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The Lambton chapter of the Canadian Cancer Society has a new manager. Bill Yurchuk has almost 18 years experience in financial services with management skills learned at the local, regional and national level.

A gazebo that will overlook the St. Clair River has been approved for Sarnia’s southern boundary, pending consultation with the Aamjiwnaang First Nation.

With the arrival of the new Refined Fool Brewing Company in May, a colourful 150-year tradition will have returned to Sarnia. George Russell founded Sarnia’s first brewery in 1862, an act for which grateful residents named a street in his honour.

Two men have been arrested in connection with a city home invasion Thursday morning that sent a man to hospital, Sarnia Police say.

POINT EDWARD – Most streetlights in the village will be replaced this year with LED bulbs that burn brighter and cost less to maintain. “We’ve got a lot of old high pressure sodium lights out there that need replacing,” says Mayor Larry MacKenzie.

The man Sarnia Police had been searching for, Brennan Ouimet, was located just prior to the noon hour Thursday. He was found to be in good health and there is no longer concern for his well-being.

Two city agencies founded decades ago to help abused woman are sharing an executive director and looking at other potential partnerships.

Sarnia Police are looking for the driver of a red car wanted in connection with a hit and run collision Monday. At around 9:30 a.m. a 2005 Hyundai was southbound in the centre lane of Indian Road near London Road.

Residents report seeing at least two cougars on the loose in Sarnia-Lambton this winter, and we don’t mean the sort that maul young bucks in nightclubs.

Dave Ferguson is planting three to four acres of nut tree seedlings this spring, part of a fledgling movement to establish a hazelnut industry in Ontario. “The crop is new but the market is there,” Ferguson said.