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Sat, 09 Jan 2021 02:41:50 +0000Video and Photos: Snoopy encourages neighbourhood readers
Check out Nick Brancaccio’s video of Adrian Lancop’s Snoopy library stand on Linwood Crescent in Amherstburg. Lancop swaps out the entire book inventory with new books every week and area residents are welcome to take books free of charge...
Sat, 09 Jan 2021 02:36:29 +0000Lake Erie, St. Clair levels down slightly from a year ago
Water levels for Lake Erie and Lake St. Clair remain dangerously high but they’re down slightly from where they were a year ago. The first update by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for 2021 says the average water level for January on Lake St. ...
Sat, 09 Jan 2021 02:33:06 +0000Photographer Nick Brancaccio's best news photos of 2020
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Sat, 09 Jan 2021 02:33:03 +0000Year in review — 2020 through the lens of news photographer Dax Melmer
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Sat, 09 Jan 2021 01:54:26 +0000Windsor police seek arson suspect
Windsor police are looking for an arson suspect who fled the scene of a fire Thursday morning in a dark-coloured sedan. Patrol officers responded to a call about a fire in the 1400 block of Lillian Avenue around 7:45 a.m. Firefighters extinguished th...
Sat, 09 Jan 2021 01:34:42 +0000Local group distributes care packages to newcomers, vulnerable
Hundreds of local newcomers, the elderly, low-income families and those with disabilities are getting care packages to help them through this challenging time. The first 50 “family care essentials packages” were distributed Friday by the ...
Sat, 09 Jan 2021 01:26:52 +0000Health unit reports 12 more deaths, soaring COVID-19 case rate
Twelve more residents of Windsor and Essex County have lost their lives to COVID-19 as case counts in the region remain sky-high. The Windsor-Essex County Health Unit on Friday reported 10 of the people whose deaths were reported that morning were re...
Sat, 09 Jan 2021 01:16:26 +0000Labour dispute threatens production at Windsor Assembly Plant
A Windsor judge has temporarily denied FCA Canada’s bid to get a court injunction ordering Unifor Local 444 to remove a barricade at the Windsor Assembly Plant. The company argued Friday that the labour dispute threatens local vehicle production be...
Sat, 09 Jan 2021 00:46:35 +0000Holy Names product McGarrell takes risk and lands an NCAA scholarship
With the COVID-19 pandemic raging and shutting down most sports, Cyrus McGarrell could simply have accepted the reality. McGarrell dreamed of earning an NCAA scholarship, but missed much of his senior high school football season with the Holy Names K...
Sat, 09 Jan 2021 00:33:34 +0000Top doc 'disturbed' by improper distribution of COVID vaccine in Windsor-Essex
The medical officer of health for Windsor-Essex called out some local health-care leaders on Friday for a potentially unethical rollout of the COVID-19 vaccine to people whose turn for the jab may not have yet arrived. While some long-term care home ...