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Letters: week of Sept. 24

September 24, 2020

City’s brush policy annoying Sir: Many times I have written letters to the editor of The Sarnia Journal but haven’t sent them. Tonight, I am really annoyed. We are getting…

Donovan Woods is Without People during pandemic

September 23, 2020

Like all recording artists, Juno award-winning Sarnia son Donovan Woods is trying to come up with the best way to release his music during a pandemic. It’s not easy when…

Helen Murray was ‘strong, spirited and a true inspiration’

September 22, 2020

Tara Jeffrey This is the second in a series of tributes to local residents lost to COVID-19 during the current pandemic. Helen Murray, 94.

Great Lakes students return to almost-renovated school

September 22, 2020

Troy Shantz A $25.2-million renovation and addition at Great Lakes Secondary School is back on track after a new contractor was hired, says Brian McKay, the Lambton Kent District School…

Veteran Sarnia firefighter named chief

September 22, 2020

Phil Egan He arrived for a job interview with legendary Fire Chief Cliff Hansen one day in 1987. A young, slim Bryan Van Gaver wanted to be a firefighter, but…

Stark’s new tax proposal goes nowhere

September 21, 2020

Troy Shantz A Sarnia city councillor’s failed motion was meant to generate new revenue for the city as taxpayers face job losses and insolvency due to COVID-19, he says. Coun.…

Limited construction approved for “protected” woodland

September 21, 2020

Cathy Dobson A local developer who wants to build six executive-style houses on a protected woodland says he’s reluctantly crunching the numbers to see if four will work.

It’s a go for minor hockey season

September 20, 2020

Cathy Dobson Local arenas are gradually opening during the pandemic with each municipality deciding what restrictions they require for the safe use of their ice. In Sarnia, the main PASA…

COLUMN: Vacation sales “negligible to nil” with COVID-19

September 20, 2020

When I was in the travel business in Toronto decades ago, we used to say that the only business riskier than running a travel company was owning a restaurant.