After two years of uncertainty, the festival's braintrust can heave a sigh of relief When the Shaw Festival announced next year’s 60th anniversary season a few weeks ago, you could almost hear a

Renowned polio fighter speaks virtually to 60 district Rotary clubs   When Syme Jago spoke to the Niagara-on-the-Lake Rotary Club last year about her decades-long personal fight against post-polio syndrome, the 76 local members

If Bill French has his way, the Niagara-on-the-Lake Rotary Club, with help from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, will contribute a total of $60,000 to help finally eradicate polio around the world.

To hear Scott MacSween tell it, his family’s 250-acre tender fruit business is founded on serendipity, a lucky moment in time when things just turned the right way for him and his soon-to-be-wife,

It was probably Plato who coined the phrase: “Necessity is the mother of invention.” But as we crawl our way out of the pandemic, Shaw Festival executive director Tim Jennings could very well have said

Keeping Niagara families and farmers on the move for over 50 years

Even at almost 88 years of age, Barbara Ahluwalia has not lost a step in her commitment to the town she first saw 54 years ago this coming November, when she and her

How NOTL's Tim Taylor adapted his Santa persona for the virtual world to raise money for palliative care This story is a very personal tale. It is also the story of how a small

Heddle Shipyards, operators of the Port Weller Drydocks, has signed a multi-year, multi-million-dollar agreement to fabricate components for three ships now under construction at a British Columbia shipyard. “This is a great day

Bloom & Co. is about more than just the popular NOTL ball cap. But that is a huge seller Two Niagara entrepreneurs have proven that one-plus-one can make three. Kalin Falconer and Nataschia Wielink,

With the precision of a military campaign, the Poppy Committee of the Royal Canadian Legion Branch 124 in Niagara-on-the-Lake has planned the pre-Remembrance Day distribution of the ubiquitous red flowers. The poppies will be available starting this

The executive director and CEO of the Shaw Festival has had a challenging five years in the job. He has helped lead the transformation of the festival’s performance vision, its return to fiscal

The newest fundraising effort by Nyanyas of Niagara has a satisfying “what-goes-around-comes around” feeling. Across Canada, hundreds of Nyanyas groups (Nyanya means grandmother in Swahili) have raised over $33 million for the Stephen

On Sept. 23, officially designated by the town as Newark Neighbours Day, a handful of concerned residents and an army of donors collected a ton of food and more than $3,200 in cash donations, for the

There aren’t many local pies that Dr. Joseph Pohorly didn’t have his fingers in. Pohorly, who died peacefully this past week at age 88, was a teacher, professional engineer, grape and tenderfruit grower,