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• Sarnia eyeing industrial development incentives: economic developer

  13-01-2026 16:05 via theobserver.ca
  Lambton lacks incentives for industrial development, but its largest municipality is taking steps to change that, says the head of the county’s economic development agency. Sarnia, whose 2025 economic development master plan urged better marketing for potential investment, is devising an economic development community improvement plan, said Sarnia-Lambton Economic Partnership chief executive Matthew Slotwinski. Monteith Brown Planning Consultants is heading the $63,000 project. It includes
  
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• Sarnia rejects heritage designation for former church building

  20-01-2026 03:16 via theobserver.ca
  An 1880s-built former church in Sarnia won’t be designated under Ontario’s Heritage Act. City council unanimously decided against the designation Monday, recommended by Sarnia’s heritage committee. “This is an extremely difficult position to take considering how important our history is here,” said Coun. Brian White. But the cost to fix the building, if all repairs and refurbishments adhere to the same historical style, is too much, he said. Property owner Anthony M
  
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• Sarnia council nixes heritage tag for 1880s-era former church

  20-01-2026 03:16 via theobserver.ca
  An 1880s-vintage former Sarnia church won’t be designated under Ontario’s Heritage Act. City council unanimously decided against the designation Monday, recommended by Sarnia’s heritage committee. “This is an extremely difficult position to take considering how important our history is here,” said Coun. Brian White. But the cost to fix the building, if all repairs and refurbishments adhere to the same historical style, is too much, he said. Property owner Anthony Mo
  
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• Sarnia airport operations plan up in the air

  20-01-2026 00:21 via theobserver.ca
  Sarnia city council changed its mind Monday about creating a new oversight structure for the municipal airport. Council Monday reversed a decision it made last June, when it approved creating an arm’s-length municipal service corporation (MSC) to run the money-losing city asset. What will take the MSC’s place is yet to be determined. Citing sticker shock – a municipal services corporation is expected to cost $2.1 million to run between mid-2027 and the end of 2029, not includin
  
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• Man, 76, narrowly escapes jail for masked Sarnia-Lambton assault

  19-01-2026 20:15 via theobserver.ca
  A man in his late 70s narrowly avoided jail and is serving house arrest for donning a mask and attacking a man in his former partner’s Sarnia-Lambton doorway. “The circumstances of this case are extremely concerning. I cannot overemphasize the fear and the danger the victims have been living in and are currently living in. They still remain in fear,” assistant Crown attorney Sarah Carmody said as she argued he should spent a year to 14 months in jail. The court heard the 76-yea
  
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• Lambton County libraries collecting valentine cards for long-term care

  19-01-2026 19:29 via theobserver.ca
  Lambton County Library branches are collecting handmade valentines until Jan. 31 to be delivered to residents of the county’s long-term care homes and adult day programs for Valentine’s Day. The annual project has been running in its current format since 2022, said the county library’s Vanitia Campbell. “It’s one of our favourite times of year because we get to collect the valentines and read through them and then distribute them,” she said. “You can tel
  
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• Charges linked to 110 gram MDMA Sarnia drug bust dropped

  19-01-2026 19:20 via theobserver.ca
  Drug trafficking charges laid last fall against a Sarnia man after police found 110 grams of MDMA during a theft probe, have been dropped by the prosecutor. Sarnia police were called Sept. 29 about 3 a.m. about suspects trying to steal from parked vehicles in the area of Russell and Wellington streets, police said in a new release at the time. Officers found two women and a man. They couldn’t find any evidence of vehicles being broken into, but the man acted suspiciously and refused to tak
  
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• Cold weather alert issued for Sarnia-Lambton

  19-01-2026 19:17 via theobserver.ca
  A cold weather alert was issued Monday morning by Lambton County’s medical officer of health. Lambton Public Health said the alert by Dr. Karalyn Dueck follows an Environment Canada weather office forecast of frigid overnight temperatures early in the week. It predicts an overnight low of –15 C Monday and –17 C Tuesday. The alert for Sarnia and Lambton County is expected to remain in place until Wednesday, Lambton Public Health said. The health unit issues a cold weather alert
  
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• Indigenous apartment building ready to open in Sarnia

  19-01-2026 19:03 via theobserver.ca
  A 40-apartment Indigenous affordable housing building on Confederation Street in Sarnia will welcome its first tenants in February. Ontario Aboriginal Housing Services is holding an open house Thursday, 1 p.m. to 4:30 p.m., at the site  at 940 Confederation St. The one, two and three-bedroom apartments are open to First Nations, Inuit and Metis peoples and the five-storey project was built on land donated by Lambton County. “We are very excited about moving toward our rent-up phase,&r
  
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• Page program experience eye opening for Camlachie youth

  19-01-2026 00:10 via theobserver.ca
  MPP Hatch? Maybe one day. Errol Village school eighth-grader Anna Hatch recently spent nearly a month as a legislative page at Queen’s Park, and said she didn’t want to leave. “It’s hard to describe how amazing it was,” the Camlachie 13-year-old said. On the surface, her Nov-17-Dec. 11 stint delivering messages and water to MPPs and helping prepare chambers for daily debate might seem dry, she said. But meeting and conversing with members, including Premier Doug For
  
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• Sarnia-Lambton Alzheimer Society lottery raises $92,000

