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Letter: ‘Leave your luggage at the door’

Dear editor: About 150 years ago, the Sioux Nation, led by Chief Sitting Bull, fled to Canada to avoid retribution by the United States' army...

Businesses ‘frustrated’ with pace of Virgil road reconstruction: Mazza

Patience has worn thin for one business in Virgil that has spent months trying to stay afloat during the reconstruction of the village’s main...

NOTL getting ready to welcome Santa Claus

You better not pout – Santa Claus is coming to (Old) Town next month. The jolly old elf will be the featured attraction as Niagara-on-the-Lake...

Letter: NOTL Remembrance Day service was disappointing

Dear editor: Remembrance Day services are a time of coming together, as a community, to reflect and remember the lives of the many thousands of...

Brock partnership gives NOTL Museum virtual upgrade

Niagara-on-the-Lake proved to be the perfect community for Naser Ezzati-Jivan to combine his love of history with his skills in computer science. With the help...

Editorial: NOTL seniors’ future housing needs

If you weren't born in Niagara-on-the-Lake, but now call it home, chances are you moved here because of the lifestyle, small-town community feel, fine...

NOTL dog owners can now license Fido online

A new partnership between the town and an online pet licensing platform means making your furry friend legal has become easier for residents of...

Arch-i-text: Dispelling some myths about heritage designation

I don’t believe it is an overstatement to say that, for the first time in the history of Ontario, we have a government that...

Growing Together: Attracting birds to your garden this winter

Can you imagine what it must be like to be a bird braving a cold Canadian winter? It always amazes me how anything so...

Sports: Coaches seek answers as slumping Predators lose again

Why score, if you can’t win? That’s the question the Jr. A Niagara Predators' players may need to start asking themselves. Following their sixth straight...

Dr. Brown: Work on mRNA vaccines led to Nobel Prize in medicine

This year's Nobel Prize was awarded to Katalin (Kati) Karikó and Drew Weissman for their key role in the development of mRNA vaccines in...

NOTLers bring home more Royal Winter Fair honours

2023 marks another successful year for Niagara-on-the-Lake's “Jam Queen” Kim McQuhae. After yet another jam and jellies competition was judged at the Royal Agricultural Winter...

Survey launched to determine NOTL seniors’ housing needs

A comprehensive survey of Niagara-on-the-Lake residents has launched this week to try to determine what people's housing needs and desires are as they age. The...

Arts: NOTL illustrator releases first children’s book – with familiar title character

Darren Cranford has illustrated dozens of books for other authors but, until now, he has never written one of his own. At the end of...

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