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Friends and former colleagues will raise a glass to Grafton community stalwart Bryan Robins on Saturday as he and wife Kerry bid farewell to the Clarence Valley.

Out in less than a decade? Fri Jan 15, 2021 Last November Habibullah Ahmadi, 24, was found guilty of second-degree murder in the October 8, 2017, beating of Sara Anne Widholm in Windsor, Ontario. The 75-year-old grandmother did not die until December 17, 2018, but according to Dr. Balraj Jhawar, the beating left her in a “worse state than death.” For this heinous crime, a Tuesday hearing revealed,  Habibullah will not receive the worst possible sentence. “Second-degree murder carries an automatic life sentence,” wrote Trevor Wilhelm in the Windsor Star, but Habibulla...

  WINDSOR, ONT. -- Windsor Mayor Drew Dilkens has written a “community victim statement” for the sentencing of Habibullah “Danny” Ahmadi. The 24-year-old was convicted of second degree murder in November in the beating of Sara Ann Widholm, 75. On Oct. 8, 2017, Widholm was attacked while walking on the Ganatchio Trail just before 8 a.m. The attack “shocked the community to its core,” the mayor wrote in his statement. Defence lawyer, Patricia Brown, believes the mayor’s entire statement should not be considered because it offers opinions about the nature of the crime, whic...

SASKATOON -- A beloved member of the city's Mayfair neighbourhood has died. Bruce Thomas owned and operated Mayfair Hardware for 70 years before deciding to retire last May. He died last week at the age of 89. "I’ve never worked for anybody in my life," Thomas said In a June 2019 inteview with CTV News. "I got the idea into my head I wanted to drop out of school, so my parents OK’d that,” Thomas said, explaining how he got his start. "Some of them at Bedford Road Collegiate, they were telling me that I was making a mistake and everything, but it worked out OK for me quitting scho...