Marsh Historical Collection collections co-ordinator Meg Reiner does likewise in Navy Yard Park during the Windsor-Essex Jane’s Walk Festival. April 23-26 was the Essex County weekend while the Windsor weekend is this coming weekend. Amherstburg Freedom Museum curator Mary-Katherine Whelan addresses the crowd in front of First Baptist Church. A history-themed festival returned to Essex County last weekend, with several stops in Amherstburg. The first weekend of the Windsor-Es

Mason Hillier shows his “Captain America” artwork. Student art was on exhibit and the subject of judging in a friendly art exposition last week in McGregor. École Sainte Ursule held its second annual student art exposition last Thursday evening where the artwork was displayed and parents, grandparents, guardians and students went around with clipboards scoring the entries. Jessica VandenBrink, a Grade 6/7 teacher at the French Catholic elementary school, said the event stems

Meghan Desjardins (left) and Cindy Lemieux from the River Bookshop were part of the Book Store Crawl that took place last weekend. The Amherstburg store joined other independent book stores for the crawl. Canadian Independent Book Store Day was April 25 and that meant open doors and lots of visitors to the regions bookstores. To celebrate, Amherstburg’s River Bookshop took part in the first ever Book Store Crawl that started Friday and wrapped up last Sunday. “A few of the st