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13th Jul 2010  |  View Comments
Windsor’s Garbage Future: 100% Contracted Out

Windsor’s Garbage Future: 100% Contracted Out

July 13th 2010 // View Comments

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 [...]

12th May 2010  |  View Comments
Fraudulent Cheque Peddlers Busted

Fraudulent Cheque Peddlers Busted

May 12th 2010 // View Comments

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.

12th May 2010  |  View Comments
Pellet Gun Hunter Busted

Pellet Gun Hunter Busted

May 12th 2010 // View Comments

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 [...]

27th Apr 2010  |  View Comments
65 dBA

65 dBA

April 27th 2010 // View Comments

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 [...]

2nd Mar 2010  |  View Comments
Windsor's fountains to flow, hybrids to run, Veterans keep their dinner

Windsor’s fountains to flow, hybrids to run, Veterans keep their dinner

March 2nd 2010 // View Comments

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.

8th Feb 2010  |  View Comments
Zero Tax Increases, but Severe Service Cuts Expected in Windsor this year

Zero Tax Increases, but Severe Service Cuts Expected in Windsor this year

February 8th 2010 // View Comments

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).

21st Jan 2010  |  View Comments

What Exactly Is An “Air Cargo Village”?

January 21st 2010 // View Comments

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 [...]

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