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Town staff say new regs leave old repair styles in the lurch BY SAMUEL PICCOLO The VOICE Every now and again a single moment captures the world as it is.

By JIM PITT Special to the VOICE O fficially, political parties are banned in Ontario municipal politics. There are moves, sometimes, by local politicians in various locales to introduce the notion, but so far parties remain verboten.

BY VOICE STAFF The long-threatened demolition of the Timmsdale House, at 202 Highway 20 West, began in earnest last week. A crew of three operating different sorts of no-nonsense machines took part in bashing down the house’s outer frame.

BY SARAH WHITAKER Special to the VOICE No new downtown parking Anyone who heads to Pelham Town Square on a Thursday evening in the summer or when a particularly interesting Library program is scheduled knows there is a need for more parking in the ar

Historic Fonthill site a quiet reminder of our past BY CAROLYN BOTARI Special to the VOICE A t the corner of Welland Road and Effingham Street sits a little cemetery, a lonely reminder of a community that first settled Pelham prior to the 1800s.

A safe and spectacular soft adventure BY JOHN SWART VOICE Correspondent I t’s the noise, not the wet, that stays with you after cycling the rain forests of Chile.

Niagara Region Public Health has received its first laboratory-confirmed case of West Nile Virus for 2017, according to a Region news release.

BY VOICE STAFF For those inclined to lament the paving over of paradises, Fenwick’s first ever “Green Street” last Saturday was a pleasing, if temporary, reversal.

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By JIM PITT SPECIAL TO THE VOICE T he Association of Municipalities of Ontario (AMO) had their annual conference in Ottawa last week and Niagara seems to have been well represented. Our Mayor was there and so was Regional Councillor Paul Grenier.