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Arts: Willowbank hosts virtual open house for prospective students

Willowbank is hosting a virtual open house this month, aiming to attract people who want to learn more about the Queenston school's heritage conservation...

Exploring History: The Queenston Heights Restaurant

This postcard from circa 1910 shows what the former Queenston Heights Restaurant looked like. In the background, there is a sign off to the...

Ross’s Ramblings: Not Maple Leafs forever. Time for some big changes

"Great Clips, the official hair salon of the NHL." That ad was on the Scotiabank Arena boards during Game 4 between the big bad Boston...

Arch-i-text: How the cost of upgrading our roads caught up to us

While the provincial government shovels money into "sexy" capital infrastructure projects — like the unnecessary and largely unwanted roundabout in St. Davids, which is...

Horticultural society’s annual plant sale is a sure sign of spring

Big business retailers have Black Friday. The Niagara-on-the-Lake Horticultural Society has Green Saturday. While not its official name, the society’s annual spring plant sale, being...

Letter: Infrastructure funding gap a legacy of other governments’ cuts

Dear editor: Yes, NOTL is falling behind in updating our infrastructure as is pretty much every other municipality in Canada, ("Bumpy road ahead to fund...

Dr. Brown: Mysteries of dark energy and the expanding universe

Dennis Overbye of the New York Times is one of the best science writers in the world for good reasons: he talks to the...

Niagara police’s annual food drive teams up with Newark

As part of this year's National Police Week, the Niagara Regional Police Service is gearing up for its fourth-annual spring food drive, which will...

Shaw Festival to use federal money to promote human connections

Humans. There are more of us than ever, yet it seems like we're more disconnected than ever before. The internet, automated answering machines, ATMs, self-serve...

NOTL vineyards survive bitter frost

NOTL vineyards dodged extensive damage from the dangerous intersection of early bud break and April frost. T.S. Eliot wrote “April is the cruellest month,”...

Dr. Brown: Losing speech is one of the worst effects of ALS

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is one of nature’s worst diseases, up there with the dementias and some cancers. For some, cancer has become a...

Council reinstates rental licence despite record of non-compliance

A bed and breakfast owner in Niagara-on-the-Lake is frustrated with an “antagonistic bureaucracy” after having her permit revoked by the town. Resident Marlene Gallyot on...

Speed cameras having the desired effect, region says

Drivers are slowing down to avoid tickets: staff report Lead-footed drivers appear to be getting the message and slowing down after Niagara Region initiated its...

Arch-i-text: A collective sigh of relief over the Wilderness

As Richard Harley reported in this newspaper last week, it appears as though an agreement has been reached for the conveyance of full title...

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