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Letter: Take your recycling home from post office

Dear editor:  I find it very embarrassing when I walk into our local post office and find the mess of people’s unwanted junk mail, flyers, our local newspapers etc. that has been left on the counters. I don’t

Letter: Thanks to kind neighbour

Dear editor: This is a letter to the very kind gentleman who picked up the contents of my grey and blue boxes that had blown into the ditch on Friday, March 20, and put them

Letter: We all need to work together now

Dear editor: I am a recent traveller and I quarantined for 14 days. Never took a step out of my yard. Friends and family provided food and necessities where possible, thank goodness. It certainly

Letter: Avoid grocery stores, order online

Dear editor: Hospital staff know when they are dealing with sick people and take all the precautions they possibly can.  Grocery store staff are dealing with the (as yet) invisible carriers and they risk

COVID-19: Back from Bali, safe and sound

Gail Kendall Special to The Lake Report Home sweet home: 15,835 kilometres, three flights, not sure how many antibacterial wipes and I have never been so happy to touch down in my own country.  As

Letter: Go home and just stay there

Dear editor: I am writing as a NOTL resident who has been in self-isolation for the last three weeks and has gone out only for groceries. I would like to be able to say I

Letter: Safe at home after 30-hour flight

Dear editor: We have read some wonderful stories of people getting home safely to NOTL as the virus risk intensified around the world. Our daughter had been in Australia since last October and

Letter: Visit website for more on Workers Welcome program

Dear editor: The Workers Welcome website provides information regarding welcome kits and the Bikes for Farmworkers program. Go to https://www.workerswelcomeniagara.com/ for full details. Please use the contact information provided on the website if further

Letter: Snowbirds need to stay home for 14 days

Dear editor: While out at a major Niagara-on-the-Lake retailer, I was dismayed and saddened to see a fellow NOTLer, deeply tanned, hug a woman and then hear him say he just got back from the United States.

OPINION: Snowbirds, ‘get out of the store now’

Syme JagoSpecial to The Lake Report Twice in the past week, I interacted, in a manner, with people who had just returned from stays in Florida and aren’t isolating themselves because they “feel fine.” The first case

The Golden Plunger: Big Head Wines

Betty & Jane Plunger Control Wineries all over the world are embracing the art of drying grapes to concentrate the flavour and structure of the must. Big Head Wines have been using tobacco

Letter: Now is the time to pull together

Dear editor: With all the worry everyone is currently feeling due to the corona virus pandemic, I felt I would like to write a note just to remind people that a negative can be turned into

Letter: When the going gets tough

Dear editor: When the going gets tough… For the last several weeks the news media has pummelled us with COVID-19, raising a generalized fear in people around the world. Stock markets have dropped like

Letter: Short-term rentals add value

Dear editor: We have been reading many letters in regards to short-term rentals and would like to share our perspective.  We purchased a beautiful property in Old Town 10 years ago with the

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