Highway 402 closed from Oil Heritage to Kerwood Road
Alvinston woman NDP candidate in LKM by-election
February 16, 2024
A former educator from Alvinston will carry the NDP banner in the yet to be called Lambton-Kent-Middlesex by-election.
Kathryn Shailer, a life-long educator and former VP of academics at Mount Royal University who now lives in Alvinston became the party’s candidate at a meeting Thursday in Watford.
Shailer says faster, better, publicly-funded, and publicly-delivered health care is one of her main priorities. She’s also listed cost-of-living crisis, stronger investments in education, housing, and environmental sustainability as her concerns heading into the by-election to replace Monte McNaughton, who resigned in Sept. 2023.
Shailer joins Steve Pinsonneault of the Progressive Conservatives, Cathy Burghart-Jesson of the Liberals and Keith Benn from the New Blue Party in the race for the seat.
A by election must be called by April.
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Highway 402 closed from Oil Heritage to Kerwood Road
November 10, 2025
Accident and poor weather conditions the cause The Independent Road conditions are poor in Eastern and Northern Lambton tonight. An accident involving two transports near Nauvoo Road around 3:30pm initially closed the road at the Nauvoo Road exit. But around 7:30 pm, Lambton OPP closed the entire road between Oil Heritage Road and Kerwood Road because of poor road conditions.
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Highway 402 closed at Watford after accident
November 10, 2025
Highway 402 eastbound is closed at Nauvoo Road after two tractor trailers collided. A streamer across Lake Huron is dumping the traditional snow belt area with about a foot of snow on the ground around Highway 402 and Arkona Road. Lambton OPP say a number of vehicles are involved but no injuries have been reported. One of the transport jackknifed.
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Winter weather expected in East Lambton until tomorrow
November 10, 2025
Winter has arrived in Lambton County with most of the region receiving some snow. As usual, Eastern and Northern Lambton County are getting more snow than Central Lambton. Environment Canada issued a snowsquall warning with up to 20 cm expected in the Warwick-Strathroy area with the snow tapering off on Tuesday. At the noon hour Monday, the snow was still
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York1, Chatham-Kent officials to meet this month
November 9, 2025
Heather Wright/The Independent York 1 Environmental Services is hiring staff for it’s controversial Dresden facility and planning for a meeting with municipal leaders. The Mississauga company has plans to turn the former dump site into a modern landfill and construction and soil waste recycling centre. Community members have been fighting to stop the project along the banks of Molly’s Creek,
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