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Verbatim: LaSalle Mayor Ken Antaya's missive to Hilary Payne
Hilary Just read your most recent letter to the editor forwarded to the Star. Disappointed. Is this what the County/City relationship has been reduced to? Rather than speak to each other, you have...
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Leamington taxes up 1.5 per cent; need to keep momentum going, mayor says
Leamington taxes are going up 1.5 per cent. That means an urban resident with a house assessed at $175,000 will pay almost $30 more this year for the municipal portion of their tax bill. Rural...
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New wetlands help wildlife in region that lost 95% of original wetlands
Essex County is getting five new wetlands. The ponds are up to two acres in size and although 10 new acres split between wetlands and surrounding habitat that may not sound like much, it’s important in...
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Jarvis: No need for diplomacy
“Childish,” “amateurish,” “classless,” LaSalle Mayor Ken Antaya calls city Coun. Hilary Payne. Watch out or we’ll “start asking … embarrassing questions in public,” he threatens. It’s snarling. It’s...
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Windsor in Pictures: Feb. 4, 2016
Windsor Star’s award-winning photographers covered the city and county Thursday. Check out the gallery. Second annual Polar Plunge for Special Olympics in partnership with area police services and St....
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LaSalle Mayor Ken Antaya slams Hilary Payne for 'childish' and 'classless...
In an invective-laced email sent to city Coun. Hilary Payne, LaSalle Mayor Ken Antaya slams the Windsor politician for using the media to launch a “classless attack” against the county, an “amateurish”...
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Amherstburg makes contract final offer
The strike deadline for the Town of Amherstburg’s unionized workers has been extended following a marathon bargaining session that ended with town officials submitting a “final offer.” International...
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Video: Brentwood Lottery winner picks up keys for dream home
Brentwood Lottery winner Angel Gerard picked up the keys for her dream home Friday afternoon. “The house is beautiful,” the Windsor Chrysler worker said. Gerard received the keys for the $322,050...
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Facing long wait for funding, family pays $3,700 monthly for son's autism...
Christina and Tim Heinrichs are looking at remortgaging their home to pay for an intensive, $3,700-a-month therapy for their autistic preschooler Myles, because early intervention is essential but...
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EMS hiring 4 paramedics to improve response times, help repeat ambulance users
Four paramedics will be hired this year so Essex-Windsor EMS can improve response times and help patients take care of themselves so they don’t need to call an ambulance. Windsor-Essex has about 12,000...
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County approves 1.88 per cent tax increase for 2016
County ratepayers will on average pay about $8.50 this year towards the proposed acute care hospital, after county council approved its 2016 budget. Rob Maisonville, director of corporate services,...
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Future of Leamington harness racing in doubt
The future of local harness horse racing is threatened by a London-area proposal to shut down the industry in Leamington, Sarnia and Dresden. The plan, promoted by four London horse trainers, calls for...
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Gala: 2016 Big Top Kids Gala
The 2014 Under the Big Top Kids Gala was held at the Caboto Club in Windsor Friday, Feb. 5, 2016. The event featured magicians, acrobats, musicians and food. Money raised from the gala went towards the...
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Windsor In Pictures: February 5, 2016
The The St. Clair Saints Shannon Kennedy drives to the net against the Lampton College Lions at the St. Clair College SportsPlex in Windsor on Friday, Feb. 5, 2016. The The St. Clair Saints Jalynn...
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Ojibway natural heritage is irreplaceable
As educators in Essex County, we are extremely concerned with the potential loss of a unique and irreplaceable part of our natural heritage. The intentional destruction of the Ojibway grasslands to...
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Windsor Weekend In Pictures: February 6-7, 2016
Fathers are pictured with their newborn babies, from left, Nick Boudreau and Hadley, Joe Tetreault and Briar, Alex Vernon and ‘baby’ Vernon, , Mehsen Baberaldien and Hassan, and Adam Verbeem and...
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LaSalle's Antaya on vacation but still connected to town business
LaSalle Mayor Ken Antaya may physically be far away from town but he insists that he’s never out of touch. “As far as taking vacation, years ago the only way you would be able to contact somebody was...
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Paczki Day comes once a year: 'People love this' says Lakeside Bakery owner
Lakeside Bakery in Leamington will deliver 3,600 paczki Tuesday morning to schools and not one will have the Polish pastry’s traditional filling. Prunes aren’t a big hit with grade schoolers. Paczki by...
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Lakeshore receives $50,000 grant for energy study of Atlas Tube Centre
The Town of Lakeshore has received a $50,000 grant to conduct a Combined Heat and Power engineering study aimed at reducing the energy costs at the Atlas Tube Centre. The grant comes from the Save on...
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School projects receive funding
A project to make tote bags for Syrian refugees is among six elementary school projects chosen to receive $500 from the WindsorEssex Community Foundation’s KidStart Grant program. The Young...
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