Amherstburg town hall. Town council put $200,000 into the capital budget prior to budget deliberations concluding to look at a local intersection. Budget deliberations wrapped up Dec. 9 with council landing on a 2.86 per cent tax rate increase. The intersection at Lowes Side Road and Sandwich St. S. will see the work have the funds drawn from the reserve. Councillor Diane Pouget said she still gets complaints on a regular basis of people trying to cross the street in that are

Amherstburg Town Hall. Town council has nearly doubled the amount earmarked for upgrades to H. Murray Smith Centennial Park as part of the 2026 budget, with the aim to improve the park next year. There was already over $500,000 from the 2025 budget that, thanks in part to the town not getting a provincial grant, went unused. Thanks to a pair of motions to redirect money from other capital budget items, $450,000 were put towards H. Murray Smith Centennial Park. Another $50,000

Town council has allocated its community grants for 2026 and spent the same amount of money as last year. As noted in the Dec. 10 issue of the River Town Times, the town is still dividing the $51,547 that was spent in 2025 among the same groups in 2026. With $2,000 already having been pre-committed to 2nd Amherstburg Scouting, it meant slight reductions to most of the others. Amherstburg Community Services (ACS) will go from $15,000 in 2025 to $13,612.50 in 2026. The Amherst