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Cathy Dobson/The Independent Eight years after the late Don Moore of Oil Springs set up a scholarship fund to assist medical students, an impressive $230,000 has been distributed. Moore donated $1 million in 2017 to the Sarnia Community Foundation, which invested the money and distributes the proceeds annually to medical students who intend to practice in Sarnia-Lambton. This year’s five

‘Marilyn jokes that I should run for office’ Cathy Dobson/The Independent When MP Marilyn Gladu was unable to attend a local pork producers event last fall, her new husband Paul Rampone had no trouble pinch hitting. “I’ve listened to her speak enough – she handles crowds so well – and I just copied her format and did the speech,” said

‘We’re elected to represent our community with one equal voice, one equal vote, and working together’ Heather Wright/The Independent Plympton-Wyoming politicians want Premier Doug Ford scrap Strong Mayor powers. The province started giving so-called Strong Mayor powers to municipal leaders in 2022 to help cut some of the perceived red-tape for new housing starts. The province had made building 150,000

Heather Wright/The Independent It seems counter intuitive to set fire to a protected wildlife habitat. But that’s just what wildlife groups were doing over the past week. Jill Crosthwaite of the Nature Conservancy of Canada says setting fire to parts of the Karner Blue Sanctuary in Port Franks will bring wild flowers and other fauna to life on the forest

The Independent The elementary school at Bkejwanong is closed for the remainder of the week after an accident which claimed the life of one of the students. Tuesday, just before 7 pm, an SUV with four people inside crashed at the corner of the St. Clair Parkway and West Smith Line in Sombra. A six-year-old from Walpole Island died. The

Blake Ellis/The Independent In what People’s Party Candidate Brian Everaert called “a two party horse race,” there was little room for the smaller parties. Locally, the Liberals and Conservatives nabbed over 97 per cent of the vote. With the NDP taking 5.6 per cent locally, that left a little more than three per cent of the vote going to four

A London woman is facing an impaired driving charge after an accident on Plank Road. Sarnia Police were alerted to a crash in the McGregor Side Road/Plank Road area around 5 am Wednesday from an iPhone Crash Detection alert. Police found a black car upside down in a ditch with “significant front-end damage.” police say it had travelled a considerable

The Independent Lambton OPP say two teens have been arrested after death threats in Warwick Township. Police are not releasing a lot of information about the incident but say officers began investigating the incident Feb. 12 after they were told of “a potential threat to multiple individuals at an address in Warwick Township. On April 11, a 15-year old from

A six-year-old from Walpole Island First Nation has died after an accident in Sombra. Just before 7pm last night an SUV with four people inside crashed at the corner of the St.Clair Parkway and West Smith Line. All four passengers were taken to hospital with life-threatening injuries. The six-year-old died in hospital. The conditions of the others was not clear.

Tara Jeffrey/The Independent George Vandenberg was all smiles Monday night surrounded by friends and family at the Best Western for his election night celebration. You wouldn’t have known he’d lost his bid to become Sarnia-Lambton-Bkejwanong’s next MP. “It’s been a great ride,” said the 71-year-old Sarnia City Councillor who swiftly threw his hat into the ring after Mark Carney called

“I think the Conservative Party needs to reflect on this election and what was not a resonating message.” Cathy Dobson/The Independent Winning CPC incumbent MP Marilyn Gladu was met with cheers and hugs from a roomful of party faithful at her election watch party Monday night. There was a lot of congratulatory handshaking as Gladu’s weary team celebrated her fourth

Heather Wright/The Independent Chatham-Kent officials say the province’s plan to stop an Environmental Assessment of a project at the Dresden dump may be worse than they thought. Last year, York1 Environmental Waste Services started planning a construction waste recycling facility at the Irish School Road property. It also planned to expand an old landfill on the site. The project could