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Three LCCVI students have been honoured at the Sarnia-Lambton YMCA Youth Awards Hunter Campbell won the Alan Stevenson Award which honours a student who helped promote the mental well-being of others and encouraged those with mental health issues to come forward and seek professional treatment and support and provided leadership to efforts to remove the stigma and secrecy about mental

The Independent Swimmers will have a little extra peace of mind heading into the waters of Lambton County; Lambton Public Health will be monitoring five major beaches five days a week. Public health has been monitoring water quality for years; this year the program starts Monday. Officials say predictive beach model monitoring will be used at both the North and

Three LCCVI Lancers are heading to the provincial track and field championships in Ottawa. Hunter Campbell, Meagan Munro and Kole Chapman earned their berths Thursday at the West Regionals Thursday. Campbell placed second in the Senior Discus with a throw of 47.44 – almost four meters more than he threw at the SWOSSAA championship last week. Munro also improved her

The Independent Brooke-Alvinston residents will get a chance to hear about what is likely one of the largest housing developments in the community in decades. June 19, Lambton County planners will hold a meeting on a new subdivision fronting on Nauvoo Road and Railroad Street which will have 244 housing units. The notice of the meeting shows some of the

There are calls to improve the pedestrian crosswalk in front of Riverview Central School in Port Lambton. Lambton OPP are asking St. Clair Township to take a look at the crossing after a complaint from a resident. Helga Beniot sent a note to the OPP after watching an officer driving through the crosswalk while two women and a child stood

Blake Ellis/The Independent After a recalculation of the budget, Oil Springs is in much better shape. Instead of the six percent increase the municipality was facing at is May 6 meeting, it now has a two percent increase. Oil Springs council had a special meeting on May 20 to further examine the budget. The recalculation involved including the $89,000 HST

Municipality could earn $500K per year Heather Wright/The Independent Venfor Inc says 17 landowners in Brooke-Alvinston have signed lease agreements for a wind energy project. Last September, the development company’s director, Peter Budd from nearby Adelaide-Metcalfe, came to Brooke-Alvinston council with the idea, saying the company was gauging interest in the project.  Budd will return to council Thursday to talk

Blake Ellis/The Independent The rain Friday evening was not going to deter people at Petrolia’s Walk for Alzheimer’s.  This year’s five kilometre walk was in memory of Elly Vergunst who passed away suddenly on March 1. Vergunst had been a member of the Alzheimer’s Society of Sarnia-Lambton for the past six years, serving as the organization’s chair for the fund

Heather Wright/The Independent York1 Environmental’s new communications strategist – a former director of communications for Premier Doug Ford – says no residential garbage will be coming to Dresden. Laryssa Waler, who is now York1’s spokesperson, owns Henley Strategies and according to the Canada Strong and Free Network (formerly the Manning Centre) was the executive director of communications for the Premier

Heather Wright/The Independent The fish die-off which has left thousands of carcasses on Lake Huron beaches has reached Plympton-Wyoming. And officials there are vowing to be involved in any clean up. May 9, Ipperwash residents filled garbage pails with dead fish, many of them spotted with red Jennifer Powell, a University of Toronto PhD candidate working in Lambton Shores, suspects

Heather Wright/The Independent Lambton Shores Mayor Doug Cook has already turned back some of the powers he’s been given under the Strong Mayor’s legislation to municipal staff. CAO Stephen McAuley recently outlined for council the new responsibilities handed to the mayor at the beginning of May. At that time 169 municipalities with councils made up of more than six people

Lambton Shores wants Thedford EMS station to stay open Lambton Shores Councillor Glen Ballie says if the Thedford and Grand Bend ambulance stations are merged to a new station near Pinery Park “you might as well make a call to a funeral home.” That during a discussion recently about Lambton County’s plan to improve ambulance service. In 2024, the county