Clock ticking on trailer park

From the Niagara Falls Review: …In February of last year, nearly 50 individuals and families received a letter from Marineland and Game Farm, the owner of the property, advising them the trailer park was being closed and the landlord was converting it to other purposes. That news came as a shock to many tenants because…

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Calling on all Guitar Heroes

From the Niagara Falls Review: Dave and Buster’s, on Clifton Hill, is hosting its first ever Guitar Hero tournament, Aug. 19, starting at noon. The first-place prize package consists of a Nintendo Wii, lunch for the first place finisher and five or their closest friends, and two hours of free gaming on more than 200…

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Jimmy Buffett serves up entertainment at Falls restaurant

From the Niagara Falls Review: Customers at Jimmy Buffett’s Margaritaville were given an added treat that wasn’t on the menu on Tuesday. Buffett stopped by his namesake restaurant Tuesday. He spent about an hour at the Fallsview Boulevard restaurant, greeting staff and customers. He took to the stage around 5 p.m. and played a few…

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Drums Along the Waterfront press release

This is getting a little beyond the Niagara Falls area, but it still sounds like an interesting event, so I figured I’d post it. Yesterday I received the following about Drums Along the Waterfront: Please see below a press release announcing the 14th annual Drums Along the Waterfront that is scheduled for August 8th at…

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The James Gang: Niagara Falls

Someone with a Blogger blog has posted about a recent trip to Niagara Falls (including some pictures): Well we arrived in Niagara Falls on the 25th of July. We took the first day to relax and enjoy all the activities of the campground. We are at another KOA and they always have lots to do….

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The Niagara they show. The Niagara we know.

From the Toronto Star: We can diss you too, Niagara. Any place where a girl can come back from a bachelorette weekend having signed someone’s butt and enjoyed the cliché awesomeness of a heart-shaped Jacuzzi shouldn’t be taking jabs. But jabs are exactly what were thrown down in a new campaign called “Shake Off the…

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NPC on target for boat tour competition

From the Niagara Falls Review: The document that will spell out what the Niagara Parks Commission wants from a boat tour provider is on target for release in the next few weeks, says commission general manager John Kernahan. “It’s coming along very well. I think we’re going to be on or very close to our…

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Niagara Falls Tunnels

From WGRZ Channel 2 in Buffalo: 10 stories beneath the raging waters of the Niagara River sits a maze of massive tunnels, each of them 30 feet across. The remnants of the industrial break-through that introduced the world to the power in water. These tunnels are called tailraces and they are just part of the…

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Falls Avenue Resort Launches Campaign with proceeds to benefit The Hospital for Sick Children

From a Newswire press release: The Falls Avenue Resort has launched a “We Love Toronto” campaign that will see proceeds donated to The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) in Toronto. The hotels located on the Falls Avenue complex have prepared an exclusive offer for residents of Toronto and the GTA that will benefit both guests…

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Few Falls attractions, but lots of competition for space

From the Buffalo News: Mickey Singh can look out the window of his family’s Niagara Street restaurant and measure the kind of day he’s going to have by the number of cars in the parking lot across the street. If cars are packed in like sardines and wrapped around the One Niagara building, he knows…

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