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• Liquid air energy storage project proposed for St. Clair Township

  17-07-2026 22:18
  
  An open house is planned Monday to provide information about a liquid air energy storage project proposed for St. Clair Township.Toronto-based NRStor is hosting the open house from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. and 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. at the Moore Sports Complex, Emily Street, Mooretown.The company plans to submit a proposal later this year to the Ontario Independent Electricity System Operator for the project, said Ines Ribeiro Canella, director of project development for NRStor.“The base-case size will
  
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• Corunna celebrates new medical lab

  17-07-2026 22:11
  
  A new medical laboratory in Corunna may be a game changer for Matt Clifford’s patients, who’ve had to travel to other communities for testing in recent years.The family doctor and one of five investors in the year-old St. Clair Medical Centre recalls years ago starting petitioning for a medical laboratory to move to the St. Clair Township community, after another closed.“I always thought it was backwards to take away services like this from a community such as Corunna,”
  
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• Restored Canatara Cabin officially opens at Lambton Heritage Museum

  17-07-2026 20:52
  
  The Canatara Cabin is back together and open to the public after arriving at the Lambton Heritage Museum about six years ago as a pile of logs.Believed to have been built in Goderich in the 1830s, the cabin was floated down Lake Huron to Sarnia in the 1930s, moved to the city’s Canatara Park in 1971, then donated and moved to the Lambton Shores museum in 2020.The cabin has ties to Canatara Park benefactor Maud Hanna and the family of former Sarnia councillor and builder Lorne Hay.Museum o
  
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• Deadly Lambton College shooting: Murder suspect back in court from jail

  17-07-2026 19:55
  
  The London man who was on the lam for 18 days after the deadly triple shooting outside the Lambton College student pub appeared briefly appeared in a Sarnia court Friday for an update on his murder case.Dane Nisbet, 20, of Sarnia, died in hospital shortly after the shooting about 1 a.m. April 10 on the patio of the student-run Lion’s Den pub. Two other unidentified young men, longtime friends and former junior hockey teammates of Nisbet’s, were injured by gunfire, police said.Two Lo
  
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• Saturday's Rotary Club Mackinac Race breakfast in Point Edward cancelled

  17-07-2026 15:58
  
  Saturday’s Rotary Club of Sarnia Mackinac Race breakfast next to the Blue Water Bridge has been cancelled due to air quality warnings caused by smoke from northern Ontario wildfires.Service club volunteers had been slated to begin setting up grills, a tent and tables in Point Edward’s Waterfront Park Friday for the 44th pancake and sausage breakfast held next to the St. Clair River as sailboats in the Bayview Mackinac Race make their way from Port Huron, Mich., into Lake Huron.&ldqu
  
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• Person sleeping in dumpster tossed into garbage truck: Sarnia fire

  17-07-2026 14:59
  
  A person who was sleeping in a dumpster was injured after they were accidently tossed into the back of a garbage truck Friday morning, Sarnia fire officials say.Sarnia firefighters were called about a person trapped inside a garbage truck shortly after 6 a.m., according to a post on the Sarnia Fire Rescue Facebook page.“The individual had reportedly been sleeping in a dumpster when it was emptied into the truck. The person fell a considerable distance into the nearly empty hopper and was
  
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• Person dozing in dumpster hurt in plunge into garbage truck: Sarnia fire

  17-07-2026 14:59
  
  In a rare and odd incident, a person sleeping in a dumpster was hurt after being emptied into the back of a garbage truck Friday morning, a Sarnia fire official says.Sarnia firefighters responded to a report of a person trapped in a garbage truck just after 6 a.m., Sarnia Fire Rescue said on social media.“The individual had reportedly been sleeping in a dumpster when it was emptied into the truck,” the department said. “The person fell a considerable distance into the nearly e
  
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• Person dozing in dumpster hurt in plunge into garbage truck

  17-07-2026 14:59
  
  A person sleeping in a dumpster was hurt after being emptied into a garbage truck Friday morning.Firefighters used a ladder to climb into the truck and then pulled the person out around 6 a.m. The person was assessed by Lambton EMS paramedics and taken to Bluewater Health, Sarnia Fire Rescue said on social media.“The individual had reportedly been sleeping in a dumpster when it was emptied into the truck,” the fire department said. “The person fell a considerable distance into
  
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• Famed performer, producer Lanois brings summer tour to Sarnia

  17-07-2026 14:53 via theobserver.ca
  
  Musician and songwriter Daniel Lanois, who has produced award-winning albums for U2, Bob Dylan, Peter Gabriel and others, brings his summer tour of Ontario to Sarnia Aug. 8.The Quebec native, who began producing music with his brother as a teenager in the Hamilton area, will perform at Sarnia’s Imperial Theatre with his trio including Jermaine Holmes and Jim Wilson.Other tour stops include Orillia, Lindsay, Meaford, Fergus and Picton.“I just love travelling through Ontario in the su
  
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