A hotel next door. A tax bill that makes you question what you’re getting. Parked cars that block your view of the road. For residents who shared their thoughts with The Lake Report, the municipal election comes down to decisions they can feel close to home.
In its Oct. 13, 2022 election edition, The Lake Report outlined the top issues facing voters, including regional taxes, overdevelopment, tourism management and transparency. Four years later, many of those same concerns remain part of the conversation.
Looking at the participation of Niagara-on-the-Lake’s eligible voters during the last four election cycles, turnout has tended to oscillate between either slightly less than or slightly more than half of the eligible population of electors casting their ballots.
Most people know this lifelong Niagara-on-the-Lake resident as Karen Taylor-Jones. But as a candidate for town council in the upcoming election, she is listed and will appear on the ballot as Karen Jones-Taylor.
The Niagara-on-the-Lake Residents' Association spent weeks putting election candidates in the hot seat. But when it comes to telling voters who deserves a seat at the table, the group is staying out of it.
The streetside patios in downtown NOTL have been a big hit, but efforts to close Queen Street drew decidedly mixed reaction, the Town of Niagara-on-the-Lake says.
The munipality...
Steve Hardaker
Community Correspondent
The much anticipated, and COVID-19 delayed, park improvement project for the Niagara on the Green neighbourhood has been completed.
Funded from the 2019...
Niagara is about to get a little bit spookier.
Filmmaker Val Coles is working on a documentary called "Haunted Niagara," which he says will highlight...
NOTL Santa-wannabe, Tim Taylor, is riding 600 kilometres in September in support of the Niagara-on-the-Lake Palliative Care Service. The ride is part of the annual...
A class photo outside the Niagara High School, now part of the Niagara-on-the-Lake Museum complex on Castlereagh Street. The school structure was built in 1875 but...
You see them sprinkled across Niagara-on-the-Lake and, indeed, across Ontario.
Some are one storey, others a storey and a half. There are those with hip roofs,...
We’re so excited to announce the winners of Niagara-on-the-Lake’s first NOTL’s Choice Awards.
Earlier this year, we collected nominations from town residents in 80 categories and then 3,000...
What started on Vancouver Island as a morning bike ride to a lake, followed by a swim, transformed over the past year into a gruelling 226-kilometre triathlon that raised more than $4,000 for the MS Society of Canada.
Council made decision in private session, hopes to reduce tensions over protests
Niagara-on-the-Lake's carriage companies will now have to operate on Byron Street every weekend, the...
Niagara-on-the-Lake is reopening some public facilities closed for months due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The community centre – and the Sweets and Swirls Café – are set...
Niagara-on-the-Lake’s Sandtrap Pub & Grill scooped four first-place platinum finishes and one runner-up prize in the 2020 NOTL’s Choice Awards.
The Mary Street eatery won the most categories in...
A donation of $550 to help rebuild Niagara-on-the-Lake's heritage trail was made by Palatine Hills winery this week.
The winery teamed up with the Upper Canada...
It has been well-documented that no public agency – neither the town, the region nor the province – regularly tests water quality at Ryerson Park in Niagara-on-the-Lake.
By regional...
Stratus winery has launched a Cinema in the Vineyards series, combining classic films with NOTL cuisine, plus some of Niagara's top wines.
Food by chef Ryan Crawford of...
