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Letter: A tale of two towns — and inconsistent tribunal rulings

Dear editor: The Ontario Land Tribunal renders decisions that greatly affect communities and has the power to greenlight a project rejected by a municipal council. The tribunal has the authority to...

Letter: Tribunal erred and town needs to appeal condo ruling

This is an abridged version of a letter to town council about a condominium...

Editorial: Thank a Virgil Stampede volunteer this year

It’s time again for the Virgil Stampede. The annual carnival is a sure sign of...

Letter: On council salary raise and library neutrality

Dear editor: I am fully supportive of increasing our council members salaries to $30,000, however,...

Ross’s Ramblings: Mother’s Day downtown was the kindest day of the year

Thousands of tulips were effulgent, in so many colours, and the people walking on...

Letter: A weak argument for dismissing Simpson

Dear editor: I would like to voice my alarm at the firing (pun intended) of chief librarian Cathy Simpson. After rereading her op-ed and then reviewing...

Letter: Library board should have supported Simpson

Dear editor: The only people who should have been fired over Cathy Simpson’s column about Freedom to Read Week are the members of the NOTL...

Letter: Agree with firing but who are library board members?

Dear editor: Since the library moved from the basement of the courthouse in November 2000 to its present location on Anderson Lane, two of its...

Arch-i-text: How architecture holds the history of its inhabitors

At the corner of King and Mary streets stands a large white building that recalls the early days of the Town of Niagara. In 1800,...

Letter: Including Ambassadors’ photo wasn’t Cheropita’s idea

Dear editor: As a town councillor I am always open to and welcome residents to contact me by phone or email. I want to listen to...

Editorial: They paved paradise, put up a parking lot

We laud and respect the hard work and countless hours for too-little pay that our elected municipal leaders put in to try to serve...

Letter: Mennonites have experienced suffering

Dear editor: Thank you for publishing Kit Andre’s Letter to the editor, "Mennonites want ceasefire in Israel-Palestine conflict," (March 14). I am both a Methodist (by...

Letter: Librarian’s opinion piece was misinformed

Dear editor: I read Niagara-on-the-Lake Public Library CEO Cathy Simpson’s opinion piece about Freedom to Read Week, (“Censorship and what we are allowed to read,”...

Dr. Brown: Subatomic particles really are no small matter

Last week, in the first of this five-part series “Middle Land: worlds beyond our senses,” the focus was on the events surrounding the beginning...

Letter: Temporary patios filthy and attract vermin

Dear editor: Temporary restaurant patios on Queen and King streets in Old Town NOTL are filthy, ugly, unfair, unsafe and they take up valuable parking...

Letter: Hamas must be accountable for its actions

Dear editor: Your letter writer Kit Andres speaks of the Mennonite duty to condemn violence ("Mennonites want ceasefire in Israel-Palestine conflict," (March 14). This is a...

Ross’s Ramblings: Gouge by the gorge eclipses even Y2K hype

I tend to resist media hype and I chuckle at grandiose statements. Been there. Done that. The next total eclipse in this area will be...

Growing Together: Keep an eye out for early bloomers

Well, once again that furry, little, loveable groundhog – Wiarton Willie – seems to have accurately predicted the coming of an early spring (although,...

Arch-i-text: 19th-century and New Traditional — conversation across generations

Over the past few years, this column has stressed the importance of sympathetic — and contextually appropriate — design to achieve new developments (or...

Letter: Some questions about town’s fiscal governance

Dear editor:  In The Lake Report on Feb. 15, columnist Brian Marshall wrote a rather sympathetic article, (“A concrete look at local governance,”) that essentially...

Editorial: Fighting to represent Canada

It was perhaps fitting that Niagara-on-the-Lake boxer Mckenzie Wright’s latest ring battle occurred on International Women’s Day. Fighting in the 50-kilogram weight class, the diminutive...

Editorial: Two outside-the-box ideas worth discussing

This opinion piece has been updated to reflect that Samuel Young's suggestion actually was to have a new long-term care facility built on the...

Letter: Is tourism strategy report being skewed by town?

 Dear editor: As we await the publication of Niagara-on-the-Lake's tourism strategy report, it was amusing to read about the committee members, and others, sanitizing particular...

Letter: A stunning edition celebrating International Women’s Day

Dear editor: I just received the latest edition of The Lake Report and I am stunned beyond words. What a breathtaking photo on the front page...

Letter: Has tree worshipping become the new religion?

Dear editor: It has been years since I have read such a heartless letter by Beth Macdonald, "Time to change thinking about our environment," (The Lake Report,...

Letter: Chief librarian deserves to be commended

Dear editor: I have read Niagara-on-the-Lake Public Library CEO Cathy Simpson’s opinion piece respecting Freedom to Read Week, ("Censorship and what we are allowed to...

Ross’s Ramblings: Brock keeps focus on sports, not spectacles

No gambling ads, no bad behaviour by players or spectators. Just a great sporting event in a packed and eponymous Bob Davis Gymnasium up at...

Letter: Mennonites want ceasefire in Israel-Palestine conflict

Dear editor: As a Mennonite, my ancestors came to Canada so we could live out our cultural and spiritual values — mainly our commitment to...

Letter: NOTL needs a public high school

Dear editor: This is an open letter to Niagara-on-the-Lake parents. Does it make sense to you that a town with 1,000-plus teens doesn't provide a high...

Dr. Brown: Exploring ‘Middle Land’ — life beyond what we can see

When I wrote my book "Perspectives" in 2015, I hoped to explore how the world we live in might be viewed from the perspective...

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