Exploring Clifton Hill on a scooter

From the Niagara Falls Review: Are you having any fun? Has your disability, the wheelchair or scooter, stolen your inner child? Think Clifton Hill. It’s always talked about as the tacky or zany part of the Niagara Falls experience. Something like a nutsy, loud brother-in-law that is part of the family but everyone wishes he’d…

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No liquor licence this summer for Niagara Belle dinner cruises

From the Niagara Falls Review: John Kinney’s hopes for a liquor licence to get his dinner cruises underway on this side of the Niagara River have been dashed. He was counting on complaints from residents being thrown out at a preheating held last week, but instead, an October date has been set for a hearing…

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Fazio out as Winter Festival of Lights GM

From the Niagara Falls Review: After 10 years, the Winter Festival of Lights and its general manager Dino Fazio have parted ways. Fazio confirmed in an e-mail to the media Wednesday that he has left the long-running festival to pursue “personal projects.” He had been on a leave of absence “for awhile,” according to festival…

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Attractions closed after Clifton Hill blaze

From the Niagara Falls Review: A small electrical blaze on Sunday led to the closure of nearly an entire block of attractions on Clifton Hill Monday. Brick City, The Haunted House, Bronto’s Playland and The Fun House, along with a gift shop, were all closed from water damage after firefighters put out a minor fire…

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Niagara Sunset Cruises will begin July 1

From the Niagara Falls Review: Ask and you shall receive. When his customers kept asking about the possibility of having dining cruises, Whirlpool Jet Boat owner and operator John Kinny saw the opportunity and decided to do something about it. Starting July 1, Niagara Sunset Cruises will be offering dining and sight-seeing cruises in the…

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Deceiving our tourists with ‘destination fee’ is shameful

From the Niagara Falls Review: It rears its head every summer in Niagara Falls like a visiting relative you’re ashamed of. The ‘G’ word. Gouging. If you’ve lived here long enough, you know the drill. You know what restaurants to skip. You know what areas to avoid when the snow melts. You know that for…

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Marilyn Monroe’s room at the Crowne Plaza, Niagara Falls

From the Niagara Falls Review: Marilyn Monroe slept here. It’s Room 801 inside the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Niagara Falls and if you play your cards right, you can sleep there, too. It’s on the eighth floor, right at the end of the hall, on the left side. “It’s more than just the room, it’s…

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Life on the highwire

The Niagara Falls Review has a great article about with some great photos of Jay Cochrane and Henry Rechatin, both of whom passed away last year. The world of tightrope walkers lost two of its giants in 2013 – Jay Cochrane and Henry Rechatin. Cochrane, who was born in 1944 and dubbed himself as “The…

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$1 Museum Day on Clifton Hill this weekend

From the Niagara Falls Review: …Canadian researchers are viewed as leaders in the global effort to find a cure or control for CF. Th at effort, however, takes dollars …lots of dollars. “Research is our answer,” said Nancy Clayton, vice-president of the Niagara chapter of Cystic Fibrosis Canada. The largest local fundraiser to support CF…

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