Donald McArthur

You’ll be able to sit on expanded patios in downtown Amherstburg and make use of  “take-out food courts” in King’s Navy Yard Park beginning Friday night as the Town implements its Open Air Weekend Plan.

The Town of Amherstburg is calling on Ontario Premier Doug Ford to expeditiously open the regional economy and provide financial relief to struggling local businesses if he does not.

King’s Navy Yard Park has once again been named the Best Park or Garden in the Best of Windsor-Essex awards presented by Tourism Windsor Essex Pelee Island.

Amherstburg will open streets to people and patios on summer weekends to help downtown businesses and build a buzz that will draw customers and their disposable incomes from our neighbouring municipalities and beyond.

It’s a touch stifling and it causes my glasses to fog up and my ears to stick out, but I’ve started wearing a simple cloth mask when I go shopping or grab takeout from Amherstburg restaurants.

A bench honouring Windsor and Essex County nurses, who have been standing strong on the frontlines in the fight against COVID-19, will be placed outside the former St. Bernard School in Amherstburg, site of a new nurse practitioner’s clinic.

The House Youth Centre, which has provided a safe space for Amherstburg kids for nearly fifty years, is appealing for community donations and hopeful for a new location after its funding was cut by the United Way.

A flash of inspiration in an Amherstburg grocery store parking lot sparked the formation of a volunteer, grassroots sewing movement that has created more than 1,000 masks and counting for frontline workers battling COVID-19.

It’s hard to believe it’s been just over a week since the Town of Amherstburg declared a State of Emergency in response to the COVID-19 pandemic and the looming threat of rising water levels. So much has changed, so much has been accomplished and so much may yet come.

The Town of Amherstburg declared a State of Emergency Sunday, joining the County of Essex and its six other local municipalities in the fight against COVID-19.