Alex Dale, the interpretation officer with Fort Malden National Historic Site of Canada, plays the flute during the Fort Malden Guild of Arts & Crafts (Gibson Gallery) AGM last Saturday. The Fort Malden Guild of Arts and Crafts held its annual general meeting (AGM) on the weekend and went over the year that was and plans ahead for 2026. The guild is the board that operates the Gibson Gallery, the local art gallery located at 140 Richmond St. in Amherstburg. Members and board

A festival that has become known for happening in January is being moved to the summer instead. The TRUE Festival has not appeared on the town’s tourism website at www.visitamherstburg.ca , prompting some concern and questions from people wanting to know what happened to it.  The tourism department made it known Friday with a social media post that the event isn’t cancelled, it’s just being moved to a different time of year. “All events are impacted by weather but winter even

Ken Johnston points to one of the Underground Railroad routes he walked on. Johnston walked another route in late December/early January with a stop being the Amherstburg Freedom Museum. A Philadelphia-based man headed out over the holiday season on another “Walk to Freedom” and made Amherstburg one of his stops. Ken Johnston’s latest walk, which retraces steps on the Underground Railroad, included a stop at the Amherstburg Freedom Museum Dec. 28. Johnston, described as a “wa