TARA HAGAN The Observer Today marks an important milestone in local history. Exactly 150 years ago today, on November 21, 1859, the first train appeared on the new Grand Trunk Railway (GTR), leaving the fledgling hamlet of Point Edward for Toronto.[...]

Bulletproof vests are zipped up. Automatic weapons are loaded and cocked. A pair of elevator doors open onto a crowded airport terminal. And then: bloody, horrific mayhem.[...]

Centred in the great room of the new St. Joseph's Hospice stands a radiant candlelit, glass-panel fireplace. Inscribed on a memorial plaque are the words, "This little light of mine, I'm gonna let it shine.[...]

Sun Media handicapper Randall the Handle and Sun Media's Rob Longley and Ken Fidlin each has been awarded a fictitious bankroll of $1,000 to start the season.[...]

Cecily Channer believes in guardian angels -- and she's not alone. According to a recent Gallup poll, 82% of women and 72% of men believe in angels.[...]

Dear Readers: Today's local business news: The Observer's building will have a For Sale sign on it next week. This is not the first time The Observer has relocated its office in our 156 years of service to the community.[...]

A nightclub has no place in a neighbourhood no matter who operates it, say neighbours of the former Woody's Beach Bar on Christina Street.[...]

DAVE PAUL The Observer Lightning wasn't about to strike twice for the Sarnia Sting. The last time the Sting faced the Windsor Spitfires, Sarnia stunned the defending Memorial Cup champs with a 6-5 win, in Windsor, on Oct.[...]

PAUL MORDEN The Observer Sue O'Brien doesn't want the Lambton County Children's Charter of Rights to just gather dust on a shelf.[...]

CATHY DOBSON The Observer A nightclub has no place in a neighbourhood no matter who operates it, say neighbours of the former Woody's Beach Bar on Christina Street.[...]

Three additional H1N1 flu vaccination clinics have been added by Lambton's Community Health Services Department. The one-day clinics will be offered at Lambton College on Wednesday and on Dec. 7 from 1 p.[...]

TARA HAGAN The Observer Centred in the great room of the new St. Joseph's Hospice stands a radiant candlelit, glass-panel fireplace. Inscribed on a memorial plaque are the words, "This little light of mine, I'm gonna let it shine.[...]

TYLER KULA The Observer Standing before 600 students at St. Patrick's High school on Friday, Chris D'Souza asked how many human races there are. Hands shot up and answers poured out — "32," one student guessed.[...]

OBSERVER STAFF Bluewater Health has temporarily shut down a patient unit due to a surge in respiratory illness. Additional infection control procedures have been implemented at the Norman Site in the Cognitively Complex Continuing Care Unit (3SCC).[...]

A 54-year-old Wyoming man and a 53-year-old Forest man face charges of disturbance and mischief under $5,000, following an altercation at the Tim Horton's in Reece's Corners, Thursday. Lambton OPP say one man entered the shop and began to yell at a man and woman at a table.[...]

ESSEX — The St. Clair Colts came close to winning the SWOSSAA senior boys' volleyball crown. The Colts lost a hard-fought, four-game match to the Essex Red Raiders Thursday, with scores of 25-17, 25-17, 22-25, 25-22.[...]

SUN MEDIA AMHERSTBURG — The General Amherst Lady Gens captured their fifth straight SWOSSAA title, this time at the AAA level, as they defeated the Sarnia St. Patrick's Fighting Irish 49-30 Thursday night.[...]

Jeffrey Jah has always known where the party's at. The self-described nightlife guru left Toronto at age 16 to make his name in Manhattan. Twenty years later he finds himself in that select group people who run NYC's nightlife.[...]

Frustration with the Ontario Transportation Ministry's lack of action on the Highway 40 expansion reached an all-time high this week during a county council committee meeting.[...]

In the thoroughbred horse race known as the 2009-10 NHL season, more than a handful of competitors have come up lame by the quarter pole.[...]