"Although this level of government has the greatest impact on citizens’ daily lives, it is weak, ineffectual, rudderless and dominated by special interests," writes Garth Turner.
Over the last five centuries, says Frank Lloyd Wright, what humanity has called architecture has been "phony": "It was not innate, it wasn’t organic and it didn’t have the character of nature.”
More than 40 years after the debut of this British farce on the Shaw Festival stage, "One for the Pot" returns with excellent performances that contain the elements needed to make this for-the-masses comedy a laugh riot, writes Penny-Lynn Cookson.
"As a pretentious British boss of mine said many years ago ... 'I have found that around the world, one can get on with two languages: English, and loud English,'" writes Ross Robinson.
"I provided you with an opportunity to do the right thing, which you have obviously declined to do. Please be advised that I intend to pursue this in the appropriate forum(s)," writes Derek Collins.
Dear editor:
The concept of a "vibrant and complete community" is seen as an important goal in the Town of Niagara-on-the-Lake’s 2022-2026 strategic plan.
Strangely, planning...
Dear editor:
The proposed three-storey condominium building to be constructed on the backyards, severed from numbers 727 and 733 King St., came as a gut...
Dear editor:
I’m sorry to hear that letter writer Bob Bader finds developer Benny Marotta’s life “frivolous,” (" ‘Economic progress’ and the future of Niagara-on-the-Lake,"...
Dear editor:
I read with considerable interest the July 20 article by Somer Slobodian, “Kayakers feeling pushed out of Balls Beach.” Being a kayaker myself,...
Dear editor:
We extend our appreciation to The Lake Report for its "Mind Your Meters" stories on July 27.
Those stories assisted in raising awareness...
Niagara-on-the-Lake has a problem with people driving too fast in quiet residential areas.
Just ask the folks who live in some of those quiet residential...
If you want to figure out how the brain works, there are several options.
One classical method, which served clinical neurologists and neurosurgeons very...
Dear editor:
Alexander Evans' letter of June 29, "Denying town, SORE legal costs sends important message," is very revealing.
He claims to cheer for the judicial...
Dear editor:
The major reconstruction work being done through Virgil is necessary and welcome and will take time.
That is understood.
However, how that reconstruction is happening...
“The joint was rockin,' goin' round and round.”
With apologies to the late, great Chuck Berry, his lyrics might be appropriate locally almost 70 years later.
It won’t...
We have shared this message before.
The food bank at Newark Neighbours needs help from the generous folks of Niagara-on-the-Lake.
The agency is holding another food...
