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• Sarnia-area man sues complainant for $3.5M after charges dropped

  24-12-2025 19:10 via theobserver.ca
  A Sarnia-Lambton man who had assault and sexual assault charges against him dropped is suing the complainant in the case for $3.5 million, alleging false and malicious accusations harmed his reputation, emotional well-being and financial standing, a statement of claim says. The statement of claim, filed on behalf of Michael Fiddick, alleges malicious prosecution, defamation and economical and emotional distress due to the criminal complainant’s actions. The criminal complainant can’t
  
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• Assault in Point Edward, hit-and-run crash in Corunna: Lambton OPP

  24-12-2025 17:38 via theobserver.ca
  A person in their 60s has been charged with assault with a weapon after an injured person was found near the St. Clair River in Point Edward, Lambton OPP say. Officers called to a section of the waterfront near Fort Street shortly before 10 a.m. Dec. 17 found the injured person. A 61-year-old Sarnia man was arrested and charged with assault with a weapon, assault, and mischief, police said. He was released from custody with a court date in January.   HIT-AND-RUN CRASH IN CORUNNA Police are
  
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• Sarnia man gets 7 years for fatal Queen Street choking

  24-12-2025 16:11 via theobserver.ca
  A Sarnia man was sentenced Tuesday to seven years in prison for choking a 66-year-old homeless man with mobility issues to death in his south-end apartment and leaving the stranger’s tied-up body there for several days. The body of Christopher Bond was discovered by police inside Unit 4 at 219 Queen St., a second-level apartment near Devine Street, on Feb. 21, 2024 around 10:30 a.m. After jumping off a balcony and spending a couple of days on the lam, Adam Bishop, a 40-year-old man who liv
  
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• Sarnia man gets house arrest for scaring strangers, threatening cop

  22-12-2025 21:32 via theobserver.ca
  A young Sarnia man is serving house arrest for flashing what appeared to be a handgun at two people while his face was masked and for an obscenity-laden tirade while in custody. “Your actions on this date are very concerning, very troubling indeed,” Justice Krista Lynn Leszczynski said while recently sentencing Thomas Lachapelle. The court heard a mother and her young daughter were walking in the area of College Avenue and London Road  on Aug. 20, 2024 around 12:30 a.m., when La
  
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• Sarnia Children's Christmas Bird Count set for Jan. 3 in Canatara Park

  22-12-2025 20:55 via theobserver.ca
  There were still a few spots open as of Monday for youngsters to be part of the children’s Christmas bird count Jan. 3 at Canatara Park in Sarnia. What will be the sixth year for the local bird count by children, supported by Lambton Wildlife Inc. It’s for ages six to 12 and runs from 9:30 a.m. to noon, starting at the parking lot near the children’s animal farm. The bird count is a free event, but registration is required and information is available by contacting Anne Goulden
  
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• Sarnia-area Salvation Army kettle campaign now in the homestretch

  22-12-2025 19:43 via theobserver.ca
  The coordinator of Sarnia’s Salvation Army kettle campaign was feeling “hopeful” Monday going into the fundraiser’s final days. The latest count of donations collected by volunteers at kettles in Sarnia and Corunna sat at $155,270, said campaign coordinator Brenda Dunn. That’s nearly 88 per cent of the local kettle campaign goal of $175,000 to help support the Salvation Army’s food bank and other community services in the months ahead, and kettle volunteers wi
  
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• Mask policy begins Monday at Sarnia and Petrolia hospitals because of flu numbers

  22-12-2025 19:16 via theobserver.ca
  Visitors to Bluewater Health are being asked to wear masks in clinical areas at hospitals in Sarnia and Petrolia beginning Monday because of rising flu cases locally and across the province. Bluewater Health said in a statement provincial surveillance shows influenza positivity rates at 33.8 per cent with 2,239 hospital admissions across Ontario and increases expected in the coming weeks in influenza and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) cases. Hospital staff, volunteers and students will be req
  
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• Citizen alerts police to impaired driver - Sarnia Police Service

  22-12-2025 03:45 via news.google.com
  Citizen alerts police to impaired driver  Sarnia Police Service
  
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• ‘Breakfast of Champions’: Sarnia Sting partner with Imperial to visit local elementary schools - CTV News

