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Sports: NOTL Soccer Teams of the Week for July 25

The Timbits Purple and Black teams are The Lake Report’s two features Teams of the Week for July 25.

Arts: Carroll and Rampersad to direct at Royal Shakespeare

The Royal Shakespeare is one of the world’s most renowned theatre companies. Started in 1875, it boasts some of the most iconic English-speaking productions, including Peter Brook’s legendary “Midsummer Night’s Dream” in 1970.

Sports: Champions crowned in mixed doubles tennis tourney

The Niagara-on-the-Lake Tennis Club experienced another great display of tennis on the weekend, with the Mixed Doubles Championships — the club’s first tournament of the year.

Arts: Celebrate Niagara’s creative spirit at Pumphouse arts festival

The Niagara Pumphouse Arts Centre’s annual festival, Art at the Pumphouse, is back this year and set for the first weekend of August, offering art enthusiasts a chance see how creativity thrives in Niagara, all while immersing themselves in the scenic beauty of the Niagara River’s banks.

Get rid of junk papers at Palliative Care’s annual ‘Shred-it’ fundraiser

There’s few tasks more tedious than having to sort through mountains of personal paperwork to find the confidential papers that need to be destroyed and thrown away — and then, actually having to destroy and dispose of them.

Sports: NOTL Soccer Teams of the Week for July 18

U8 Sunset Grill and U9-10 Garrison House The U8 Sunset Grill soccer team is one of The Lake Report’s featured Teams of the week. Pictured are, front row: Brayden Kavanagh, TJ Gauld,

In-depth: From The Pointer — a feature-length look at the firing of NOTL’s chief librarian

The investigative news website, The Pointer, in co-operation with The Lake Report, takes a big-picture look at how Cathy Simpson’s opinion piece, published here during Freedom to Read Week, landed Niagara-on-the-Lake in the

PHOTOS: A rainy mid-July for Niagara-on-the-Lake

The town was hit with the lingering effects of Hurricane Beryl this week, which covered much of southern Ontario in heavy rainstorm.

Sports: NOTL Soccer Team of the Week for July 11

Meet the members of the NOTL Soccer Club’s U6 team, sponsored by All Green Irrigation.

Arts: Tickets on sale for Yellow Door Theatre’s ‘Seussical’ production

The Yellow Door Theatre Project is back with another summer production led by its talented cast of young performers from the Niagara region.

Arts: Niagara Symphony Orchestra to perform at Jackson-Triggs gala

The Niagara Symphony Orchestra is celebrating 75 years as an ensemble of musical talent this summer, with a performance at the Jackson-Triggs Estate Winery this Sunday, July 14.

Breakenridge story is focus of museum lecture

In his 1828 obituary, John Breakenridge, a Niagara barrister and son of a United Empire Loyalist, was noted for having built “several of the most elegant and tasty houses in town.” Those homes, and the story behind the couple who built them, is the subject of the Niagara-on-the-Lake Museum’s next lecture.

PHOTO GALLERY: Celebrating summer at the farmworkers picnic

There were good vibes in the air on Saturday at Centennial Sports Park in Virgil, as local farmworkers and their friends gathered for the Jamaican workers social event, a new initiative hosted by the Jamaican Liaison Service.

Sports: NOTL Soccer Teams of the Week for July 4

The U9-10 Irish Design and Timbits Red teams Photography by DAVE VAN DE LAAR

Natural beauty worth capturing: artists painting at rose garden

Sometimes it’s not enough to stop and smell the roses — you’ve got to do something to pay tribute to the beauty of nature.

Sports: NOTL Soccer Teams of the Week for June 27

The NOTL Realty U9-10 and Timbits Grey teams are The Lake Report’s two soccer teams of the week for June 27.

Reading by Indigenous playwright at museum confronts ‘pretend Indian’ issue

Revelations about the true identities of prominent Indigenous individuals in the Canadian cultural landscape have been the subject of anger and disappointment in Indigneous communities over the past few years. Playwright January Rogers’ latest work, “Blood Sport,” is a satirical unpacking of this phenomenon and an examination of Indigenous identity.