• Province approves $74 million for construction of Forest K to 12 school

    Construction of a long-awaited kindergarten to Grade 12 school in Forest has been approved by the province. The Lambton Kent District school board said Wednesday the province has granted capital funding approval of $74 million for the new school to be built on land near the Shores recreation centre in Forest. What will be known as Blue Coast District school will be the board’s first kindergarten to Grade 12 school and will include 49 child care spaces in three rooms, and two rooms for the
  • Sarnia man jailed for walking streets with BB handgun

    A Sarnia man was jailed two months for walking down a busy street with what people in the area thought was a handgun. It turned out to be a BB gun, but Michael Williams was arrested at gunpoint by Sarnia police near the Mobil gas station at Mitton and Wellington streets. Justice Krista Lynn Leszczynski reminded Williams, from Aamjiwnaang First Nation, he was convicted of firearms offences in the past and he should’ve known what would happen that day even if he was only holding a BB gun. &l

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