions Club has pulled off its family carnival for a 63rd straight year, and its club president says he could not be happier with the number of people who came out to the village fairgrounds.
The picnic brings together members of a private Facebook group Mariah Reese started in 2021, during the COVID-19 pandemic, to push back against the negativity she saw taking over local online spaces.
More than three years after Gordon Lightfoot’s death, his music filled St. Mark’s Anglican Church as a sold-out audience gathered to celebrate the Canadian icon through the voices and instruments of musicians who knew him.
Canada’s best FIFA World Cup showing is over, and the president of Niagara-on-the-Lake’s youth soccer club says the game’s future in this country now depends on what happens far from the big stadiums.
The St. Davids Firefighters Association bought Red Roof Retreat a $9,000 riding mower Thursday, covering an equipment cost the charity says it cannot spare from its $4.3-million building project.
Niagara-on-the-Lake’s annual Canada Day cake parade rolled into Simcoe Park on Wednesday behind an electric-converted Model T, drawing hundreds of residents, clad in red and white, for a slice of the town’s signature cake.
Those who knew Sínhue Garcia are grieving the loss of someone they say was a generous and caring person — and whose death has deepened fears about the rural roads farmworkers cycle every day.
As the federal government moves forward on plans to continue cutting Canada’s immigration levels, migrant farmworkers and their advocates pressed Ottawa for permanent residency at a Virgil rally.
For a sport that’s often fought for attention behind hockey, baseball and basketball in Canada, this year’s World Cup is giving soccer a boost that’s being felt across the country — including by players and their families here at home.
More than 5,000 residents and visitors returned to Simcoe Street for the annual, one-day, volunteer-run, start-of-summer festival, which supports the 200-year-old church.
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