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• Lambton Library loaning memory care kits

  16-01-2026 21:57 via theobserver.ca
  Lambton’s library system is loaning memory care kits to card holders, to help people with dementia and their caregivers. A half-dozen kits featuring cognitive engagement items like books, games and puzzles were added to Lambton’s library-of-things offerings this month. “We’re always on the lookout” for new additions to the collection which also includes musical instruments, sports equipment, tool kits, museum passes and other non-literary items, said public services
  
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• Sarnia testing city's first electric bus

  16-01-2026 18:58 via theobserver.ca
  Sarnia’s first electric bus is rolling on city streets. The six-metre Damera Corp. e-JEST, with seating for 10 and space for a wheelchair, arrived a few months ago, said engineering and operations general manager David Jackson. City council approved the purchase in May. After training time for mechanics and operators, and acquainting city firefighters with the new transit technology, the bus “officially entered operations last week” on a city Care-a-Van route, Jackson said. How
  
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• Weapons seized from Sarnia home: police

  16-01-2026 18:21 via theobserver.ca
  A man is charged after police, responding to an argument between a dating couple, seized weapons from a Sarnia home Thursday. Officers were called out Wednesday evening for a verbal domestic dispute between two adults in a dating relationship, police said. There were no injuries and no evidence of physical violence, but police were told about prohibited weapons in the residence, police said. Officers secured the scene, and executed a search Thursday, seizing a rifle, ammunition, brass knuckles,
  
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