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Lambton drunk driving charges up as OPP gear up for RIDE season
November 15, 2024
As police across the province prepare for the Christmas season, there’s word the number of impaired driving charges in Lambton is climbing.
The West Region OPP say officers have conducted 10,170 RIDE check events 20 per cent more than last year at the same time.
So far in 2024, 10 people – including one in Lambton – have lost their lives in alcohol or drug related collisions in West Region, compared to 24 deaths in 2023 – a 58 per cent decrease.
Across southwestern Ontario OPP have laid over 2,384 impaired driving charges to date in 2024. Police say 148 charges were laid in Lambton, eight per cent more than a year before.
Police are urging holiday drivers not to drink and drive and also to report people driving erratically.
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Heat warning issued for Wednesday and Thursday
June 10, 2026
FROM LAMBTON PUBLIC HEALTH With the prediction of hot and humid weather expected for Wednesday, June 10through Thursday, June 11, Environment and Climate Change Canada is issuing a Heat Warning forLambton County. Heat warnings are issued when two or more consecutive days of daytime maximum temperatures areexpected to reach 31°C or warmer and nighttime minimum temperatures are expected to sit
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MP calls out OPP after doxxing incidents
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Heather Wright/The Independent Sarnia-Lambton-Bkejwanong MP Marilyn Gladu is calling out the OPP after failing to charge a man who released her home address online. Gladu has been subject to public ridicule and harassment online, attacks at her Sarnia constituency office and threats to her staff as well as personal death threat after the long-time Conservative MP decided to join the
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Sarnia interim police chief on the job
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Co-founder of Lambton Concert Band retires
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Blake Ellis/The Independent For 82 years, Norm Sutherland has immersed himself in his passion of playing music and performing with various bands. May 24, the 92 year-old Petrolia man gave his last performance with the Bluewater Wind Ensemble, a group he has been playing with for the past two years. Sutherland joined Petrolia’s White Rose Junior Band at the age
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