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WindsorOntarioNews.com July 28 2010 One of the arguments long made by Amherstburg residents who didn’t want Ranta Marina sold to private developers is that the municipality shouldn’t sell off a public park, suggesting the marina is no different from soccer fields or the arena. But that would imply the marina is available without restriction to anyone. A neighbouring public park at the marina site is in fact unrestricted. But the marina itself has a sign that very clearly says, “Stop! Boat Owners Only Past This Point, Deliveries Excepted.”
WindsorOntarioNews.com July 19 2010 If city parks are looking a little shabbier than usual blame it on the weather. Parks head Don Sadler said the large amount of rain this spring and summer has increased grass growth and crews are still scrambling to “get caught up." “It’s just that the weather put us that far behind.” Sadler said crews usually cut grass in parks once every 10 days.
WindsorOntarioNews.com July 7 2010 The company that owns the Ambassador Bridge has shown that, when it comes to supporting the troops, it is also “unabashedly patriotic.” For years – from just before the invasion of Afghanistan following the terrorist attacks of 9/11 – CenTra, which owns the bridge and trucking company Central Transport, has had prominent signs on the back of its 7000 truck trailers with a strongly worded message rarely seen on corporate vehicles.
WindsorOntarioNews.com June 30 2010
A new east - west link across LaSalle – a road that has long been in the planning stage – will be completed by the end of the year. Construction of the Laurier Dr. extension – officially known as the Laurier Parkway – began in late May. Sewer work is now almost completed. The parkway will be two lanes with a gravel shoulder but is designed to be four lanes “predicated on development and growth,” according to LaSalle’s chief administrative officer Kevin Miller.
WindsorOntarioNews.com June 24 2010
St. Clair College’s new state of the art MediaPlex in downtown Windsor could operate as a hub for gathering and disseminating information during emergency events, such as the tornado and other severe storms the area has experienced over the past month. Essex County’s emergency management coordinator Phil Berthiaume says the idea came from St. Clair, in particular Veronique Mandel, who heads the college’s journalism program.
Brookfield Renewable Power spokeswoman Shelley Moorhead assured that the Gatineau, Que. – based company is not trying to buy off any opponents to the companies’ two Essex County wind projects, the first of which is under construction now. “Oh, absolutely not,” she said. Moorhead was commenting on the fact the company, which is building projects in Kingsville and Lakeshore, is giving away merchandise at its storefront office at 125 Talbot Rd. in Cottam.
There are no plans to change the date for Windsor’s annual Art in the Park. For the first time, the second day (Sunday) of the two-day weekend event was cancelled earlier this month because the location of the art fair, Willistead Park, was “significantly flooded,” Art in the Park Chair Shari Cunningham said. The park’s southeast corner Sunday “was like a lake,” she added, noting organizers had to close the event “to ensure the safety of our vendors, our exhibitors and the public.” Essex County's first wind farm, near Harrow, now completedWindsorOntarioNews.com June 9 2010
Its might be Essex County’s newest tourist attraction. The area’s first wind turbine farm is up and – almost – running in the Town of Essex, just off County Rd. 20. Construction on the so-called Harrow Wind Farm (picture right) was completed in late May and the turbines are now going through “final commissioning” – being tested with Hydro One and the supplier – before going into regular use. Revamped tourism web site to debut later this month - RyanWindsorOntarioNews.com June 7 2010
Get ready for a new local tourism web site, the first new product of the revamped regional tourism office. Tourism Windsor Essex Pelee Island CEO Chris Ryan says the new “100 per cent” revamped site will likely debut “at the end of this month.” The web site will eventually have a tool by which visitors can make holiday bookings. New festival to jazz-up WindsorWindsorOntarioNews.com June 1 2010
Detroit’s got one. Toronto’s got one. Now Windsor will have its own summer jazz festival. The first Windsor International Jazz, Food and Art Festival will be held at Big Tony’s Original Wood Fired Pizza Co. outdoor lot on Walker Rd. June 18 – 20. Owner Tony Gallippi is a huge jazz fan and thinks Windsor should be exposed to more live jazz music. “I love it, I could listen to it all day,” he says, noting his four-year-old restaurant has jazz-oriented live music on weekends. Baird: no to Ambassador Bridge compensationWindsorOntarioNews.com May 28 2010
