All Front Page News

Three people are facing drug trafficking charges after a traffic stop in Lambton Shores early Friday morning. Lambton OPP say members of the Street Crimes Unit and the Strategic Operations Intelligence Unit as well as the Anishinabek Police stopped a car on Arkona Road just after 1 am Friday. Three people were taken into custody and police seized fentanyl and

Sarnia Police have charged three people in the disappearance and murder of a Sarnia man. Ten months ago, Bradley Ogilvie’s family called police to say the man was missing. The family and police actively searched for Ogilvie . Friday, on what would have been Ogilvie’s 42nd birthday, police arrested three people and charged them with first degree murder. Robin Alexander

A 25 year-old has been charged after a stabbing in Wyoming. Lambton OPP were called to a home on Niagara Street in Wyoming Sept. 2 around 3 in the morning after getting reports of an assault. When they arrived officers found a person had been assaulted with an edged weapon but had sustained minor injuries. Cain Ryan, 25, of Plympton-Wyoming

A Toronto area lawyer is calling on the province to send homelessness funding directly to urban municipalities instead of county governments. And he’s citing some of the issues Sarnia is having with Lambton County Council as evidence county councils are ” standing in the way of efforts by Ontario’s urban municipalities to provide the ‘truly accessible’ accommodation which the courts

INEOS Styrolutions, the Aamjiwaang First Nation and the federal and provincial environment ministries have come to an agreement of how to meet the new federal benzene storage rules. May 1 – more than two weeks after high levels of benzene in the air sickened members of the the Aamjiwnaang First Nation – the Ministry of the Environment, Conservation and Parks,

Warwick hosts business event The head of the Sarnia-Lambton Chamber of Commerce wants to make sure rural businesses don’t feel forgotten. The Chamber rolled into Watford Thursday evening for a mixer, hoping to bring Sarnia business people to the Warwick Township community to see what they have on offer. And Carrie McEachran hoped to attract new chamber members from Watford.

Heather Wright/The Independent Plympton-Wyoming Deputy Mayor Netty McEwen says the proposed site of a mini-arena in Camlachie is “ridiculous.” She made the comments Aug. 28, during a discussion at Plympton-Wyoming council on the results of a survey of residents about the Huron Shores Optimists’ proposal. The Camlachie service club first floated the idea of an outdoor ice rink – at

Heather Wright/The Independent Before it became publicly known York1 Environmental Waste Solutions planned to repurpose the Dresden dump, it filed its plans for stormwater management at the site. The request to amend the Environmental Compliance Approval at the site was posted on the Environmental Registry of Ontario Nov. 30, 2023 and the chance for the public to comment closed two

Petrolia and Forest will host a game each when the U17 World Challenge comes to Lambton County in November. Teams from Czechia, Finland, Sweden, USA, and the Canada Red and White will be involved in the tournament Nov. 3 to 9. Petrolia’s Greenwood Recreation will play host to an exhibition game between Canada Red and Czechia Nov. 1. Laurissa Ellsworth,

Heather Wright/The Independent A move to have homeless people in Ontario “shipped” to Ottawa to live in vacant office buildings has failed. St. Clair Township Mayor Jeff Agar made the motion at Wednesday’s Lambton County Council meeting. While politicians were discussing the latest housing report showing a 20 per cent increase in the number of people seeking affordable housing over

Construction on Maxwell Park Place expected to start again this month Heather Wright/The Independent Lambton County will spend another $1.7 million to complete the long-delayed 24-unit seniors complex in Sarnia. County council approved the move after a seven minute in-camera meeting Wednesday. The 24-unit development at Maxwell Park Place was announced in March 2018, but has faced multiple construction delays.

Heather Wright/The Independent The head of York1 says “municipal support was communicated” to officials as they met with Chatham-Kent’s mayor, local councillors and staff in 2022. York1 President, Brian Brunetti, in the company’s filing to the Environmental Registry of Ontario which asked for comments on a provincial plan to force the Dresden dump revitalization to undergo an Environmental Assessment, said