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.
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...
With Easter coming up this weekend, Niagara-on-the-Lake residents are being urged to celebrate the holiday indoors.
“We will celebrate together once we’ve wiped this virus,”...
Sean O'DonnellSpecial to The Lake Report
During this time of uncertainty and medical supply shortages due to COVID-19, a group of nearly 60 do-gooders from Niagara-on-the-Lake...
With COVID-19 emergency measures in place across the country, it’s a time for wineries to rethink and reinvent, and Niagara-on-the-Lake’s Stratus Vineyards is doing just...
Amid pandemic panic, people and businesses in town have been taking extra measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19, but a few businesses have been...
Margot Hickson is over illness and her husband Ian Reece's test came back negative
Niagara-on-the-Lake resident Margot Hickson, chair of the Music Niagara festival, is at...
A 33-year-old Niagara-on-the-Lake man crashed his Chevrolet Tahoe into the entrance of the Royal Bank of Canada on Mary Street on Sunday.
The incident took...
Gail Kendall
Special to The Lake Report
Home sweet home: 15,835 kilometres, three flights, not sure how many antibacterial wipes and I have never been so happy to...
The Virgil Stampede is cancelled due to COVID-19.
Marcia Penner, secretary of the Virgil Business Association, which puts on the stampede, said this is the...
The town of Niagara-on-the-Lake is extending the closure of all town-owned facilities and the cancellation of in-person municipal events, meetings and programming until June 30.
“This...
The Niagara-on-the-Lake Museum will spearhead Doors Open NOTL this fall as part of provincewide Doors Open Ontario heritage tourism initiative led by the Ontario...
Blood donations fell off sharply in the wake of measures like school closures and self-isolation guidelines aimed at slowing the spread of COVID-19.
But days later, leaders including...
We all know these are difficult times, for everyone. Staying safe and healthy are paramount.
Here at The Lake Report, our skeleton crew, supplemented by input...
