
Letter: Town needs to control spending now
Dear editor: As the COVID-19 curve in Canada begins to flatten, our federal, provincial and municipal leaders should be commended for their efforts to manage the crisis. It has been a very tough

Dear editor: As the COVID-19 curve in Canada begins to flatten, our federal, provincial and municipal leaders should be commended for their efforts to manage the crisis. It has been a very tough

Dear editor: The following is an open letter to Lord Mayor Betty Disero and Premier Doug Ford. While I understand that, at the local level, our lord mayor is just following orders, I am

Dear editor: In her recent letter to The Lake Report, Susan Hall made reference to the Plague in England, known to history as the Black Death. This brought back memories of my visit

Dear editor: Yvonne Bredow's story about racism in Niagara is obviously, an accusation to be taken seriously, (“Racist attitudes a common occurrence,” April 16). I think many of us do not do enough to combat racism.

Dear editor: I think we must all be getting fraud/phishing/scammers on the phone. Our house is averaging two a day lately. We do not answer unless we know the number. If we ignore

Dear editor: Re: Yvonne Bredow's story, “Racist attitudes a common occurrence,” (The Lake Report, April 16): I'm a minority, of sorts, in that I'm from a foreign country (America) that is often denigrated in

Longtime NOTL resident Susan Hall, a warden at St. Mark's Anglican Church, has been unexpectedly caught up in the COVID-19 pandemic while visiting family in Brighton, England. This is her second letter home to Niagara-on-the-Lake.

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
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Sean O'DonnellSpecial to The Lake Report For the first time in 42 years, the over 400 youth and adults members of the NOTL Soccer Club will not kick off their season as usual this

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

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

Dear editor: I can't help but see a paradox in the farm labour issue of today. We are struggling to get seasonal farm workers into the country at the same time we are

Dear editor: No disrespect but the many stories about COVID-19 become a blur. We see it on the national news day after day, on CNN all day long, but we need to remind people that

Dear editor: I am writing to echo previous letters imploring people not to hoard goods during the COVID-19 pandemic. There are many people who are dealing with chronic illness or pain that live off a very

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
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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

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

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

Dear editor: I am a local artist and 40-year resident of town. I’ve never been a letter to the editor kind of guy, but today I need to write. I have a show of

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

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.

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

Dear editor: I read with interest the very long March 20 article (“Border closure ‘devastating’ for Niagara farmers, Wiens says”), regarding the initial restrictions that would have kept offshore farm workers from entering

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

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
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