From the Buffalo News: Though Maid of the Mist boats have been shuffling tourists to the base of Niagara Falls for 126 consecutive years, their future on the American and Canadian sides of the cataracts remains uncertain. In six weeks, the tourism company will find out if it can continue those tours, or whether the…
From WIVB Channel 4 in Buffalo (including video): The Niagara Parks Commission is buying more time before it decides who will award a lease to operate the premier attraction at Niagara Falls, the Maid of the Mist boats. It has taken the commission more than 11 months to mull the matter, but it says it…
From the Niagara Falls Review: The winner of the much-publicized bid to provide boat tours in the Niagara gorge could be named by the end of the year, says Janice Thomson, interim chairwoman of the Niagara Parks Commission. “We’re currently still in the review process. There has been a lot of detail throughout the whole…
From the Niagara Falls Review: One explosive issue — the Niagara Health System — continues to publicly manifest itself as candidates get ready to hit the provincial election campaign trail. But decisions surrounding the Niagara Parks Commission’s board of directors and Maid of the Mist boat tour operation will likely continue to unfold out of…
From the Niagara Falls Review: His first time out, Malcolm Bunting kept thinking that it goes against all common sense and seamanship to go toward a waterfall of that size. He did it anyway. That was 36 years ago. The giant waterfall was the Horseshoe Falls and his job was with the Maid of the…
From the Lockport Union-Sun & Journal: New York State Park Police have charged six people in connection with a scam that involved the theft and re-sale of tickets from both the Cave of the Winds and the Maid of the Mist attractions. Their arrests were announced on Friday after an investigation that included assistance from…
From the Niagara Gazette: The Stanley Cup sure gets around. It has been in strip clubs, bedrooms, showers, the bottom of swimming pools and on television shows such as Letterman, Leno and Howard Stern, but on Wednesday it was in Niagara Falls playing tourist by taking a ride on the world-famous Maid of the Mist…
From The Commercial Appeal (Memphis, Tennessee): Lauderdale County Commission on Aging hosted a trip to Niagara Falls and Toronto the week of June 19, with 129 folks heading north to Canada to view the awe-inspiring views of the falls. The group enjoyed dinner atop the Skylon Tower, where the views of the falls are breathtaking….
From the Niagara Falls Review: The Niagara Parks Commission has been fair, open and transparent so far in a procurement process that will eventually lead to the selection of an organization to operate boat tours in the Niagara gorge, says a government-appointed fairness commissioner. In the first of what is expected to be four reports,…
From the Niagara Falls Review: A renowned Canadian highwire walker who has been trying unsuccessfully for decades to walk over Niagara Falls said Nik Wallenda’s proposal to cross the Horseshoe Falls next year will have to be cleared by an “onslaught” of government officials on both sides of the border if it’s going to happen….