Transport Minister John Baird has made clear that there will be no compensation to the Ambassador Bridge should DRIC become a reality. Asked if the government would pay compensation to the bridge’s private owners because the new international crossing would use government dollars to compete with a private company the minister adamantly said “no.” Baird noted it is “hardly unprecedented” for public and private entities to compete against one another. Border officials say their aim is to keep traffic wait times downWindsorOntarioNews.com May 12 2010
Still waiting half an hour – or longer - to cross into the U.S.? Wondering why Customs booths that should be open aren’t? Wondering where all that extra money went for beefing up resources at the Canada – U.S. border but it still seems to take as long to cross as ever? According to United States Customs and Border Protection, wait times aren’t any longer than they have ever been. “I don’t think so,” said spokesman Ron Smith. Was Granholm appearance "orchestrated?"DRIC money letterWindsorOntarioNews.com May 6 2010
Was it all orchestrated? Did Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm make it seem as if a shiny new offer from Canada’s government to build the DRIC border project was a last minute effort that could save Michigan financially just in the nick of time? That’s how Michigan state representative and Republican Marty Knollenberg sees it. A week ago a breathless Granholm entered the high profile state transportation committee meeting in Lansing, which was discussing a new border crossing, and read a letter from Canada’s transport minister, John Baird, offering up to $550 million for land acquisition and other costs associated with the DRIC project in Michigan. Walker-Provincial intersection to have grandest city entrancewayWindsorOntarioNews.com May 3 2010
The most impressive new entranceway to the City of Roses will be built at Provincial and Walker roads. The intersection near the city’s busiest big box area and other retail plazas along the Walker Rd. strip will probably see “some vertical elements” that will welcome motorists to Windsor. It’s all part of the city’s efforts to beautify entrances to Windsor, a plan that started two years ago with upgrades along Dougall Ave. Mike Clement, manager of parks development, said final details haven’t been worked out. But the entrance will probably have “some kind of small tower or something just to mark the intersection.” New meters to grace city streetsWindsorOntarioNews.com April 28 2010
City Council may be considering outsourcing parking meter enforcement jobs. Meanwhile the city just received a batch of new parking meters to replace some of the older, or more well used, ones. Bob Godin, supervisor of parking operations, said 400 new meters recently arrived. “So some new ones will be going on the streets fairly shortly.” The city replaces groups of meters at regular intervals. Godin said some of the oldest meters date back to the mid-1990s, which doesn’t seem that long ago. DRIC construction well underwayWindsorOntarioNews.com April 22 2010
There has never been any formal announcement but construction of the Detroit River International Crossing (DRIC) freeway is well underway. And this is not “pre-construction” such as the relocation of utilities, as has often been reported. This is the real thing. The Ministry of Transportation has awarded a $15.5 million contract to Facca Construction Inc. of Essex for the project south of Howard Ave. and immediately west of Hwy. 3 near the Hwy. 401 interchange. There is also construction along the north side of Hwy. 401 adjacent to the Southwood Lakes subdivision. Playboy chooses Windsor as Canadian spot for beach partyWindsorOntarioNews.com April 19 2010
Playboy has selected Windsor as one of two Canadian cities to throw a 50th anniversary party. The parties, the other in Niagara Falls, commemorate the anniversary of the first Playboy Club. The beach-themed party will be held at Caesars Windsor June 10 and is one of 50 being held around the world. Caesars Windsor spokeswoman Holly Ward says the casino is expecting as many as 1000 to attend. Tickets cost $30. Playboy representative Theresa Hennessey says Caesars was chosen because Playboy thought it would be “a really great fit with the brand.” SouthPoint letter confirms Lake Erie wind project very much aliveWindsorOntarioNews.com April 13, 2010 Leamington’s SouthPoint Wind doesn’t appear to be backing down from its bid to place as many as 715 wind turbines in Lake Erie and Lake St. Clair. Despite not being approved last week by the Ontario Power Authority (OPA) for an initial application of 15 wind turbines in Pigeon Bay off Leamington and Kingsville, and comments from local political representatives that the project was effectively dead, the family that owns SouthPoint is proceeding with the controversial projects. Liovas Group president Jim Liovas said in a letter to Leamington council Friday, after the OPA announcement, that the company is “currently in the initial stages of these projects.” Pigeon Bay wind turbine project appears dead in the water
