"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.
It's sad, but probably not a huge surprise, that spectator attendance at the Canada Summer Games tennis venue in Niagara-on-the-Lake has been sparse, to...
Dear editor:
I enjoyed Marlene Penner's comments (The mayor, her husband and neighbourhood complaint, The Lake Report, Aug. 4) and would like to add to...
Dear editor:
I have not read every word of the 168-page detailed and well thought-out proposed transportation master plan prepared by Stantec Inc.
However, unlike some...
Dear editor:
Your editorial of Aug. 4 states that our town council has “missed an opportunity” by delaying and delaying the installation of the rainbow...
Transportation master plan must deal with huge growth in NOTL's southern neighbourhood
Steve Hardaker
Community Correspondent
There has been a lot of chatter about the draft Niagara-on-the-Lake...
Back in the early 1980s, I attended a presentation recommending the organization invest in and install an emergency preparedness plan.
During that session, one...
Dear editor:
This letter is further to the dispute involving the lord mayor's husband and neighbours who lost their bed and breakfast licence and The...
Dear editor:
Some food for thought: Further to her husband's complaint about a neighbours' property, ("Neighbour feud: Mayor's husband at centre of civil suit against...
Dear editor:
Your article ("Adding nurse practitioner first step in solving doctor shortage," The Lake Report, July 28) states that, "Canada boasts one of the...
As we all know, “good fences make good neighbours.”
At least, that’s how it is supposed to work.
But sometimes it’s more complicated than that. This...
Dear editor:
There has been much misinformation, scare tactics, gaslighting, false and incomplete statements made by some councillors and tourism industry groups opposed to the...
Dear editor:
Politicians and civil servants at all levels of government and of all political stripes have become more opaque in dealing with the electorate...
Dear editor:
Here's how to ruin a village in "50 signs."
The Town of Niagara-on-the-Lake as well as the Region of Niagara must share equal responsibility...
