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Christmas ornaments created to help fight cancer
Since May of this year, 12-year-old Olla Hilal has been spending countless hours making Christmas ornaments. Her motivation was simple. In 2012, her grandfather was diagnosed with an aggressive form of...
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Amherstburg councillors consider modest tax hike
A three-day scrutiny of Amherstburg’s proposed 2016 budget by town councillors will leave residents facing a modest tax increase if it’s formally adopted in two weeks. Council wrapped up deliberations...
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Windsor in Pictures: Dec. 2, 2015
Windsor Star’s award-winning photographers covered the city and county Wednesday. Check out the gallery. Peter Roth, Mayor Drew Dilkens, Marty Komsa and Rakesh Naidu, interm CEO, (left to right)...
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Public board support staff reach tentative deal
Support staff at the Greater Essex County District School Board have reached a tentative deal, ending a work-to-rule campaign begun in October. Affected support staff include educational assistants,...
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Jarvis: Do you want the good news or the bad news?
More than $2 million — almost the entire budget of the WindsorEssex Economic Development Corporation — left idle in a reserve account in a city with 10 per cent unemployment. And the corporation, which...
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Soaring hydro costs could force businesses to flee Ontario, chamber warns
Windsor and other Ontario municipalities could suffer an exodus of businesses unless the province addresses soaring electricity costs, a senior official with the Ontario Chamber of Commerce warned...
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Mapping out defibrillator locations will help save lives, paramedics say
Paramedics believe they can dramatically improve the survival chances for the hundreds of people who suffer cardiac arrest each year by knowing all the arenas, halls, workplaces, malls and schools...
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Windsor in Pictures: Dec. 3, 2015
Windsor Star’s award-winning photographers covered the city and county Thursday. Check out the gallery. A Windsor police officer aims his gun at a Park Street apartment where a man was arrested after a...
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Windsor in Pictures: Dec. 8, 2015
Windsor Star’s award-winning photographers covered the city and county Tuesday. Check out the gallery. Award-winning farmers Neal Huber, left, and his father, Don Huber, at their Harrow area farm Dec....
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Economic report predicts lower unemployment rate, higher home values
It may not be as much as they’d hoped, but a new report predicts more jobs coming to Windsor in the next two years. The Ontario Economic Update 2016, released by the Ontario Chamber of Commerce and the...
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Windsor in Pictures: Dec. 9, 2015
Windsor Star’s award-winning photographers covered the city and county Wednesday. Check out the gallery. Iren Varga of Canada Post loads packages on delivery truck during pre-Christmas period Wednesday...
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'Be a Santa to a Senior' spreads holiday cheer across Essex County
Over 800 isolated seniors across Windsor and Essex County will have the opportunity open gifts on Christmas Day. The Be a Santa to a Senior Program at Home Instead Senior Care in Windsor has collected...
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Re/Max makes Christmas brighter
For nearly 20 years, the agents and support staff at Re/Max Preferred Realty Ltd. have been giving back to the community. This year they raised over $5,000 through various events organized by their...
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Leamington in a fix over costly dike repairs
Leamington council voted this week to change the land use in the much-studied and debated former marshland north of Point Pelee. The municipality has been in a fix for about a decade over what to do...
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Farmer plans first county-based craft brewery
Karl Lonsbery is putting a new twist on farming. The seventh-generation farmer and CEO of Lonsbery Farms Brewing Co. in Harrow plans to establish the first farm-based craft brewery in Southwestern...
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Patch-for-patch program promoted as a lifesaver
Pharmacists, doctors and police believe the new fentanyl patch-for-patch bill passed this week is a major step towards dropping the prescription opioid overdose deaths in this region from 33 annually...
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Windsor in Pictures: Dec. 10, 2015
Windsor Star’s award-winning photographers covered the city and county Thursday. Check out the gallery. Dr. Gary Kirk, medical officer of health with the Windsor-Essex County Health Unit, made an...
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Fiat Chrysler Canada employees donate $1.17M to United Way
FCA Canada employees presented a donation Friday exceeding $1.176 million to the Windsor Essex United Way. The fundraising campaign exceeded last year’s total by $115,000, said Reid Bigland, FCA Canada...
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RCMP charge five in fraud scheme
RCMP have charged five Windsor and Essex County residents in connection with a $53,900 fraud scheme that duped 45 victims. The accused allegedly posted advertisements online for cottage rentals and...
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Windsor Weekend In Pictures: Dec. 12-13, 2015
WINDSOR, ON.: DECEMBER 12, 2015 — Malcolm Wright, 1, sits on Santa’s lap at the 5th annual Christmas Party at the Gino and Liz Marcus Community Centre, Saturday, Dec. 12, 2015. The party is put on by...
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