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Plympton-Wyoming Mayor Lonny Napper says Lambton County is doing its part to promote green energy. He was the driving force behind Lambton County councilors motion to declare the county an unwilling host to wind turbines. Municipalities across the province began passing motions against the industrial turbines after the Ontario energy minister said no community would be forced to have wind

LCCVI coach Scott Mcauley has been given the Tom Hales Spirit of Coaching Award. Mcauley is the coach of the senior volleyball teams. The award, named after a dedicated volleyball coach who retired, is given to a coach who shares the respect and enthusiasm toward volleyball as Hales did. The award is given to a coach who displays sportsmanship and

As the temperature drops again, Lambton’s Medical Officer of Health has issued another cold weather alert . The alert goes into effect tonight and is expected to last until Monday morning. Temperatures tonight will drop to -15°C and on Sunday night to -21°C. Nighttime temperatures over the weekend will feel very cold. Residents should take precautions during a Cold Weather

A 22 year old  Petrolia man has been arrested after a pickup truck flipped on Oil Springs LIne. Lambton OPP and the Oil Springs Fire Department were called to Oil Springs Line just west of Oil Heritage Road in South Plank road after reports around 8:30 p.m.after a Chevrolet pick-up truck with four occupants rolled.. Police closed the road in

EDITOR’S NOTE The Independent has withheld the name of the school and changed the name of the mother to protect the identity of the children involved.   When Marg sent her five-year old son to school in Central Lambton, she never dreamed he would face violence in the classroom. But her young son was assaulted not once, but twice in

Lambton County Councilors are watching closely as a receiver tries to find a buyer for the Bayside Mall in Sarnia. The mall’s owner, a real estate developer, went into receivership in 2011 and A. John Page has been trying to sell it since then. The 245,000 square-foot downtown mall is listed at $6.5 million but with only 44 percent of

Three Central Lambton mayors say if the province doesn’t need energy from a methane gas project, it shouldn’t be putting up more wind turbines. Warwick Township has been working for three years with Waste Management on a large-scale energy project at the Twin Creeks Landfill. It would capture methane – one of the main ozone depleting gases – to produce

When the sun shines through the yellow autumn leaves, it is hard to imagine that just steps from the Errol Road Cemetery, hundreds of people lost their lives on Lake Huron. Plympton-Wyoming marked the 100th anniversary of the Great Storm of 1913 Saturday. For days, the storm raged across the lake taking down 19 ships and killing at least 250

“That girl is a singer. She knows how to perform.” David Hogan, co-artistic director of Victoria Playhouse Petrolia, is in awe of Florence Henderson. The woman many people know as Carol Brady from the classic TV Show The Brady Bunch is in Petrolia to perform her one woman show “All the Lives of Me” for the first time in Canada.

When Amanda learned she was expecting her second child, she started looking for help. The mother of a 19-month old already, Amanda was worried her parenting skills were not that good. “My husband and I don’t have any family members,” she says. “I was very scared and I was worried that I wasn’t doing it right. My first child had

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