WindsorOntarioNews.com April 9, 2010 SouthPoint Wind’s proposal to build 15 wind turbines in Lake Erie off of Leamington and Kingsville appears dead in the water – at least for the time being and it may never get approved. The proposal by Leamington’s Liovas family did not win approval this week by the Ontario Power Authority (OPA), which released a list of approved green energy projects, including wind. “That has not been approved,” Tim Weber, spokesman for Windsor West MPP and cabinet minister Sandra Pupatello, said. He said the application has not been permanently rejected. “I’m not using that word.” Detroit refinery to increase Windsor pollution "enormously"
WindsorOntarioNews.com April 8, 2010
A Windsor environmental and occupational health researcher says Windsor’s air pollution, already bad, will get a lot worse, after the expansion of the Marathon Oil refinery in southwest Detroit is completed. “It’s going to be adding enormously to air pollution issues,” Jim Brophy said. Marathon is expanding the refinery to handle oil from Alberta’s tar sands, which will arrive through a new pipeline. The Detroit Heavy Oil Upgrade Project is under construction and will be completed by 2012 increasing the refinery’s processing capability by 13,000 barrels per day. Campaign urged to get cyclists off nine business district sidewalks
WindsorOntarioNews.com March 26, 2010
Windsor’s nine business improvement areas will be asked to put up signs advising cyclists not to use sidewalks. The action comes after the injury of a six year old on Ottawa Street by a fast-moving cyclist who hit the child coming out of a retailer. Ward Three councillor Alan Halberstadt says the initiative is to try to get cyclists to stop using the sidewalks of central business districts, where there is a high percentage of pedestrian traffic. “It’s quite dangerous for pedestrians because cyclists are sometimes racing up and down the sidewalks, people walking out of stores, it’s a dangerous business.” Transit's best and worst routes
WindsorOntarioNews.com March 21, 2010
Transit Windsor’s best revenue generating routes? Why, the “main lines” that criss-cross the city. These are the Transway 1A, Transway 1C and Crosstown 2. The worst performing routes? The South Windsor 7 and the Lauzon 10. Stats for 2009 show those routes only generated 25.9 per cent (South Windsor 7) and 23.9 per cent (Lauzon 10). That means the routes recovered only those percentages of their total operating costs (salaries, fuel, vehicle deprecation, etc.) from the fare box. The rest of the money is made up through subsidies from city taxes, the provincial gas tax and advertising. Huge traffic drop at Windsor-Detroit tunnel; bridge traffic up
WindsorOntarioNews.com March 16 2010 Photo by Kim Kozlowski The Windsor Detroit Tunnel has seen a precipitous decline in traffic this year, with so far as many as 113,728 fewer vehicles year-to-date (until end of February) over last year. The stats are provided by the Public Border Operators Association, representing publically-owned border crossings between Ontario and Michigan, and New York State. Car traffic at the tunnel is down 112,219 vehicles, truck traffic down 795, and buses or miscellaneous vehicles down 714 for a total of 113,728 fewer vehicles. W-E approved for 25 green energy projects
WindsorOntarioNews.com March 10 2010 Pelee Island Winery is the first winery in Ontario approved to sport roof top solar panels as a result of a provincial energy announcement today. As well, solar panels will likely be coming to area Loblaw grocery stores including Real Canadian Superstores, Zehrs and No Frills. Windsor’s David Suzuki public school, expected to open in the fall, will also have rooftop panels. Ontario Minister of Energy and Infrastructure Brad Duguid says 510 contracts – some 25 in Windsor and Essex County - have been approved for 120 communities across the province where between 10 to 500 kilowatts of power each will be generated. DRTP moving on new rail tunnel
EA likely in "second quarter"WindsorOntarioNews.com March 5 2010 The Detroit River Tunnel Partnership (DRTP) will be moving ahead with an environmental assessment for a new rail tunnel with an announcement coming “within weeks.” The project – a partnership between the Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System (OMERS) and Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) – should have the EA underway in the “second quarter,” spokesman Mike Rohrer says. The DRTP originally proposed a truck tunnel under the Detroit River, which created a storm of controversy as a proposed solution for traffic congestion between Windsor and Detroit. Olympics move over, Inukshuks are us!WindsorOntarioNews.com Feb 26 2010
