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• Top cop drops $1.5M lawsuit against Sarnia newspaper, owner

  10-06-2026 22:58 via theobserver.ca
  
  Sarnia’s police chief has withdrawn his lawsuit against a local newspaper and its ownership.Derek Davis in April launched a $1.5-million action against the Sarnia Journal, its Sarnia Media Group Inc. parent company, and majority owner Nathan Colquhoun, alleging defamation.Davis’s Hudson Sinclair LLP lawyers May 29 filed a notice of discontinuance, with prejudice – meaning the lawsuit can’t be refiled.The notice followed a May 1 motion for dismissal from Colquhoun, who re
  
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• Launch party planned for Lambton Library Summer Reading Challenge

  10-06-2026 22:43 via theobserver.ca
  
  Lambton’s library system is throwing a party to help launch its annual summer reading campaign.And officials are counting on program participants to help the county close in on a year-long goal to read 150,000 books, said the system’s Vanitia Campbell.June 20 at Petrolia’s Victoria Park, the 930 a.m.-to-noon free kick-off party for the Summer Reading Challenge – getting kids and adults alike to read for a shot at prizes, and keeping kids sharp during summer break –
  
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• Class project at Corunna school builds community while helping others

  10-06-2026 22:32 via theobserver.ca
  
  Aaron Rupert’s Grade 7-8 class at St. Joseph elementary school in Corunna kept increasing its fundraising goal this school year.“I had this idea for a project all summer,” said the teacher who was part of something similar when he was a pupil in Chatham.Known as the Kingdom Project, it involves a class starting out in September with a small amount of money and working to make it grow as much as possible to donate to a charity when the school year is done.On the second day of s
  
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• Sarnia Lambton Chamber of Commerce fastest-growing mid-size chamber in Canada

  10-06-2026 20:57 via theobserver.ca
  
  After a second year as Canada’s fasted growing mid-sized chamber of commerce, the Sarnia-area business group is eager to move up to the big leagues.The Sarnia Lambton Chamber of Commerce landed recently at the top of the Chamber of Commerce Executives of Canada list of fastest-growing mid-sized organizations this year after being in the same spot last year.Mid-sized chambers have memberships ranging from 350 to 699 members.“Next year, it’s going to be the fastest growing large
  
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• Attempted murder of Sarnia cop trial: Stabbed officer recalls attack

  10-06-2026 20:35 via theobserver.ca
  
  Karl Brown said it felt like he was being punched, but in a bizarre way.After being struck several times in the head, neck area and shoulder, the Sarnia police officer realized what actually was happening.“OK, he’s stabbing me,” Brown recalled thinking, as he testified this week in a Sarnia courtroom.Brown, then a 37-year-old constable, was rushed to London hospital with multiple stab wounds following a welfare check at a downtown Sarnia condo building on Aug. 20, 2024. He was
  
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• $156K in cocaine seized, four charged: Sarnia police

  10-06-2026 18:57 via theobserver.ca
  
  Four people face charges after officers seized an estimated $156,000 in cocaine in searches, Sarnia police say.Drug unit officers with warrants searched homes Monday on Lyndale Crescent and Carleton Place in Sarnia, and Church Street in Point Edward, a police release said.About 1.5 kilograms of cocaine, more than $8,800 in cash, digital scales, packaging materials, cellphones and a debt list were seized, police said.Four people, ages 56, 40, 33 and 27, are charged with possessing cocaine for tr
  
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• Ontario may 'tweak' strong mayor powers after civic election: Bailey

  10-06-2026 16:29 via theobserver.ca
  
  Ontario could be looking to tweak strong mayor legislation after this fall’s municipal election, Sarnia-Lambton’s MPP says.Bob Bailey made the comment while taking questions at a Sarnia Rotary Club meeting Tuesday.“I don’t think the story is done there yet . . . I think after the municipal election, I think we’re going to probably take another look at (strong mayor powers),” Bailey said.About half of the province’s municipalities, including Sarnia, have
  
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