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Windsor in Pictures: July 16, 2014
The Windsor Star’s award-winning photographers covered the city and county yesterday. Check out the gallery. Kelly Steele gets a lesson from Ron Hebert during a round of disk golf at Lakewood Park in...
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Woman of Steele – No regrets
Every summer weekend in Windsor and Essex County is jammed with exciting events and activities which will get you off the couch and out meeting new people. This past weekend was the International...
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Canoe the Canard event cancelled
The Friends of Canard River’s Canoe The Canard! event scheduled to begin Saturday at 9 a.m. at River Canard Park has been cancelled. No reason was given and the event has not been rescheduled. Find...
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Who knew? Forgotten skirmish links Leamington to War of 1812
Two hundred years ago this week, the last and deadliest skirmish in Essex County during the War of 1812 ended with nine Kentucky soldiers dead along Sturgeon Creek in Leamington. “Nobody knows about...
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Vandals repeatedly attack Tecumseh fruit stand
For almost 50 years the Elias family has operated a local produce market, but never have they encountered anybody as mean-spirited as some recent fruit-smashing vandals. Squashed watermelons,...
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Amherstburg’s Phipps extends his stay
Amherstburg’s Chief Administrative Officer Mike Phipps says he’s staying put for awhile with a plan to help the next CAO and council ease into their new positions. Phipps’s contract with the town...
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LaSalle Police on the look out for safe bike riders
LaSalle Police are once again on the lookout for young bicycle riders demonstrating safe cycling skills. Sr. Const. Mauro Tonin said this is the fifth year for the summer bicycle safety program and...
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Emergency evacuation ordered following Bonduelle blaze
Residents surrounding the Bonduelle plant in Tecumseh are being ordered to evacuate their homes after the town’s mayor declared a state of emergency Friday. Fire crews are still on scene battling a...
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Windsor in Pictures: July 17, 2014
The Windsor Star’s award-winning photographers covered the city and county yesterday. Check out the gallery. The town of LaSalle officially opened a new pickle ball court on Thursday, July 17, 2014, at...
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Photos: Bonduelle blaze
The Star’s Dan Janisse and Nick Brancaccio were on the scene of the massive fire at the Bonduelle canning plant in Tecumseh Friday morning. TECUMSEH, ONTARIO- JULY 18, 2014 – An aerial view of the...
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Photos: Fire at the Green Giant plant in 1973
On October 12, 1973, a massive fire ravaged the former Green Giant food processing plant in Tecumseh. The fire reportedly broke out in one of the factory’s warehouses and caused $10 million in damage,...
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Fire raises concerns over Bonduelle plans to build housing for migrant...
About 45 temporary foreign workers could soon be living a stone’s throw from the spot where fire tore through the Bonduelle plant on Friday, if a rezoning proposal with Tecumseh town hall goes through....
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Bonduelle: ‘We can rebuild’ (With video)
The Tecumseh vegetable processing plant ravaged by a massive fire early Friday will be back up and running as soon as possible, company officials said after learning their production facility was...
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Videos: Blaze Guts Bonduelle Plant In Tecumseh
TECUMSEH, ONTARIO- JULY 18, 2014 – An aerial view of the Bonduelle plant fire taken approximately 13 hours after it started in Tecumseh, Ont. on Friday, July 18, 2014. (DAN JANISSE/The Windsor Star)
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Windsor Weekend in Pictures: July 19-20, 2014
The Windsor Star’s reporters and photographers covered the city and county this weekend. Check out the gallery. Participants in The Color Run 5k soak up the coloured dye along Windsor’s riverfront,...
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Windsor in Pictures: July 21, 2014
The Windsor Star’s award-winning photographers covered the city and county yesterday. Check out the gallery. Jim Oakley on the Colchester Guardian rescue boat, which is moored in Colchester Harbour and...
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Part One: The Rivers that run through it: A basin of toxins (With video)
Blooms of blue-green algae spread across Lake Erie late every summer like a plague of slime, the vivid green coating so thick its soup-like texture can be seen from space. Those who ingest it suffer...
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Down to the wire to find four host families for Japanese students
Organizers set to welcome 70 Japanese students Sunday from Windsor’s twin city Fujisawa have just days to find four more host families. “I’m very nervous right now,” homestay coordinator Deborah Wilds...
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Windsor in Pictures: July 22, 2014
The Windsor Star’s award-winning photographers covered the city and county yesterday. Check out the gallery. Moms Brandy Vaillancourt, left, and Phyllis MacIntyre have teamed up to launch a new...
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Amherstburg man wins $250,000 Lottario prize
An Amherstburg resident is a quarter-million dollars richer after winning the July 12 Lottario draw. Nelson St. John has won $250,000, purchasing his winning ticket at Super Plus Convenience on Fryer...
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