Oil City’s Kember eighth at national wrestling tourney
Essex takes game one of the Western Conference final over Petrolia
April 4, 2025
The Petrolia Flyers will be down by a game when they return home for the second game of the PJHL’s Western Conference final on Sunday night at 7:30.
Essex took game one on Friday with a 4-1 home ice victory.
After a scoreless first period, the 73’s jumped out to a 2-0 lead, 8:12 into the middle frame. Ryan Richardson cut the gap to 2-1 with a tally with just over a minute to play in the second period.
Essex increased its lead to 3-1 with just over six minutes left in the third before icing the contest with an empty net goal in the final minute.
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Oil City’s Kember eighth at national wrestling tourney
June 4, 2026
Barry Wright/The Independent Micah Kember of the Sarnia Bluewater Wrestling Club is back home after delivering a “determined performance” at the Canadian Wrestling Championships in Montreal, according to his coach Henry Dickson. The Oil City wrestler competed in the 55-kilo competitors in the under-17 division and reached the final round of the consolation side of the bracket placing in the
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Fire heavily damages Sombra waterfront home
June 4, 2026
Heather Wright/The Independent No one was injured during a fire in one of Sombra’s original homes. Sombra firefighters were called to a house on Water Street, south of the ferry dock, around 7:30 pm Wednesday. They found heavy smoke and flames coming from the family home on the St. Clair River. “They started an aggressive interior attack but the fire
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Sarnia Library to open museum on second floor
June 3, 2026
Owners of Stones and Bones will turn over all artifacts for the project The Independent The second floor of the Sarnia Library will become a natural history museum as early as 2028. The county and the owner of Stones and Bones Museum, Allison Richards who owned the museum with her late husband, Jim, have come to an agreement which will
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Thedford man faces five charges after accident in Warwick Village
June 3, 2026
The Independent A Thedford man is facing five charges after a crash. Sunday, Lambton OPP were called to a collision on Egremont Road near Digby Street up the road from the Warwick Conservation Area when a vehicle left the road. The driver fled. Police later arrested a 46-year old from Thedford and charged him with two counts of impaired driving,
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