LCCVI runner heading to OFSAA again

October 26, 2023

LCCVI’s James Grant is heading for the provincial high school cross country in Etobicoke on

Nov. 4. He won the junior boys event at SWOSSA this week by a 37-second margin over his closest competitor from Cardinal Carter in Leamington. His time of 16 minutes even was 13 seconds faster than his time in winning LKSSAA last week in Chatham.

Meantime, Wyatt Ferguson of North Lambton is also heading to OFSSA after finishing third in the novice boys’ race this week. He won the Lambton Kent title last week.

Environmental club takes to Petrolia for community clean up

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Traffic, economic development raised at Dawn-Euphemia all-candidates night

October 1, 2026

Heather Wright/The Independent Jerry Burns had a simple question of the candidates for Dawn-Euphemia council – why don’t we use rumble strips on our roads? For Burns, the township’s first fire chief and the organizer of the Sept. 23 debate, it’s a very personal matter. “My father was killed in an automobile accident 50 years ago, at the intersection of

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Province says no to cash for transport for First Nations students going to public school

October 1, 2026

Blake Ellis/The Independent The provincial government won’t provide transportation funding for First Nation students attending public schools. That word from Education Minister Paul Calandra on September 22. Lambton Kent District School Board Chair Kelley Robertson sent a letter to Calandra asking for Indigenous students living on First Nations who are attending Lambton-Kent schools be deemed as pupils of the board

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Sarnia Sting prepare for home opener after snapping long losing streak in Ottawa

October 1, 2026

Barry Wright/The Independent To say what happened in Ottawa was a rarity would be a massive understatement. The Sting’s 10-3 win Sunday in the capital was its first in Ottawa in nearly two decades. Sarnia’s last victory againstthe 67’s on the road was Nov. 2007. The vast majority of the current Sting roster wasn’t born when Matt Martin and Steven