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NOTL Votes 2026: The business of running a town: Mayoral rivals disagree on the job

At the final meetup of Niagara-on-the-Lake's mayoral candidates before the polls open on election day, Oct. 26, Erwin Wiens, Andrea Kaiser and Vaughn Goettler were divided on a variety of issues, including how a municipality is supposed to be run.

Niagara-on-the-Lake voters at last advance poll before Oct. 26 talk development, planning, patios

Early voting gave some Niagara-on-the-Lake residents peace of mind, while others saw it as an opportunity to make their voices heard ahead of election day.

NOTL Votes 2026: School board trustees talk student mental health and responsible spending

The Lake Report asked more nominees for trustees what their top three priorities are, why they decided to run and what they would like to change or fix at the school board level.

NOTL Votes 2026: ‘Will they betray your trust again?’ Parliament Oak accusation heats up candidate debate

The gloves came off on stage Thursday night when one Niagara-on-the-Lake council candidate accused two fellow candidates, both incumbents, of betraying residents over the Parliament Oak development.

Sports: NOTL phenoms reflect on a season of progress on links

At barely 14, NOTL's Kaige Zhu and Eli Perng already competed in tournaments far more intense and demanding than most recreational golfers will ever experience. But they're just getting started.

Exploring Photos with the NOTL Museum: Brownies on parade for Royal visit

Girl Guide cookies will be on sale in April, so make sure to pick up a box and support our local unit. Here’s a photo...

Arch-i-text: A final argument for livability and affordability

For several weeks now we have been considering the issues facing our towns and cities to build affordable housing in a form that is...

Growing Together: Pruning deciduous shrubs requires care and understanding

Last week we looked at some of the science behind how a plant grows, which helps us understand pruning a bit better. This week,...

Arch-i-text: One piece of the puzzle

My son is thrilled to pieces with his recently acquired property in an old turn-of-the 20th-century neighbourhood. This is not because it is all he...

Ross’s Ramblings: ‘Detective Kids’ find lost keys in hard-to-find NOTL park

I lost my ring of keys in Rye Heritage Park last Thursday. Car keys, door keys, post box key, other keys. What a pain. My...

Exclusive: Historic postcards offer new look at old Fort George

John Sayers Special to The Lake Report Many thanks to Tony Chisholm, president of the Friends of Fort George, for passing along a group of postcard images of...

Arch-i-text: ‘Cellular’ neighbourhoods

What can be done with cities that have grown based on automobile dependency? Sprawling across many square miles, we have created urban environments that have...

Editorial: The fierce women of NOTL

Niagara-on-the-Lake is home to countless strong, fearless, talented, hard-working and intelligent women. We know this first-hand because so many of them contribute to this newspaper and to...

Exploring Photos with the NOTL Museum: The Pumphouse

The 1891 Pumphouse on Ricardo Street, shown on the right of this c.1904 photograph, is a fine example of industrial architecture in Niagara-on-the-Lake. Built...

Exploring Photos with the NOTL Museum: Red brick home

This watercolour was painted by landscape artist George R. Bruenech. It features a red brick home with a figure of a woman seated on...

Exploring Photos with the NOTL Museum: Sally Carter and the Moseby affair of 1837

Many local history enthusiasts are familiar with the Moseby affair of 1837. However, few may know the story of Sally Carter. She helped to...

Exploring Photos with the NOTL Museum: Laura Secord School, 1921

Here is a 1921 photograph of the Laura Secord school in Queenston. The Niagara Township had 11 school sections and Queenston’s school was known...

Eye for Art: La Serenissima Venice in art and memory

Imagine, you are sitting at a sidewalk café in St. Mark’s Square

Eye for Art: Juno Showering Gifts on Venice

In February 2020, at the Louvre, the major Leonardo da Vinci exhibition was in its final days.  The Mona Lisa remained separate, at the far...

Exploring Photos with the NOTL Museum: The Spalding Trophy

Are you ready for some football? Well, the Buffalo Bills aren’t playing in the Super Bowl this weekend, so no. However, if you’re referring to...

Exploring Photos with the NOTL Museum: Winter fun in NOTL

Seeing the community come together to build and maintain the skating rink in Virgil had us thinking of when rinks were created in Simcoe Park...

Arch-i-text: 60 years of Modernism

Living in a community that is known for its relative concentration of surviving buildings from the 19th century, it is sometimes easy to neglect...

Growing Together: Creating a ‘sense of place’ in your garden

Like our homes, gardens are an expression of who we are. If you are living in a newer neighbourhood, you will know that houses...

Eye for Art: ‘Il Ridotto’

To mask or not to mask continues to be a contentious gamble in our time. In 18th century Venice, the mask did not have to...

From dirt to Destiny: An Indigenous woman’s journey to success

She calls it dirt, what she used to put in her body. At the Niagara Regional Native Centre’s annual Christmas party Destiny Bailey wore an...

Arch-i-text: Let’s get creative

Spurred by the housing crisis that has fully blossomed over the past few years, during the last couple of weeks I have attempted to...

Exploring Photos with the NOTL Museum: Fog Hill Below Mississauga Point, 1886

This is an interesting landscape watercolour of the "Fog Bell," below Mississauga Point, showing the wooden "groyne" (breakwater) on the right that was constructed to prevent...

Arch-i-text: Rebuilding community with affordable homes

Far too often when the term “affordable housing” is used, our minds draw an equivalent to the subsidized housing projects that proliferated across this...

Exploring Photos with the NOTL Museum: Bainsbrigge visits Queenston

The NOTL Museum has a wonderful art collection depicting the community of Niagara-on-the-Lake. Here is a watercolour of the Queenston Heights landscape and a...

Exploring Photos with the NOTL Museum: Harrison & Sons Hardware Store

Being stuck at home during the pandemic has motivated many of us to renovate our living spaces. Several decades ago, many would have visited...

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