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Point Edward and Petrolia have highest voter turnout since online voting began Oct.16 The Independent It’s Election Day in Ontario. Across the province, residents of over 400 municipalities will be casting votes today for their next municipal council and school board trustees. In Lambton County, there are races in all the municipalities, except the Township of Enniskillen where the entire

Heather Wright/The Independent Two candidates for public school trustees were surprised to hear concerns from the Lambton-Kent District School Board that they’d used the parking lot of a school to talk with parents. Chris White and Joselyn Young Cormier organized ameeting with parent’s from Zone Central School in late September, after hearing concerns about the reorganization of the classrooms at

The Independent The new arena floor has already been well used in Brooke-Alvinston, but there is still money to be raised to pay for it. Brooke-Alvinston approved a nearly $2 million project at the arena in Alvinston last year. Work began in April and over the summer the pipes and the floor of the arena were replaced. The facility reopened

Barry Wright/The Independent The Mooretown Flags will be trying to snap their four-game skid when Amherstburg comes to town tonight (Sunday). Game time is 7:30. The Flags fell 6-2 to the Lakeshore Canadiens at the Moore Sports Complex last Saturday. Mooretown was down by one goal in the third period but Lakeshore put the game away by scoring three times

The Independent No one was injured in a house fire on Brigden Road. St Clair Township firefighters from Brigden, Courtright, Port Lambton, Wilkesport and Becher were called to the home around 8:20 pm Saturday. It was fully engulfed in flames. “The fire started on the porch and quickly spread to the upper floor,” said St Clair Fire Chief Richard Boyes

The Independent The Forest Legion is opening its doors to the community during an eight-hour planned power outage. Hydro One has a planned outage Sunday from 7 am to 3 pm. Customers affected are in far northeastern Plympton-Wyoming, Kettle and Stony Point, and western Lambton Shores. About 4,900 Hydro One customers in the Municipality of Lambton Shores and surrounding areas

The Independent Long-time Warwick Township councillor Jerry Westgate has been the Mayor’s award for his service to the community. Westgate was honoured Saturday during his retirement party at the East Lambton Community Complex. Westgate first served in Watford as a councillor and has been on Warwick Township council since the township and Watford amalgamated. He’s served 32 years in total

Heather Wright/The Independent If Bill Dennis gets elected mayor of Sarnia, he may have a hard time making a new planning deal at Lambton County council. Oct. 19, Dennis raged against the planning process which forces Sarnia to go through county council to get approval for zoning amendments to the Official Plan. The relationship between Dennis and county councillors has

Blake Ellis/The Independent The Black Creek Bridge construction on Marthaville Road is on target to be complete by Nov. 30. “It looks like a bridge right now,” said Enniskillen Township’s Public Works Superintendent Darcy Mitchell, saying thegirders and the riprap are in. The contractor is getting ready to pour the deck and put the sidewalls up. Mitchell gave the report

Barry Wright/The Independent It’s gold for Tyler McGregor (below) and his Team Canada mates at the International Para Hockey Cup in Czechia. The Canadians struck for three goals in the second period to break a scoreless tie and go on to beat the Americans, 5-1 in the gold medal game Saturday. McGregor was held off the scoresheet and ended the

Barry Wright/The Independent Watford’s Kyle Brothers scored twice in Alvinston’s 5-4 win over Woodstock in Northern Premier Hockey League action last Saturday. The Killer Bees are now 2-0 heading for the home opener Saturday against Brant County at the Brooke-Alvinston-Inwood Community Complex. Game time is 6:45. Former Soo Greyhound, Jordan D’Intino who signed with the Bees late last week also

The Independent A Petrolia doctor has won a prestigious Canadian award. Dr. John Butler has won the Ian McWhinney Family Medicine Education Award from the Foundation for Advancing Family Medicine. It is named in memory of Dr. Ian McWhinney, the first professor and chair of a Canadian university department of family medicine at the University of Western Ontario, now Western University.