Nisbet’s former teams honour fallen hockey player
LCCVI students hit top ten at Nationals
August 12, 2024
James Grant had a pair of top ten finishes at the Canadian National Legion Track and Field Championship in Calgary on the weekend.
The middle distance runner from Petrolia, representing the Sarnia Athletics Southwest Club, just missed a medal finishing fourth in the under-18 1500 metre final in a time of 4:02.11. He also placed tenth in the 800 metre final in 1:57.38.
Meantime, Petrolia’s Hunter Campbell, representing Team Ontario at the nationals, also notched a pair of top ten finishes. He was seventh in the hammer throw with a personal best of 51.86 and tenth in the discus at 44.93 metre. Campbell also competed in the shot put and placed 16th with a put of 12.84 metres.
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Nisbet’s former teams honour fallen hockey player
September 1, 2026
Heather Wright/The Independent Before the Mooretown Flags dropped the puck on the first game of the new PJHL season, they stopped to honour Dane Nisbet. The club opened its season with a game against the North Middlesex Stars where Nisbet had played last season before his death. Nisbet was murdered during a pub night at Lambton College April 10. Before
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Lambton may only get two reps on new conservation authority board
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Heather Wright/The Independent A Plympton-Wyoming councillor says Lambton will have even less representation on the new regional conservation authorities than first thought. The province announced it would merge 36 local conservation authorities, including the St. Clair Region here, into seven. By May, the province changed that to nine and ordered local authorities to prepare a budget for 2027 immediately. St.
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Drug bust ‘means a great deal’ to Walpole residents
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Mooretown Sports Complex pool to remain closed until 2027
September 1, 2026
Supports under change rooms need to be replaced Mooretown Library above change rooms also will close until project is complete Heather Wright/The Independent It will likely be early 2027 before the pool at the Moore Sports Complex opens after contractors uncovered structural problems in the facility’s change rooms. The issue is also affecting library services at the Mooretown facility. The
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