The Amherstburg Environmental Advisory Committee is busy planning Earth Day events, and is considering more public places for their new tree plantings. Earth Day is coming April 25 with 100 trees of various species being ordered from the Essex Region Conservation Authority (ERCA). Increasing the tree coverage around the Golfview wetlands trails was the recommendation from administration but while that could still happen, committee members opted to have other areas in town con

Grade 9 students gather for a pasta lunch. Grade 9 students gather for a pasta lunch (above) while Addison Reaume was one of the North Star High School alumni who spoke to this year’s Grade 9 luncheon. Grade 9 students at North Star High School doing well in the classroom were recognized recently. Thanks to the Amherstburg high school’s peer mentorship program, a pasta lunch was served to Grade 9 students with honour role level grades in the first semester, which is an 80 per

Darrow Woods and Marcy Lane display their books at last Saturday's author meet and greet at Legion Br. 157. Royal Canadian Legion Fort Malden Br. 157 gave a chance for the public to pick up some new reads and meet the people who wrote them. As part of the Amherstburg Legion’s senior speaker series, Br. 157 hosted a meet and greet with local Windsor-Essex County authors last Saturday (March 21) with about a dozen local authors in attendance. Sherry Vanhoorne-Leith, a member of