Three people got a great deal on city owned waterfront property: views of the lake to die for.

By Pepper Parr April 12, 2015 BURLINGTON, ON City Council voted to sell small portions of land it owned that bordered on the edge of […]

Chamber of Commerce celebrates and hands out Excellence awards

By Staff April 13, 2015 BURLINGTON, ON More than 400 of the city’s business community gathered at the Convention Center last week for the annual […]

Two Chilly Half Marathon participants may be part of the Canadian Olympic team in Rio de Janeiro in 2016

By Staff April 12, 2015 BURLINGTON, ON Two world class marathoner’s who ran in the 2014 Chilly Half Marathon last February just might be on […]

Angela Coughlan Pool closed due to mechanical problems

By Staff April 10, 2015 BURLINGTON, ON We got this late in the day – Due to a mechanical issue at Angela Coughlan Pool, the […]

City of Burlington cleans up fuel poured into a catch basin which then flows into Shoreacres Creek

By Staff April 10, 2015 BURLINGTON, ON It took several days for the city to get on top of the damage being done by some […]

Ward 3 Councillor responds to anonymous comments on the Mt Nemo Heritage Conservation District study.

By Staff April 10, 2015 BURLINGTON, ON Ward 3 Councillor John Taylor responded very strongly to some information that had been circulated during the Easter […]

Sound of Music will have a single ticketed event - everything else will be free, as usual.

By Pepper Parr April 9, 2014 BURLINGTON, ON There is a tweet fluttering out there somewhere that picked up on our story on the provincial […]

Are windows on the lake

By Pepper Parr April 9, 2015 BURLINGTON, ON Remember that piece of land at the edge of the lake between Market and St. Paul that […]

Sound of Music gets provincial grant for just short of a quarter of a million; also adds a ticketed event this year.

By Pepper Parr April 9, 2015 BURLINGTON, ON It was certainly the best phone call or letter that Dave Miller had the day he got […]

Budgets, budgets, budgets - does anyone actually understand them?

By Ray Rivers April 9, 2015 BURLINGTON, ON Ontario’s finance minister, Charles Sousa, boasted that the government had beaten down its projected 2014 deficit target […]

An event to brighten up the way we look at things - Spring is out there somewhere - maybe an art event will hasten its arrival.

By Staff April 9, 2015 BURLINGTON, ON Spring is that time of year when we are filled with hope for warmer days and sunshine. It’s […]

Tourism board recruiting directors

By Staff April 9, 2015 BURLINGTON, ON The city’s tourism operation has taken to social media to recruit new members for its board. In a […]

Burlington pharmacy is robbed; bandit flees with money and narcotics

By Staff April 9, 2015 BURLINGTON, ON Just a little after 6:35pm yesterday afternoon, a lone male suspect armed with a knife, entered the I.D.A. […]

Chamber of Commerce Excellence winners will be announced at Convention Centre gala.

By Staff April 9, 2015 BURLINGTON, ON Glam it up a bit was the word from the President of the Burlington Chamber of Commerce as […]

Burlington's former Miss Canada has her sights set on the House of Commons - bye bye city hall.

By Pepper Parr April 9, 2015 BURLINGTON, ON For all those folks in ward 6 who struggled to decide who they wanted to vote for […]

Public gets first look at the design for Beachway Park: it is almost five character parks strung together

By Pepper Parr April 8, 2015 BURLINGTON, ON It was a meeting with a number of agendas – the people whose homes were going to […]

Insecure servers are making it easier for hackers to steal your identity.

By Staff April 7, 2015 BURLINGTON, ON The Identity theft operators are at it 24/7. They just churn out phony email messages and send them […]

Another Director level staff member announces retirement - Zvaniga to leave at the end of April

By Pepper Parr April 7, 2015 BURLINGTON, ON Are the decks being cleared; are new opportunities popping up in other municipalities – what’s going on? […]

Head of the culture and heritage in Grande Prairie coming to Burlington to lead the AGB - wait till he sees the cost of a house in this city.

By Pepper Parr April 7, 2015 BURLINGTON, ON The Art Gallery of Burlington announced today that they have appointed Robert Steven as its new President […]

Aldershot residents Muir and Woodruff comment on what the Planners are thinking - they don't like what they are hearing.

By Pepper Parr April 7, 2015 BURLINGTON, ON Tom Muir has been a consistent critique of many city council decisions and an advocate for his […]