"I have argued for several years that weeknight Halloween is unduly stressful for parents, grandparents and school teachers. And oh yes, young children and students too," writes Ross Robinson.
"It should be perfectly clear to the town’s residents where our priorities lie, without the need for another survey to obfuscate the issue," writes Paul and Elizabeth Masson.
"It appeared that town council was in a rush to quietly pass as many approvals for developments by amending the official plan, rezoning, completely ignoring the parking and traffic challenges and the availability of services," writes Luba Fraser.
Maria Rye, a social reformer from London, England arrived in Niagara in October 1869, purchased the abandoned second courthouse and converted it into an institution called Our Western Home.
Since the aggravated assault charge in September, the 26-year-old has been charged with an additional count of aggravated assault and two counts of assault, and was released on bail on Oct. 15.
A 16-year battle to shut down a waste collection and disposal site at 2021 Four Mile Creek Rd., being waged by a group of neighbouring Niagara-on-the-Lake residents, will return to court in late November.
Andrew Niven is the chair of the NOTL Chamber of Commerce and a director of marketing at Konzelmann Estate Winery. He also ran for council in 2018 unsuccessfully.
Ahead of Remembrance Day in less than a month, the "Lessons of Service" presentation on Nov. 4 will offer patrons a chance to hear about the work of veterans in the field of military and policing.
"It is cheaper and easier for a developer to do the cookie-cutter thing, creating a series of isolated dwellings ... that do not embrace community but are inwardly focused on the individual occupying family," writes Brian Marshall.
Determining the height of a development a science of compatibility, but instead a conversation about what kind of character is trying to be achieved, said one planner during his presentation.
In the fifth installment of the Brock Chronicles, Gavin Watson writes about the efforts to build a new monument for Sir Isaac Brock — this one, to stand as the second tallest of its kind and notably taller than any monument raised to a military figure in the British Empire.