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Troy Shantz Sophia Spencer has always had a thing for bugs. And because of it, the eight-year-old Sarnia girl is now a published author and something of a celebrity.

Troy Shantz Caring for of some of Sarnia’s most vulnerable has gone to the dogs — and that’s a good thing. The local branch of St. John’s Ambulance has been…

Troy Shantz and George Mathewson Henry Windler has been turning a lot of heads in his central Sarnia neighbourhood lately. The 88-year-old retiree is the first in Sarnia to drive…

Cathy Dobson Patricia Rozema was preparing to shoot the opening scene of her Jane Austen movie “Mansfield Park” when she was hit with an immobilizing headache. In the hospital, she…

Cathy Dobson A chance sampling of a particularly tasty cinnamon glazed pecan was a game changer for Sarnia’s Miranda Sheppard. “I tasted these delicious nuts for the first time 10…

Cathy Dobson Local artist Liana Russwurm doesn’t candy-coat childhood in her latest series of paintings. They are snippets of time and events that evoke the fears and imagination of her…

Troy Shantz When Sarnia’s own Southwestern International Film Festival returns next month it could draw from a wider audience, thanks to new provincial funding.

Sarnia will soon begin looking for a new police chief. Phil Nelson, who has led Sarnia Police Services the past eight year, is set to retire in June of 2018,…

Journal Staff Flags flew at half-mast at public school all across the district last week to honour teacher and union leader Ron Rivait, who lost a brief battle to cancer…

Troy Shantz Sarnia’s Kathy Ptaszynski worked 42 years as a nurse, but it was only after she started caring for her elderly mother that she noticed cracks in the local…