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Letter: U13/14 soccer team had an exceptional season

Dear editor: I am writing on behalf of the parents of the U13/14 NOTL soccer team. Our team played its final game of the season last week and with a 4-0 win ended

Letter: Thank you for helping Shred-it raise $4,060

Dear editor: We have our grand total for NOTL Palliative Care’s Shred-it fundraiser on Aug. 13: an incredible $4,060. Thank you to everyone who came out to Shred-it to lend their hands, legs, muscles,

Letter: Tennis, sailing clubs did superb job hosting Summer Games

Dear editor: I want to congratulate both the NOTL Tennis Club and NOTL Sailing Club for their superb efforts to host the Canada Summer Games. I’m told the two venues were considered the

Letter: Town needs to settle suit over withholding couple’s B&B licence

Dear editor: Now that the integrity commissioner has determined the facts do not support a complaint that Lord Mayor Betty Disero attempted to interfere with how the complaint filed by her husband was

Letter: Make East-West Line preferred route to Old Town

Dear editor: I don’t understand how and why people think that suggesting Charlotte Street as a preferred route into Old Town is the best solution to a growing traffic problem. The current route

Letter: Yes, NOTL really needs to adopt a ward system

Dear editor: Moving from the present “at large” system of electing our town council to a new ward System as proposed in your editorial, (“A new NOTL, wards and all,” Aug. 18) is long

Letter: Remarkable medical procedure cured decades-long tremors

Dear editor: In the spring of 2021 I spoke publicly about my history of intentional tremor and seeing a newspaper article about a new procedure at Sunnybrook Hospital in Toronto that had real

Recipe: Secrets to an award-winning peach pie

Erika Tubb’s delicious peach pie was judged peachy keen during Saturday’s Peach Celebration. Here are the winning pie ingredients and baking instructions courtesy of the winning baker. Erika’s Award-winning Peach Pie Easy Pie

Letter: Critique was cheap shot at mayor

Dear editor: I was a bit surprised when I read Reid Maltby’s letter apparently criticizing, without actually saying so, Lord Mayor Betty Disero’s behaviour some 20 years ago, (“Consider mayor’s actions and her

Letter: $2 million Pathstone donation ‘changes everything’

Dear editor: Earlier this week the Pathstone Foundation was honoured with an incredibly generous gift of $2 million from Niagara residents Greg and Diane Slaight. Quite simply this gift changes everything. The $2

Letter: Consider mayor’s actions and her Toronto legacy

Dear editor: I enjoyed Marlene Penner’s comments (The mayor, her husband and neighbourhood complaint, The Lake Report, Aug. 4) and would like to add to them. I would ask readers to Google the

Letter: Impressed by the saga of NOTL’s Capt. Dinwiddie

Dear editor: I read with great interest the July 28 instalment of The Monuments Men series in The Lake Report, “Separated by war, Phyllis Dinwiddie followed husband overseas.” My wife Anne and I

Letter: Too many cars descending on Old Town. We need a shuttle

Dear editor: I have not read every word of the 168-page detailed and well thought-out proposed transportation master plan prepared by Stantec Inc. However, unlike some residents in town, I don’t recall any

Letter: Handling of rainbow crosswalk was bid to appease conservative voters

Dear editor: Your editorial of Aug. 4 states that our town council has “missed an opportunity” by delaying and delaying the installation of the rainbow crosswalk and further by planning to place the

Letter: Why does town even have power to license B&Bs?

Dear editor: This letter is further to the dispute involving the lord mayor’s husband and neighbours who lost their bed and breakfast licence and The Lake Report’s July 28 editorial, “Let the sunshine

Letter: The mayor, her husband and neighbourhood complaint

Dear editor: Some food for thought: Further to her husband’s complaint about a neighbours’ property, (“Neighbour feud: Mayor’s husband at centre of civil suit against town,” The Lake Report, July 21), if the

Letter: Ontario needs another 7,500 doctors to help ease crisis

Dear editor: Your article (“Adding nurse practitioner first step in solving doctor shortage,” The Lake Report, July 28) states that, “Canada boasts one of the better medical doctor-to-patient ratios in the world.” To

Letter: Make sure residents benefit first from tourism tax windfall

Dear editor: There has been much misinformation, scare tactics, gaslighting, false and incomplete statements made by some councillors and tourism industry groups opposed to the town’s municipal accommodation tax. As well, there was

Letter: Unanswered questions and a lack of transparency

Dear editor: Politicians and civil servants at all levels of government and of all political stripes have become more opaque in dealing with the electorate and the public. Niagara-on-the-Lake is no exception. In

Sports: Paperweight Thunderhawks finish season with Pelham tourney

Tracey Hope Special to The Lake Report The Niagara Thunderhawks paperweight division lacrosse team finished their inaugural season by competing in the Pelham Future Stars tournament July 22 to 24. It was their

Letter: NOTL lacks a formal vision of what Old Town can be

The following letter was sent to Lord Mayor Betty Disero and a copy was submitted to The Lake Report for publication. It seems to me we are managing the Old Town without a

Letter: 50 ‘no parking’ signs on Creek Road in St. Davids is massive overkill

Dear editor: Here’s how to ruin a village in “50 signs.” The Town of Niagara-on-the-Lake as well as the Region of Niagara must share equal responsibility for the overkill placement of “no parking”

Letter: Yes, bylaw and parking enforcement need a rethink

Dear editor: I totally support your July 7 editorial, “NOTL needs to go back to the drawing board with bylaws and enforcement,” as I am waging my own battle with Niagara-on-the-Lake, having experienced identical

Letter: Town, DSBN need to re-establish a NOTL high school

Dear editor: Every four years all residents in Canada have to fill out a census form under penalty of law for non-compliance. The main stated purpose for the census is to enable government

Letter: Town’s excuse for not ‘shopping NOTL’ is disgraceful

Dear editor: Referencing last week’s article (“Town was unaware Lawson Signcrafters could fill ShopNOTL order“), the statement from the town that they were “unaware” the local sign maker was capable of providing the

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