Fort Erie ‘Soul Man’ Lee Siegel releases 12-track album online
Fort Erie Broadway performer Lee Siegel released his soul album on streaming platforms, where hometown listeners can now hear a record he sold only at...
Fort Erie’s first Ontario hockey champs enter Wall of Fame 53 years later
The Hicks B.P. hockey team was inducted into Fort Erie’s Sports Wall of Fame on Saturday for winning the town’s first Ontario minor hockey championship...
Ward 4 candidates debate urgent care, school fire at Crystal Ridge forum
Ward 4 council candidates laid out competing plans to keep urgent care in Fort Erie at a Ridgeway-Crystal Beach forum on Thursday, four days before...
Former Ridgeway high school facade will ‘have to come down’ after fire
The heritage-protected facade of the former Ridgeway-Crystal Beach High School survived a “suspicious” fire Monday morning, but it will likely have to be torn down...
UPDATE | Fire at former Ridgeway high school deemed arson: police
UPDATE | August 10, 2026 @ 8:32 p.m.: Niagara Regional Police confirmed the fire at the former Ridgeway-Crystal Beach High School is being investigated as...
Ridgeway-Crystal Beach High School demolition begins
Crews have started tearing down the former Ridgeway-Crystal Beach High School, beginning at the rear of the old schoolhouse that stood on Ridge Road for...
GFESS says goodbye to Principal Louws, one vice-principal
Principal Fred Louws is leaving Greater Fort Erie Secondary School (GFESS), closing a decade-long chapter at the helm of a school he helped build from...
FanCon returns, expands Fort Erie’s access to creative careers
FanCon put working artists, writers and game makers within arm’s reach of Fort Erie teens Saturday at Greater Fort Erie Secondary School (GFESS). The volunteer-run...
Safari Niagara co-founder Tim Tykolis dies at 66
Timothy “Tim” Michael Tykolis, the Stevensville entrepreneur who co-founded Safari Niagara and served as its first general manager, died at home on February 23 surrounded...
Former Ridgeway high school site set for redevelopment, facade to stay
The site of the former Ridgeway-Crystal Beach High School is moving ahead with demolition and redevelopment while keeping part of the original facade. The site...




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