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Ross’s Ramblings: Sometimes not conforming to ‘norm’ is the way to go

Swimming against the current can be a good thing, with positive results. Stay the course with me as I put my thoughts to paper after a chance incident in...

Opinion: FAIR responds to claims that led to firing of library’s CEO

Monica Harris Special to The Lake Report As the executive director of the Foundation Against Intolerance &...

Editorial: A crisis at the NOTL Public Library

The irony of Niagara-on-the-Lake chief librarian Cathy Simpson being fired over an opinion piece...

Arch-i-text: The long and winding road to recognizing our town’s heritage

The town of Niagara-on-the-Lake has been described as having the greatest concentration of surviving...

Letter: Modern literature is a morality-free zone

Dear editor: Further to the firing of NOTL Public Library CEO Cathy Simpson, while I...

Dr. Brown: Origins of life — from single cell to complex creations

In this third instalment in a five-part series on "Middle Land: worlds beyond our senses," our attention shifts. Beyond the dazzling worlds of physics...

Letter: Board was wrong to fire librarian

Dear editor: Having read about the firing of library CEO Cathy Simpson in the March 21 edition of your paper I was struck by the following. Daryl Novak,...

Letter: Shouldn’t libraries have a balanced collection?

Dear editor: I'm feeling a bit of whiplash.  On Feb. 22, a half-page opinion piece headlined "Censorship and what we are allowed to read" was...

Letter: Shocked to read of librarian’s firing

Dear editor: It's absolutely shocking to read that an employee of a Canadian public Library has lost her job over the free expression of her...

Letter: Simpson’s column viewpoint was valid

Dear editor: I read with interest, both Cathy Simpson's original column and the letter from Matthew French. He characterizes her comments as talking points from the...

Op-ed: Province and Ottawa need to help fun Royal George repairs

Lord Mayor Gary Zalepa Special to The Lake Report/NiagaraNow.com The Shaw Festival is an integral part of our community. It is not only the cultural centre of...

Letter: A weak argument for dismissing Simpson

Dear editor: I would like to voice my alarm at the firing (pun intended) of chief librarian Cathy Simpson. After rereading her op-ed and then reviewing...

Letter: Library board should have supported Simpson

Dear editor: The only people who should have been fired over Cathy Simpson’s column about Freedom to Read Week are the members of the NOTL...

Letter: Agree with firing but who are library board members?

Dear editor: Since the library moved from the basement of the courthouse in November 2000 to its present location on Anderson Lane, two of its...

Arch-i-text: How architecture holds the history of its inhabitors

At the corner of King and Mary streets stands a large white building that recalls the early days of the Town of Niagara. In 1800,...

Letter: Including Ambassadors’ photo wasn’t Cheropita’s idea

Dear editor: As a town councillor I am always open to and welcome residents to contact me by phone or email. I want to listen to...

Editorial: They paved paradise, put up a parking lot

We laud and respect the hard work and countless hours for too-little pay that our elected municipal leaders put in to try to serve...

Letter: Mennonites have experienced suffering

Dear editor: Thank you for publishing Kit Andre’s Letter to the editor, "Mennonites want ceasefire in Israel-Palestine conflict," (March 14). I am both a Methodist (by...

Letter: Librarian’s opinion piece was misinformed

Dear editor: I read Niagara-on-the-Lake Public Library CEO Cathy Simpson’s opinion piece about Freedom to Read Week, (“Censorship and what we are allowed to read,”...

Dr. Brown: Subatomic particles really are no small matter

Last week, in the first of this five-part series “Middle Land: worlds beyond our senses,” the focus was on the events surrounding the beginning...

Letter: Temporary patios filthy and attract vermin

Dear editor: Temporary restaurant patios on Queen and King streets in Old Town NOTL are filthy, ugly, unfair, unsafe and they take up valuable parking...

Letter: Hamas must be accountable for its actions

Dear editor: Your letter writer Kit Andres speaks of the Mennonite duty to condemn violence ("Mennonites want ceasefire in Israel-Palestine conflict," (March 14). This is a...

Ross’s Ramblings: Gouge by the gorge eclipses even Y2K hype

I tend to resist media hype and I chuckle at grandiose statements. Been there. Done that. The next total eclipse in this area will be...

Growing Together: Keep an eye out for early bloomers

Well, once again that furry, little, loveable groundhog – Wiarton Willie – seems to have accurately predicted the coming of an early spring (although,...

Arch-i-text: 19th-century and New Traditional — conversation across generations

Over the past few years, this column has stressed the importance of sympathetic — and contextually appropriate — design to achieve new developments (or...

Letter: Some questions about town’s fiscal governance

Dear editor:  In The Lake Report on Feb. 15, columnist Brian Marshall wrote a rather sympathetic article, (“A concrete look at local governance,”) that essentially...

Editorial: Fighting to represent Canada

It was perhaps fitting that Niagara-on-the-Lake boxer Mckenzie Wright’s latest ring battle occurred on International Women’s Day. Fighting in the 50-kilogram weight class, the diminutive...

Editorial: Two outside-the-box ideas worth discussing

This opinion piece has been updated to reflect that Samuel Young's suggestion actually was to have a new long-term care facility built on the...

Letter: Is tourism strategy report being skewed by town?

 Dear editor: As we await the publication of Niagara-on-the-Lake's tourism strategy report, it was amusing to read about the committee members, and others, sanitizing particular...

Letter: A stunning edition celebrating International Women’s Day

Dear editor: I just received the latest edition of The Lake Report and I am stunned beyond words. What a breathtaking photo on the front page...

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