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Taking stalk: Asparagus season kicks off with a bang, and lineups, at Thwaites

  It was game-on at Thwaites Farms in Niagara-on-the-Lake on Friday, May 3 as the first farm-fresh produce of the season hit the stands with an expected frenzy. The goods everyone...

PHOTO GALLERY: Queenston choir rings in spring

The Queenston Women's Chorus celebrated the season with its spring concert on Saturday, April...

Dr. Brown: Losing speech is one of the worst effects of ALS

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is one of nature’s worst diseases, up there with the...

Exploring History: Dale’s Store

Recognize this building? It has a long history of serving up delicious treats. It...

Arts: Pottery expert offering classes at old Virgil school

In the past few years, two former school buildings in Niagara-on-the-Lake have been repurposed...

Exploring History: 107th anniversary of Vimy Ridge, April 9-12, 1917

Many historians consider the Canadian victory at Vimy Ridge to be a defining moment for our country. The Canadian Corps was ordered to seize...

Three years later, family is keeping Matthew Wilson’s memory alive

A lovingly crafted, homemade black cross marks the spot in a ditch along Lakeshore Road where Matthew Wilson died after he was hit by...

NOTL Museum’s spotlight on donors: Geoffrey and Lorraine Joyner

“The Niagara-on-the-Lake Museum is the pride of the community,” declared Lorraine Joyner, as she discussed the future of the museum and the reason she...

Arch-i-text: Ford flak aside, mandated fourplexes could mean trouble

On March 8, Premier Doug Ford held a press conference in Milton. During his remarks, he ruled out allowing fourplexes "as of right" across...

NOTL Cats spring fundraiser plants seeds of compassion for felines

While many families scurried about last Saturday making last-minute preparations for Easter, the volunteers behind Niagara-on-the-Lake Cats were making sure their feline families are...

Growing Together: A rose by any other name should be pruned

How may of you just can’t wait to get out in your garden every spring and prune your roses?  It probably isn’t on the...

Dr. Brown: Will humans soon take evolution into our own hands?

In week three of this five-part series on the Middle Land, we examined how life began and evolved and the life cycle of stars,...

VIDEO: Kids go wild for Easter eggs at annual Bunny Trail

Hundreds of youngsters flocked to the Niagara Nursery School and Kinsmen Club's annual Bunny Trail and Easter egg hunt on Saturday morning. There were plenty...

Part 4: A Clean Sweep: Selling some of your unwanted ‘stuff’ is an option

From junk drawers to overstuffed basements, many of us have a lot of "stuff" we no longer need. This four-part series will help you...

Ross’s Ramblings: Sometimes not conforming to ‘norm’ is the way to go

Swimming against the current can be a good thing, with positive results. Stay the course with me as I put my thoughts to paper...

Mulroney funeral a chance for NOTL couple to say goodbye to an old friend

For Derek and Judy Insley, attending the state funeral for former prime minister Brian Mulroney was an opportunity to honour a man who played...

Arch-i-text: The long and winding road to recognizing our town’s heritage

The town of Niagara-on-the-Lake has been described as having the greatest concentration of surviving British Colonial architecture built between 1813 and 1860 of any...

Dr. Brown: Origins of life — from single cell to complex creations

In this third instalment in a five-part series on "Middle Land: worlds beyond our senses," our attention shifts. Beyond the dazzling worlds of physics...

Sports: Defenceman Kaleb Dietsch making an impression with Ottawa 67’s

NOTL native works out and practises with OHL club daily   A year ago at this time, Niagara-on-the-Lake’s Kaleb Dietsch was winding up his minor hockey...

Exploring History: Walnut Tree Cottage

Shoemaker George Flynn built this house circa 1860 at 22 Johnson St., on land given to him by his mother, who operated a recess...

Arch-i-text: How architecture holds the history of its inhabitors

At the corner of King and Mary streets stands a large white building that recalls the early days of the Town of Niagara. In 1800,...

Exploring History: Palatine Hill

In the late 1600s, the Servos family was living in the German Palatinate area. The patriarch of the North American family arrived in the...

@theMuseum: Expansion will make NOTL Museum fully accessible to all

This is the fifth part in an ongoing series of stories to draw attention to the Niagara-on-the-Lake Museum as it embarks on a fundraising...

Chico is the man: Nearly 22-year-old pup dines on steak and chicken daily

Esther Battista’s family pet Chico is almost 154 years old. In dog years. Even among Niagara-on-the-Lake's famously aging populace, that is far older than any...

Dr. Brown: Subatomic particles really are no small matter

Last week, in the first of this five-part series “Middle Land: worlds beyond our senses,” the focus was on the events surrounding the beginning...

Tickets? Oh yes, readers got speed camera tickets

When we asked last week if any readers had received a surprise in the mail in the form of a ticket for speeding through...

Part 3: A Clean Sweep: Donating gives new life to your old ‘stuff’

From junk drawers to overstuffed basements, many of us have a lot of "stuff" we no longer need. This four-part series will help you...

Museum workshop will help residents uncover their home’s history

Niagara-on-the-Lake is home to many properties of historical significance. The town became a National Historic District back in 2003 via the Canadian Register of Historic...

Growing Together: Keep an eye out for early bloomers

Well, once again that furry, little, loveable groundhog – Wiarton Willie – seems to have accurately predicted the coming of an early spring (although,...

Arch-i-text: 19th-century and New Traditional — conversation across generations

Over the past few years, this column has stressed the importance of sympathetic — and contextually appropriate — design to achieve new developments (or...

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