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Weekend in Pictures
The Windsor Star’s photographers and reporters covered the city and county this weekend. See the gallery. Kids enjoy the swing ride at the 2013 Windsor Summerfest, at the Riverfront Festival Plaza,...
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Whatever you call them, mayflies are in decline this year
When mayflies swarm your front porch, crunch under your feet or fly into your hair it is difficult to tell if they are in one of their less abundant years. But they likely are in a cyclical decline,...
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LIVE EVENT: Windsor Essex Annual Golf Tournament
Live event of the 77th Annual Golf Tournament hosted by the Windsor Essex Regional Chamber of Commerce. This tournament takes place at the Pointe West Golf Club in Amherstburg. View the story “LIVE...
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Weekend in Pictures
The Windsor Star’s team of photographers and reporters covered the city and county this weekend. See the gallery. The Horses for Hospice parade makes it’s way through Harrow as part of the Harrow Rock...
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Essex County plowing match Aug. 3 in Lakeshore
The Essex County plowing match will be held at a Lakeshore farm Aug. 3. The Essex County Plowmen’s Association unveiled a sign Wednesday advertising the event at the host farm of Paul and Mary Jane...
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Windsor in Pictures
The Windsor Star’s reporters and photographers covered the city and county on Friday. See the gallery. Maureen Jullion and Carol Tingle, right, both daughters of Jeannette Campeau, share some memories...
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Export a wine to import a buzz?
Like a Canadian star who had to make it big elsewhere before their career took off in Canada, Ontario’s wine industry needs to export more of its wines around the world, says a professor who has done a...
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LIVE EVENT: Tall Ships
Come see the Tall Ships event happening in Windsor, Amherstburg and Kingsville this weekend and check out the ships as they follow the Travel “Route 1812″. Families young and old are invited to attend...
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Cold, snowy winter ahead, says Farmers Almanac (With poll)
Expect a “biting cold” and snowy winter, says the Canadian Farmers’ Almanac. The almanac, which went on sale in late August, is predicting a snowy winter for Ontario and Quebec and a cold winter for...
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Elementary schools have locked down front doors to parents, outsiders
Windsor and Essex County parents are learning this week they can no longer walk straight into their children’s elementary schools. Security systems that include video cameras, intercoms and locked...
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Weekend in Pictures
The Windsor Star’s photographers and reporters covered the city and county this weekend. See the gallery. Irelyn Peacock, 5, digs into a bowl of vanilla ice cream with her half-brother, Colin Burke, 9,...
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A birding app for Windsor Essex
With the release of a couple of warblers and two sharp-shinned hawks, Tourism Windsor Essex Pelee Island launched the region’s first birding app Thursday. “I haven’t seen a lot of apps like this,”...
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Police ID victim of crash near Tilbury
Essex County OPP released the name Saturday of the woman who died Friday afternoon when the Dodge Neon she was driving slammed head-on into a Ford Mustang at County Road 46 and Richardson Side Road....
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Council to be asked to dish out $25,000 for culinary tourism
City council is being asked today to contribute $25,000 so Tourism Windsor-Essex Pelee Island can start marketing the region as a culinary destination. Rino Bortolin, owner of Rino’s Kitchen, says the...
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Breastfeeding needs support
Re: Breastfeeding moms get hotline, by Beatrice Fantoni, Oct. 4 A big thank you goes to Beatrice Fantoni and The Windsor Star for the article. Ontario mothers are fortunate that new government-funded...
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Budget-Eating Monster
Spiralling police costs are devouring the budgets again for the City of Windsor and the communities of Essex County. When are voters going to fight back and tame this monster? In the city, police...
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Vander Doelen: Regional Police Bogeyman
The spiralling costs of policing will make municipal budget talks miserable again this year, so you’d think local politicians would be searching for a solution. They are. But naturally they don’t see...
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$100 million available to small towns
Four of seven rural municipalities in Essex County will try to get a slice of a $100 million provincial fund for road, bridge and water projects. Lakeshore wants to snag $700,000 to replace the...
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Link to Literacy collected 6,134 books
On behalf of my 2013 Link to Literacy Children’s Book Drive, I would like to thank everyone in the Windsor/Essex County community who generously donated books this year. This literacy initiative...
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County rejects paying for Ontario Summer Games
County council rejected Wednesday a request from the City of Windsor to split the cost of the 2014 Ontario Summer Games, citing tight budgets, major policing expenses next year and community...
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