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Sat, 02 Jan 2021 02:17:39 +0000
Health unit criticized for delays in vaccinating long-term care residents
Criticism that the vaccination of long-term care residents is taking too long to start and potentially costing lives prompted the local health unit to respond Friday with assurances it is moving as fast as it can. The Moderna vaccine arrived at the W...

Sat, 02 Jan 2021 00:28:37 +0000
Jarvis: 'I wanted everybody to see'
It was Christmas Eve, and 96-year-old Aline Harrison sat in her wheelchair, wet and filthy, in her room at The Village at St. Clair long-term care home. There was spilled food on her shirt and pants and smeared across the tray attached to her wheelch...

Sat, 02 Jan 2021 00:00:33 +0000
Lakeshore enters 2021 as a municipality
At the stroke of midnight on New Year’s Eve, the Town of Lakeshore became the Municipality of Lakeshore. “People are not going to see any big change,” said Mayor Tom Bain. “It’s just a name change. “There really should be no difference wh...

Fri, 01 Jan 2021 23:28:39 +0000
Downtown bars offer home delivery of poutine, beer — and live music
It’s dinner and a show, delivered to your doorstep. Phog Lounge and Meteor, two downtown Windsor music venues, are upping the ante on home delivery by offering a side of live music with food and beer orders. When customers buy one of three poutine ...

Fri, 01 Jan 2021 23:13:52 +0000
Windsor Regional Hospital welcomes city's first baby of 2021
A bit of joy was ushered in on New Year’s Day at Windsor Regional Hospital. Lia Valantana Cerrascu Gutierrez was the first baby born at the hospital in 2021. She arrived Friday at 12:42 a.m., weighing five pounds, 12 ounces. Mother Diana Gutier...

Fri, 01 Jan 2021 23:12:06 +0000
Fire crews battle city house blaze
Windsor Fire and Rescue Services crews responded Thursday night to a house fire in the 1100 block of Marion Avenue. No one was hurt. The residents were able to escape. In a photo tweeted from the scene, smoke could be seen rising from a second-storey...

Fri, 01 Jan 2021 23:10:28 +0000
New Year's Eve fire engulfs vacant house in Leamington
It took firefighters from Leamington and Kingsville more than four hours to extinguish a blaze at a house in Leamington on New Year’s Eve. The Leamington Fire Department was called to the house in the 700 block of Mersea Road 10 at about 11:30 ...

Fri, 01 Jan 2021 20:00:21 +0000
Remembering some of those we lost in 2020
The past year of being mired in a historic pandemic was a struggle in so many ways, on top of the loss of numerous noteworthy community members across Windsor-Essex County who died in 2020. On Jan. 8, Ukraine International Airline Flight PS752 was sh...

Fri, 01 Jan 2021 18:32:54 +0000
Capitol Theatre featured live in Ontario's New Year's Eve show
The historic Capitol Theatre in downtown Windsor was centre stage in a provincewide celebration of Ontario and front-line health-care workers on New Year’s Eve. “So many of these big specials gravitate towards major cities like Toronto, V...

Thu, 31 Dec 2020 22:06:10 +0000
Free city child care available next week for front-line workers
Free emergency child care will be available next week for local health-care employees and other front-line workers. The City of Windsor said the province has provided funding for targeted emergency child care for school-aged children. The free child ...



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