It just goes to show that Canada’s southernmost region can also get in touch with its Great White North inner being, especially during this snowy February. The time-honoured Inuit Inukshuk is the symbol of the Vancouver Olympics. But along the highways and byways of Essex County there are homemade Inukshuks. A massive one (on right) was spotted on Manning Rd. north of Hwy. 401. Another is on Broderick Rd. in LaSalle. Eco-friendly bags used to steal groceriesWindsorOntarioNews.com Feb 22, 2010
At least one local grocery is patting down shoppers’ enviro-friendly reusable grocery bags looking for stolen items prior to checkout. No Frills in Amherstburg has been checking the bags, used by shoppers in place of plastic bags, because there have been incidents of theft. No Frills is owned by the Loblaw chain. Calls to Loblaw and other major grocery chains such as Sobeys and Metro, asking if there has been a noticeable increase in theft and whether their companies have similar policies on checking shoppers’ bags, were referred to an industry association. Remands like Windsor Jail worse than penWindsorOntarioNews.com Feb 18 2010Photo by devonhaupt flickr.com
Provincial remand facilities like Windsor Jail tend to be much more violent than federal penitentiaries, says the head of Canada’s best-known agency that works with prisoners. Craig Jones said prisoners generally “will do anything to get out of remand because the conditions are so bad.” The executive director of The John Howard Society of Canada was commenting on a recent beating at the jail, where prisoners allegedly attacked a new inmate because he hadn’t brought drugs into the prison when serving a weekend intermittent sentence. The victim was paralyzed from the waist down. Local recycling bin contract with Mafia firmWindsorOntarioNews.com Feb 15 2010 A company that signed a contract with officials for pedestrian street recycing bins was affiliated with the Mafia. In today’s editions the National Post reports that Windsor, along with several other Canadian cities including Toronto, London and Ottawa, signed a deal several years ago with OMG Media Inc. to install what has become the familiar stainless steel recycling bins on streets where pedestrians can divide their garbage by throwing them into different slots for glass and paper. OMG or Olifas Marketing Group at one time had $1.6 million in shares owned by Montreal mob boss Vito Rizzuto’s wife and three children, the Post reported. Downtown asking $600,000 from Ottawa
WindsorOntarioNews.com Feb 12 2010
The Downtown Windsor Business Improvement Association is seeking $600,000 from the federal government to start a business incubator. BIA executive director Chris Edwards says the money is needed to get the incubator up and running. “We do have a model to sustain it; the BIA would be heavily involved in that.” An 8000-sq ft space has been tentatively selected for the site, and an individual has come forward to donate the space, Edwards said.
Bertolin working on bingo lawsuitWindsorOntarioNews.com Feb 10 2010 Former city licensing commissioner Diane Bertolin, who resigned suddenly last week, is continuing to work for the city on a class action lawsuit over bingo license fees. The lawsuit has been brought on behalf of charities who say the fees were too high to cover the costs to the city of processing the licenses and regulating the industry. Should the city lose it could be on the hook for up to $85 million. City solicitor George Wilkki says Bertolin "continues to work on that file" but had no further comment. (For more on the resignation see story below; for more on the bingo lawsuit, see Nov 18 2009 story) Long time senior manager resigns city post
WindsorOntarioNews.com Feb 8 2010
One of Windsor city hall’s key administrators, after a long career with the city, has resigned her position. Diane Bertolin resigned Friday afternoon. No reasons were provided to staff. “We found out about three in the afternoon” that day, Michael Chantler, director of business administration in the licensing department and who answered to Bertolin, said. “It was a complete surprise to me.” Bertolin had been employed with the city 19 years, 14 in licensing. Candidate to take legal action against city
WindsorOntarioNews.com Feb 4, 2010
The man who was ousted as chair of Windsor’s crime prevention committee says he’ll be taking legal action against the city. John Middleton, who’s running in this year’s municipal election as a candidate in Ward 5, says he will make details known in “two weeks - max.” “There will be clear action when the news release comes out,” he said. Asked if the legal action might relate to character defamation, he replied, “That’s correct.”
