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Wed, 17 Feb 2021 01:57:33 +0000
High school community hours harder to come by
Students in their final year of high school are still expected to perform community service as a requirement for graduation despite the restrictions on community events by the COVID-19 pandemic. Normally, students are required to log 40 hours of comm...

Wed, 17 Feb 2021 01:51:25 +0000
Photos: Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow!
           

Wed, 17 Feb 2021 01:50:43 +0000
Leamington OPP investigate residential fire
Ontario Provincial Police are seeking information following a fire in Leamington Monday morning. Emergency personnel were called to the 100 block of Talbot Street East at approximately 4:20 a.m. in regards to a residential fire. Leamington Fire Servi...

Wed, 17 Feb 2021 01:32:23 +0000
Windsor Regional Hospital ramping up elective surgeries
As COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations decline, Windsor Regional Hospital has increased the number of elective surgeries being performed, reaching about 75-per-cent capacity over the last two to three weeks, according to the chief of staff. Hospital ...

Wed, 17 Feb 2021 01:10:17 +0000
Proposed city budget earmarks $6M for diversification strategy
Two weeks after unanimously approving Windsor Works, council will deliberate Monday over a 2021 budget that includes $6 million to begin implementing the ambitious economic diversification blueprint. “I take from the vote and the length of the ...

Wed, 17 Feb 2021 01:04:13 +0000
Businesses excited to fling doors open again to welcome customers
In a year that has been anything but normal, Taloola Café co-owner Rosemary Woods felt a slight twinge of just that when she popped into the café Tuesday morning and found some regulars in their usual spots. “It was a strange feeling,” admitted...

Wed, 17 Feb 2021 00:44:31 +0000
Group opposes eastward extension of Ganatchio Trail into Tecumseh
The project to extend Ganatchio Trail into Tecumseh will have more details in coming months. Meanwhile, a new website - ReThinkTheTrail.ca - says it's a bad idea.

Wed, 17 Feb 2021 00:03:24 +0000
7-Eleven convenience stores hope to begin serving alcohol in Ontario
Hard to imagine for some, perhaps, but 7-Eleven Canada has applied under “public notice” with Ontario’s Alcohol and Gaming Commission to serve alcohol in dozens of its convenience stores across the province. A spokesman for the provincial agenc...

Tue, 16 Feb 2021 23:52:59 +0000
Jarvis: Rediscovering the joys of a true winter
Our friends, Chris and Johanna Beneteau, went tobogganing on Family Day. Just the two of them, no kids. They’re in their 50s. “Tried the Clark Griswold oil on the sled trick,” Chris texted, referring to the scene from National Lampo...

Tue, 16 Feb 2021 23:44:19 +0000
Duncan new head coach of Saints' baseball team after Cooper steps aside
Roberto Duncan knows he is replacing a legend in the dugout as the new head coach of the St. Clair Saints’ varsity baseball team. The 27-year-old Duncan, who had been an assistant coach with the team, assumed the new role on Tuesday when the school...



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