SUBMITTED BY BOB BADER.OPINION Dear Editor, Contrary to Mr. Marotta’s framing of the election as a SORE event, in fact a record number of voters in Niagara-on-the-Lake (and for that matter across the
SUBMITTED BY TERRY DAVIS.OPINION While I accept that Editor Richard Harley had every right to express the views of his publication in the editorial published in the same edition of the paper, I
SUBMITTED BY DOUG JOHNSON.OPINION Mr. Harley, I was very disappointed to read your editorial in the Feb. 21 edition of The Lake Report. I find it totally defeatist and assumptive. You assume that
SUBMITTED BY CAROLYN BERNACCI.OPINION I can only speak for myself, but I firmly believe that “the fight” over the proposed Randwood Development could have been almost entirely avoided had the residents and Mr.
SUBMITTED BY MARY VARACALLI.OPINION In my opinion, The Lake Report is the best local newspaper. During the council election, it was the first paper I looked for to find out about the candidates
SUBMITTED BY LORD MAYOR BETTY DISERO.MAYOR'S COLUMN It has been 10 weeks since council began discussing the budget, and on Monday Feb. 11, the 2019 Operating and Capital budgets were officially approved. I
SUBMITTED BY J. RICHARD WRIGHT.OPINION Dear Editor, I recall the original letter which spawned this issue of Niagara-on-the-Lake’s Old Town residents against the good people of St. Davids. The letter was actually a
SUBMITTED BY TERRY DAVIS.OPINION Dear Editor, It is unfortunate that NOTL Council did not set a target that kept planned increases to our 2019 municipal taxes at or below the cost of living
SUBMITTED BY RICHARD WEST.WRITER'S CIRCLE The train had been in the station for about five minutes and the passengers had already boiled out onto the platform. Being under no deadlines and with only
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SUBMITTED BY SHARON FRAYNE.WRITER'S CIRCLE Do You Believe in Ghosts? (Continued) Incredible, I thought. You’d never know there used to be a building here. It’s bad enough now. What was this place like
SUBMITTED BY CLAUDETTE YOUNG.OPINION 1. Issue: Environmental concerns — garbage Fix: There are so many public events that use countless single use plastics. Ban the use of straws, plastic cutlery, and go compostable.
SUBMITTED BY ANN HANDELS.OPINION Perhaps people who think NOTLers are snobby misunderstand the reason why we fight and complain. We are passionate to retain a community of diverse buildings and some local availability
SUBMITTED BY CINDY (AND KEN) HERNDER.OPINION Just wanted to show our support for The Lake Report and all you are doing to make this publication so wonderful! We were truly disappointed in the
SUBMITTED BY GLENN YOUNG.OPINION Well done re: The Lake Report … fits the town perfectly! Very compelling and timely content. Despite the status of print media … TLR is one of the only
SUBMITTED BY MYRA GOODMAN.OPINION I couldn’t agree more with the letter writer from Cannery Park, about the snobbishness of some residents from other parts of NOTL. Especially Old Town. I don’t think these
SUBMITTED BY PAMELA NOWINA.WRITER'S CIRCLE I am sorry, old tree, that you died in my care. I wanted to love you more. I meant to put a hammock in your deep shade, And
SUBMITTED BY PAMELA NOWINA.WRITER'S CIRCLE I stood in an ancient forest and placed my hand on an 800-year-old tree. I felt its life. A force of peace and healing flowed into me. I
SUBMITTED BY BILL HAMILTON.WRITER'S CIRCLE A far-reaching bay churning waters of its discontent. A rugged coastline and islands soothe this liquid torrent. The Canadian Shield stretched, like skin with scattered pools, Keeping each
Dear editor of The Lake Report, Just a quick note to thank you for printing the article about Kash Kashmeri and to commend Bill Hamilton for writing it. It was such a beautiful
SUBMITTED BY DEBORAH SYMINGTON.OPINION As a resident living behind one of the Garrison Village short-term rentals (also called “airbnb”) I would like local residents to know that both of these properties appear to
SUBMITTED BY JESSE LEPP.OPINION I wrote this letter to the editor of the new The Local. But since I can’t find their website, and since they’d never print it, I decided to send
SUBMITTED BY WILLIAM L. COCHRANE SR.OPINION If “imitation is the sincerest form of flattery” the staff of The Lake Report should be walking on air with puffed up egos and pride. To have
SUBMITTED BY MAUREEN POSPIECHOPINION This letter is now so redundant to give the word redundant new redundancy! In the middle of all the celebration and hoopla over your paper’s well-deserved success (yet you
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