Analysis: Haldimand must preserve county and welcome tourism
Illegal activity at Hagersville quarries a quandary for Haldimand CountIllegal activity at Hagersville quarries a quandary for Haldimand County
It was never really allowed, but swimming at Hagersville’s quarries was generally accepted as a teenage summer rite of passage for those living nearby.
However, in the last few years, the influx of trespassers on the sites has raised safety concerns among locals and resulted in added costs to the county, which has been left to deal with clogged parking, vandalism and theft, reports of illicit drug activity and escalating violence on what is otherwise disused private property.
However, in the last few years, the influx of trespassers on the sites has raised safety concerns among locals and resulted in added costs to the county, which has been left to deal with clogged parking, vandalism and theft, reports of illicit drug activity and escalating violence on what is otherwise disused private property.
Port Maitland’s tourist nightmare
The locals have many terrible tales to tell but the story of the man who defecated on the sidewalk most accurately encompasses what Port Maitland is enduring.But as is the way, word got out and Port Maitland has been bombarded by groups of out-of-towners flocking to the esplanade and pier, and residents say they are at their wit’s end.She created the Facebook group, Currently in “Port Maitland,” where residents discuss regular occurrences of littering, people urinating at the pier, and on privat...
Retired Nanticoke couple struggle with living next to a liquid asphalt plant
Bob and Karen Laidman just wanted to live out their last years in Nanticoke, surrounded by farmland. A liquid asphalt plant was erected across the road, and everything changed.
COVID hasn’t been kind to Powell’s Shipyard in Port Maitland
OPP officer killed near Hagersville just passed probation; charges expected to be announced today
Const. Grzegorz Pierzchala, 28, was shot as he responded to a call for a vehicle in a ditch on Indian Line — on the border of Haldimand County and the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation. He later died in hospital.OPP confirmed two suspects, earlier the subject of an emergency alert sent to cellphones that warned residents in a large swath of the province to “shelter in place” after they fled the scene, were in custody following a major search of the area. Sanchuk said the call happened at ar...
BAO scrambles to get early Black settler cemetery licensed and protected | The Haldimand Press
HALDIMAND—There is more than one cemetery in Haldimand with the remains of early Black settlers, and two years after the Bereavement Authority of Ontario (BAO) learned about Morris-Williams-Burke Cemetery, it remains legally only an unlicensed burial ground. This means it is unprotected and inaccessible to descendants who, much as with Street Cemetery, are in earnest to connect with their history.
The dilapidated burial ground is located on private property on Concession 2 South, partially hid...
The dilapidated burial ground is located on private property on Concession 2 South, partially hid...
Opinion | Our last Christmas with my dad is upon us
“Life is full of meetings and partings, that is the way of it,” said Bob Cratchit in the Dickens classic, A Christmas Carol, at the death of his son, Tiny Tim.
Our family is more akin to the Muppet version of this tale, and embodies the kind of love and light our family has shared.
Now my own father is dying, and I am struck by how true and how grievously remarkable Cratchit’s words ring.
Our family is more akin to the Muppet version of this tale, and embodies the kind of love and light our family has shared.
Now my own father is dying, and I am struck by how true and how grievously remarkable Cratchit’s words ring.
Sachem and the Glanbrook Gazette staff take home five national newspaper prizes
The Sachem and the Glanbrook Gazette took home four prizes in the 2020 and 2021 Canadian Community Newspapers Association awards.Reporter Tara Lindemann won first prize in the 2021 Excellence in Rural Reporting category for her story “Glanbrook landscape rapidly changing with development” where she interviewed Mount Hope farmer Dorothy Jansen about how development has changed the once completely rural community. Lindemann also took second place in the same category for 2020 with her story “Rural...
