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• Warwick merges fire departments

  26-02-2026 23:53 via theobserver.ca
  Warwick Township’s two fire departments have amalgamated. A vestige of pre-amalgamation Warwick and Watford, before the municipalities joined around the year 2000, combining the two departments was recommended in a 2017 fire master plan for the municipality, said Brad Goodhill, fire services director with the Township of Warwick Fire and Rescue Department. Ontario’s Fire Protection and Prevention Act recommends having just one chief fire official, he said. Municipal councils until no
  
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• OPP costing proposal a message to Sarnia police board: politico

  26-02-2026 22:24 via theobserver.ca
  Anne Marie Gillis remembers more than 15 years ago calling for a study into what it would cost for OPP to take over policing in the city. The more than 18 months that followed were filled with angst, the Sarnia councillor said. Getting information to make an informed decision made sense at the time, she said, but “once you do it, you don’t go down that road again.” Gillis, also Sarnia’s police board vice-chair, was one in a chorus of voices at a Thursday board meeting spe
  
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