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Feb 12, 21 •
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Municipal officials ask the public to get involved in a request to re-name the Wheatley soccer field to the Michael Laliberte Memorial Soccer Field. Laliberte was just 16 when cancer claimed him last July. During his three-year battle with the illness, he not...
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Dec 28, 20 •
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Chatham-Kent police busted a church service in Wheatley on Sunday for violating provincial COVID-19 lockdown orders. The lockdown rules went into effect at 12:01 a.m. on Boxing Day, and at 11 a.m. the next day, officers were called to the Old Colony...
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Oct 21, 20 •
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Assault charges A local man faces assault charges after an altercation on King Street East in Chatham yesterday. According to Chatham-Kent police, two men argued, and one man hit the other in the leg with a shower curtain rod. The man was arrested and the...
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Oct 20, 20 •
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Drug charges Last night, a Chatham-Kent police officer on general patrol observed a car travelling eastbound on Park Avenue East in Chatham with an excessively loud muffler. A traffic stop was initiated on Creek Road. Through investigation, police observed...
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Aug 13, 20 •
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Chatham-Kent OPP have released the identity of a man who drowned near Wheatley Provincial Park a month ago. Santos Cuc Diaz, 28, of Guatemala, was seen going into the lake and remained under water for several minutes on July 12. Police say the victim was...
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Aug 4, 20 •
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Mobile drive-thru COVID-19 testing takes to the road again in the near future, hitting Wheatley and Dresden during the month of August. Testing takes place in Wheatley at the arena Aug. 11 and 12 from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., and at Dresden Raceway in Dresden Aug....
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Jul 16, 20 •
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Entegrus has scheduled a planned outage that will affect Wheatley (765 customers) on Sunday The power will go off between 5 a.m. and 6 a.m., Entegrus officials said. The purpose of the outage is to replace electrical equipment. All affected customers will...
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Jul 14, 20 •
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Sad news out of Wheatley, as a young man drowned Sunday. Chatham-Kent OPP say emergency crews received a call shortly after 4 p.m. Sunday of a possible drowning in Lake Erie near Wheatley Provincial Park. Police report a 28-year-old man went into the water...
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Jun 25, 20 •
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Drug charges Yesterday morning, police responded to a disturbance between two men known to each other in Wallaceburg. A 28-year-old Wallaceburg man was arrested and charged with assault. Upon being searched incident to arrest, the man was found to be in...
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Jun 8, 20 •
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Serious collision Sunday night Just before 7 p.m. last night, Chatham-Kent emergency crews responded to a two-vehicle collision involving a motorcycle and ATV on Charing Cross Road. Police say the driver of a motorcycle was travelling southbound on Charing...