  21-12-2025 21:00 via news.google.com
  ‘Breakfast of Champions’: Sarnia Sting partner with Imperial to visit local elementary schools  CTV News
  
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• Sarnia Council restores funding for year-round health and wellness facility, overrides mayor’s veto - CTV News

  21-12-2025 20:00 via news.google.com
  Sarnia Council restores funding for year-round health and wellness facility, overrides mayor’s veto  CTV News
  
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• Sarnia Sting members visit local elementary school - CTV News

  21-12-2025 18:10 via news.google.com
  Sarnia Sting members visit local elementary school  CTV News
  
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• Sarnia Fire Rescue urging residents to keep safety on their holiday list - The Sarnia Observer

  21-12-2025 14:52 via news.google.com
  Sarnia Fire Rescue urging residents to keep safety on their holiday list  The Sarnia Observer
  
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• Sarnia Fire Rescue urging residents to keep safety on their holiday list

  21-12-2025 14:50 via theobserver.ca
  Add water to your natural Christmas tree stand every day, says Capt. Mike Otis with Sarnia Fire Rescue. “A dry Christmas tree goes up like it has gasoline on it,” the fire life safety educator said about one of the tips in this year’s 12 Days of Holiday Fire Safety provincewide campaign the city fire service has been sharing on social media. “Statistically, Christmas and New Years are the holidays that are the busiest time of year for fatal fires,” Otis said. &ldquo
  
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• Missing Person Update - Stewart Located - Sarnia Police Service

  21-12-2025 14:45 via news.google.com
  Missing Person Update - Stewart Located  Sarnia Police Service
  
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• Sarnia police looking for missing 16-year-old - Sarnia News Today

  21-12-2025 13:03 via news.google.com
  Sarnia police looking for missing 16-year-old  Sarnia News Today
  
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• A Sarnia Christmas tradition continues at Redeemer Lutheran Church - CKNX News Today

  21-12-2025 12:28 via news.google.com
  A Sarnia Christmas tradition continues at Redeemer Lutheran Church  CKNX News Today
  
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• Sarnia Sting end first half with overtime loss to Niagara IceDogs - The Sarnia Observer

  21-12-2025 09:42 via news.google.com
  Sarnia Sting end first half with overtime loss to Niagara IceDogs  The Sarnia Observer
  
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• UPDATE: Sarnia police locate missing 13-year-old - Sarnia News Today

  21-12-2025 06:17 via news.google.com
  UPDATE: Sarnia police locate missing 13-year-old  Sarnia News Today
  
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• OHL Highlights: Sarnia Sting @ Niagara IceDogs Dec. 20, 2025 - Canadian Hockey League

  21-12-2025 05:34 via news.google.com
  OHL Highlights: Sarnia Sting @ Niagara IceDogs Dec. 20, 2025  Canadian Hockey League
  
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• Twice-monthly Saturday markets popping up in Petrolia through the winter

  20-12-2025 20:21 via theobserver.ca
  Petrolia is extending the season for its farmers’ market with twice-monthly Saturday morning “pop up” markets throughout the winter. The traditional Petrolia Farmers’ Market runs Saturday mornings from May to October under a pavilion behind the library downtown, but the town began organizing smaller “pop up” markets last year to run monthly through the off season. “People weren’t really done with the summer market,” said Thera Wagner, a marke
  
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• Sarnia police searching for missing 13-year-old - Sarnia News Today

  20-12-2025 19:20 via news.google.com
  Sarnia police searching for missing 13-year-old  Sarnia News Today
  
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• Wildlife rehabilitation shelter in Lambton County seeking donations - The Sarnia Observer

  20-12-2025 17:28 via news.google.com
  Wildlife rehabilitation shelter in Lambton County seeking donations  The Sarnia Observer
  
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• Wildlife rehabilitation shelter in Lambton County seeking donations

  20-12-2025 17:21 via theobserver.ca
  The founder of Heaven’s Wildlife Rescue is asking members of the public to think of the wild animal rehabilitation centre in Lambton County when making year-end donations. The centre south of Oil Springs was launched in 2011 and accepts and treats injured and orphaned wildlife, including raccoons, bats, skunks, foxes, squirrels, groundhogs and turtles. It’s licensed by the province but doesn’t receive government funding and relies on donations and fundraising, said founder Pegg
  
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• 'We need help': Lambton wildlife rehab appeals for year-end donations

