Upcoming Municipal By-Election -- A municipal by-election has been called to fill the vacant seat created when Rex Barnes resigned from Council to become Member of Parliament for Gander-Grand Falls. Date for the by-election is TBA. -August 16, 2002

Die Trac Tech Institute Moves out of GFW -- Due to lack of support from Grand Falls-Windsor council, Die Trac has re-located to Lewisporte where they were welcomed with open arms and sold the former College of the North Atlantic building for $1.00 -- Die Trac courses begin in Lewisporte this September and are no longer offered in Grand Falls-Windsor. The dispute with the town resulted when council refused to give Die Trac a permit to operate out of the former Booth Memorial building (school) in Windsor. Council was concerned by the amount of noise that would be created by post-secondary students, yet they approved a youth centre for teenagers to be established in the former Pentecostal Elementary school building just hundreads of feet down the road. This decision has upset the local business community with the local Chamber of Commerce president stating that local business people get turned down when wanting to refurbish a closed down building, while council goes out of their way to build a new building at tax payers expense for an American company that wanted to locate a call centre in GFW. --August 16, 2002

Joe Clark Visits Town -- As part of the local federal by-election campaign by PC contender Rex Barnes, former Prime Minister and current Tory leader Joe Clark paid a visit to Grand Falls-Windsor on May 4, 2002. You can view pistures of his visit on Rex Barnes' campaign site by clicking here.

Baker Resigns -- Long-time Gander-Grand Falls MP George Baker resigned his seat in the House of Commons on March 25th and has since been appointed to the Senate by the Prime Minister. At time of writing (March 27th), there are no declared candidates to replace him. Speculation is that the Prime Minister will call a by-election for May month. --March 27, 2002

Declining Population -- According to the 2001 census statistics released by Statistics Canada, the population of Grand Falls-Windsor has declined to 13,340 as people move elsewhere in search of work. -- March 2002

Town e-Mail Problems -- Please make sure that any e-mail intended for the town of Grand Falls-Windsor is spelt correctly. We at GrandFalls-Windsor.com have been receiving confidential e-mail for the mayor and others that has been incorrectly sent to us. If this keeps up we might be able to break news to you before the town officially does! :) -- March 2002