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Sarnia reviewing its no-spectator policy for arenas

August 31, 2020

Journal Staff City Hall says it is on working new operating standards to allow spectators for on-ice activities at the Progressive Sales Auto Arena. Under provincial guidelines, no more than…

Shoreline repair work in Bright’s Grove

August 30, 2020

As a worker looks on, a crawler excavator grabs up and places an armour stone on the Bright’s Grove shoreline.

Junior club champions claim titles at Sarnia

August 29, 2020

Jaxon Shelton shot a 71 to secure top spot at the annual Richard Casselman Memorial Junior Club Championship in Sarnia last week.

Despite odds, daughter, dad to realize marathon dream

August 29, 2020

Troy Shantz A Sarnia woman isn’t letting the cancellation of North America’s oldest marathon stop her from crossing the finish line with her father at her side.

TRIBUTE: New memorial to downed airmen about to be unveiled

August 28, 2020

Tom Slater & Tom St. Amand It began with a bike ride. Guus Kroon was cycling through the Netherlands when he noticed several monuments commemorating Allied aircraft that crashed during…

TRIBUTE: Sarnia officer and crewmates are heroes to the Dutch

August 28, 2020

Tom Slater & Tom St. Amand Ted Parsons is not a household name in his hometown of Sarnia, but in Muiden, a village in The Netherlands, he’s familiar to many…

OPINION: Cover up, and give a Christmas gift that keeps on giving

August 27, 2020

Bob McCarthy As far back as 1910, during the Manchurian plague, a Chinese doctor claimed that microbes were being spread by air and that a simple cotton mask could reduce…

Letters: week of Aug. 27

August 27, 2020

Canada in a COVID-induced coma Sir: Most people contracting the COVID-19 now are asymptomatic.

Festival will home stream films to counter winter blahs

August 27, 2020

The format will be dramatically different, but Sarnia’s 6 th annual SWIFF intends to celebrate the art of filmmaking once again, despite a pandemic.

Rolling down the river

August 26, 2020

Sarnia residents who have been out and about lately know Canatara Park has been packed with beach-goers and the St. Clair River alive with recreational boaters, especially near the mouth…