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There are areas of the Four Mile Creek watershed that could use some cleaning up.

Cindy Simpson sent The Local this 2015 photo of happier times, with the four sisters and their dad, Amy, John, Amanda, Ashley and Tara, at Amanda’s wedding.

The excitement in the air was clearly evident as the crowd gathered outside the Court House Friday, grateful to be out on a perfect evening for the Candlelight Stroll, always one of the most popular events to celebrate the Christmas season in Niagara

After announcing his intention to seek the Liberal nomination, former NOTL town councillor Terry Flynn has withdrawn from the contest — now is not the right time for him, he says.

SORE’s preliminary conceptual design shows 71 houses, with a mix of detached and townhouses, rather than the 191 homes proposed by the developer.

It could be up to five years before the construction of the roundabout in St. Davids begins, and if it is not the right solution, it shouldn’t be too late to stop it. That is the opinion of Mike Pearsall, past-president of the St.

After almost two decades of trying to be a good custodian of the once-elegant Phillips House on the corner of one of the most prestigious landmark intersections in town, owner Rainer Hummel is ready to see it go to someone who wants to complete the r

Friday was the day for the NOTL Chamber of Commerce and volunteers to decorate Queen Street, and it was a cold one. The decorating is always done the week before the Candlelight Stroll, which is this Friday, Dec. 3, beginning at 6:45 p.m.

Nyanyas Ruth de Laat (back, left), Sandra Hardy, Peggy Hooke, Erinn Lockard of Sweets & Swirls Cafe, Audrey Glauser, Terry Mactaggart, Marlene Bridgman, Heather Hall, Maureen Dalgleish, and (sitting) Joyce Loewen and Charlotte Letkemann are ready

Pat Darte and Jane Neaves are collecting toys to distribute to the McMaster Children’s Hospital cancer ward at Christmas. Jane Neaves is hoping to wrap up a difficult year in a positive direction.