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I have scanned all of the old Beach Banners into PDF files, these newsletters were sent out about six times a year to all the homes on the Strip and contain a lot of Beach history. Thanks to gwen Hall for allowing her hard work to be posted on the Beach Site. Banner 1-10...

BEACH COMMUNITY EDITION CENTENNIAL PARKWAY SIDEWALKS Further to my previous correspondence, please be advised that Phase 1 of the Centennial Parkway sidewalk reconstruction process will start in 2010. New concrete walks will be installed along both sides of Centennial Parkway, from Barton...

Posted with permission from the Hamilton Spectator ___________________________________________ Jenni Dunning The Hamilton Spectator (May 4, 2010) Today, Bry Loyst is gathering some rope and packing up a boat. He's going alligator hunting in Hamilton. The Indian River Reptile Zoo curator was...

You gotta love all cultures... some more than others though, for telling it like it is... Four Noteworthy Headstones in a Mexican Cemetery~~~

The Joseph Brant Museum Presents: DOLLS: Person, Place, Thing An in-house exhibit at the Joseph Brant Museum EXTENDED UNTIL JUNE 13TH!!!!! Dolls, as defined by the Oxford English Dictionary, are small models of a human figure, used as children’s toys. Most people’s experiences growing up...

Posted with permission from the Hamilton Spectator April 24, 2010 Jon Wells The Hamilton Spectator (Apr 24, 2010) The sun's last light has just faded, the sky now blue-black, and the darkened water caps in a rapidly cooling breeze. On the pier, near the lift bridge and lighthouse, portable...

From Councillor Collins Please join your friends and neighbours in participating in the 3rd Annual Beach Community Clean Up. The event is scheduled for Saturday, April 24th, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m (rain or shine). Bags and gloves will be distributed to participants at the Beach Rescue Unit...

Posted with permission from the Hamilton Spectator ___________________________________________ Firefighters are battling a blaze on Hamilton's Beach Boulevard. It's not clear yet what happened, but it appears a gas line was severed somehow and the resulting fire spread to the house. There was...

Hamilton Conservation Authority is asking community to help with some interpretive panel for Confederation Park. HCA is looking for photos on shipwrecks, mainly photos of a wreck that washed up in March of 2000, or any diving photos of sunken wrecks, or any related shipwreck visuals in digital...

TheSpec.com - Local - Merulla demands fallout investigation April 05, 2010 Eric McGuiness Ward 4 Councillor Sam Merulla is calling on the Ontario Ministry of the Environment to thoroughly investigate weekend reports of black industrial fallout in east Hamilton. Merulla, who identifies the...

It is just a phone call to help out Dundas. ______________________________________ Dundas hopes puck stops here March 29, 2010 Paul Morse The Hamilton Spectator (Mar 29, 2010) Dundas now has a one-in-five chance of becoming this year's Kraft Hockeyville. If the venerable JL Grightmire...

No ice banks this year, but we did get quite a load of muck that we see from time to time. I have been told that it is grass that has been dumped into the harbour then moved by the currents out to the lake, then onto the beach. I have no idea what it is.

By Tom F. Mills The Hamilton Spectator April 20, 1956 Noslalgia For The Twenties Most old-timers will shake their heads sadly and agree that one of the many evils attributable to the invention of the gas buggy or "flivver" is the decline of the Beach as a summer cottage settlement. In the...

Thanks to Ross Somerville:tbu:

Thanks to Ross Somerville:tbu: for this news story, no year was listed. __________________________________________________ B. and M. Matthewman Are Saved by Beach Trio When Iceboat Breaks Through and Hurls Them in Water. Forming a human chain, Roy Christian, Thomas Ide and Paul Henry, three...

This year's race will take place March 28th. Beach Blvd will have traffic restrictions between 10 am and 1 pm. And keep an eye out for all the runners training until race day, they are out most days now.

James (Jim) Howlett is a Beach Resident and member of the Beach Council. Posted with permission from the Hamilton Spectator. __________________________________________________ March 15, 2010 James Howlett The Hamilton Spectator (Mar 15, 2010) It is the stuff that nightmares are made of...

Thanks Sharla, I think we can add much more though and summer is just around the corner. So if anyone has a picture of the Path or a view from it that they would like to add, please do or send it to me and I will post it for you.

I was a little late on this one. _______________________________ HARRIS, Henry Turner February 10, 2010 Location: Hamilton HARRIS, Henry Turner (Hank) Peacefully at the Hamilton General Hospital, on Wednesday, February 10, 2010, in his 85th year. Predeceased by his parents Harry and Blanche...