Music teacher Randy Lefrancois conducts the North Star High School band during a concert they presented in the school’s gymnasium April 30. The 2025-26 band at North Star High School are entering the home stretch and showed their skills last week. The band’s final in-school concert of the year took place April 30 in the school’s gymnasium. Parents, grandparents, siblings and other supporters of the band and its members were on hand to listen to nearly one hour of music that t

Mason Hillier shows his “Captain America” artwork. Student art was on exhibit and the subject of judging in a friendly art exposition last week in McGregor. École Sainte Ursule held its second annual student art exposition last Thursday evening where the artwork was displayed and parents, grandparents, guardians and students went around with clipboards scoring the entries. Jessica VandenBrink, a Grade 6/7 teacher at the French Catholic elementary school, said the event stems

Meghan Desjardins (left) and Cindy Lemieux from the River Bookshop were part of the Book Store Crawl that took place last weekend. The Amherstburg store joined other independent book stores for the crawl. Canadian Independent Book Store Day was April 25 and that meant open doors and lots of visitors to the regions bookstores. To celebrate, Amherstburg’s River Bookshop took part in the first ever Book Store Crawl that started Friday and wrapped up last Sunday. “A few of the st