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• Man, 76, narrowly escapes jail for masked Sarnia-Lambton assault

  19-01-2026 20:15 via theobserver.ca
  A man in his late 70s narrowly avoided jail and is serving house arrest for donning a mask and attacking a man in his former partner’s Sarnia-Lambton doorway. “The circumstances of this case are extremely concerning. I cannot overemphasize the fear and the danger the victims have been living in and are currently living in. They still remain in fear,” assistant Crown attorney Sarah Carmody said as she argued he should spent a year to 14 months in jail. The court heard the 76-yea
  
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• Lambton County libraries collecting valentine cards for long-term care

  19-01-2026 19:29 via theobserver.ca
  Lambton County Library branches are collecting handmade valentines until Jan. 31 to be delivered to residents of the county’s long-term care homes and adult day programs for Valentine’s Day. The annual project has been running in its current format since 2022, said the county library’s Vanitia Campbell. “It’s one of our favourite times of year because we get to collect the valentines and read through them and then distribute them,” she said. “You can tel
  
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• Charges linked to 110 gram MDMA Sarnia drug bust dropped

  19-01-2026 19:20 via theobserver.ca
  Drug trafficking charges laid last fall against a Sarnia man after police found 110 grams of MDMA during a theft probe, have been dropped by the prosecutor. Sarnia police were called Sept. 29 about 3 a.m. about suspects trying to steal from parked vehicles in the area of Russell and Wellington streets, police said in a new release at the time. Officers found two women and a man. They couldn’t find any evidence of vehicles being broken into, but the man acted suspiciously and refused to tak
  
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• Cold weather alert issued for Sarnia-Lambton

  19-01-2026 19:17 via theobserver.ca
  A cold weather alert was issued Monday morning by Lambton County’s medical officer of health. Lambton Public Health said the alert by Dr. Karalyn Dueck follows an Environment Canada weather office forecast of frigid overnight temperatures early in the week. It predicts an overnight low of –15 C Monday and –17 C Tuesday. The alert for Sarnia and Lambton County is expected to remain in place until Wednesday, Lambton Public Health said. The health unit issues a cold weather alert
  
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• Indigenous apartment building ready to open in Sarnia

  19-01-2026 19:03 via theobserver.ca
  A 40-apartment Indigenous affordable housing building on Confederation Street in Sarnia will welcome its first tenants in February. Ontario Aboriginal Housing Services is holding an open house Thursday, 1 p.m. to 4:30 p.m., at the site  at 940 Confederation St. The one, two and three-bedroom apartments are open to First Nations, Inuit and Metis peoples and the five-storey project was built on land donated by Lambton County. “We are very excited about moving toward our rent-up phase,&r
  
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• Page program experience eye opening for Camlachie youth

  19-01-2026 00:10 via theobserver.ca
  MPP Hatch? Maybe one day. Errol Village school eighth-grader Anna Hatch recently spent nearly a month as a legislative page at Queen’s Park, and said she didn’t want to leave. “It’s hard to describe how amazing it was,” the Camlachie 13-year-old said. On the surface, her Nov-17-Dec. 11 stint delivering messages and water to MPPs and helping prepare chambers for daily debate might seem dry, she said. But meeting and conversing with members, including Premier Doug For
  
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