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Parkway leaders unveil final designs for green space, trails
Almost lost amid the controversy over construction and safety elements of the $1.4-billion Herb Gray Parkway has been plans for an array of new trails, ponds and parkland which project leaders are...
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Salvation Army charity soldier must be seen, not heard (With video)
Jingle all the way — except in Zehrs. A dedicated Salvation Army volunteer has lost her jingle bells after a Grinchy President’s Choice bank employee repeatedly complained the ringing caused her...
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Close to $1B in city assets listed in poor to ‘unacceptable’ condition
Hundreds of millions of dollars worth of municipal assets in Windsor — everything from roads and sewers to bridges and buildings — are in “unacceptable condition,” with some assets showing “signs of...
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Cardiac arrest survivors beat the odds
ESSEX — Every Friday when Sean Sawyer enters the WFCU Centre to play pickup hockey he gives Rose Wood, the clerk at the front desk, a hug. Last year, Wood saved his life. On Jan. 12, 2012, Sawyer...
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Dairy farmer remembered as community leader
Charlie Diemer’s life, one of the few local farmers inducted into the Ontario Agricultural Hall of Fame, will be remembered Friday at his funeral in Essex. The well-known Woodslee dairy farmer died...
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Personal support workers strike Red Cross Care Partners
Fifty two personal support workers in Windsor went on strike Wednesday as part of a provincewide job action by 4,500 members of the Service Employees International Union Healthcare. The local personal...
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Lev Tahor children stay put for now
The fundamentalist Jewish group Lev Tahor, which recently moved to Chatham to avoid a Quebec court order removing 14 children, will have two more weeks before finding out if their families can remain...
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Former Windsor gymnastics assistant faces sexual allegations
A trial is underway for a former assistant at a Windsor tumbling gym who has been accused of making sexual advances on two of the gym’s underage female athletes. Joel Dennis Bondy, 24, was calm but...
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Final arguments begin in snowmobile death trial
Final arguments in the trial of an Amherstburg man charged with impaired driving causing the death of a teenage mom in a snowmobile crash began Thursday with the Crown urging the judge to rely on...
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Leamington man arrested after two-month child porn probe
A child pornography probe that began in Toronto came to a head Thursday in Leamington when three police forces raided a home and arrested a suspect. Peter Klassen, 41, is charged with two counts of...
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Funeral set for Leamington’s Dean Tiessen
The funeral for a prominent Leamington business man murdered during a robbery in Brazil will take place Monday. Dean Tiessen, 46, president of New Energy Farms, was shot and killed Saturday. He had...
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Windsor police take Lock It Or Lose it message to the people
Windsor police kicked off their Lock It Or Lose It campaign Thursday by taking the message straight to Christmas shoppers. Police services across the province participate in the campaign, which is...
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LaSalle’s new town hall at least seven months behind scheduled opening
Scheduling troubles between the project’s contractor and his subtrades has led to a delay of at least seven more months for completion of LaSalle’s new $12.2-million civic complex which was to open...
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County to spend $290 million on road maintenance over 25 years
Despite needing to replace 45 per cent of its 712 kilometres of roads, Essex County’s infrastructure is in good shape, county officials said Thursday. Over the next 25 years the County of Essex will...
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Makers of reject girders need to pay what they owe, says Hatfield
MPP Percy Hatfield (NDP — Windsor-Tecumseh) is adding his voice to those concerned about the unpaid local bills of the makers of the rejected parkway girders. Almost all the materials that...
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Canada Post to consult communities as home delivery phased out
It’s hard to find someone who is truly surprised by Canada Post’s announcement that they’re phasing out home delivery in urban centres. “I’ve seen this probably coming for years because people aren’t...
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Outlawed junk food means dramatic sales drop at high school cafeterias
Curly fries — the Grade 12 students at Holy Names recall them fondly from Grade 9, before all foods deep fried and junky were outlawed from Ontario’s high school cafeterias. “In Grade 9, the food was...
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City public works boss moves to parkway
City solicitor George Wilkki won’t be the only top city manager bidding adieu to the Corporation of Windsor at Monday’s last council meeting of the year. Executive director of operations Mike Palanacki...
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Salvation Army fundraiser removed from the frontlines after jingle bell...
A Salvation Army fundraiser who made noise about being stripped of her bells – because someone complained the jingling caused mental anguish – is no longer collecting money for the charity. Rhoda...
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