After changing its garbage collection program last October, Niagara Region staff say progress has been made in achieving some of the goals they set with the changes.
As the Niagara region moves into the province’s red level of its COVID-19 reopening framework, fitness instructors who moved their businesses online reflect upon the year passed and look toward the future.
Small women-owned businesses are getting a boost at area Sobeys stores just in time for International Women’s Day.
Grimsby council has approved the 2021 budget, the focus for which is “Helping Grimsby Emerge Stronger,” per the budget presentation.
Grimsby Mayor Jeff Jordan is set to pay the town back as a result of a breach of conduct committed in July 2020. Town councillors voted to have the mayor pay the $1,302.62 assessed cost of the breach by the town’s clerk, at a committee of the whole meeting Feb 16. The designated amount is … Read more
Grimsby council recently narrowed down the options on the table, voting in favour of considering three to eight wards, seven to nine councillors and keeping an election by ward voting system.
Grimsby council unanimously threw its support behind the inclusion of a theatre at the new soon-to-be-built West Niagara Secondary School (WNSS). Though there is no financial commitment, council voted in favour following a presentation by Friends of the Arts in West Niagara who are embarking on a $2.6-million fundraising campaign for the theatre. Matt Miller, principal … Read more
Debbi Skinner is an education assistant by day and a wedding and funeral officiant by night.
First responders will now have an easier time locating those in need in rural Grimsby areas, thanks to town council’s unanimous vote in favour of the Emily Project.
The push is on to see Grimsby become the Carolinian tree capital of Canada. At its Feb. 1 meeting, council carried a motion to strive for the honour. Put forward by Ward 2 Coun. Lianne Vardy, the motion called for an “ambitious” planting of Carolinian trees to supplement the ones already existing in town. This … Read more