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Windsor in Pictures: Feb. 29, 2016
Windsor Star’s award-winning photographers covered the city and county Monday. Check out the gallery. A flight simulator is pictured in the Robotics and Aeronautics program at Assumption High School,...
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Hospice partners with Shoppers to boost wellness programs
For years, Sheila Nayar and her family struggled to cope with her significant health issues. Getting to endless doctor’s appointments and dialysis treatments was wearing down her husband and daughter....
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New rules bring cheaper cable and satellite prices
There’s a cheaper option for cable in Windsor — but it’s not clear yet whether that’ll convince customers to give up the antennas that may just get them more stations. Under new rules adopted last year...
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Catholic school board hears pitch to turn Assumption into a JK-Gr. 12 school
Arguing two feeder schools are better than one, the parent councils for St. James and St. John Catholic Elementary Schools presented a joint plan that would see Assumption Secondary School become a...
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Windsor in Pictures: March 1, 2016
Windsor Star’s award-winning photographers covered the city and county Tuesday. Check out the gallery. Mayor Drew Dilkens listens while Gordon Orr, CEO, Tourism Windsor Essex Pelee Island, speaks at a...
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Camera dispute headed to arbitration
A dispute over the placement of video and audio recording equipment in Essex County ambulances is finally headed to arbitration. In May 2015, a decision was made to place the devices in 28 of the EMS...
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Windsor in Pictures: March 2, 2016
Windsor Star’s award-winning photographers covered the city and county Wednesday. Check out the gallery. Mike Provost, 62, is pictured with his notes on the Windsor Hum in his home in Sandwich,...
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Serve French's ketchup at Queen's Park, demands Natyshak
When there’s ketchup on the table in Ontario’s halls of power, it should only be French’s brand. So believes Taras Natyshak. The New Democrat MPP for Essex is launching a petition that demands the...
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Local Sports Roundup: Express rally to beat Lightning 119-112
Express rally The Windsor Express trailed by 18 points at one point, but rallied for a 119-112 win over the London Lightning Thursday for the club’s fourth-straight win and sixth in the last seven...
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Windsor in Pictures: March 3, 2016
Windsor Star’s award-winning photographers covered the city and county Thursday. Check out the gallery. A media conference was held on Thursday, March 3, 2016, detailing the upcoming Windsor...
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Our politicians are failing Windsor-Essex
Re: Budget overlooks Windsor, by Carolyn Thompson, Feb. 26. How many people have been elected in Windsor-Essex County to represent our interest? I assume that they have staff and assets for use in...
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Windsor, Essex County come together at Warden's Luncheon
As warden of Essex County, Tom Bain used his annual state of the county address to call for greater cooperation and collaboration with the city of Windsor. As Mayor Drew Dilkens sat in the audience...
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Essex house fire causes $50,000 in damage
An Essex house fire caused $50,000 in damage Friday morning. The blaze broke out mid-morning at a house in the 100 block of Maidstone Avenue. There were no injuries. Essex County OPP closed Maidstone...
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Queen's Park will likely switch to French's ketchup by April
By April, the ketchup that Ontario’s political elite squirt on their hotdogs in the halls of power will likely be made with Leamington’s finest. The company that handles food service at Queen’s Park...
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Local Roundup: University of Windsor's Bellemore named track and field MVP
University of Windsor Lancers’ middle-distance runner Corey Bellemore and head coach Brett Lumley picked up OUA track and field awards Friday. The 21-year-old Bellemore, a Riverside high school...
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Wheatley chainsaw carver's new course the buzz of ElderCollege
Heather Mallaby was scared of chainsaws and had only used one once before the chainsaw artist in her emerged in the roar and the flying wood chips of creative carving. “I thought of chainsaws only as...
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Camera dispute headed to arbitration
A dispute over the placement of video and audio recording equipment in Essex County ambulances is finally headed to arbitration. In May 2015, a decision was made to place the devices in 28 of the EMS...
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Want to borrow some seeds? Forest Glade Library launching seed lending
Pride and Prejudice. Lord of the Rings. Cherry tomato seeds. You’ll soon be able to borrow seeds along with books at the Forest Glade Library. “It’s probably the most unusual thing we’re lending at...
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French's ketchup just part of the Leamington processing tomato comeback
The hoopla over French’s ketchup at Queen’s Park is good news for Leamington tomato growers who are rebounding after the Heinz closure. But there are more ways you can be sure you’re eating locally...
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Windsor Weekend In Pictures: March 5-6, 2016
Windsor’s Hayden McCool, left, dumps the puck up the ice in front of Kingston’s Stephen Desrocher during OHL at the WFCU Centre, Sunday, March 6, 2016. Families wait in line to taste taffy in snow at...
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