The Independent Brooke-Alvinston will hire a contractor to help manage the $2 million renovation of the arena at the Brooke-Alvinston-Inwood Community Centre. The ice making equipment and floor of the Alvinston arena needs $2 million in repairs. The municipality was awarded up to $1 million from the province to pay for half of the project from the Ontario government’s. The

James Aaron BrownCommunity helps family of Thedford teen who died in farming accident The Independent The family of the young man who died in a farming accident say he loved farming and was “truly an angel on earth.” Sept. 20 Middlesex OPP, Lambton paramedics and local firefighters were called to a farm on Parkhill Drive in North Middlesex, northwest of

Heather Wright/The Independent It will likely be November before the federal government decides whether the Impact Assessment Agency of Canada should review York1 Environmental’s plans for the Dresden dump. The agency is now reviewing the project and the objections filed by the Canadian Environmental Law Association for its clients, the Dresden CARED group to determine if a full review should

The move comes after feds give corporation OK to end door-to-door delivery and ending moratorium on closing rural post offices The Independent There are no picket lines up at Petrolia’s Canada Post office, but the doors are locked and the workers there, like those across the country, are on strike. The federal government gave Canada Post permission to convert four