Amherstburg Town Hall. Town council and the public were recently updated on debt and costs related to the new fire hall and water treatment plant construction work. Deputy CAO/director of development services Melissa Osborne went over the borrowing bylaw and delegation of authority bylaw. Osborne said it was the next step in executing the debenture association with the new fire hall and the Amherstburg water treatment plant. “The fire hall has an approved capital budget of $1

Town council will send a list of proposals to the province on what to do with $500,000 from Diageo. Amherstburg town council will send a wish list to the province on what it would like to see the $500,000 in money from Diageo to be spent on. The money is part of a deal the Ontario government reached with Diageo after the Amherstburg bottling plant was closed. Invest Windsor-Essex also received $500,000 with portion of that money possibly coming to Amherstburg too. Mayor Micha

Extensive debate went into the new waterfront plaza during the May 25 town council meeting. The town has reduced the size of a potential opening ceremony for the waterfront festival plaza and will still explore a partnership with the Caldwell First Nations regarding a possible sculpture. Both issues came after extensive debate during town council’s May 25 regular meeting. A proposed three-day waterfront celebration would have run July 31-Aug. 2 and was intended to :commemorat