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Labour leader Farao honoured with Charles E. Brooks award
Theresa Farao, who won the Charles E. Brooks Labour Community Service Award on Friday night, says the prize inspires her to do even more in the community. “I’m overwhelmed and excited,” said Farao, the...
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Summit gives teens the tools for mental health
Lionel Sanders believes it’s important to go after your dreams — no matter how impossible they may seem. When Sanders was in high school he started smoking pot and by university had turned to harder...
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Group meets with government official to save Harrow high school
There were no promises made over the planned closure of Harrow District High School, but a pair of high-ranking provincial government bureaucrats in the area Monday said they would report back to...
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Amherstburg delays budget talks to allow for more public input
Amherstburg council postponed budget deliberations scheduled to start Tuesday with a contentious recorded vote taken at Monday night’s meeting. Coun. Joan Courtney asked for a postponement to allow the...
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Wheels of Hope: Sunbeam raising awareness for cancer patient ride program
Gail Harper was taking the train to London for her cancer treatments or trying to get rides from friends before she found the Canadian Cancer Society’s Wheels of Hope. The 79-year-old Windsor woman,...
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Windsor in Pictures: Nov. 23, 2015
The Windsor Star’s award-winning photographers covered the city and county Monday. Check out the gallery. WECDSB high school students take part in the 2nd annual Windsor Essex Youth Mental Health...
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City relieved federal refugee plan spreads out arrivals to February 2016
Windsor got some breathing room Tuesday as the federal government announced it is backing off its promise to bring 25,000 Syrian refugees to Canada by year’s end. “At least it’s not 25,000 all at...
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Catholic board posts $5-million surplus for 2014-15 school year
The Windsor-Essex Catholic District School Board finished the 2014-15 school year with a surplus of about $5 million according to the audited budget figures presented to trustees at Tuesday’s board...
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Catholic school board to continue to push for new Catholic Central at arena site
The Windsor-Essex Catholic District School Board will to continue to push for a new Catholic Central High School on the Windsor Arena site despite having funding for the project turned down by the...
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Cleaning contract for LaSalle's police services extended
LaSalle councillors approved a nearly five-year extension of its contract with Krautner Janitorial for cleaning services at the town’s police services building. Krautner has been under contract with...
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Windsor in Pictures: Nov. 24, 2015
Windsor Star’s award-winning photographers covered the city and county Tuesday. Check out the gallery. Portrait of Susan White who has been a volunteer driver for the Canadian Cancer Society Wheels of...
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LaSalle hires firm to investigate drainage, flooding issues
Stantec Consulting Ltd. has been awarded a $106,000 contract to investigate drainage issues in the Heritage Estates and Oliver Farms areas of LaSalle. Dozens of homes in the northeast corner of the...
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Development charges set to rise in LaSalle
The cost of building a house in LaSalle is about to increase as council prepares to pass a bylaw boosting development charges. Administration has proposed raising the fee for new single and...
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Students collect more than 2-million grams of cereal
They’re gonna need a lot of milk. Students at Talbot Trail, Bellwood, Glenwood, Central, Southwood and McWilliam public schools participated in the 13th annual Cereal Box Challenge collecting 2,029,900...
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Windsor in Pictures: Nov. 25, 2015
Windsor Star’s award-winning photographers covered the city and county Wednesday. Check out the gallery. Transport truck accident scene on Highway 401 near Tilbury, Ont. on Nov. 25, 2015. An Ornge air...
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Air ambulance takes one person to hospital after tractor-trailer collision on...
A noon-hour crash involving three transport trucks shut down Highway 401 near Bloomfield Road for several hours Wednesday. One of the truck drivers was transported to hospital via air ambulance with...
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Lakeshore boy collects 2,040 cans from Bonduelle for food drive
When Daniel Whitehead’s mom, Erica, was a child, her family had to use a food bank. That thought was in Daniel’s mind Thursday as he dropped off a donation of 2,040 cans to the Unemployed Help Centre....
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Windsor in Pictures: Nov. 25, 2015
Windsor Star’s award-winning photographers covered the city and county Thursday. Check out the gallery. World-class surfer Eric Silverman tests the Flowrider at Adventure Bay Family Water Park on...
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American Thanksgiving dinner in Cottam has become community celebration
Seventy years after a group of grateful Cottam farmers decided to stage a Thanksgiving dinner in appreciation of their American customers who stopped at their roadside stands all summer, the event has...
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Windsor ranks 38th out of 81 in national safe driving study
Windsor has moved up in the ranking of safe cities to drive in, according to Allstate Canada’s analysis of company collision claims spanning two years. Windsor moves up rankings, but accidents rise...
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