
Remembering the Queen: I almost bumped into her, and other close encounters
Mike Henry Special to The Lake Report Having lived in the U.K. for a several years, my wife Yolanda and I have a few memories of the Queen. At the old Royal Ascot,

Mike Henry Special to The Lake Report Having lived in the U.K. for a several years, my wife Yolanda and I have a few memories of the Queen. At the old Royal Ascot,

Dear editor: I join with others in mourning the passing of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. Over a century ago, Bahá’u’lláh, in clear and unmistakable language, wrote to the monarchs and rulers of

Dear editor: I’d like to remind your readers to send their questions for FocusNOTL’s all-candidate Meet & Greet sessions to notlelection2022@cogeco.ca. This is a great opportunity for all residents to directly ask candidates

Ron Fritz Special to The Lake Report In a Sept. 3 letter to the editor, Kenn Moody asks for a reasoned discussion about a ward system for Niagara-on-the-Lake. What follows is my attempt to

Dear editor: As the chair of the Chautauqua Residents Association, I wanted to take a moment to thank our wonderful community for coming together for a fantastic event last week – our annual

Dear editor: Regarding the Sept. 8 letter from Leslie Moulson, (“Site for candidate debates is not easily accessible“), we fully understand the issue with accessibility at the Niagara-on-the-Lake Legion hall. However, it was

Dear editor: Most, if not all, road traffic studies across both North America and Europe conclude that roundabouts are far more sustainable than traffic lights (no hydro, no equipment breakdowns and little long-term

Steve Hardaker Community Correspondent This evening, Thursday, Sept. 8, I am feeling very nostalgic. Today, we lost our Queen, the only monarch many, if not all, of us ever knew. Growing up in

Dear editor: Absent among most of our current elected officials are the following traits: strong leadership, decision-making, achievers and problem-solving. From my viewpoint and my engineering and business experience, I view them as disjointed,

Miranda Krause-Chivers Special to The Lake Report During the Royal Family’s visit to my hometown of Portage la Prairie, Man., on July 13, 1970, I met Queen Elizabeth, Prince Philip, Prince Charles and Princess

Dear editor: A big thank you to our Niagara-on-the-Lake Museum staff and volunteers for organizing Saturday’s polo matches on the Commons. We appreciated all the work that was involved both before and during, and by

Dear editor: Did you know that “It’s Miller Time,” a brewery established in 1855 in Milwaukee, Wisc., has now been replaced by “It’s White Knuckle Time” in the village of St. Davids? Much

Dear editor: A Town of Niagara-on-the-Lake advertisement in The Lake Report on Sept. 8 listing candidates running for the position of District School Board of Niagara trustee misspelled the name of candidate Kris

Dear editor: In addition to the extensive series of no parking signs along the road near the Grist restaurant in St. Davids, a brand new and very dangerous road safety issue has resulted

Dear editor: Our daughter, Ishani Ayona Pal, who is six years old, organized a lemonade and popcorn stand in our front yard in Niagara-on-the-Lake on Saturday, Sept. 3. She wanted to donate all

Dear editor: It felt like an old friend had just stabbed us in the back. After a two-year hiatus due to COVID-19, you would think that Niagara-on-the-Lake would want to greet its visitors

Dear editor: I am writing in response to Derek Insley’s Sept. 1 letter to the editor, “Mayor and would-be mayor both failed to deliver.” That’s a pretty wide brush Mr. Insley used to

Dear editor: The Sept. 1 edition of The Lake Report contains the latest in a series of advertisements paid for by the Niagara-on-the-Lake Chamber of Commerce about its survey of residents done by

Dear editor: I am writing regarding your Sept. 1 news story, “NOTL group plans series of candidate debates.” While I appreciate the effort put in by this group to arrange candidate debates, I

Your correspondent John Buchanan’s Sept. 1 diatribe against the “absurd” proposal to implement a ward system for NOTL council elections is useful, but not in the way he intended. He has in fact

Bonnie Bagnulo NOTL Community Palliative Care Picture this: It’s morning and she can’t get out of bed. You’ve done your best up till now to put your feelings on the shelf, you’ve tried

Dear editor: Let’s park the strong adjectives and adverbs about the emerging discussion about ward systems, (Letter, Sept. 1, “A ward system is an absurd proposal for NOTL“). Let’s try a reasoned response

Dear editor: I am sitting on my front porch, after working on my garden, just relaxing, trying to enjoy a break. Opposite is a new structure, about which people ask, “What is it?

Dear editor: I am writing regarding Samuel Young’s Aug. 25 letter promoting a ward system for Niagara-on-the-Lake, “Yes, NOTL really needs to adopt a ward system.” This letter absolutely begs an immediate and robust

Dear editor: It’s not very often that members of Niagara-on-the-Lake council give us a twofer, that is, two items that present examples of their quality of leadership. At this point in the Oct.

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