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• Program helping Sarnia-area students with disabilities join workforce

  21-01-2025 20:02 via theobserver.ca
  
  Interns in a project for graduating high school students with disabilities are learning on the job at the Jerry McCaw Family Centre YMCA in Sarnia.
  
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• Gratitude behind ongoing Alix Foundation grants: spokesperson

  08-02-2026 18:09 via theobserver.ca
  Awarding annual grants for community projects is the Judith and Norman Alix Foundation’s way of saying thanks. So says foundation vice-president Adam Alix. “My aunt and uncle, their business thrived because of the partnerships they made within this community,” he said. That industrial and commercial construction company, Steeplejack Services, started in Sarnia in 1977, flourished because of the local petrochemical industry, and grew across Ontario and into the east coast, Alix
  
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• No injuries reported after highway-closing storm

  08-02-2026 16:21 via theobserver.ca
  OPP responded to nearly 400 calls Saturday amid a storm that stranded drivers in Sarnia-Lambton, the police service says. “Wow. What a day,” said OPP Sgt. Ed Sanchuk Saturday, in a video posted to social media around 8:30 p.m. “It’s been an extremely busy day with OPP answering almost 400 calls for service.” Officers and other emergency responders spent the day rescuing people stuck in snow on the shuttered Highway 402 and county side roads, while warming centres we
  
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• Winter storm closes Highway 402

  07-02-2026 16:15 via theobserver.ca
  All of Highway 402 was closed Saturday morning, after a winter storm walloped the region. OPP Const. Ed Sanchuk, in an 8:30 a.m. social media post urged people to stay off the roads, and said OPP have received more than 300 calls since 6 p.m. Friday. “All east and westbound lanes from Sarnia to the 401, and from the 401 split to the 402, it’s closed,” Sanchuk said in a video. “You cannot use the 402.” To motorists stranded, “rest assured we do have resources c
  
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• 'Total whiteout': Roads closed, drivers stranded in Lambton County

  07-02-2026 16:15 via theobserver.ca
  A winter wallop that closed roads and left many stranded in Sarnia-Lambton was drawing comparisons Saturday to 2010’s “Snowmageddon.” “We are no stranger to these weather events,” said Warwick Township Mayor Todd Case, at the east Lambton municipality’s Watford arena that was turned into a warming centre for stranded motorists. “In 2010, we all had Snowmageddon that we all refer to it as,” Case said. The three-day December blizzard and highway clos
  
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• Roads closed, drivers stranded in Lambton County during storm

  07-02-2026 16:15 via theobserver.ca
  A winter storm caused treacherous driving conditions in Lambton County, resulting in the closing of roads and highways and the rescue by police of people in stranded vehicles. A “significant weather event” has been declared for Lambton County because of the hazardous conditions that led to widespread road closings and “numberous vehicles” becoming stranded, Lambton OPP said in a media release at 12:25 p.m. Saturday. Police are urging residents to avoid non-essential trave
  
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• Matt Andersen to perform in Sarnia Feb. 18, fresh off Juno nomination

  06-02-2026 21:23 via theobserver.ca
  Sarnia-area music fans have an opportunity to enjoy a Juno Awards preview when singer-songwriter Matt Andersen’s tour stops Feb. 18 at the Imperial Theatre. Andersen and Mariel Buckley, the tour’s opening act, have been nominated for the Juno’s contemporary roots album of the year prize. In Andersen’s case, it’s for his album, The Hammer and The Rose, while Buckley, a singer-songwriter from Calgary, is nominated for Strange Trip Ahead. “I don’t get too c
  
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• Trucker accused of smuggling 250 kg of meth via Blue Water Bridge

  06-02-2026 20:36 via theobserver.ca
  A truck driver faces drug charges after Blue Water Bridge border officers allegedly seized about 250 kilograms of methamphetamine this week, sources say. The drugs were allegedly found during a search Wednesday evening on the Canadian side of the twin-span bridge connecting the Sarnia area and Michigan. Kulbir Singh faces charges including importing and possessing methamphetamine for trafficking, a Sarnia courtroom heard Thursday afternoon. The charges haven’t been tested in court. Singh,
  
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• Trucker accused of smuggling 250 kg of meth into Canada: sources

  06-02-2026 20:36 via theobserver.ca
  A trucker faces drug charges after Blue Water Bridge border officers allegedly seized about 250 kilograms of methamphetamine this week, sources say. The drugs were allegedly found during a search Wednesday evening on the Canadian side of the twin-span bridge connecting the Sarnia area and Michigan. Kalbir Singh faces charges, including importing and possessing methamphetamine for trafficking, a Sarnia court heard Thursday afternoon. The charges haven’t been tested in court. Singh, standing
  
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• Festival of Cultures moves to Family Day weekend

