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• Captain Kidd Days back for year 41

  03-08-2026 15:31 via theobserver.ca
  
  CORUNNA – The 41 st edition of Captain Kidd Days got off to a great start here.“Last night was awesome,” committee member Darrell Gignac said Saturday morning as he was setting up an oversized photo booth in Corunna Athletic Park.The good times continued Saturday with various sports being played around the park, including ball hockey, baseball and volleyball, while others waited for the parade participants to arrive. In the meantime, several kids play areas were being set up i
  
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• Pat Stapleton Arena repair work estimated at $200,000

  05-08-2026 22:49 via theobserver.ca
  
  Sarnia’s Pat Stapleton Arena needs about $200,000 in repair work to address leaks and unanticipated water damage, city officials say.Wind out of the west during rain storms has been blowing water through gaps between the clad, blue-gray west wall of the Brock Street barn and the flat roof over the lower lobby area, and into a lobby bulkhead, said Adam MacDonald, Sarnia’s community services general manager.“Just age of the building,” he said.Exterior and drywall repairs a
  
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• Lawrence House literary blog seeking Indigenous contributors

  05-08-2026 22:37 via theobserver.ca
  
  An upcoming edition of Uproar, the Lawrence House Centre for the Arts online literary blog, is seeking submissions by Indigenous writers and artists.The edition, set for release Sept. 30, celebrates Indigenous writers and artists of all ages with an emphasis on local residents.“We’re trying to get a voice back for Indigenous people,” and literature and the arts are among the best places for that to happen, said Rhonda Melanson, a member of the literary committee at the Lawrenc
  
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• Criminal investigation of Sarnia police chief underway: Board chair

  05-08-2026 21:49 via theobserver.ca
  
  A criminal investigation related to a public complaint about Sarnia’s suspended police chief is underway, Sarnia’s police board chair says.Kelly Ash didn’t name the service conducting the investigation.“But I can tell you it’s another police service,” she said.Ash said she couldn’t specify the allegations against Sarnia police Chief Derek Davis or the number of people under investigation to protect privacy and the integrity of the investigation.“I
  
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• Copper wire, lightning rods stolen in St. Clair Township break-in: Police

  05-08-2026 19:02 via theobserver.ca
  
  Lightning rods and copper wire were stolen in a break-in at a business in St. Clair Township, Lambton OPP says.Someone cut a hole in a fence around a business on Rokeby Line between 5 p.m. on July 27 and 8 a.m. on July 28, police said in a news release.The stolen wire and lightning rods are valued at about $8,000, police said.Anyone with information about the incident, or footage from dash or security cameras, is asked to call 1-888-310-1122 or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477. Thedford golf ca
  
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• More federal investment happening Sarnia-Lambton: MP

  04-08-2026 22:43 via theobserver.ca
  
  A decision to cross the floor and join the Liberals is paying off when it comes to community investment, says Sarnia-Lambton-Bkejwanong’s MP.“Every day I’m receiving emails . . . announcing funding,” said Marilyn Gladu.Then range from just a few thousand dollars to hundreds of thousands of dollars for local projects and initiatives, said the long-time Conservative who switched to the governing Liberals in April .“They’re not huge announcements, but they&rsquo
  
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• More federal investment happening in Sarnia-Lambton: MP

  04-08-2026 22:43 via theobserver.ca
  
  A decision to cross the floor and join the Liberals is paying off when it comes to community investment, says Sarnia-Lambton-Bkejwanong’s MP.“Every day I’m receiving emails . . . announcing funding,” said Marilyn Gladu.They range from just a few thousand dollars to hundreds of thousands of dollars for local projects and initiatives, said the long-time Conservative who switched to the governing Liberals in April .“They’re not huge announcements, but they&rsquo
  
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• Action needed to protect Line 5: MP

  04-08-2026 21:44 via theobserver.ca
  
  A Team Canada approach is needed to protect Enbridge’s Line 5 and the thousands of local jobs it supports, says Marilyn Gladu.“It’s a huge issue,” said the Sarnia-Lambton-Bkejwanong MP, speaking to Golden K Kiwanis club members in Sarnia Tuesday.Michigan’s Supreme Court Friday ordered state regulators to reconsider a permit that would allow Enbridge to upgrade the 1,038-kilometre Line 5 with a tunnel under the Straits of Mackinac.That means contentious tunnel const
  