  18-01-2026 21:12 via theobserver.ca
  A lottery fundraiser for the Sarnia-Lambton Alzheimer Society had its best year so far. About $92,000 was raised in the fifth Custom Kitchen Lottery, said society fund development and communications manager Marie Marcy-Smids. That’s up from about $75,000 in 2025, she said. Nearly half of the 5,000 available tickets sold, she said. Sarnia’s Michelle Claxton won this year’s grand prize, drawn Thursday, a $50,000 kitchen renovation through Bluewater Home Hardware and Building Cent
  
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• Weapon seized in traffic stop - Sarnia Police Service

  18-01-2026 02:23 via news.google.com
  Weapon seized in traffic stop  Sarnia Police Service
  
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• Busy used book sale helps fund community causes - The Sarnia Observer

  17-01-2026 23:34 via news.google.com
  Busy used book sale helps fund community causes  The Sarnia Observer
  
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• Busy used book sale helps fund community causes

  17-01-2026 23:31 via theobserver.ca
  At one point at least, there were about 15,000 books on display for this year’s Rotary Club of Sarnia-Bluewaterland book sale. That’s according to Dale Wilcox, event coordinator with the Sarnia service club. But, she said Saturday, that was just a snapshot. “Since 9 o’clock this morning, my team have been doing nothing but refiling on a regular basis,” she said. “We’re just refilling the tables as fast as we can . . . I have no idea how many books”
  
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• Missing Person Located - Rebecca-Lefthand-Whiteye - Sarnia Police Service

  17-01-2026 22:18 via news.google.com
  Missing Person Located - Rebecca-Lefthand-Whiteye  Sarnia Police Service
  
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• Police investigating Sarnia stabbing - The Sarnia Observer

  17-01-2026 21:00 via news.google.com
  Police investigating Sarnia stabbing  The Sarnia Observer
  
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• Police investigating Sarnia stabbing

  17-01-2026 20:59 via theobserver.ca
  Police are investigating after a stabbing early Saturday on Somerset Crescent in Sarnia, the city’s service says. Police responded at 5:20 a.m. to a disturbance in a basement apartment in the Cardiff Acres neighbourhood, and found an adult male with a “significant” stab wound, “bleeding heavily,” police said. Officers provided life-saving first aid to the victim, until emergency medical services arrived, police said. The man was taken to hospital in critical conditi
  
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• Home invasion thwarted, three charged: Sarnia police

  17-01-2026 20:59 via theobserver.ca
  Three men face multiple charges after an abortive home invasion early Sunday, Sarnia police say. After a 12:45 a.m. 911 call, during which the caller was unable to speak, officers checked multiple addresses in the 300-block of Davis Street, eventually confirming the right door by the sound of banging over the phone, police said.. Two occupants, a woman, 27, and man, 30, shaken but unhurt, led officers to a rear room where three intruders had fled, police said. Officers announced their presence,
  
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• Sarnia Sting fall 4-1 against visiting London Knights - CKNX News Today

  17-01-2026 19:47 via news.google.com
  Sarnia Sting fall 4-1 against visiting London Knights  CKNX News Today
  
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• Police Investigating Early Morning Stabbing - Sarnia Police Service

  17-01-2026 17:38 via news.google.com
  Police Investigating Early Morning Stabbing  Sarnia Police Service
  
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• ‘Violent incident’ leads to increased police presence in Sarnia - CTV News

  17-01-2026 17:07 via news.google.com
  ‘Violent incident’ leads to increased police presence in Sarnia  CTV News
  
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• Sarnia police investigating early morning stabbing - CTV News

  17-01-2026 17:07 via news.google.com
  Sarnia police investigating early morning stabbing  CTV News
  
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• Sarnia Sting fall to 4 to 1 against visiting London Knights - Sarnia News Today

  17-01-2026 14:22 via news.google.com
  Sarnia Sting fall to 4 to 1 against visiting London Knights  Sarnia News Today
  
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• Sarnia Sting fall to 4 to 1 against visiting London Knights - CK News Today

  17-01-2026 14:18 via news.google.com
  Sarnia Sting fall to 4 to 1 against visiting London Knights  CK News Today
  
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• Sarnia woman reported missing - Sarnia News Today

  17-01-2026 10:24 via news.google.com
  Sarnia woman reported missing  Sarnia News Today
  
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• London Knights hold Sarnia Sting to shot-free period in 4-1 win - The Sarnia Observer

  17-01-2026 05:40 via news.google.com
  London Knights hold Sarnia Sting to shot-free period in 4-1 win  The Sarnia Observer
  
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• Man faces additional charges after altercation at Sarnia Jail - Sydenham Current

  17-01-2026 05:23 via news.google.com
  Man faces additional charges after altercation at Sarnia Jail  Sydenham Current
  
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• Offender assaults a corrections officer during jail intake - Sarnia Police Service

  17-01-2026 00:58 via news.google.com
  Offender assaults a corrections officer during jail intake  Sarnia Police Service
  
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• London at Sarnia Game Preview – January 16 - Canadian Hockey League

  16-01-2026 22:55 via news.google.com
  London at Sarnia Game Preview – January 16  Canadian Hockey League
  
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• Lambton Library loaning memory care kits - The Sarnia Observer

  16-01-2026 22:00 via news.google.com
  Lambton Library loaning memory care kits  The Sarnia Observer
  
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