  06-02-2026 19:29 via theobserver.ca
  Sarnia-Lambton’s Festival of Cultures is making some adjustments. Instead of New Year’s Eve, this year’s gathering featuring food and music is happening the Sunday before Family Day from 1-6 p.m. It’s also moving indoors, to Point Edward’s Monk Street community hall, from the Suncor Agora in Sarnia’s Centennial Park. What isn’t changing is the concept, said Stephanie Ferrera, with the Sarnia Lambton Immigration Partnership, one of the Feb. 15 festival&rs
  
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• Brampton trucker guilty of smuggling cocaine, heroin over Blue Water Bridge

  06-02-2026 18:47 via theobserver.ca
  A Brampton truck driver has been found guilty of smuggling $7.5 million worth of drugs into Canada via the Blue Water Bridge. A total of 55 kilograms of cocaine and five kilograms of heroin were found by Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) officers in suitcases and boxes on a truck at the Sarnia-area bridge on April 8, 2022. Charanpreet Singh, then a 25-year-old truck driver from Brampton, was arrested. He pleaded not guilty in September to four importing and trafficking-related charges as a tw
  
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• Different approach planned for summer company program

  06-02-2026 18:27 via theobserver.ca
  After more demand last year, a long-running grant program in Sarnia-Lambton helping students run summer companies is taking a slightly different approach. So says Alison Minato, manager of the Sarnia-Lambton Economic Partnership’s Business Enterprise Centre. Whereas last year’s six provincially funded grants of up to $3,000 each, along with training and mentorship, were given to 15-29-year-old applicants “based on who came through the door first,” plans are to evaluate th
  
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• Business Enterprise Centre plans new approach to summer company program

  06-02-2026 18:27 via theobserver.ca
  After more demand last year, a long-running grant program in Sarnia-Lambton helping students run summer companies is taking a slightly different approach. So says Alison Minato, manager of the Sarnia-Lambton Economic Partnership’s Business Enterprise Centre. Where last year’s six provincially funded grants of up to $3,000 each, training and mentorship, went to 15- to 29-year-old applicants “based on who came through the door first,” plans this year are to evaluate submitt
  
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• Biz centre plans new approach to summer company program

  06-02-2026 18:27 via theobserver.ca
  After more demand last year, a long-running grant program in Sarnia-Lambton helping students run summer companies is taking a slightly different approach. So says Alison Minato, manager of the Sarnia-Lambton Economic Partnership’s Business Enterprise Centre. Where last year’s six provincially funded grants of up to $3,000 each, training and mentorship, went to 15- to 29-year-old applicants “based on who came through the door first,” plans this year are to evaluate submitt
  
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• Sarnia book sale offers shelf improvement to our soldiers in Latvia

  06-02-2026 18:17 via theobserver.ca
  Rotary Club of Sarnia-Bluewaterland used book sale volunteers always are looking for places to send unsold titles after each year’s sale. When this year’s fundraiser wraps up Saturday at 4 p.m. at DeGroot’s Nurseries’ greenhouse in Sarnia, a dozen boxes of fiction titles, selected from the roughly 11,000 remaining books, will go to Canadian servicepeople with the Canadian-led NATO mission in Latvia. This year’s sale began with 30,000-plus used books from hundreds of
  
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• Sarnia townhouse tenants fighting eviction notices

  06-02-2026 17:33 via theobserver.ca
  After 20 years living at Village Green townhouses in Sarnia, Robyn Johnson says she has no plans to leave. Johnson and other residents at the Exmouth Street complex recently received eviction notices from their new landlord, to make way for renovations. “It’s a bunch of BS,” Johnson said. “I personally think it’s a joke,” added neighbour Terry McManemy. He’s been there about 29 years, he said. Landlord Rex Brondial, who recently sent similar eviction and
  
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• Man charged with Sarnia church strangling walks away a free man

  06-02-2026 16:02 via theobserver.ca
  The Sarnia man accused of strangling a person who was praying inside a downtown church almost exactly one year ago was scheduled to go to trial Thursday. Instead, Nicholas Ritonja had his handcuffs taken off and he walked out of the courthouse a free man after getting a time-served sentence for throwing feces at Sarnia Jail corrections officers and messing up his cell, assaulting a courthouse special constable, and breaching bail. It marked the end of an unusual case that Sarnia police said at t
  
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• Charges dropped against man accused in Sarnia church assault

  06-02-2026 16:02 via theobserver.ca
  A Sarnia man accused of choking a person in downtown church last year was scheduled to go to trial Thursday. Instead, Nicholas Ritonja walked out of the courthouse a free man after receiving a time-served sentence for throwing feces at Sarnia Jail corrections officers, assaulting a courthouse special constable and breaching bail. Ritonja, 38, was charged with assault causing bodily harm, assault with a weapon, mischief and uttering threats linked to the Jan. 4, 2025 incident in the Christina Str
  