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• Lambton College to offer wildfire prevention and emergency response program in fall 2027

  04-08-2026 21:28 via theobserver.ca
  
  Approval for Lambton College’s new wildfire prevention and emergency response diploma program arrived just days before smoke from Northern Ontario fires blanketed Sarnia and elsewhere.The timing of conditions supporting the need for the program “just worked out,” said Aaron Klooster, dean for the Sarnia college’s fire science programs.The advanced diploma program will launch in September 2027 and be offered in three semesters during two years for graduates of pre-service
  
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• Children's hearing screening clinics being offered at First Nations in Lambton County

  04-08-2026 18:15 via theobserver.ca
  
  Families living at First Nations in Lambton County will be able to access hearing screening clinics for children closer to home because of funding from Shell.The company with a refinery and chemical plant near Corunna donated $100,000 during three years to help Pathways Health Centre for Children in Sarnia expand pediatric developmental and rehabilitation services at Aamjiwnaang, Kettle and Stony Point, and Walpole Island First Nations.The donation grew out of an industry First Nation’s s
  
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• Lakeshore Road closed due to single-car crash: Sarnia police

  02-08-2026 18:57 via theobserver.ca
  A section of north Sarnia was closed Sunday after a single-car crash, Sarnia police said.Police issued a press release shortly before 10:30 a.m., saying they were investigating a single-vehicle collision in the area of Lakeshore Road and Egmond Drive.“As a result, Lakeshore Road between Egmond Drive and Beach Lane will be closed for an unknown period of time. Please find an alternate route and avoid the area if possible,” police said.No other details about the crash, including if th
  
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• Latest Line 5 ruling a ‘huge setback’: Sarnia’s mayor

  02-08-2026 16:46 via theobserver.ca
  
  The future of Enbridge’s Line 5, an oil and natural gas liquids pipeline vital to Sarnia petrochemical industries, has suffered a huge setback, Sarnia Mayor Mike Bradley says.According to CBS Detroit, in a 6-1 decision Friday the Michigan Supreme Court ordered state regulators to reconsider an important permit that allowed a planned tunnel to carry an oil pipeline under part of the Great Lakes to move forward.Line 5 runs from Wisconsin to Sarnia and includes a crossing of the Straits of M
  
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• Non-profit, substance-free, transitional housing program opens in former high school

  31-07-2026 21:46 via theobserver.ca
  
  The Anchor, a non-profit and substance-free transitional housing program, has opened in space on the third floor of the former Sarnia Collegiate Institute and Technical Schoolin Sarnia.Chief executive Barry Bentley said his business, Hughes Intelligence, is currently funding the program, with cooperation from the building’s owner, GTA Lands Group.“This wouldn’t happen if the owners of this building didn’t see the need and have the confidence they can make a difference,&r
  
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• Motorist, 21, dead after single-vehicle crash: Lambton OPP

  31-07-2026 18:52 via theobserver.ca
  
  BROOKE-ALVINSTON – A 21-year-old has died after a single-vehicle crash here early Friday, provincial police say.Emergency crews were called to a “serious” one-vehicle collision at Courtright Line and Nauvoo Road about 7:20 a.m., Lambton OPP said.“As a result of the collision, the lone occupant, a 21-year-old individual from Newbury, was pronounced deceased at the scene,” police said in a midday update Friday.Lambton OPP officers and the West Region traffic incident
  
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• Motorist, 21, dead after single-vehicle crash in Lambton County: OPP

  31-07-2026 18:52 via theobserver.ca
  
  BROOKE-ALVINSTON – A 21-year-old person has died following a single-vehicle crash here early Friday morning, Lambton OPP say.Emergency crews were sent to a “serious” one-vehicle collision at the intersection of Courtright Line and Nauvoo Road around 7:20 a.m., police said.“As a result of the collision, the lone occupant, a 21-year-old individual from Newbury, was pronounced deceased at the scene,” police said in an update issued around 12:20 p.m. Friday.Lambton OPP
  
