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Lambton Elderly Outreach announces new CEO

January 5, 2021

Journal Staff Lambton Elderly Outreach has a new chief executive officer. Paula Reaume-Zimmer is currently vice-president of mental health and addiction services at Bluewater Health and the local Canadian Mental…

Lambton’s top doc wants long-term care residents first in line for vaccine

January 4, 2021

Journal Staff Sarnia-Lambton’s first COVID-19 vaccines could be here by the end of January, public health said. “We don’t have a definitive timeline yet, but we are ready and prepared…

Local environmental group offering online speaker series

January 4, 2021

Journal Staff A local environmental group is launching a new online speaker series.

OPP investigating murder of 51-year-old Corunna woman

January 4, 2021

Journal Staff A 51-year-old man has been charged in connections with the death of a Corunna woman. Lambton OPP said officers responded to Riverside Drive in the early hours of…

Charity concert gives New Year’s boost to the Inn

January 3, 2021

Tara Jeffrey Some $6,000 was raised for Sarnia’s Inn of the Good Shepherd thanks to a New Year's Eve concert streamed online by local musician Andrew Borody.

COVID-19 infection rate surging locally as New Year begins

January 2, 2021

Journal Staff Sarnia-Lambton is experiencing the surge in COVID-19 cases that health experts had feared would occur from people socializing over the holidays.

Happy New Year’s

January 1, 2021

From all of us at The Journal, cheerful thoughts and best wishes for the year to come. It has to be better than the last one, right?

Hockey players asked to monitor for COVID-19 symptoms

December 30, 2020

Journal Staff COVID-19 could be spreading in recreational hockey leagues in Lambton County, Public Health said today. An estimated 20 cases have been found connected to adult leagues, they said.

Sarnia man, 31, dies in Boxing Day crash

December 30, 2020

A Sarnia man is dead after a Boxing Day collision in the city’s east end, Police say. Sarnia Police are investigating a head-on collision that occurred on Confederation Street west…

Church devises safer, cost-effective homeless units

December 29, 2020

Troy Shantz New individual room “pods” are giving people staying at River City Sanctuary some privacy and a new sense of home, organizers say. The seven-by-eight foot enclosures include a…