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• Plympton-Wyoming mayor satisfied with 2.5 per cent tax increase

  05-02-2026 21:54 via theobserver.ca
  Plympton-Wyoming’s mayor says he’s pleased council was able to keep this year’s tax increase to 2.5 per cent. “I’m very comfortable with it,” said Gary Atkinson, about the $36 million operating and capital spending plan. The increase means an extra $18.46 per $100,000 of residential assessment, the town said in a news release. Water rates are also up 3.6 per cent, and sewer rates 4.4 per cent. The combined budget for those is about $14.5 million. Atkinson, who
  
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• Plympton-Wyoming adopts 2.5 per cent tax hike

  05-02-2026 21:54 via theobserver.ca
  Plympton-Wyoming’s mayor says he’s pleased council was able to keep this year’s tax hike to 2.5 per cent. “I’m very comfortable with it,” said Gary Atkinson, about the $36-million operating and capital spending plan. The tax increase means an extra $18.46 per $100,000 of residential assessment, town officials said in a news release. Water rates are also up 3.6 per cent, and sewer rates 4.4 per cent. The combined budget for those is about $14.5 million. Atkinso
  
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• Province's plan to allow carbon storage may help Sarnia-area - The Sarnia Observer

  05-02-2026 20:30 via news.google.com
  Province's plan to allow carbon storage may help Sarnia-area  The Sarnia Observer
  
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• Province's plan to allow carbon storage may help Sarnia-area

  05-02-2026 20:29 via theobserver.ca
  Ontario’s move to begin considering applications for projects to store greenhouse gas in underground rock formations could benefit the Sarnia area, in time. That’s the assessment of Matthew Slotwinski, chief executive of the Sarnia-Lambton Economic Partnership, an economic development office funded by Lambton County. “We are encouraged that the province is calling for carbon storage now that the Geologic Carbon Storage Act, 2025 has come into effect, as there exists long-term o
  
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• Lambton Kent school board seeks name suggestions for new salt-spreaders - The Sarnia Observer

  05-02-2026 19:20 via news.google.com
  Lambton Kent school board seeks name suggestions for new salt-spreaders  The Sarnia Observer
  
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• Lambton Kent school board seeks name suggestions for new salt-spreaders

  05-02-2026 19:13 via theobserver.ca
  Will Salty McSaltface show up as a nominee in the Name Our Salt Spreader contest running in classrooms with the Lambton Kent District School Board? “I’m sure it will pop up,” associate director Brian McKay said about the contest launched at the suggestion of Caress Lee, the board’s public relations officer. It’s a reference to Boaty McBoatface, a name that received the most votes in a contest a few years ago for a new British government research ship, although it we
  
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• GTA man charged after disturbance: Sarnia police - The Sarnia Observer

  05-02-2026 17:36 via news.google.com
  GTA man charged after disturbance: Sarnia police  The Sarnia Observer
  
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• GTA man charged after disturbance: Sarnia police

  05-02-2026 17:34 via theobserver.ca
  A GTA man faces charges after a disturbance Tuesday, Sarnia police say. Officers went to a Finch Drive convenience store where a man reportedly behaved erratically, threatened to damage a vehicle and blocked it in with a black van, a police release said. When officers found a black van near the Finch Drive convenience store, the driver tried to drive off, but stopped when an officer opened the driver’s door, police said. The driver made threats, became violent while being arrested and
  
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• Closer ties recommended for Sarnia, local Indigenous people - The Sarnia Observer

  05-02-2026 16:21 via news.google.com
  Closer ties recommended for Sarnia, local Indigenous people  The Sarnia Observer
  
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• Lambton County residents asked for input on new housing and homelessness plan - The Sarnia Observer

  05-02-2026 16:18 via news.google.com
  Lambton County residents asked for input on new housing and homelessness plan  The Sarnia Observer
  
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• Closer ties recommended for Sarnia, local Indigenous people

  05-02-2026 16:16 via theobserver.ca
  Sarnia should be working closer with local Indigenous populations, consulting First Nations on projects affecting land and water, and embracing and acknowledging treaty history. Those are among the recommendations coming to city council Monday from Sarnia’s United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples working group. Among the working group’s 20 recommendations, are calls for codifying shared service agreements for things like fire and police in bylaw, having regular
  
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• Lambton County residents asked for input on new housing and homelessness plan

  05-02-2026 16:14 via theobserver.ca
  Lambton County invites the public to take part in a survey to help prepare a new 10-year plan for providing affordable housing and preventing homelessness. The online survey at lambtononline.ca/hhplan is confidential, takes about 10 minutes to complete and will be available until Feb. 13. “We always want to hear from the public, especially those of lived experience, to make sure we’re hearing their voice, hearing where they see the need, where we can improve our service delivery, the
  
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