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The LCCVI Lancers lost a tough battle with Lo Ellen Park Secondary School Wednesday. The Sudbury area team had just one goal in the second to win the game at OFSAA Wednesday. Chloe Reid stopped 15 shots in net for the Lancers while the team put up 15 shots against Lo Ellen. The girls team is now 1-2. The Lancers

Sarnia’s mayor wants to remove American flags on municipal property. Mike Bradley, in a letter to council, says the city should not fly the nation’s flag since US President Donald Trump’s government “is doing everything possible to jeopardize Canada economically and socially and tries to make it the 51st state.” Bradley is asking council to approve the removal of all

It was a mixed bag for LCCVI’s girls hockey team at the OFSAA A/AA Hockey Championships on Tuesday.  The Holy Cross Raiders from St. Catharines beat LCCVI 6-1 in the opening game for both teams. It didn’t take long for the second-seeded Raiders to take the lead, scoring in the first three minutes. Penalties cost LCCVI in the second with

Tobias Iantorno’s 13th playoff goal midway through the second period was the game-winner as the Petrolia Flyers beat the Bulldogs, 3-2 in Mt. Brydges on Tuesday night. Petrolia wins the Yeck Division semi-final in six games and will now play Exeter in the divisional finals. Dylan Campbell gave the Flyers a 1-0 lead at the first intermission and Petrolia increased

Gage Brandon made his OHL debut on Tuesday suiting up for the Flint Firebirds at home against the Guelph Storm. The Petrolia native was on the fourth line with Max Anderson and Jeremy Martin. Guelph won the contest, 2-1. The 16-year-old was a third-round draft choice by the Firebirds in the OHL Priority Selection last April and signed with Flint

Heather Wright/The Independent St. Clair Township is formally backing a bid by the province to redevelop the Ontario Power Generation site in Courtright – possibly with small nuclear power units. Ontario’s Minister of Energy and Electrification came to Sarnia just before the provincial election to gauge opinion on a potential new power facility. The province is already building Ontario’s first

Heather Wright/The Independent © York1 Environmental Waste Solutions has sold its stake in the former Dresden dump. But, there is still a connection to the new owners of the derelict landfill which was slated to reopen as a recycling centre and landfill for Toronto construction waste. Almost a year to the day the plan by the Mississauga construction giant came

Steve Pinsonneault is now officially Lambton-Kent-Middlesex’s MPP. Pinsonneault was re-elected in the Feb. 27 and took the oath of office Tuesday morning. Premier Doug Ford and his cabinet will be sworn in tomorrow. Lisa Thompson, who was the agriculture minister in the last sitting, attended Pinsonneault’s ceremony in Queen’s Park. He was named Thompson’s parliamentary assistant after his election in

The Holy Cross Raiders from St. Catharines beat LCCVI, 6-1 in the opening game for both teams this morning at the OFSAA girls’ A/AA hockey tournament in Sudbury. The second-seeded Raiders had period leads of 1-0 and 3-1 before salting the game away with three unanswered goals in the third period. Olivia Minten had LCCVI’s lone goal, a power play

A 14 year-old is facing assault with a weapon charges after three people were shot with a pellet gun in Petrolia. Lambton OPP were called to Tank Street in Petrolia around 5 pm Sunday after three pedestrians were shot from a distance with a pellet gun on Tank Street. Police say one person was injured. The victims didn’t know the

The Independent The president of the Mt. Brydges Bulldogs is praising the people who came to help one of his injured players during Sunday’s playoff game in Petrolia. Mt. Brydges President Andy Friyia was at the Greenwood Recreation Centre Sunday during game five between the Flyers and Bulldogs in the PJHL Yeck Division semi final. It was a day he

Lambton OPP are looking for a woman in her 40s after a Petrolia resident fell victim to an emergency scam. Sunday, police heard from a Petrolia resident who had been lost $6,000 to scammers. The victim said around 1:30 pm Friday, they had a phone call from someone who they thought was their son. The person needed bail money after