For those who've already made up their minds on who they want to represent Niagara-on-the-Lake in municipal government and at the school boards for the next four years, you'll have a chance to cast your ballot early.
What happens in America does not necessarily stay there, especially for a border town like Niagara-on-the-Lake. So, The Lake Report asked NOTL’s municipal election candidates a blunt question: What do you think of Donald Trump? Here's what they said.
Two of the most talented, up-and-coming young Canadian golfers are growing up in Niagara-on-the-Lake’s tiny hamlet of St. Davids (pop. about 3,000). Eli Perng and Kaige Zhu are off to high school after a whirlwind summer in which they played more than a dozen high-level tournaments across Canada and North America.
The reed grasses growing behind the natural resources minister at Niagara College’s campus in NOTL were a ready-made backdrop for his announcement Wednesday: $5 million to fight the invasive plant species phragmites across Ontario.
The Scotsman Hotel has avoided an almost $303,000 parking bill after Niagara-on-the-Lake council approved a plan that will allow all 12 required parking spaces to fit on the Old Town property.
The water level in Lake Ontario is not expected match the record high of 2019, according to Brett Ruck, environmental services supervisor for the Town...
Financially scraping by, week-to-week, festival hopes to return to stage in July
The Shaw Festival is counting on the federal government’s promise of $500 million...
Specifics on pandemic cases would help town handle response, Disero says
The Region of Niagara is still not releasing numbers of cases of COVID-19 by municipality, and...
Public health officials investigating a "respiratory outbreak" at Niagara Long Term Care (formerly Chartwell) in Niagara-on-the-Lake say the virus is neither COVID-19 nor the flu.
The virus in the...
New technology shaping performances during pandemic
In these new times, all of us have had to adapt to changing situations. The TD Niagara Jazz Festival is...
Smile, love and stay calm — those are just a few of the messages circulating in one Niagara-on-the-Lake neighbourhood after someone started leaving out stones with notes of positivity.
What is this Spanish Influenza of 1918-19 and what can we learn from it today?
Sarah Kaufman
Special to The Lake Report
Among the COVID-19 global crisis discussions, there have...
The visionary trailblazer, mentor, promoter, leader, neighbour and friend, died March 13
To better understand the unique personality of Donna Scott and to bring her contribution...
The community group Save Our Rand Estate has been reprimanded for violating confidentiality rules set out by the Conservation Review Board during settlement proceedings in a...
After a lot of uncertainty, and nearly $3,500, Connor Crickmore is back home from Nepal.
The 29-year-old NOTL resident and world-traveller had been stuck in...
Kathryn Hinchley
Special to The Lake Report
In case you missed it, Niagara-on-the-Lake was given the auspicious honour last week of being the correct question to an answer...
Niagara-on-the-Lake travelers Fran and Eric Harman spent the beginning of March in their “Azamara bubble” worlds away from the rapidly changing COVID-19 situation.
The Harmans did their...
From his workshop in NOTL, Rene Bertschi is using his high-tech 3-D printer to produce face shields for health care workers.
"I just saw a need to help...
The NOTL Public Library has shifted online to provide weekly activities for all members of the community through the month of April.
Although the library...
The province of Ontario has extended all emergency orders until April 23, 2020.
Orders under the Emergency Management and Civil Protection Act include the closure of outdoor...
Walk, don’t park at the park.
Because parking lots are now closed to deter visitors and promote physical distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic.
That’s the message...
Simpson’s Pharmasave staff are feeling a little safer at work thanks to the efforts of Calhoun Sportswear in St. Catharines.
Pharmacy owner Sean Simpson said...
Longtime NOTL resident Susan Hall, a warden at St. Mark's Anglican Church, has been caught up in the COVID-19 pandemic while visiting family iin Brighton, England. She is...
