Riders on the Great Waterfront Trail Adventure met town crier Norm Ross during their recent stop in Amherstburg. Over 100 cyclists from across Canada and the United States were in Amherstburg earlier this month as part of a launch of Canada’s newest binational cycling destination. The 2026 Great Waterfront Trail Adventure (GWTA) went through Windsor, Essex County and Pelee Island and, for the first time, across the Gordie Howe The launch marks four years of crossborder coll

Calls for Paramedic Services in the Essex-Windsor region will be triaged and dispatched using a cutting-edge Medical Priority Dispatch System (MPDS) beginning Sept. 16, the Essex-Windsor EMS announced last week. The new system is designed to ensure that paramedics are dispatched more efficiently, and more quickly, to the most urgent, life-threatening emergencies, the EMS service announced in a press release last week through the County of Essex. MPDS is a software-based sys

Monica Carruthers (left) and Kathy Whitley at a 3-in-1 desk at the recent outdoor vendors market at the historic Colchester Schoolhouse. “How can we make this unique.” That is the question that the president of Heritage Colchester, Martha Carruthers continues to ask when it comes to the restoration of one of the village’s gems, the Colchester Schoolhouse. Built in 1881 as S.S. #2, the historic brick building, nestled quaintly on a side street in the village continues to draw