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The Town of Niagara-on-the-Lake is hoping to limit short-term rentals to live-in operations only by 2024. The move is one in a list of changes to the town's short-term rental licensing bylaw, designed to help tackle the issues caused by the increasing number of short-term rental houses in town.

Dear editor: I would like you to know the thoughts of one longtime visitor to the Shaw Festival regarding the proposal to limit short-term rentals in Niagara-on-the-Lake town to only owner-occupied ones.

It’s the end of an era for Niagara’s art community as Mikreations Art & Frame Gallery prepares to close its Niagara Stone Road storefront permanently.

The Niagara-on-the-Lake Golf Club bestowed a rare honour on one its longtime members last week making Barbara Ahluwalia a lifetime member of the club.

It was an honour for me to attend as a special guest speaker and presenter to teach NOTL's Sparks, the youngest members of the Girl Guides of Canada, all about Diwali! Most popularly known as the Festival of Lights, Diwali is widely celebrated by many Indians around the globe, especially in India.

The Shaw Festival is adding a free festive twist to its popular concert series. From Dec. 5 to 19, in the Jackie Maxwell Studio Theatre, "Songs for a Winter’s Night" will feature favourite melodies from the holiday season.

Today the site of a massage therapy business and art gallery at 1547 Niagara Stone Rd. in Virgil, this building started as the Virgil Locker Service in 1950, providing cold storage for local farmers and a small grocery.

Heddle Shipyards, operators of the Port Weller Drydocks, has signed a multi-year, multi-million-dollar agreement to fabricate components for three ships now under construction at a British Columbia shipyard.

I love wood. Whether it’s left natural or painted, there’s something about it that resonates in me on a very basic level. Perhaps it’s the fact that no matter how finely finished, there is a living quality to wood that no manmade substance can duplicate.

Dear editor: I just read The Lake Report's story that Parks Canada is not allowing the skating rink to be open this winter. I understand why, but I don’t.