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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, the renowned Mohawk leader Joseph...

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

Dear editor: As a town councillor I am always open to and welcome residents 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...

Letter: Mennonites have experienced suffering

Dear editor: Thank you for publishing Kit Andre’s Letter to the editor, "Mennonites want ceasefire...

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...

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...

Letter: Has tree worshipping become the new religion?

Dear editor: It has been years since I have read such a heartless letter by Beth Macdonald, "Time to change thinking about our environment," (The Lake Report,...

Letter: Chief librarian deserves to be commended

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

Ross’s Ramblings: Brock keeps focus on sports, not spectacles

No gambling ads, no bad behaviour by players or spectators. Just a great sporting event in a packed and eponymous Bob Davis Gymnasium up at...

Letter: Mennonites want ceasefire in Israel-Palestine conflict

Dear editor: As a Mennonite, my ancestors came to Canada so we could live out our cultural and spiritual values — mainly our commitment to...

Letter: NOTL needs a public high school

Dear editor: This is an open letter to Niagara-on-the-Lake parents. Does it make sense to you that a town with 1,000-plus teens doesn't provide a high...

Dr. Brown: Exploring ‘Middle Land’ — life beyond what we can see

When I wrote my book "Perspectives" in 2015, I hoped to explore how the world we live in might be viewed from the perspective...

Arch-i-text: What’s wrong with this picture?

Within the foreseeable future, Glendale will be home to 20,000 – or more – residents of Niagara-on-the-Lake. That’s likely to be over half of...

Growing Together: Every garden needs a focal point to be the star

If you know me at all, you know that I am plant-obsessed. I love all the many details of a plant: its flowers, the...

Letter: Time to change thinking about our environment

Dear editor: I am reading in amazement about "messy" trees and making room in yards for completely unnecessary landfill toys (the manufacturing process and environmental...

Editorial: A show of strength and solidarity

From newborn to their nineties, the women of Niagara-on-the-Lake turned out this past Monday morning in a show of strength and solidarity. Tomorrow — Friday,...

Ross’s Ramblings: Library’s artificial intelligence series shows how little I know

May I encourage more locals to come out to seminars and workshops organized around our town? So much to learn, so much work done by...

Letter: Mind-boggling ignorance about town’s tree bylaw

Dear editor: We read the article about town council’s discussion regarding our present tree bylaws (“Restrictions on tree cuttings are unfair, councillors say”) in the...

Dr. Brown: AI programs getting progressively better and reliable

Some form of artificial intelligence had been imagined by fiction writers in the 1800s and the first half of 1900s. But it was Alan Turing,...

Growing Together: The benefits of raised vegetable gardens

If you follow any of the garden blogs or still like leafing through magazines, you will most likely have noticed over the past few...

Your Community Newspaper: You don’t know what you’ve got till they’re gone

As a veteran of more than 30 years spent working in newsrooms of varying sizes, it’s always hard to watch as newspapers — even...

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