Linden Crain After four years as a councillor, Linden Crain is seeking to move up. Crain was the first person to file his nomination papers and did so in an effort to be Amherstburg’s next deputy mayor. “For the past four years, it’s been an honour to serve as a councillor,” said Crain. Crain said he’s looking to step forward and become deputy mayor, in part, because of his desire to sit on Essex County council “and look at the region as a whole.” Mayors and deputy mayors

Amherstburg Municipal Building. A resident has brought forth his concerns with regards to a “lame duck” period town council could be faced with, given that this is an election year. Bill Petruniak stated his presentation started formulating after the April 16 economic development advisory committee meeting, one where he was also a delegate. He said there were a number of items on the April 27 town council agenda he was concerned with, but he decided to speak on the “lame duck

A report from Hydro One officials regarding power outages and service to Amherstburg came at council’s most recent meeting. Rachel Van Vraassen, Lei Zhu and Julia Baldessarra addressed town council at the April 27 meeting, a delegation council had requested several months ago due to multiple power outages in Amherstburg. The goal, said Van Vraassen, was to walk town council through what Hydro One has done to strengthen reliability and what the company can do to help as Amhers