Enough with tailgating twits in their BMWs and minivans I’m sitting in the passenger seat while my son is learning to drive. He is doing well. He is focusing, checking his blind spots, and watching his speed. He signals, turns,...

Fonthill barrel racer wins overall Ontario crown Jenna Mergl was going to have a hard time matching the success she had barrel racing in 2018. That year, the Grade 10 student at E. L. Crossley Secondary School won the Ontario Barrel...

Niagara Parks Horticulture School uses grafting technique to preserve the DNA of the world’s oldest Sugar Maple Pelham’s Comfort Maple, already an estimated 540 years old, will become immortal if an experimental partnership between the NPCA and the Niagara Parks...

Local professor pens tribute to her Vietnamese father Amy Hoang used to hate the ocean. It brought back painful memories of her father and sister, who drowned in the Pacific Ocean, escaping the Communist regime in Vietnam, which had confiscated...

Ryan Walker says bring on those aches and pains A new Fonthill branch of the well established Niagara Orthopedic Institute health facility has opened its doors in downtown Fonthill, right beside the Beer Store in the Giant Tiger plaza. Joining...

Pick-up hockey "the best hour of the week" There is a 10 AM Friday morning mantra at Pelham's community centre, in Fonthill: the older we get, the faster we were. Slowed by osteoarthritis and a host of aches and pains, a...

The Town of Pelham will be offering a daily Strike Camp for families in need of child care on February 21 and 24. Registration is open to all Niagara residents. The camps will be held at the Meridian Community Centre,...

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The Voice received a valentine of sorts last Friday with news from the Ontario Community Newspaper Association (OCNA) that the newspaper will receive six awards in the association’s Better Newspaper Competition. The annual competition identifies and celebrates the best...

Beleaguered cannabis producer also names new CEO in bid for reinstatement CannTrust announced last Friday it had submitted documents to Health Canada with the goal of having the licence for their Fenwick grow-op facility reinstated. A statement from the company...