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Massive fire destroys Lakeshore home just months after couple moved in
A couple was left homeless Monday morning after a raging fire destroyed their new Lakeshore home. Firefighters had to haul in water to fight the blaze because the home was too far away from any fire...
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Multi-vehicle crash closes Howard Avenue in Amherstburg
Two people were taken to hospital with minor injuries following a crash in Amherstburg Monday night. The crash happened around 6:40 p.m. on Howard Avenue near Alma Street. Amherstburg police said two...
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Windsor agrees to chip in for $2-billion mega-hospital
Windsor taxpayers will pay their share of $200 million, split between the city and county, to help fund a new $2-billion mega-hospital. The details must still be worked out with the county, such as...
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Windsor in Pictures: Dec. 21, 2015
Windsor Star’s award-winning photographers covered the city and county Monday. Check out the gallery. Gord Drummond surveys the damage to his home at 3666 Queen St. on Monday, Dec. 21, 2015. A fire...
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Windsor in Pictures: Dec. 22, 2015
Windsor Star’s award-winning photographers covered the city and county Tuesday. Check out the gallery. OPP and towing operators arrive to assist with the clean up after a scrap hauler carrying...
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Windsor hospital to benefit from class-action lawsuit settlement
Cardiac programs at four Canadian hospitals — including one in Windsor — will split a pot of unclaimed money from a class-action settlement over potentially defective pacemakers and defibrillators....
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Dyslexia learning centre gets $2,000 donation
For nine years, the Scottish Rite Charitable Foundation of Canada, Windsor Learning Centre has been helping children with dyslexia. The centre received a donation of $2,014 Monday from Caesars Windsor...
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Winter weather finally hits Windsor
The nasty weather had to happen some time. But luckily, after a spring-like December, the wallop of winter weather that hit the Windsor area Monday evening isn’t supposed to last. Tuesday’s high should...
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Windsor event planner re-invents local food and lifestyle events
She’s won national and provincial awards for her events and conventions, but Teanna Lindsay still worries that people won’t show up to her party. “Of course!” said Lindsay, who is among Windsor-Essex’s...
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2015: The year that was in Windsor and Essex County
Jan. 1: Windsor’s first baby of the year makes his appearance at 12:07 a.m. at the Metropolitan Campus of Windsor Regional Hospital. The boy is the son of prominent local Rabbi Sholom Galperin and his...
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New hospital levy could start within months
Windsorites could begin paying a new hospital levy as early as July, while Essex County residents may end up chipping in even earlier. After Windsor city council voted in principle last week to pay its...
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Clock ticking on Brentwood lottery sales
This year’s Brentwood Lottery is down to its final days and still 5,000 tickets away from reaching last year’s sales. The Brentwood Recovery Home has until Thursday at midnight to sell tickets for its...
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New doctor feels government roadblocks hampering her return home to Windsor
Dr. Jackie Vandereerden says she’s having a heck of a time getting home to Windsor. When people here would learn she was going to medical school in London, “All I used to hear is: ‘Are you coming back...
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Some of the people Windsor and Essex County lost in 2015
A number of people who made their mark on Windsor and Essex County in important ways died in 2015. Here’s a look at their contributions to the community, based on reports through the year in The Star....
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This winter on ice for the record books
As far as Decembers go, 2015 has been one for the record books. It’s the warmest December ever recorded in Windsor and Essex County — and those records go back 75 years. This balmy December follows...
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On New Year's Eve, know how you'll get home before you ever leave
You could always stay sober on New Year’s Eve. But all joking aside, it’s a good idea to start thinking about how you’ll get home before raising that first glass. “The biggest message that we have is...
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Windsor in Pictures: Dec. 30, 2015
Windsor Star’s award-winning photographers covered the city and county Wednesday. Check out the gallery. A sold sign is displayed on a model home built by GINTAR homes in LaSalle, Ont. is pictured on...
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Ringing in the New Year: 2016 brings 'new beginnings, new adventures'
Fireworks, fun and frolicking in and on water in both its liquid and solid forms were some of the ways people welcomed the new year in Windsor and Essex County Thursday. LaSalle was the first to...
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Windsor in Pictures: Jan. 5, 2016
Windsor Star’s award-winning photographers covered the city and county Tuesday. Check out the gallery. Matt Cator is shown on Tuesday, Jan. 5, 2016, with some of the artistic tables he built. He...
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Updated: Leamington barn fire causes $300K in damages
A fire north of Point Pelee destroyed a barn containing excavation equipment Tuesday night and caused $300,000 worth of damage. “It was a total loss,” Leamington Fire Services Deputy Chief Mike Bradt...
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