A shocker: natural gas bills to decline $500WindsorOntarioNews.com Feb 1, 2010The average family in Windsor and Essex County will see their natural gas bills decline by about $500 this year. Customers who opened their Union Gas bills over the past month may have been shocked to see the drop in their bills. In fact they’re paying one-third now what they were paying a year ago. A'burg proposes first county farm marketWindsorOntarioNews.com Jan 29, 2010The first Essex County farmers’ market could be built in Amherstburg if the town is successful in securing more than $500,000 in federal stimulus money for a project at a site on County Rd. 20 at the end of Walker Rd. Detroit? No, just Windsor's near east sideWindsorOntarioNews.com Jan 26, 2010There’s a little bit of Detroit on Windsor’s near east side. Vacant lots, boarded up buildings, houses with disintegrating roofs, the blocks between Aylmer and Louis Avenues with Chatham St. E. running in between, look like they could be a stand in for the worst parts of the Motor City. American non-union company protestedWindsorOntarioNews.com Jan 21, 2010The local Labourers Union will be making its voice heard against any attempt to hire a non-union American company to do work on the $60 million Windsor Retention Treatment Basin (RTB) along the riverfront. Activist says new border route has no sound environment, economic purposeWindsorOntarioNews.com Jan 17, 2010The director of the Sierra Club’s Ontario chapter Dan McDermott says the Detroit River International Crossing (DRIC) should not go ahead because it is an affront to the Windsor Detroit ecosystem and is questionable in light of global warming and diminishing use of carbon-based fuels. Mayoral candidate Sam Sinjari will "take action" to turn city aroundWindsorOntarioNews.com Jan 14 2010Windsor mayoral candidate Sam Sinjari, 20 years old, believes he has what it takes to be the mayor of Windsor. “I’m going to take action,” he says, should he be elected to the city’s top post in this October’s municipal election. "Windsor" scam artists target Ohio victimsWindsorOntarioNews.com Jan 11, 2010Windsor‘s border location makes the city an easy target for scam artists who illegally seek to have Americans wire money to fake lawyers or family members. Lise Lacasse returns for opening night screening of movie Youth in RevoltWindsorOntarioNews.com, Jan 7, 2010 Tecumseh’s Lise Lacasse is coming home Friday night when she’ll be at the second performance of Lakeshore Cinemas’ screening of the movie Youth in Revolt. Local 211 call centre to serve all southwestern OntarioWindsorOntarioNews.com Jan 4, 2010The City of Windsor will soon be operating the 211 non-emergency call service for all of southwestern Ontario. In fact the city hall department which oversees 211 began work on the expansion immediately after city council gave its okay in mid-December, with staff getting down to work after the New Year’s break.
In the dark: "hundreds" of Windsor blocks without streetlightsWindsorOntarioNews.com Dec 30, 2009Drive the long block along Roseland Dr. E. between Dougall Ave. and the Roseland golf course and you might notice something a little peculiar – the absence of street lights. Unique lamp posts designed for WindsorWindsorOntarioNews.com Dec 26, 2009These lights were designed for Windsor. Those futuristic-looking streetlights that first showed up more than a decade ago are now more in evidence along downtown streets. Toyota yanks scenes of Windsor Jaycees' Canadian unity flagWindsorOntarioNews.com Dec 21, 2009 Images of that giant Windsor Jaycees Canadian flag have hit the cutting room floor. The flag, made famous when it became the symbol of the last-minute Canadian unity rally in Montreal just before the 1995 Quebec referendum and which possibly played a role in saving the country – has been lopped from a Toyota advertising campaign in Quebec. City Hall: good pay if you can get itWindsorOntarioNews.com Dec 17, 2009A group of city hall management employees is seeking to get the same status as a union and wants to negotiate a first contract with the city. This week they overwhelmingly voted down a city offer because it didn’t match provisions of non-management staff represented by the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE). Customs eyeing bridge plaza for expansionWindsorOntarioNews.com Dec 15, 2009 While owners of property in Windsor’s west end continue to feud with the city about the fate of dozens of boarded up houses along several blocks near the Ambassador Bridge one of the reasons cited for a prohibition on the homes’ demolition has a definite basis in fact. Artists launch sticker campaign against Mayor FrancisWindsorOntarioNews.com Dec 11, 2009A group of artists has launched a campaign against Windsor Mayor Eddie Francis. The group, which apparently doesn’t want to be identified and seems to be working “underground” has been placing stickers around the city criticizing the mayor. New charge coming to cable bills in JanuaryWindsorOntarioNews.com Dec 9, 2009 Local cable TV subscribers will see a new charge on their January bills. It’s the Local Programming Improvement Fund (LPIF) charge and amounts to 1.5 per cent plus tax. Essex County towns hooking-up smart water metersWindsorOntarioNews.com Dec 7, 2009Several Essex County communities are on the leading tech edge when it comes to what used to be the simple water meter. Amherstburg, for example, has been rolling out its Sensus electronic water meters this fall. U.S. group chooses Windsor for coats for kids distributionWindsorOntarioNews.com Dec 4, 2009In an unprecedented move the Knights of Columbus Supreme Council in the United States will be giving away hundreds of brand new coats for elementary school students Monday in Windsor at the Unemployed Help Centre.