  20-12-2025 17:21 via theobserver.ca
  The founder of Heaven’s Wildlife Rescue is asking members of the public to think of the Lambton County wild animal rehabilitation centre when making year-end donations. The centre south of Oil Springs was launched in 2011 and accepts and treats injured and orphaned wildlife, including raccoons, bats, skunks, foxes, squirrels, groundhogs and turtles. It’s licensed by the province, but receives no government funding and relies on donations and fundraising, said founder Peggy Jenkins. &
  
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• Christmas tree collection aids Habitat for Humanity Sarnia-Lambton - The Sarnia Observer

  20-12-2025 16:48 via news.google.com
  Christmas tree collection aids Habitat for Humanity Sarnia-Lambton  The Sarnia Observer
  
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• Christmas tree collection aids Habitat for Humanity Sarnia-Lambton

  20-12-2025 16:45 via theobserver.ca
  Habitat for Humanity and DeGroot’s Nurseries are teaming up again to offer Christmas tree collection in Sarnia. The charity and the business initiated the fundraiser last year, with Habitat picking up trees after the holidays for a $20 donation and DeGroot’s mulching them. “We’re collecting two different weeks,” said David Waters, CEO of Habitat for Humanity Sarnia-Lambton. Pickups can be booked online at habitatsarnia.org/tree/ for the weeks of Jan. 5 to 9, and 12
  
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• Sarnia police searching for missing 13-year-old - CK News Today

  20-12-2025 14:18 via news.google.com
  Sarnia police searching for missing 13-year-old  CK News Today
  
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• Missing Person - Cynthia Adams - Sarnia Police Service

  20-12-2025 13:41 via news.google.com
  Missing Person - Cynthia Adams  Sarnia Police Service
  
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• Turnovers, penalties cost Sarnia Sting in loss to Erie Otters - The Sarnia Observer

  20-12-2025 08:38 via news.google.com
  Turnovers, penalties cost Sarnia Sting in loss to Erie Otters  The Sarnia Observer
  
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• Robbery turns violent after alleged thief punches security guard in Sarnia - CTV News

  19-12-2025 20:58 via news.google.com
  Robbery turns violent after alleged thief punches security guard in Sarnia  CTV News
  
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• Officials tight-lipped about Sarnia fatal fire probe - The Sarnia Observer

  19-12-2025 19:43 via news.google.com
  Officials tight-lipped about Sarnia fatal fire probe  The Sarnia Observer
  
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• Officials tight-lipped about Sarnia fatal fire probe

  19-12-2025 19:40 via theobserver.ca
  Investigators are being tight-lipped about their probe into Thursday’s fatal fire in Sarnia’s south end. “The investigation is still ongoing. At this time, there are no updates available to share,” a spokesperson for Ontario’s Fire Marshal’s office said Friday via email. One person died after a fire ripped through a unit in a small apartment building on Vidal Street South at the corner of Devine Street shortly after midnight Thursday. Firefighters, who could s
  
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• Store security assaulted after confronting thief - Sarnia Police Service

  19-12-2025 19:06 via news.google.com
  Store security assaulted after confronting thief  Sarnia Police Service
  
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• Sarnia-area fire services aided by grants from Enbridge Gas - The Sarnia Observer

  19-12-2025 18:58 via news.google.com
  Sarnia-area fire services aided by grants from Enbridge Gas  The Sarnia Observer
  
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• Sarnia-area fire services aided by grants from Enbridge Gas

  19-12-2025 18:53 via theobserver.ca
  Enbridge Gas came bearing gifts this week to fire departments in Point Edward and Sarnia. Point Edward Fire and Rescue received $5,000 from the company’s Safe Community Project Assist. The program, with the Fire Marshal’s Public Fire Safety Council, supports training at volunteer fire departments in communities where Enbridge Gas operates. “We’ve been doing this since 2012,” said Megan Shannon with Enbridge. “This year, we’re providing $120,000 to munici
  
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• Sarnia man jailed, urged to turn life around - The Sarnia Observer

  19-12-2025 18:38 via news.google.com
  Sarnia man jailed, urged to turn life around  The Sarnia Observer
  
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• Sarnia man jailed, urged to turn life around