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• Accessibility improved at Lambton County Developmental Services office in Petrolia

  31-07-2026 17:31 via theobserver.ca
  
  A $90,000 renovation project has boosted accessibility at the Lambton County Developmental Services administration building in Petrolia.With about $60,300 from a federal Enabling Accessibility Fund, a ramp was built between two sections of the building and three washrooms are now accessible.“It’s something that has been on our radar for a long time to get our admin office more accessible,” said executive director Nick Salaris.The non-profit organization supports adults with de
  
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• Sarnia-Lambton's Big Squeeze lemonade stand fundraiser returns Aug. 5

  30-07-2026 20:54 via theobserver.ca
  
  The Big Squeeze, a super-charged lemonade stand fundraiser for Big Brothers Big Sisters of Sarnia-Lambton , is set for Aug. 5.So far, 77 businesses and locations have signed on to run lemonade stands for the public from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. and collect donations for the non-profit organization providing mentorship for young people ages five to 18.This year’s total climbs to 79 when businesses running internal lemonade stands are added in, said Emma Grant, one of three summer students organiz
  
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• Blue Water Bridge smuggling trial: Emotional trucker acquitted of charges

  30-07-2026 20:50 via theobserver.ca
  
  Ravinderbir Singh initially seemed elated.The Brampton truck driver, accused of trying to smuggle 281 bricks of cocaine worth between $5 million and $34 million over the Blue Water Bridge last year, exchanged handshakes and a bro hug with his lawyers after hearing a Sarnia judge’s decision Thursday morning.“Mr. Singh is hereby found not guilty of all charges,” Justice Mark Poland said after spending an hour explaining his verdicts.But the smile quickly turned to tears as he le
  
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• Service Ontario operator in Corunna says future uncertain under provincial compensation system

  30-07-2026 18:25 via theobserver.ca
  
  Changes to the way the province pays independent Service Ontario operators are making it hard for a third-generation operator in Corunna to keep going.Christyann Alexander owns and operates the Service Ontario counter on Lyndock Street in Corunna, a business started by her grandmother and passed along by her mother, but a new payment system by the province is making its future uncertain.Alexander has launched an online petition seeking changes to the compensation system she says also impacts ot
  
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• Court documents ID accused in Sarnia, Kettle Point drug probe

  29-07-2026 22:50 via theobserver.ca
  
  Court records identify two of the accused in a recent drug probe, which Anishinabek police said started in May and led to the arrest last week of four people in Sarnia and Lambton Shores.Anishinabek police said on July 21 their officers pulled over a “vehicle of interest” in Lambton Shores. They found seven grams of suspected fentanyl and 51 hydromorphone tablets.Two people were arrested. The driver, a 57-year-old man from Kettle Point First Nation, and the passenger, a 43-year-old
  
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• International Symphony Orchestra offering 'sensory-friendly' concert in Sarnia

  29-07-2026 22:49 via theobserver.ca
  
  A free afternoon concert designed for audience members with sensory sensitivities is being offered by the International Symphony Orchestra on Aug. 5 at the Sarnia library theatre.Tickets to the 2 p.m. concert, Music Brings Joy: a Sensory Friendly Experience, are available at the symphony’s website theiso.org .The concert, with funding from Lambton County’s creative county grant program, is for all ages and designed for individuals with sensory sensitivities, including neuro-diverse
  
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• Ontario changes direction on westbound 402 speed limits in Sarnia

  29-07-2026 19:49 via theobserver.ca
  
  Ontario’s Transportation Ministry says it changed its plan for the speed limit in the westbound lanes of Highway 402 in Sarnia after local officials raised safety concerns.The ministry announced in June a section of the highway would see its speed limit rise to 110 km/h from 350 metres east of Colborne Road to Waterworks Road on July 31, as part of a provincewide move to raise the speed limit on several sections of 400 series highways.Point Edward’s OPP detachment board and Sarnia M
  
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• Sarnia police, Lambton OPP seeking to ID five suspects

