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Cooking club ends season with all-star cast

Friends, family and food make for a good time, especially when you bring in one of Niagara-on-the-Lake’s best-known culinary names and cookbook authors to set the menu. The Niagara chapter...

Growing Together: Spring white flowering plants

We live in such a beautiful area. Spring in Niagara has to be one...

Editorial: Thank a Virgil Stampede volunteer this year

It’s time again for the Virgil Stampede. The annual carnival is a sure sign of...

Exploring History: Fort Mississauga

On May 24, the Friends of Fort George and Parks Canada are providing a...

Ross’s Ramblings: Mother’s Day downtown was the kindest day of the year

Thousands of tulips were effulgent, in so many colours, and the people walking on...

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...

Kids meet the Lego challenge at the NOTL Library

Budding young builders put their skills to the test as the Niagara-on-the-Lake Public Library hosted its Lego competition Monday — part of the library’s...

Part 2: A Clean Sweep: Is it trash or a treasure? Be prepared to toss it

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: Brock keeps focus on sports, not spectacles

No gambling ads, no bad behaviour by players or spectators. Just a great sporting event in a packed and eponymous Bob Davis Gymnasium up at...

Dr. Brown: Exploring ‘Middle Land’ — life beyond what we can see

When I wrote my book "Perspectives" in 2015, I hoped to explore how the world we live in might be viewed from the perspective...

A toast to women

Niagara College students Melisa Quiverio and Lina Farfan show off their Pink Boots brew — Rose Parks New Zealand Pilsner — they created for...

Exploring History: Niagara Township Fruit Co-Operative, 1944

This co-operative was organized and received its charter in March 1937. The co-operative movement in Canada originated when barn raising and other co-operative activities...

March Break Classic: NOTL volunteers score big at annual hockey tournament

Tourney continues through Monday at Meridian Credit Union Arena   Richard Wright Niagara Now/The Lake Report It is said it takes a community to raise a child, but...

Arch-i-text: What’s wrong with this picture?

Within the foreseeable future, Glendale will be home to 20,000 – or more – residents of Niagara-on-the-Lake. That’s likely to be over half of...

Sailing is more than a sport for NOTL sailing club volunteer Rod Gardner

Lucy Hopkins Special to Niagara Now/The Lake Report Sailing has a long and storied history, but a volunteer at the Niagara-on-the-Lake Sailing Club is bringing the...

The ‘She-Covery’: Women’s employment rebounds post-pandemic, but challenges remain

As Julia Ventresca was preparing to graduate from Brock University last spring, job prospects seemed few and far between — especially for an English...

Shaw’s Kimberley Rampersad a role model and mentor

Kimberley Rampersad plays a leading role in the Canadian theatre scene, as an accomplished performer, director, choreographer and mentor — and for the past...

She made her mark in a male-dominated business

Heather Campagnola has had a lot of practice standing her ground. When she started in the trade show industry four decades ago, she was one...

Growing Together: Every garden needs a focal point to be the star

If you know me at all, you know that I am plant-obsessed. I love all the many details of a plant: its flowers, the...

Exploring Photos: Margherita Howe, 1942

Before Margherita Howe became known as an environmental champion and the co-founder of the Niagara-on-the-Lake Conservancy, she enlisted on Jan. 2, 1942, to help...

Success brewing for this pair of NOTL pub owners

Jovie Joki and Robin Ridesic are like two different branches of the same tree. One runs a successful pub while the other owns a craft...

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