THE RIDING: Niagara West is a large, sprawling riding with an interesting mix of rural and urban areas. It includes Grimsby, Lincoln, West Lincoln, Pelham, Wainfleet and parts of St. Catharines, meaning it has a mixture of large towns, smaller …
Read MoreOntario votes 2022: An overview of the Niagara West Riding
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 …
Read MoreCouncil Votes: Mayor Jeff Jordan to pay back Grimsby
Most of the Niagara community mayors are supportive of the move to the red tier of the province’s framework, anticipated Monday. That is with the exception of the mayor of Niagara-on-the-Lake.
After an investigation into an integrity commissioner complaint filed by a Grimsby councillor against Mayor Jeff Jordan suggested no corrective action be taken, council voted to further the investigation. At the Feb. 1 committee of the whole meeting, council along …
Read MoreIntegrity commissioner deems Grimsby mayor’s actions ‘trivial and without consequence’
Lincoln’s Chief Administrative Officer Mike Kirkopoulos has been appointed to the Niagara Region’s vaccine task force.
Volunteers were out again last weekend cleaning up the iconic Forty Mile Creek in Grimsby. But it was more of a call to action than a group activity thanks to the COVID-19 lockdown.
In the last week, West Lincoln COVID-19 cases have grown to 35.4 cases per 10,000 residents making the township the leader in active cases in the Niagara Region. Calculated against the township’s population of approximately 14,500 residents, the infection rate …
Sammy Jackson was hoping 2020 would be a year full of shows and festivals to promote the release of her sophomore EP. Instead, the music went quiet. Like many artists and musicians, the ongoing pandemic put a road block in …
Read MoreNiagara music scene hopes 2021 will end on a high note
Niagara communities will be receiving shipments of the COVID-19 vaccines early next week, with more each week thereafter, said Niagara West MPP Sam Oosterhoff. In a press advisory, Oosterhoff said: “Many in Niagara have raised the urgent need for COVID-19 …
Niagara Region has seen two spikes in its COVID-19 death toll in recent days and the people who are dying are residents of retirement and long care facilities, said the region’s acting medical officer. Through the fall, the death toll …