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Sat, 08 May 2021 00:20:02 +0000
Health unit recommends safe Mother's Day activities as COVID cases decline
The medical officer of health for Windsor-Essex is again asking residents to celebrate Mother’s Day while adhering to public health measures, despite a continued drop in COVID-19 cases and ongoing vaccine rollout. The current provincial stay-at...

Fri, 07 May 2021 23:36:17 +0000
Four charged with stunt driving in Windsor
Four drivers had their licences suspended and vehicles impounded Wednesday after Windsor police caught them allegedly stunt driving in the city. An officer with the traffic enforcement unit monitoring roadways in Windsor’s south end — where t...

Fri, 07 May 2021 23:33:21 +0000
Jarvis: 'People are dying all over the world, and we're not able to use the vaccine'
“This is crazy!” one reader vented. We’re being offered thousands of surplus COVID-19 vaccine doses in Detroit. But we can’t get to them. Vials are expiring and being thrown out. But we can’t get to them. Pharmacists fro...

Fri, 07 May 2021 23:17:38 +0000
Ojibway Park to be closed a few days for asphalt repairs
Ojibway Park will be closed to visitors for three days during the daytime hours to allow city crews to conduct asphalt repairs. The park will be closed to the public from Monday through Wednesday between the hours of 7 a.m. and 4 p.m. The city is sug...

Fri, 07 May 2021 23:13:39 +0000
CMHA helps man deal with grief of wife's death in COVID-19 world
As signs of the looming COVID-19 pandemic became increasingly apparent in March of 2020, Quentin Burgess experienced the first major loss of his life. Lois, 48, his bride of three decades and mother of his two daughters, succumbed to liver cancer aft...

Fri, 07 May 2021 22:50:54 +0000
Broadband improvements in county get under way
More than 540 homes and businesses in Essex County are one step closer to fast, reliable internet access with the beginning of construction of broadband infrastructure, it was announced on Friday. The federal and provincial governments are looking to...

Fri, 07 May 2021 22:32:21 +0000
Local mental health programs receive stable government funding
An urgent care pilot project at the Crisis and Mental Wellness Centre designed to quickly assess and assist patients with ongoing mental health and addiction issues will become a permanent program thanks to funding from the provincial government. Sta...

Fri, 07 May 2021 22:15:56 +0000
Cynthia's Flowers bring bittersweet joy on Mother's Day
Dan Brown took the dread and sorrow of spending his first Mother’s Day without his mom and channelled it into Cynthia’s Flowers, a fundraiser for programming to assist children with their own grief and loss. Brown’s mom, Cynthia Brown, passed a...

Fri, 07 May 2021 21:47:21 +0000
Unifor 'ecstatic' with arbitration win over Nemak plant closure
Auto parts manufacturer Nemak violated its collective agreement with Unifor Local 200 when the company closed its Windsor Aluminum Casting Plant and moved the work to Mexico last year, an arbitrator has ruled. Arbitrator Norm Jesin on Thursday direct...

Fri, 07 May 2021 21:38:06 +0000
Police investigating fire at vacant west end house
A midday house fire in Sandwich Friday has sparked a Windsor police investigation. Windsor Fire and Rescue Services crews responded to a fire in the 3500 block of Peter Street at around noon. The house, which is boarded up, remained alight until sho...



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