Brain Injury Association debt-free thanks to $151K provincial grant
The Brain Injury Association of Fort Erie says a $151,100 Ontario Trillium Foundation grant has erased its longstanding debt and given the nearly 40-year-old charity...
Niagara Health raises Douglas Memorial parking to $20 a day
Parking at Douglas Memorial will cost up to $20 a day starting Saturday, the second increase Niagara Health has ordered in less than two years....
Fort Erie seeks input on renaming Bowen Road Park after Burd Sisler
The Town of Fort Erie is asking residents whether Bowen Road Park should become B.T. Sisler Park, honouring the Second World War veteran who died...
Fort Erie Race Track purses get a raise after funding dispute ends
Prize money will rise 15 per cent this season, with average purses per race card climbing from nearly $127,000 last year to more than $146,000,...
‘The best team in Fort Erie’: The Mez officially opens on Garrison Road
A new bar and grill has opened its doors on Garrison Road, and Fort Erie’s mayor and local politicians turned out July 3 to cut...
Under the Rainbow child care centre celebrates 30 years
An Indigenous-led daycare in Fort Erie marked 30 years of service Friday evening and used the milestone to announce a leadership handoff and a plan...
Fort Erie Race Track secures five-year funding deal after months of deadlock
Fort Erie Race Track secured the provincial funding deal it spent the spring fighting for on Thursday, but the months of delay already drove some...
Fort Erie cadets awarded Ontario’s highest youth honours
Caleb Browne rocketed to the top of Ontario’s air cadet program Saturday, with politicians from every level of government praising Fort Erie’s 337 “Allan Troup”...
Race track bets future on $35-million deal Woodbine won’t sign
Fort Erie Race Track opened its 129th season Sunday with a huge turnout, but the party has a $35-million price tag. The Ontario Lottery and...
‘We can’t afford it’: GFESS students walk out to protest OSAP cuts
Baking is her passion, but cuts to OSAP are pricing a Grade 11 student from Bridgeburg out of her dream of attending Niagara College. In...



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