It is becoming a familiar business plan for Mark Steadman and Ross George; find an under-used community building, still in good condition, renovate and add a daycare. The Brigden duo started it in their hometown, repurposing the old Masonic Lodge in Brigden in 2023 and partnered with Kiddies Korner to operate the daycare. At the time, Steadman, a young father, said they wanted

The Independent The 1991 International Plowing Match Legacy lives on, even as another is being planned for 2027. During the Brigden Fair, the IPM Legacy Scholarships were presented. Receiving the award were Tyler McGrail of Plympton-Wyoming, who is taking justice and legal studies at the University of Guelph in the hopes of becoming an environment lawyer, Julia Drury of Petrolia

Moratorium protecting all Lambton post offices from closing lifted Heather Wright/The Independent The mail is moving again but what will happen to small town post offices, including a number in Lambton County, remains up in the air. Friday CUP-W said Canada Post workers across the country would move from a nation-wide strike to rotating strikes. “This will start mail and

Heather Wright/The Independent Horst Richter is getting his land back more than a decade after he first donated it. But it will cost him some cash. According to a bylaw passed, without comment, at the Oct. 14 Petrolia council meeting, Richter will pay all the fees associated with returning the land, including legal fees. In 2014, Richter donated five acres