  28-07-2026 19:59 via theobserver.ca
  
  Police in Sarnia and Lambton County are looking to identify five people after a trio of incidents: ROBBERY IN SARNIA Two masked people, a man and a woman, entered a business in the 300 block of Wellington Street on Tuesday just after midnight Tuesday and the man handed over a note that demanded money and threatened violence.After the register was opened, the woman took all the cash, which was several hundred dollars. They left on foot around 2:20 a.m. and, despite the canine unit being called i
  
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• Four truckers arrested on Blue Water Bridge part of massive Project Bay probe

  28-07-2026 16:29 via theobserver.ca
  
  The four truck drivers recently arrested on the Canadian side of the Blue Water Bridge on drug smuggling charges were part of a massive border probe that swept up 21 people on more than 100 charges and netted more than $139 million in illegal drugs, officials say.As The Observer reported earlier this month, based on court records, Canadian border officers at the twin-span bridge linking the Sarnia area and Michigan seized hundreds of kilograms of illegal drugs worth tens of millions of dollars
  
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• Sarnia man arrested after shots fired: police

  27-07-2026 18:32 via theobserver.ca
  
  A 47-year-old Sarnia man is facing a slew of weapons charges after shots were allegedly fired at a vehicle in an incident with no clear motive, Sarnia police say.A person who lives in the 1100 block of Overlea Crescent, which is near Cardiff Drive and Murphy Road, called police shortly before 9 a.m. Thursday after they found several holes in the rear driver’s-side door of their vehicle. Officers talked to another neighbour, who reported hearing a loud noise they believed to be a gunshot a
  
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• Corunna's Andrew Barr takes a long run at his debut comedy special

  26-07-2026 16:37 via theobserver.ca
  
  Corunna’s Andrew Barr went on the longest run of his life right before recording his first standup comedy special.He ran for 12 hours and a total of 104 km, or two and a half marathons, on a treadmill on stage and then delivered a full performance for an audience recorded and released on YouTube as Andrew Barr Goes Nowhere.The now Toronto-based comedian’s debut standup special was designed as a metaphor of his battle with addiction and a fundraiser for the rehabilitation facility wh
  
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• SOAR fly-in returns Aug. 8 to airport in Sarnia

  26-07-2026 13:44 via theobserver.ca
  
  An opportunity to look around the Sarnia Chris Hadfield Airport, see airplanes on the ground, talk to their pilots and support Pathways Health Centre for Children returns Aug. 8 with the Sarnia Ontario Aviation Rally Fly-in.It will be the fifth SOAR Fly-in at the airport in Sarnia organized by the Canadian Owners and Pilots Association Flight 7. The local group with the association held the free events annually for four years to showcase the city’s airport but took 2025 off before plannin
  
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• Debates for Sarnia mayor and council candidates set for October

  25-07-2026 19:04 via theobserver.ca
  
  Nominations for Sarnia city council will be open for several more weeks but dates for a pair of debates by candidates for mayor and city council have been set.A debate for candidates running for mayor this fall, and a second debate for candidates running for council, will be hosted in October by a group of local organizations that includes the Sarnia-Lambton Chamber of Commerce, the Imperial Theatre, The Book Keeper, the Jean Collective, and Healthy Democracy.General admission-seating tickets,
  
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• Veggie races heat up Petrolia Farmers Market: photos

  25-07-2026 17:09 via theobserver.ca
  
  Vegetables were rolling Saturday at the Petrolia Farmers Market.It was the third annual Veggie Race hosted by the Lambton County Library which has a Petrolia branch in an historic railway station building next to the farmer’s market in Petrolia’s downtown.Vanitia Campbell, with the county library, said the first race was held three years ago as part of the library’s One Seed program that encouraged local residents to grow zucchinis at home.Youngsters were encouraged to attach
  
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• PHOTOS: Veggie races heat up Petrolia Farmers Market

  25-07-2026 17:09 via theobserver.ca
  
  Vegetables were rolling Saturday at the Petrolia Farmers’ Market.It was the third annual veggie race hosted by the Lambton County Library, which has a Petrolia branch in an historic railway station building next to the farmers’ market in Petrolia’s downtown.Vanitia Campbell, with the county library, said the first race was held three years ago as part of the library’s One Seed program that encouraged local residents to grow zucchinis at home.Youngsters were encouraged to
  
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