Lambton councillors side with Cargill, turn down Sarnia high rise
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Alvinston’s Duncan heads to Alberta for junior hockey
June 28, 2026
Barry Wright/The Independent
The next stop on the junior hockey path for Hayden Duncan will be Drayton Valley, Alberta.
The Alvinston goaltender has signed with the Alberta Junior Hockey League’s Thunder for the coming campaign. Drayton Valley is in oil country, southwest of Edmonton.
The 20-year-old goaltender won 19 games split between three teams in the OJHL last season. Prior to that, he won 31 games over parts of three seasons with the Strathroy Rockets.
Duncan began his minor hockey career with the East Lambton Eagles organization before moving up to play AAA hockey with both the Lambton Jr. Sting and the Elgin Middlesex Canucks.
He was a sixth-round pick by the Ottawa 67’s in 2022.
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Lambton councillors side with Cargill, turn down Sarnia high rise
September 2, 2026
Cathy Dobson/The Independent Today Lambton county council threw its support behind Cargill’s campaign to stop Tricar from developing a 14-storey high rise near its Sarnia operation. Tricar, a London-based development company, with several residential buildings already on Sarnia’s waterfront, wants to build within 300 metres of the Cargill grain terminal, which has been operating at the end of Exmouth Street
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Wyoming business worry about housing plan
September 2, 2026
Heather Wright/The Independent The owners of three major business in Wyoming are questioning why a housing development is going to be constructed in a light industrial area. Monday, Plympton-Wyoming heard an application from Norstead Properties and its principal, Roger Buurma, to build 19 seniors condominium units in a 2.4 acre field next to the new Home Hardware store and across
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Decision on development near Cargill expected Wednesday
September 1, 2026
Heather Wright/The Independent Lambton County planning officials are recommending county councillors turn down a high-rise development next to Cargill’s grain docks in Sarnia’s Harbour. Tricar Developments wants to build a 14-storey apartment on the former Stokes By the Bay property. Sarnia City council approved the plan in May but Cargill has been using every weapon in its arsenal to stop
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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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