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Dawn-Euphemia is getting anxious about the cost of policing; and they’re not alone. Recently, Ontario’s Auditor General told the OPP it needed a funding model which was clearer and more transparent. The OPP has now finished their work and is inviting municipalities to find out how it will work Nov. 15 in London. Dawn-Euphemia Deputy Mayor Leslie Williams plans to

There will continue to be two fire chiefs in Plympton-Wyoming. After the retirement of long-time Wyoming volunteer chief Bill Davidson, council was considering whether it would be a good idea to merge the position with the chief’s job in Camlachie. The departments have operated separately since amalgamation but Dennis Gannon, operations manager of the Office of the Fire Marshal, recently

Editor’s note: The Independent recently requested an interview with Ontario Energy Minister Bob Chiarelli about the concerns about industrial wind turbines. We submitted five questions and here are the unedited responses forwarded by the minister’s office. When will the province outline how it will handle FIT program? The Large Feed-in Tariff (FIT) program is being replaced with a new competitive

It’s a go. The Central Lambton Family Health Team has been given the green light to start construction on their new building on Countryview Drive. The team of seven doctors and 11 health professionals been working together for over two years on separate sites and received approval to locate in a soon-to-be built health plaza on. Southside Construction will build

An Enniskillen Township teacher is the Lambton County Warden’s Citizen of the Month. Cathy Johnson has been a coach at North Lambton Secondary School for 29 years leading the volleyball, soccer, girls’ hockey, cross country and track and field teams. Johnson has also coached three adult and two student dragon boat teams. She’s also been active in minor hockey with

  Dawn Wakefield doesn’t like the unknown but she and her volunteers have plenty of surprises ready for anyone who enters the Legion of Doom. Wakefield, her family and friends have long been horrifying the community around Halloween. They haunted the third floor of The Squire until it closed, taking donations for local charities But when The Squire closed, Wakefield

 Sarnia-Lambton’s blue water was one of the things visitors were startled by when they visited the area.   Petrolia and Central Lambton politicians are taking a wait and see attitude after hearing the first piece of the plan to brand Sarnia-Lambton. The community effort to come up with a brand and marketing strategy for the community started last spring. North

She had only been gone a couple of days, but Florence Henderson already was missing Petrolia. Henderson wowed audiences at Victoria Playhouse Petrolia for the past two weeks and says she loved every minute of it. Speaking to The Independent by phone from her hotel in Maryland, Henderson says she already missed Petrolia. Henderson was first approached by her friend

  Dead trees piled near the Oil Heritage District Community Center are the only sign of a small stand of trees that stood there until August. It was one of those unusual areas in an urban area which could have been considered a woodlot under Lambton County’s Woodlot bylaw. But Lambton County’s Woodlot Officer, Tim Payne, wasn’t aware the trees

It seems there are few places politicians can go without being asked about industrial wind turbines. Take Dawn-Euphemia Councilors for example, who held their municipal council meeting at Dawn-Euphemia Public School Monday for Local Government Week. Students from three classes observed a council meeting for about an hour before they had an opportunity to ask questions. And the first question?

David Loerts thinks someday he’s like to run the Canadarm at the International Space Station. The 12 year-old student from Wyoming Public School is dreaming big after listening to Sarnia-born astronaut Chris Hadfield. The former commander of the ISS kept an audience of hundreds of school children from across the region engaged as he gave them a glimpse of what

A piece of Enniskillen history is about to be auctioned off and dismantled. Township council recently decided to sell the Shiloh Community Centre. It will be up for auction Oct. 28 at 5 pm and one of the few conditions is that the building be taken down. Mayor Kevin Marriott says it was a difficult decision to make because of