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• Pilot-project 'renovictions' bylaw eyed in Sarnia

  12-06-2026 21:49 via theobserver.ca
  
  Sarnia is eyeing a year-long pilot project aimed at curbing bad-faith evictions in the city.City hall has been monitoring other cities’ “renoviction” bylaws since 2023 and council voted in March to seek public feedback, before potentially shoring up local protections against bad-faith evictions under the guise of renovations.Municipalities such as London, Hamilton and Toronto have passed bylaws requiring municipal licensing for landlords to use N13 eviction notices, to fill wh
  
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• Warwick resident dies in Plympton-Wyoming tractor incident: OPP

  12-06-2026 21:09 via theobserver.ca
  
  A Warwick Township resident died in a farm tractor incident in Plympton-Wyoming, provincial police say.Police, Plympton-Wyoming firefighters and paramedics were called to Churchill Line near Minielly Road about noon Thursday, Lambton OPP said in a news release.A Warwick Township resident, 74, was pronounced dead at the scene, police said. No other information about the individual was released.The intersection was closed for several hours while officers investigated, police said.Police ask anyon
  
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• Sarnia charity celebrating six decades of nature preservation and education

  12-06-2026 21:08 via theobserver.ca
  
  Robert Buchanan led a Lambton Wildlife moth-themed field event for families recently that made an impression on one five-year-old in particular.Buchanan said the boy ended up at one point with moths sitting on each of his fingers, with another on his wrist.“He was jumping up and down,” she said. “He couldn’t have been more excited if he was at Disney World.”Connecting youngsters to nature “is so very important,” said the member of the charity made up of
  
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• Anonymous cash donations aid Inn of the Good Shepherd and Salvation Army food banks in Sarnia

  12-06-2026 21:07 via theobserver.ca
  
  A pair of large anonymous cash donations have eased pressure on food banks at the Inn of the Good Shepherd and Salvation Army in Sarnia.Both agencies announced the donations on Thursday, following action each took in recent weeks to deal with food donations that haven’t kept up with demand.Jack Christine, executive director of the Inn of the Good Shepherd, said Friday it will lift its 40-family-a-day cap on food bank users and the Salvation Army said a $100,000 donation it received will a
  
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• Sarnia spending more, still lagging behind what's needed for infrastructure upkeep: report

  12-06-2026 20:33 via theobserver.ca
  
  Sarnia is getting closer to its target annual reinvestment rate of about $85 million to keep all its roads, bridges, sewers, buildings, vehicles, and other infrastructure intact.Including fleet and contributions to the Lambton Area Water Supply System, Sarnia is spending $71.5 million in 2026 on capital projects, according to a city asset management plan update .That’s up from about $63 million in 2025 .The gap is a struggle for pretty much all cities, engineering and operations general m
  
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• Attempted murder of Sarnia cop trial: Officer heard bang, scream, yell

  12-06-2026 16:09 via theobserver.ca
  
  Erik Ostenfeldt recalled hearing a bang, a scream and a yell.But the Sarnia police officer wasn’t sure if the sounds were coming from his partner, Karl Brown, or the man they were there to do a welfare check on that day two years ago, Ryan Whiteway. When he saw them both on the ground in the bathroom he immediately pinned Whiteway’s arms, took a knife from his right hand, and arrested him, Ostenfeldt said.Josh Mitchell, a Sarnia police staff sergeant who had been notified the office
  
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