The Essex Free Press

03/19/2024

Spring has Sprung! 🌷🌧☀️

03/17/2024

🍀 May your troubles be less and your blessings be more,
And nothing but happiness come through your door. 🍀

03/09/2024

Don't forget to SPRING the clocks forward tonight! ⏰🌷
Daylight Saving starts tomorrow. Sunday, March 10th.

03/08/2024

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03/07/2024

Gosfield North students enjoy a day dedicated to French language and culture

by Sylene Argent, Local Journalism Initiative The students at Gosfield North Public School were able to spend all of last Thursday celebrating everything French, including culture and language. Thanks to their French teachers, Madame Kim Morin and Madam Angela Harrison, all of the students were able...

03/07/2024

Essex Area Food Bank moving into Fitness Fury facility, with Council support

by Sylene Argent, Local Journalism Initiative The Essex Area Food Bank has a new home, the former Fitness Fury Training Grounds facility; a private asset on municipal property. At the July 7, 2023 meeting, Lonnie Jones, Treasurer of the Essex Area Food Bank and 25-year volunteer, told Council the lo...

03/07/2024

Essex Council urged to up flood prevention subsidies

by Greg Layson The Town of Essex might soon have the most comprehensive residential flood prevention program in Windsor and Essex County. A Report to Council recommends residents gain access to nearly double the public money — and a new subsidy — they can use to help mitigate basement flooding. ...

03/07/2024

Good morning Readers!
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Have a great day!📰🌷🪻

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02/29/2024

Additional Essex Council Notes for Tuesday, February 20
• Request for billboard on Highway 3 passed
• Essex applying for RED matching grant, will pull $35K from reserve if successful
• NoM: bollard outside 114 Talbot Street North be removed
& MORE...

by Sylene Argent, Local Journalism Initiative Request for billboard on Highway 3 passed With a vote of 5-3, Essex Council passed By-Law 2297 to permit the er****on of one static billboard sign facing west- bound traffic, with the other side being a digital media billboard sign facing east-bound traf...

02/29/2024

Essex will seek RFPs for high-density residential development at former Harrow High

by Sylene Argent, Local Journalism Initiative The Town of Essex will proceed with a Request for Proposal (RFP) process, where interested developers can pitch plans for future high-density residential development, at the former High School property footprint, after learning it was estimated to cost o...

02/29/2024

Essex Train Show rolls into town 🚂🚃🚄🚉

by Sylene Argent, Local Journalism Initiative Youths – and the young at heart – marvelled at the intricate model train displays set up inside the Essex Recreation Complex over the weekend as Heritage Essex hosted one of its largest fundraisers of the year. The annual Essex Train Show is the larg...

02/29/2024

Good morning, Readers! 📰☀
Read today's Leap Day, February 29th edition here (That's got to be pretty rare): https://www.essexfreepress.com/newedition OR pick up a FREE copy at one of our many depots across the County!

Inside this week's edition::
• Town of Essex Council meeting notes - February 20
• Hydro One: 2023 poor for momentary and sustained outages, improvements continue
• Essex will seek RFPs for high-density residential development at former Harrow High
• Students stage walkout after GECDSB selects different name

We also have a special Health & Wellness section. 🫶

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02/29/2024

🗓 Leap into these Leap Year facts 🐸

Leap Year typically takes place every four years. The process of adding a day to the calendar every four years was designed to realign the clock and calendar more closely with how long it takes the Earth to rotate around the sun, which is slightly longer than the 365 days attributed to a year. If not for Leap Year, the seasons would slowly shift out of place.

There are many interesting facts to learn about Leap Year, and February 29 is the perfect time to explore them.

· It takes the Earth 365 days, 5 hours, 48 minutes and 45 seconds to circle once around the sun, says Time and Date. Without leap years, we'd lose almost six hours every year. After a century, the calendar would be off by nearly 24 days.

· Despite 2100, the next turn of the century, being divisible by four, it will not be a leap year. That's because it is divisible by 100 but not 400, which means it will not be a leap year. This exception to the rule pertains to new century years.

· Forbes reports that it's likely the calendar will need to be changed again since the Earth's rotation rate, the axial tilt orientation and the Earth's orbital motion around the sun is not constant. Various effects, such as earthquakes and something called tidal braking, affect the passage of time.

· Legend states that on February 29 it is alright for a woman to propose to a man, a custom attributed to St. Bridget. Bridget complained to St. Patrick that some women had to wait too long for their suitors to pop the question. As the legend goes, Patrick supposedly provided women this day to propose to compensate.

· Some cultures view February 29 as an unlucky day. In Greece, couples are warned against planning weddings during leap years. In Italy, the phrase, "Anno biseto, anno funesto" ("leap year, doom year") is uttered.

· Individuals who are born on February 29th are known as leaplings or leapers.

· Leap Day is not considered a legal day. Those who are leaplings have to choose February 28 or March 1 for their official and legal birthdays.

· Individuals who are paid fixed monthly incomes often work for free on February 29th because their wages will not be calculated to include the extra day.

· Guinness World Records indicates the only family it could verify as producing three consecutive generations born on leap days belongs to the Keoghs. The elder Patrick Anthony Keogh was born in 1940, his son Peter Eric was born in 1964, and his granddaughter Bethany in 1996.

02/27/2024

Kindness. ✨💛

02/22/2024

Essex hosts – and medals – at 2024 Ontario Lifeguard Championships

by Greg Layson It can be debated whether lifeguarding is a sport. But what’s undeniable is lifeguards are athletic and among the most integral first responders in society. That was all on display Saturday in the pool and gym at the Essex Recreation Complex, which was the host facility for the 2024...

02/22/2024

Town of Essex Family Day event offered even more fun for families

by Sylene Argent, Local Journalism Initiative When the Town of Essex offers its annual Family Day event to the community, it always has a great turnout. And, participation continued to be steady during this year’s instalment on Monday, with around 180 people registering to participate in the activ...

02/22/2024

Good morning, Readers!
Our February 22nd edition is out, today! ☕✨
Read it here: https://www.essexfreepress.com/newedition
Or pick up a FREE hard copy at one of our many depots across the county! Have a GREAT day! Spring is in 26 days. 🪻🌷🌸

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