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• Man gets 2 years for guns, vows to never return to Sarnia

  04-03-2026 23:54 via theobserver.ca
  David Larocque spoke to his lawyer, Shane Miles, just before he was sentenced to two years in prison for stashing guns in his Sarnia bedroom. “He goes, ‘Shane, I’m 42. I’m going to die in jail if I’m not careful,’” Miles recalled. Larocque, who was severely beaten while in custody and suffered a brain bleed, Miles said, has been arrested multiple times in Sarnia over the last three years. One incident took place in the fall 2023, when Sarnia police start
  
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• Man gets 2 years for gun, other offences, vows never to return to Sarnia

  04-03-2026 23:54 via theobserver.ca
  David Larocque spoke to his lawyer, Shane Miles, just before he was sentenced to two years in prison for stashing guns in his Sarnia bedroom. “He goes, ‘Shane, I’m 42. I’m going to die in jail if I’m not careful,’ ” Miles recalled. Larocque, who was severely beaten while in custody and suffered a brain bleed, Miles said, has been arrested multiple times in Sarnia over the last three years. One incident took place in the fall 2023, when Sarnia police star
  
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• Sarnia transit grant money nearly spent

  04-03-2026 23:31 via theobserver.ca
  A $27.7-million Sarnia spending plan for federal and provincial transit and infrastructure grant dollars is going a bit further than expected. That’s thanks to some project savings, said city engineering and operations general manager David Jackson. Investing in Canada Infrastructure Program (ICIP) grant funding was announced for the city in 2019. A grant spending plan in 2021 included replacing 24 buses, adding new bus shelters, concrete bus pads, infilling sidewalk, adding audible pedest
  
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• Water protection zoning changes proposed

  04-03-2026 21:05 via theobserver.ca
  Protection zones in Bright’s Grove, around a new source-water intake, under construction for Petrolia, could be changing slightly. So says Julie Welker, with the Upper Thames River Conservation Authority. The new intake pipe is beside the existing, 1944-built intake from Lake Huron that’s reached the end of its life, she said. Construction on a $16-million upgrade to Petrolia’s water treatment plant, including the water intake, started last year. The new, proposed source water
  
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• Source-water protection-zone changes proposed

  04-03-2026 21:05 via theobserver.ca
  Protection zones in Bright’s Grove, around a new source-water intake, under construction for Petrolia, could be changing slightly, says the Upper Thames River Conservation Authority. The new intake pipe is beside the existing, 1944-built intake from Lake Huron that’s reached the end of its life, said Julie Welker, the conservation authority’s source protection coordinator. Construction on a $16-million upgrade to Petrolia’s water treatment plant, including the water intak
  
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• One in four Sarnia-Lambton households 'food insecure': Public Health

  04-03-2026 20:20 via theobserver.ca
  One in four Sarnia-Lambton households is considered “food insecure,” Lambton Public Health says. Each year, registered dietitians with the health unit survey county grocery stores to monitor the affordability of food, based on Statistics Canada’s nutritious food basket. The unit reported Wednesday to county council, which serves as the local health board, that the latest survey, done last May at stores in Sarnia, Corunna, Forest and Petrolia, found it cost $1,197 a month to fee
  
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• Petrolia man sentenced for ordering Chinese ‘mystery box’ of weapons

  04-03-2026 19:25 via theobserver.ca
  A Petrolia man was sentenced Tuesday to house arrest for trying to import several illegal weapons from China. Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) officers in Toronto intercepted a package containing prohibited weapons including brass knuckles, a brass knuckle knife, a stun gun, a butterfly knife, and multiple flick knives heading to an apartment on Petrolia Line on Feb. 27, 2025. Investigators watched the Petrolia apartment for three days in mid-March 2025 and made an arrest on March 19, 2025.
  
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• County confirms affordable housing use for former church site in Sarnia

  04-03-2026 18:34 via theobserver.ca
  Lambton County council confirmed Wednesday a public housing project planned for Cathcart Boulevard in Sarnia will provide geared-to-income affordable housing, if it goes ahead. Wednesday’s vote by council approved a recommendation from the county’s housing service following public consultation sessions held in February that attracted about 160 community members. The land previously had been designated for affordable housing but those attending the sessions were asked about the site b
  
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