CITY NEWSWindsor City Council debated the future of garbage collection well into Tuesday morning and reached a decision on ‘contracting out’ at 12:40 AM. Council supported administrative recommendation to privatize garbage and recycling collection and award a contract to Turtle Island, a waste management company. The recommendation comes from an extensive report prepared by city researchers [...]
CITY NEWSA small group of individuals were busted at a local big box hardware store on Provincial Road near Division Road early Wednesday afternoon. The parties involved tried to purchase a “large” quantity of merchandise using fraudulent cheques. Police attended the store to deal with the fraudsters.
CITY NEWSWindsor Police attended a residence in the 1000 block of Elsmere around 4:30pm Wednesday afternoon to stop a man who was seen shooting animals with a pellet gun from his basement window. Pellet guns are of course legal to possess and use in Canada, but there is a bylaw in place in Windsor that prohibits [...]
CITY NEWSThe buzz today was about a by-law amendment proposed at city council last night. To sum it up, they want to amend a permit- the Emission of Amplified Sound permit- so that permit holders can still be punished for disturbing the peace (currently, they’re safe from any repercussion, because they hold a permit). I read [...]
CITY NEWSThe City of Windsor’s Operating Budget Committee has released its 2010 recommended budget. As originally reported on windsoriteDOTca, taxpayers were anticipating a number of service cuts and rollbacks including unsettling recommendations to convert hybrid buses back to diesel, the turning-off of all of Windsor’s fountains and the elimination of a Veteran Appreciation Dinner.
CITY NEWSThe draft Windsor Municipal Budget for 2010 is out and ready for public consideration and there are some alarming devils in the details. Draft budget cutbacks include plans to eliminate multiple flagpoles throughout the city, turning off public fountains, discontinuing a Remembrance Day dinner, and converting Hybrid Buses back to diesel (among other things).
CITY NEWSCity council agreed to go ahead with a further study concerning the proposed air cargo village at Windsor International Airport on Monday. This is one topic of local news that I haven’t followed too closely, mainly because I had no idea what an air cargo village was. I asked a friend, and he had no [...]
