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A Contemporary Paradise

With a canvas of almost 20,000 square feet to work with—minus house and pool house—a true work of art had to be...

Be The Best Bee You Can Be

“I want to feel connected, authentically not electronically. I feel suffocated by my insecurities, as the hunger of...

Preventable Fires

This holiday season, the greatest gift you can give your family is safety. For the last several years, Windsor Fire and...

The Gimmal Ring

It’s been a long time between stories for Karen Koski. She was born Karen Clark and grew up in Kingsville. She wrote...

Yvonne Pilon and Sarah Davidson

Few individuals embody Windsor’s entrepreneurial spirit more completely than friends Yvonne Pilon and Sarah Davidson.

Unpredictable Noir Fiction

Noir fiction comprises a marked darkness in theme and subject matter, unfolding against a backdrop of systemic and...

Notes From a Stranger

A small act of kindness can make someone’s day or even save someone’s life; this is the motto that drove co-founders...

Recovered Artifact

They say that those who forget their history are doomed to repeat it. A quaint sentiment. But, as always, the truth is...

A Perfect Storm

Born and raised in Leamington, Samantha Sabelli Ion was an enthusiastic reader with a preference for heart-and-soul...

Living on a Lighted Stage

The paradoxes inherent in creating art are never more apparent than they are in acting.

Gamechanger

They say that necessity is the mother of invention. Perhaps no local invention embodies that spirit more completely...

Embracing The Blue

The great blue expanse of the ocean. For many, the idea of water stretching out in all directions can be terrifying...

N. Glenn Perrett

New Book Provides a Comprehensive Look at our Province’s Greatest Natural Resources Story by Michael SeguinPhotography...

The Way of the Sword

The artists are coming.

Scrapbook Baseball

It all started with a family scrapbook. The local history of one family exploding into a near decade long dig through...

A Gentle Spirit

It’s difficult to summarize a soul as loving, as humble and as radiant as Windsor’s Chad Predhomme. But, after his...

Christine Vanderkooy

To speak with pianist Christine Vanderkooy is to immediately feel her love of music radiating from her being.

A Hero’s Return

In Windsor’s medical community, few are as beloved as Dr. Dean Favot, a 66-year-old retired Emergency Room Physician.

Born To Serve

On June 3rd, the skies burned over Amherstburg. On a dark night, a passing vehicle left the road, drove through a hydro...

Determined Transformation

When Mara Hall looked out the window of her Leamington farmhouse, she didn’t see a barn on the other side of the...

Come Into My World

From the outside, Rita Miceli’s book Giaci and Me looks like an overnight success; but when you peer behind the scenes...

Let Yourself Shine

Tera Gillen-Petrozzi’s Big Brother Canada audition tape sums it all up: “My name is Tera. I’m 37. I’m from LaSalle...

Taking Future Generations of Science to the Next Level

For as long as she can remember, Sohila Kaur Sidhu wanted to become a doctor.

A Piece of Heaven

When people in the Swiss Alps learned that Glenn Gervais and his wife, Vinka, were from Canada, they couldn’t...

The Amherstburg Freedom Museum

Nestled on a quiet downtown residential street, the Museum shines the spotlight on personal narratives of the people...

The Phone Number You Need To Know

At her wits’ end, Carol ran a search online: “I need help, I have someone in severe pain.”

Riding to the Edge of Memory

There is a reason why the first words of my cycling book, The Kilominator, are: “Why, exactly, am I doing this?”

Take Me Out To The Ball Game

For husband-wife Dale Jacobs and Heidi L.M. Jacobs, baseball has been a decades-long fixture of their shared lives.

Innovative Community

“My older brother took the Biomedical Engineering Technology program as well,” Bryce explains. “I used to look over his...

Bridging Past and Present with Art

It will be like a scene from a modern-day fable: over the next two years, images of an indigenous hoop dancer, a bear...

Photography Adventure

Local Photographer Travels to Indonesia to Capture Otherworldly Images Story by Matthew St. AmandPhotography by Todd Ternovan When LaSalle photographer, Todd Ternovan, stepped out the front door of the Grand Barong...

The Long Goodbye

Memory is a mundane mystery. When it functions, we barely notice its monumental role in our daily lives.

Sports Hall of Fame

This year’s class of inductees into the Windsor Essex County Sports Hall of Fame is impressive and it could be one of the most star-studded in the hall’s 42-year history.

A Forty-One-Year Glimpse

A conservative estimate of how many photographs Nick Brancaccio took during his forty-one-year career with The Windsor Star comes out around 15,000.

Still the Soul Survives

The Holocaust happened nearly 100 years ago, yet the realities were ever present for the survivors and patients of Pamela Goldstein.