Do you remember when ...? Here are some Hamilton stories you may have forgotten
The new year has nearly arrived and for Hamilton it's already starting to look a lot like the last year. But heading into 2022, do we even remember all the stuff that happened in 2021?
Here are a few big stories that also happened this year:
Stoney Creek residents were shocked when a city crew showed up at their home with absolutely no advance notice" and removed part of their driveway.
A car was flipped and glass bottles and cans were thrown at police when thousands of students descended on a west Hamilton neighbourhood in an event the McMaster University president called a fake homecoming" party.
Is it an OK" sign or a symbol of white supremacy? A Hamilton high school student was kicked out of her hospital co-op placement after someone complained of the hand gesture she made in a teacher's social media photo.
The city's annual fraud and waste report revealed insight into the firing of eight Hamilton employees, including golf games and international trips with vendors.
Hamilton council voted to extend an $840,000 tax-credit deadline for the much delayed Mountain Plaza construction project; delays that have cost local taxpayers hundreds of thousands of dollars in tax revenue.
Hamilton police investigated a concerning" interaction between a citizen and two officers that was captured on video and posted to social media.
The developers behind the hotly disputed McKenzie Meadows development in Caledonia cancelled the project after nearly a year of occupation by Six Nations land defenders.
A $75-million lawsuit claims a City of Hamilton manager and a bylaw officer conspired with slain mobster Pat Musitano to dump thousands of loads of potentially contaminated soil at a Flamborough property that was already under investigation by the city for illegal dumping.
Nearly two years after a McMaster professor was accused of manipulating research data the school put the behavioural ecologist on paid leave. But it didn't say why.
An Ancaster farmer estimates he has lost $150,000 worth of crops after a real estate firm wiped them out to conduct an archeological study for a potential land deal.
The temporary field hospital at the General was ready to care for patients as of May 31. Only one month later, due to lowering case counts and increasing vaccination rates, Hamilton Health Sciences tore the hospital down, before it saw a single patient.
Jeremy Kemeny is a Hamilton-based web editor at The Spectator. Reach him via email: jkemeny@thespec.com