BIA decries Ouellette Ave improvements as "sea of gray"WindsorOntarioNews.com Dec 2, 2009The City of Windsor spent almost $5 million on new streetscaping downtown. But members of the Downtown Windsor Business Improvement Association, which kicked in more than $1 million of the cost, aren’t happy at all about it. Citizens group has eyes on DRIC Customs plazaWindsorOntarioNews.com Nov 29 2009The group that is challenging a big box retail development along Matchette Rd. in west Windsor also has its eyes on the environmental impact of the Detroit River International Crossing’s (DRIC) massive Customs plaza in Brighton Beach near the Detroit River.
Council activist says tunnel proposal "dubious, stupid"WindsorOntarioNews.com Nov 26, 2009 Who is Bruce McLeod and why did he make a complaint to Windsor’s Integrity Commissioner about a meeting Mayor Eddie Francis had with now convicted Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick two summers ago? Paul Martin part of Trust to revamp Assumption ChurchWindsorOntarioNews.com Nov 24, 2009 Former Prime Minister Paul Martin and well-known Canadian author Richard Rohmer have been enlisted to serve on a national campaign to seek funding as part of a major plan to renovate Assumption Church and surroundings. Electronic bingo hall opening in WindsorWindsorOntarioNews.com Nov 22, 2009Windsor’s first E-bingo hall will be opening later this month with a grand opening planned for early December.
City could be on hook for up to $85 millionWindsorOntarioNews.com Nov 18, 2009 The City of Windsor could be on the hook for as much as $85 million should a class action lawsuit challenging it over the legality of bingo fees be successful. Ranta Marina protesters "self-interested" groupWindsor Ontario News November 15 2009One of the Amherstburg town councillors who voted to sell the municipally-owned Ranta Marina is not fazed at all by vocal opposition to the conditional sale to developer Rob Delicata.
Transit looking at cheaper passes, open transfersWindsor Ontario News November 12 2009Transit Windsor is considering major changes to its fare system, including the introduction of inexpensive daily family passes and transfers that would allow passengers to return in the direction they came from without paying another fare. Law says child driver should have been supervisedWindsor Ontario News November 10, 2009There are restrictions for children under 12 using dirt bikes, including where they can drive them and the kind of supervision they must be under. Clinton cut fees for environmental fundraiserWindsor Ontario News November 6, 2009Bill Clinton may charge well over $100,000 for speaking engagements but he cut his price substantially to be guest speaker at a gala fundraiser next spring by the Essex Region Conservation Foundation. Windsor could gain sizable revenue from Parkway propertiesWindsor Ontario News November 3, 2009 Some 150 parcels of city-owned land along the Windsor-Essex Parkway route could derive substantial income for the city although Mayor Eddie Francis wouldn’t speculate as to how much the city could earn.Poor economy leads condo owner to advertise nationallyWindsor Ontario News November 2, 2009 A Windsor man thinks the local market for a luxury riverfront condominium is so poor that he has spent considerable money to buy display advertising in one of Canada’s national newspapers to advertise the property.
Bridge uses billboards to take campaign to publicWindsor Ontario News October 29, 2009The Ambassador Bridge company has taken its appeal for a new bridge span directly to the public. Canada Post won't deliver along construction routeWindsor Ontario News October 28, 2009Amherstburg residents this week received hand delivered letters from the town’s public works department informing them that the post office will not have letter carriers deliver mail along the stretch of road that is being torn up and replaced as part of a municipal beautification project. Click to read moreTecumseh park plan has lake pier, ecological gardensWindsor Ontario News October 27, 2009 Tecumseh’s new waterfront park, now largely an open space with limited amenities, is expected to undergo a major transformation under plans being drawn up by the town’s engineering consultants, Toronto’s EDA Collaborative Inc. Click to read moreNew signs coming to Highway 401Windsor Ontario News October 23, 2009 Expect newer and better signs along Highway 401 in the near future to alert motorists to the fact that service centre sites are still open. Click to read moreTecumseh says MPAC office will be on transit routeWindsor Ontario News October 20, 2009Tecumseh Mayor Gary McNamara says there will indeed be public transit service to the new Municipal Property Assessment Corporation (MPAC) office when it opens in Tecumseh likely in late January.
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