Alzheimer's caregivers learn the tasks their spouses used to do
Gathered in the kitchen of Cottam’s Calabria Coastal Bistro are men learning new duties they never thought they’d do, like making Hollandaise sauce to go atop eggs Benedict and shopping for nutritious...
View ArticleWindsor in Pictures: March 23, 2016
Windsor Star’s award-winning photographers covered the city and county Wednesday. Check out the gallery. Wayne Ormshaw, right and partner Lee Vinten behind the bar of the old Michigan Roadhouse in...
View ArticleKingsville to recognize customer service heroes
Kingsville’s BIA believes there are heroes in its midst and it wants to recognize them. The group has launched a program to acknowledge employees of local businesses who offer exceptional customer...
View ArticleHearn scoops up another financially distressed golf course
It appears that businessman Don Hearn has financially rescued another area golf course that had fallen on hard times. Randy Duby, membership president of Fox Glen Golf Club, confirmed Thursday that...
View ArticleInteractive Viz: 2015 Windsor-Essex Sunshine List
The “Sunshine List” was released Thursday afternoon, listing Ontario public sector employees who made more than $100,000 in 2015.
View ArticleWindsor In Pictures: March 24-25, 2016
The hunt is on! An estimated 100 households and their pet canines took part in the annual Easter Egg Hunt for Dogs at Malden Park on March 25, 2016. Human participants in the annual Easter Egg Hunt for...
View ArticleCity asked to give $10K for OFSAA track championships: 'That's a bargain'
Approving $10,000 to help host the largest high school sporting event in Canada is a sports tourism bargain, says a city councillor who in recent months has criticized some bigger-ticket proposals to...
View ArticleWindsor in Pictures: March 28, 2016
Windsor Star’s award-winning photographers covered the city and county Monday. Check out the gallery. Peter Glass stands in his back yard that he claims floods each time it rains now due to the recent...
View ArticleHealth coalition holding town hall meeting to 'Stop the Cuts' at Windsor...
The Windsor Health Coalition is kicking off a Stop the Cuts campaign Thursday, holding a town hall meeting to protest the “devastating” impact of staffing cuts at Windsor Regional Hospital. “This is...
View ArticleWindsor in Pictures: March 29, 2016
Windsor Star’s award-winning photographers covered the city and county Tuesday. Check out the gallery. Patricia Thomas is shown at the Hotel-Dieu Grace Hospital Transitional Stability Centre on...
View ArticleHope fades for Windsor's Save Ojibway as big box store site preparation starts
Trees were uprooted and shredded while cranes and backhoes moved earth Wednesday just metres away from Windsor’s Ojibway Park. The tree removal along a gas line and the earth work are being done on...
View ArticleBrown-John: What does a county gov't do?
By Lloyd Brown-John I have great respect for Essex County Warden Tom Bain. Bain has been as fervent a spokesperson for the county has he has been level-headed about County-City obligations such as may...
View ArticleYoung cancer survivor will be Relay for Life ambassador
She’s only eight years old, but Abbey Sauve is a survivor. She was diagnosed with a brain tumour when she was 20 months old and has been in and out of hospitals ever since. But the third grader at St....
View ArticleLaSalle residents talk about flooding solutions
LaSalle residents got a look Wednesday at possible solutions for flooding problems in the Heritage Estates and Oliver Farms areas — ranging in price from $640,000 to $6.9 million. And it seems the...
View ArticleWindsor in Pictures: March 30, 2016
Windsor Star’s award-winning photographers covered the city and county Wednesday. Check out the gallery. Windsor police are investigating after finding bullet holes and bullet casings at a house on...
View ArticleConservation foundation honours major contributors
Photographer Eric Naylor, a lead donor on several Essex Region Conservation Foundation projects, was recognized with the Clifford Hatch award for outstanding individual contribution during the...
View ArticleStudents share their vision for Amherstburg's future
A restless group of Amherstburg teens got a chance this week to share their vision for the town’s future. Tired of going to Windsor as a source of youthful entertainment, a Grade 12 leadership class at...
View ArticleWindsor in Pictures: March 31, 2016
Windsor Star’s award-winning photographers covered the city and county Thursday. Check out the gallery. Denise St. Louis serves up soup during the 30th annual Heart and Stroke Foundation Great Soup...
View ArticleFunding for literacy organizations available
Windsor Star Raise-a-Reader (RAR) is accepting applications for funding from federally registered charities in Windsor & Essex County offering family literacy programs. Deadline for to apply is...
View ArticleHousing market still affordable, say local agents
First-time home buyers need not fear the Windsor-Essex red-hot real estate market, say local agents. Despite overall rising prices and bidding wars in sought-after areas, it’s still cheaper to buy than...
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