  19-12-2025 18:34 via theobserver.ca
  A Sarnia judge told David Grego it’s pretty obvious what was going on. “You’re mixed up in drugs and living the life,” Justice Mark Poland said to Grego as he stood in a Sarnia courtroom’s prisoner’s box. Poland pointed out to Grego he didn’t get in any legal trouble until 2022, but now he keeps coming back to court. “You want to spend the rest of your life in jail? I can keep putting you in there,” Poland said as he recently sentenced him to
  
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• Trillium Foundation grant aids accessibility at BGC programs in Sarnia

  19-12-2025 18:06 via theobserver.ca
  Funding from the Ontario Trillium Foundation is helping remove barriers at a Sarnia agency serving children. About $25,000 from the foundation helped BGC Sarnia-Lambton buy two interactive smart boards for its Sarnia program locations. BGC, formerly the Boys and Girls Club, provides after-school and evening programs, youth leadership initiatives and summer camps. The agency celebrated the support from the provincially funded foundation at a Christmas Cafe Thursday at Lochiel Kiwanis community ce
  
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• Amusement operator fined $40K after ride broke at 2023 Brigden Fair - The Sarnia Observer

  19-12-2025 17:53 via news.google.com
  Amusement operator fined $40K after ride broke at 2023 Brigden Fair  The Sarnia Observer
  
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• Amusement operator fined $40K after ride broke at 2023 Brigden Fair

  19-12-2025 17:52 via theobserver.ca
  World’s Finest Shows has been fined $40,000, plus a 25 per cent victim surcharge, after pleading guilty to two safety violations after an amusement ride broke at the 2023 Brigden Fair. The fine was imposed by the Ontario Court of Justice for two offences under the Technical Standards and Safety Act., Ontario’s Technical Standards and Safety Authority said in a release. As a ride known as The Whale, also known as Diver Bomber, was being operated at the fair in October 2023, a “c
  
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• St. Joseph's Hospice benefits from Sarnia Christmas Market - Sarnia News Today

  19-12-2025 17:41 via news.google.com
  St. Joseph's Hospice benefits from Sarnia Christmas Market  Sarnia News Today
  
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• Seven face charges after police raids in Sarnia, Corunna - Petrolia Lambton Independent

  19-12-2025 16:41 via news.google.com
  Seven face charges after police raids in Sarnia, Corunna  Petrolia Lambton Independent
  
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• Sarnia police looking for missing man - Windsor News Today

  19-12-2025 15:48 via news.google.com
  Sarnia police looking for missing man  Windsor News Today
  
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• Seven charged, cocaine and firearms seized in Sarnia drug trafficking investigation - Sydenham Current

  19-12-2025 14:02 via news.google.com
  Seven charged, cocaine and firearms seized in Sarnia drug trafficking investigation  Sydenham Current
  
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• Missing Person: Dylan Scholten - Sarnia Police Service

  19-12-2025 07:15 via news.google.com
  Missing Person: Dylan Scholten  Sarnia Police Service
  
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• Students from Sarnia high school heading to college during roof repairs - The Sarnia Observer

  18-12-2025 21:35 via news.google.com
  Students from Sarnia high school heading to college during roof repairs  The Sarnia Observer
  
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• Students from Sarnia high school heading to college during roof repairs

  18-12-2025 21:30 via theobserver.ca
  Students at Alexander Mackenzie secondary school are set to attend classes at Lambton College from March to June while roof repairs are carried out at the Sarnia high school on Michigan Avenue. The Lambton Kent District school board said the temporary arrangement with the community college in Sarnia is needed while reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete (RAAC) roofing at the high school is replaced. The material being replaced at the direction of Ontario’s Ministry of Education is in areas
  
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• 7 arrested, $410K in cocaine seized from Sarnia drug trafficking network, police say - CBC

  18-12-2025 20:27 via news.google.com
  7 arrested, $410K in cocaine seized from Sarnia drug trafficking network, police say  CBC
  
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• One dead in overnight south-end fire: Sarnia police, fire officials - The Sarnia Observer

  18-12-2025 19:45 via news.google.com
  One dead in overnight south-end fire: Sarnia police, fire officials  The Sarnia Observer
  
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• Seventh arrested as Sarnia police cocaine probe nets $410K in drugs - The Sarnia Observer

  18-12-2025 19:26 via news.google.com
  Seventh arrested as Sarnia police cocaine probe nets $410K in drugs  The Sarnia Observer
  
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