Seven Lancers advance to OFSAA West Regional Track and Field Championship
BRIEFLY: Alvinston, Wyoming name new ball coaches
September 13, 2025
The Independent
Wyoming minor baseball has named its OBA Wranglers head coaches for the 2026 season. They are Jason Helps (under-18), Jace McCahill (under-15), Terry Wilson (under-13), Cam Major (under-11) and Justin Jackson (under-9).
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Malcolm Verstraten has been named the OBA under-16 coach for next season by Alvinston minor baseball. Brock Shea will lead the under-13 select team while Steve Straatman and Kevin Tizzard will be co-head coach for the OBA under-9 team. The association is still looking for potential coaches in the under-11, under-15 and under-18 divisions.
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The high school football season begins next Wednesday (Sept. 17) in Petrolia. The Lancers entertain Wallaceburg at 4 p.m. Great Lakes is the other AA school this season. But the interlocking schedule with larger AAA schools will also include games against St. Patrick’s, Northern, Ursuline and Chatham-Kent for LCCVI.
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Wyoming’s Tyler Kerby had four hits, scored a run and had an RBI in Lambton’s 10-4 win over Durham last Sunday in Oshawa to complete a doubleheader sweep in OCAA men’s college baseball. Lambton won the opener, 7-0.
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Marc Anderson won the men’s overall club championship at the Arkona Fairways last weekend. Bert Duister was the senior men’s champion and the junior champion is Hunter Brent. Rob Clare and Frits Geris won low net honours.
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Warwick’s Keegan Turner and June Cooper of Alvinston were overall flight winners this season on the Lambton Junior golf tour that wrapped up last weekend at the Sarnia Golf and Curling Club. The other overall winners were Andrew and Ryan Sudicky, Hunter Talbot and Sofia Rocca.
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Bkejawong’s Waukiigan Shognosh was taken in the first round of the National Lacrosse League draft on the weekend. He was selected 14th overall by Buffalo. The 18-year-old product of the Wallaceburg junior B franchise played junior A lacrosse in Peterborough this past summer.
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Carter Fogarty will continue his hockey journey in the OJHL. He’s been released to the Pickering Panthers by the Sarnia Legionnaires. The 17-year-old is a product of the Lambton Jr. Sting AAA program.
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Seven Lancers advance to OFSAA West Regional Track and Field Championship
May 21, 2026
The Independent It was a good day for LCCVI Hurdlers as Kole Chapman, Xander Knapp, Meagan Munro and Kallee Elliott all advanced to the OFSAA West Regional Track and Field Championships. The four placed in the top five of their respective events at SWOSSAA May 20, giving them a berth in the regional event May 28 and 29 in Cambridge.
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ROADS TO RECOVERY: Grateful to be told she was an addict
May 20, 2026
EDITOR’S NOTE: Sarnia-Lambton is struggling with an unprecedented addiction crisis, generating plenty of news about overdoses and homelessness. But sometimes there is recovery. And it’s anticipated that new government investment in local services and facilities will bring additional relief. The award-winning team of journalist Cathy Dobson and photographer Glenn Ogilvie set out this past winter to find individuals who have
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‘We’re here because you don’t have a voice anymore’ Rood says
May 20, 2026
EDITORS’ NOTE: This article was editted May 20 to correct the name of the Conservative Co-Deputy Leader Melissa Lantsman. Blake Ellis/Local Journalism Initiative Lianne Rood says sitting Conservative MPs will give a voice to Sarnia-Lambton Conservatives abandoned by their MP. Hundreds of people from Sarnia and Lambton County and the surrounding region packed into the exhibition hall at the Plympton-Wyoming
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ROADS TO RECOVERY: Three years sober with hard work and grit
May 19, 2026
EDITOR’S NOTE: Sarnia-Lambton is struggling with an unprecedented addiction crisis, generating plenty of news about overdoses and homelessness. But sometimes there is recovery. And it’s anticipated that new government investment in local services and facilities will bring additional relief. The award-winning team of journalist Cathy Dobson and photographer Glenn Ogilvie set out this past winter to find individuals who have
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