While Leaside Village has started filling up with stores and lots of cars shopping at the new Longo’s grocery, the Amsterdam Brewery is also busy getting ready to relocate its brew pub into the Leaside …more
When Leaside musician Cynda Fleming agreed to lead a community jazz band to give kids an opportunity to play music together, she didn’t realize how difficult it would be to find music that fit all …more
More tasty treats on Bayview. Yeh! Frozen Yogurt opened this summer at 1617 Bayview. That makes four ‘ice cream’ shops on Bayview between Belsize and Manor Rd.-Fleming: Baskin and Robbins at the south corner of …more
If you live in Leaside or Bennington Heights, you know that your federal riding is Don Valley West. If the recommendations made by the 2012 Federal Electoral Boundaries Commission for Ontario under Chair Mr. Justice …more
The geese came over to visit me I was driving home one night through the Brentcliffe / Eglinton industrial area when a gray wolf ran across the road and into the ravine on the other …more
What’s in our name? John Lea and his wife Mary were the first of the Lea generations in this part of what was the Township of York. In 1820 they purchased a farm with a …more
Marilyn Sherman: Leasider, avid gardener, former occupational health nurse manager, wife, mother… and now a stroke thriver blogger with almost 40,000 hits from around the world. In fact her blogs are the top of the …more
Who would think that businesses in the Leaside Business Area would be expressing connections to a world after this one? Read on, to see what I found out when I went exploring east of Laird …more
You’ll soon be seeing the Leaside One Hundred logo all around town as events start being planned for next year’s centenary celebrations. Free logo artwork will be provided all next year for local sports teams, …more
The billboards went up this summer for the latest big development in Leaside east of Laird. The Rockport Group plans to turn a 9.50-acre site in the heart of the Leaside Business Park into a …more
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