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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.

Take Me To The River

Expertly renovated, passionately redesigned and furnished with flair, this exceptional Amherstburg homestead is a place...

Aaron Ekblad

The seeds of the Florida Panthers’ 2024 Stanley Cup success were sewn a year before in the team’s bitter loss to the...

Waterfront Retreat

Light breezy tones inside and out mark this new Lighthouse Cove home, designed by Windsor architect Philip Fernandes...

Living on a Lighted Stage

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

A Forty-One-Year Glimpse

A conservative estimate of how many photographs Nick Brancaccio took during his forty-one-year career with The Windsor...

Portugal

Where can you stand inside a chapel decorated with human bones in the morning, visit a shrine where the Virgin Mary...

Writing Home for the Holidays

Interesting people from past Windsor Life articles have sent holiday letters to let our readers know what they are...

Strength in Numbers

“It is better to light a candle than to curse thedarkness.” That simple, profound statement has been alternately...

Standing up for Canada

Remembering D-day 80 Years Later

Molly Ferdinand

“I come from two families: my father and mother’s families, both were very musical,” Molly says. “I played piano at age...

A Christmas Chalet

Owning your dream home is something to aspire to.

The Passion Within The Ambition

Sofia Coppola’s new movie, Priscilla—based upon the memoir of Elvis Presley’s wife, Priscilla Beaulieu Presley—features...

The Pizza City You’ve Never Heard Of

Athens has the Parthenon. Paris has the Arc de Triomphe. Windsor has its pizza.

Taking Future Generations of Science to the Next Level

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

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...

Life At Shutter Speed

“I’d always been a birder,” he explains, “and it naturally led to taking pictures of the birds and wildlife. I’ve been...

Mr. Emancipation

Mr. Emancipation: The Walter Perry Story is an account of Windsor’s Walter Perry, whose progressive festival flourished...

Josh Bourke

“I didn’t grow up playing football,” Josh admits. “Back then, in Windsor, there wasn’t great exposure for the sport. At...

Optimistic For The Future

Perhaps no one was in a more vulnerable position when the COVID-19 pandemic entered our community than the residents in...

The Gretzky Kid

The trajectory of Wayne Gretzky’s life changed forever when he met his hero, Tim Horton, in Brantford, 1968. Tim Horton...

Lisa Williams Leaves The Timeless Wavelength

If not for a chance meeting, Lisa Williams’ thirty-eight-year career at AM800 may never have happened. 

Rewilding Farmland

Denise and Andy were at a loss when looking for a lush, wooded lot in the Windsor-Essex area in the late 90s.

Taking Care of Your Mental Health

Three projects have arisen to support the mental health of those who are suffering: the University of Windsor Brief...

The Kilominator

Seven o’clock Sunday morning, September 6, riding my bike down the empty expanse of Howard Avenue—from its termination...

Bassam Mnaymneh

On Thursday, September 19th, the sky above Windsor began to roar. From a distance, they look like swans. The planes...

The Game Show Bug

Local Couple Appears on Ellen’s Game of Games Story by Michael SeguinFeature Photo (above) by Mountain Escape...

Big Wide World

For most people, places like Kilimanjaro, the Serengeti, and Zanzibar are exotic names found in books and movies.

Spirits of the Past

The Donnelly Massacre took place at midnight, on January 4th, 1880, when the local vigilance committee stormed the...

The Kingsville Military Museum

A Group of Volunteers In Kingsville Are Doing Their Part To Ensure The Military Service of Essex County Residents Is...

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.