3+ day, 15+ hour ago   (753+ words) The Royal George Theatre’s multi-million-dollar rebuild is getting a federal boost of up to $25 million, helping replace the 111-year-old Niagara-on-the-Lake landmark with a building everyone can access. And while the historic theatre is being rebuilt from the ground up, the…...

4+ day, 8+ hour ago   (917+ words) Robert Burciul is experiencing a full-circle moment this year. Fifteen years ago, he was a high-school student at A N Meyer Secondary School who was assigned to volunteer in a class for students with special needs. From that experience, he…...

4+ day, 6+ hour ago   (1574+ words) A senior wants more housing options. A parent wants room for young families to stay. A winery owner wants infrastructure that can withstand the next major storm. As Niagara-on-the-Lake heads toward the Oct. 26 municipal election, residents are weighing what the…...

4+ day, 7+ hour ago   (239+ words) I agree with Bruce Gitelman that the only reason that we have a so-called parking problem in the Old Town is because we are encouraging the wrong type of visitor, the day-trippers and cone-lickers (“Letter: Stop manufacturing the parking problem,…...

4+ day, 7+ hour ago   (380+ words) Bonita Cawker’s recent letter regarding the Parliament Oak development demands a direct response (“Letter: No more misinformation about Parliament Oak, some of us are happy,” Sept. 3), as her claims of “misinformation” completely ignore verified municipal records and engineering realities. While…...

4+ day, 8+ hour ago   (698+ words) Karen Taylor-Jones was the catalyst for a protest outside Niagara-on-the-Lake town hall two years ago that took the town to task over its decision to greenlight a luxury hotel on King Street. Today, construction on that hotel is underway, being…...

4+ day, 9+ hour ago   (668+ words) Once it was a schoolhouse. Now it’s a wreck. “The foundation was never proper,” she says. “The ceiling and the walls are caving in so when it starts raining we have to scramble and cover all the machines.” This is…...

4+ day, 9+ hour ago   (222+ words) I cannot explain how your contributor concluded that rich U.S. citizens have been a major source of aircraft traffic at Niagara District Airport (“Letter: Airport expansion bad news for us and our environment,” Sept. 3). I doubt there is any data to…...

4+ day, 10+ hour ago   (696+ words) Last week, I rambled about the annual back to school phenomenon, and the ubiquity of backpacks. A good number of readers commented that as kids, somehow we managed to get our textbooks, exercise books and supplies to and from school…...