"A&M are pumping their latest project. It’s a whopper. If the sisters get their way with local politicians (once again), the old Rand Estate will turn into a five-storey, 111-room luxury Ritz-Carlton hotel," writes Garth Turner.
"Should any future council enact an interim control bylaw, underwritten by a duly compliant study, it will be largely legally unassailable," writes Brian Marshall.
"Niagara-on-the-Lake should not be treated as an extension of a 'Vegas North' casino economy. We are not a desert entertainment strip," writes Keith McNenly.
"I have heard that during his 26 years as mayor, Henry Paffard advocated for the planting of over 1,000 trees. By any measure, that’s a lot of limbs and leaves and shade and oxygen. And with trees come squirrels," writes Ross Robinson.
"Regardless of differences of opinion over development projects, I recognize that public discourse should be conducted respectfully and without casting aspersions on others," writes Stewart Hall.
The Lake Report welcomes your letters to the editor. Please, write early and often.
Letters ideally should be under 400 words long. Occasionally, longer letters...
SUBMITTED BY SHIRLEY DUDECK, NOTL.OPINION
Dear editor:
Three times a week I drive on Hwy. 55 coming from White Oaks to NOTL.
This will usually be between 10:30...
SUBMITTED BY EARLE VANCE, NOTL.OPINION
Dear editor:
So, the Charter of Rights guarantees a minority fringe group the freedom to try to put a local business out...
SUBMITTED BY MARTIN MAZZA, VIRGIL.
Editor's note: The text has been revised. The original version had the wrong date for the Kinsmen's Classic Cars –...
SUBMITTED BY KEITH BULLEN, NOTL.OPINION
Dear editor:
I have finished reading your well-worded editorial on overnight parking in NOTL, (“Russian roulette and overnight parking,” July 18), and it...
The New York Times has discovered Niagara-on-the-Lake. Well, it’s not the first time the influential media giant has written about our town, but the...
SUBMITTED BY DEREK COLLINS, NOTL.OPINION
Dear editor:
Your news story from a presentation to town councillors, “Randwood owner denies demolition by neglect,” The Lake Report, July 11, contains...
SUBMITTED BY LORRAINE WARNER, NOTL.OPINION
Dear editor:
Thank you for your prompt editorial comment regarding the horse carriages in our lovely town, “News has to be...
SUBMITTED BY LORD MAYOR BETTY DISERO, TOWN OF NOTL.OPINION
NOTL Lord Mayor Betty Disero issued the following statement via social media this week:
I am allowed...
SUBMITTED BY ELIZABETH MASSON, NOTL.OPINION
Dear editor:
Re: the letter to editor, “Cycling tourists are an accident waiting to happen,” July 11.
Unfortunately, accidents to cycling tourists...
SUBMITTED BY GILBERT COMEAULT, NOTL.OPINION
Dear editor:
I was biking on John Street toward Butler, riding on the right side of the road as a garbage truck on...
Service workers – the people who toil in Old Town’s stores, restaurants and attractions – are crucial to the commercial success of NOTL.
And for decades, service...