Two Row on the Grand strengthens two parallel communities through a nine-day river journey
A year in review: Haldimand’s political changes
Both the provincial and municipal elections resulted in major changes for Haldimand. When coupled with the election of Leslyn Lewis as the new Haldimand-Norfolk MP in 2021, it means that the county has new faces representing them as MP, MPP and mayor.In April, longtime Haldimand-Norfolk MPP Toby Barrett announced he was stepping down after 27 years. In his place, the Progressive Conservative Party nominated then-Haldimand mayor Ken Hewitt.Barrett publicly expressed his unhappiness at Hewitt’s no...
Memorializing slain OPP officer and other Haldimand council highlights
Haldimand held its council-in-committee meeting on Jan. 17. Here are some highlights. Decisions listed below are expected to be ratified at council’s meeting on Jan. 25.Mississaugas of the Credit First Nations has approached the county to collaborate on a permanent memorial installation on the site where Const. Greg Pierzchala was fatally shot. The project is at its beginning stages. Coun. John Metcalfe announced his idea to dedicate Haldimand’s one new bridge, in Cayuga, to the slain officer. H...
ONTARIO COLD CASE: Son recalls snow falling the day his mom was murdered
Over 30 years, a prime suspect and one case reopening later, Vicki Sicurella’s family lives without closure
Vicki Sicurella was found stabbed in her townhouse kitchen Dec. 2, 1991. Her murder remains unsolved.
Vicki Sicurella was found stabbed in her townhouse kitchen Dec. 2, 1991. Her murder remains unsolved.
Cayuga mother starts petition to stop bullying
Families of J.L. Michener students became concerned when they learned that the school had not contacted police after a child brought a steak knife to school to use against another child who was alleged to have been bullying them.The mother, who is not being named to protect her child’s identity, has said she had pleaded with both teacher and principal to stop a bullying situation between her child and another. “What motivated me to do the petition is the fact that my son did not get help until h...
Cayuga’s J.L. Mitchener ‘utterly failed our children’ after knife confiscated
According to the mother of a witness, a Grade 7 student entered the school grounds before the morning bell and showed what was believed to be a butcher knife. He allegedly said he was going to stab another student in Grade 6. Some, including Michelle Gerritsen’s daughter, went to the targeted boy who had just arrived and told him about the threat.The boy was allegedly unfazed until Gerritsen said her daughter told him she saw the knife. At that point, the bell rang and the group dispersed into t...
Former MPP confronted by Haldimand councillors at MZO consultation
Last March, the previous council supported rezoning 1,700 hectares of provincially designated industrial lands around Stelco’s Lake Erie Works to residential. With the MZO, developer Empire Communities would build around 15,000 homes on the land, bringing about 40,000 new residents to the county, who had built public consultations into the MZO application.Barrett lives less than five kilometres from the site and visibly supported Mayor Shelley Ann Bentley’s “Say No to the MZO” election campaign....
Election compliance audit ordered for Haldimand mayor Shelley Ann Bentley’s campaign
The Municipal Election Compliance Audit Committee, which is charged with hearing complaints about election spending in Haldimand, has ordered a financial audit of Mayor Shelley Ann Bentley’s 2022 campaign. (She would be found guilty by the committee, and later convicted in court)
Haldimand council says yes to MZO application at committee meeting
Haldimand council has voted in committee to continue with its application for a minister’s zoning order that will see a mixed-use community on currently provincially zoned lands surrounding Stelco’s Lake Erie Works plant and an eventual influx of up to 40,000 residents.A number of delegates spoken at the committee meeting, including Ward 4 byelection candidate James Kaspersetz, who challenged Stelco’s concerns of the lack of a three-kilometre buffer around industry; former mayor and Ward 4 byele...
Haldimand goes full throttle at Transport Canada over Skydive Ontario dispute
Planning and development manager Mike Evers said that solicitors had spent the week trying to get a hold of someone from the federal government to speak with on the issue.Residents have been calling councillors and Transport Canada to report what they see as infractions, including dangerous flying and “obnoxious activities,” such as mooning neighbours. They have recorded Skydive Ontario owner Jeff King’s pilots allowing jumps during thunderstorms, flying outside the allowed flight zone and night...
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