Celebrating 175 years of the Brigden Fair
North Lambton tops Dresden in Senior A championship
November 7, 2024
North Lambton has captured the Lambton-Kent Senior A Girls basketball championship.
The Eagles defeated Lambton-Kent Composite School 40-30 in the Nov. 7 tilt in Forest.
Alexis Wice had 14 points, Lily Heynsbergen tallied nine and Delaney Appeldoorn had eight in the game for the winners.
LK kept pace with the Eagles in the first three quarters but North Lambton came storming back in the fourth.
Sophia Metcalfe had nine points for the Cardinals with Alivia Coles putting up nine and Julia Pegg hitting six in losing effort.
North Lambton and Lambton-Kent met four times this year with the Eagles winning all four match ups.
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Celebrating 175 years of the Brigden Fair
October 18, 2025
The Independent It was wall-to-wall people all weekend at the Brigden Fair as warm, clear weather drew people fromacross southern Ontario to the St. Clair Township community for the 175th year of the event.
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Heavy Horses return to Brigden Fair ‘throwing their real power’
October 18, 2025
Sydney Goodreau/The Independent It was a display of the raw power of horses. For the first time in nearly a decade, the Brigden Fair brought back the heavy horse pull contest. Horses lined up beside their owners, Oct. 10, before being hooked up to cinder blocks weighing upwards of 2,500 lbs. Each team of horses pulls two loads to determine
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‘We send a representative to the SCRCA to represent the community’
October 17, 2025
Heather Wright/The Independent Plympton-Wyoming is balking at new rules which force St. Clair Region Conservation Authority Board members to step away from some hearings. Sept. 23, the board of directors, which is mostly made up of municipal politicians, updated its rules for hearings. In rare circumstances, residents appeal a decision made by conservation staff on planning matters. In the last
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Curling club gets grant but not requested loan
October 17, 2025
Heather Wright/The Independent The Forest Curling Club will be getting $112,000 from Lambton Shores. But whether it gets a loan to help kick-start the renovation project at the arena has yet to be seen. The arena needs to replace its ice making plant. The plan is to build it on a fenced, concrete pad outside of the rink. The club
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