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Heather Wright/The Independent The head of the Sarnia-Lambton Ontario Health team says more doctors and health professionals will be hired to make sure 5,600 people have health care, thanks to an additional $2.8 million from the province. Sarnia-Lambton MPP Bob Bailey announced the funding April 30 saying both the Rapids Family Health Team and the new E-nangaabe-jig Health Services have

Barry Wright/The Independent The Ontario Hockey League final between the Barrie Colts and Kitchener Rangers will have a Petrolia flavour to it. Eamon Edgar and the Barrie Colts won the Eastern Conference championship with a 5-0 win over the Bulldogs in Brantford on Monday night. The win gave the Colts the conference title in seven games. Edgar, whose parents are

Barry Wright/The Independent Forest resident Brett Case is the new general manager of the PJHL’s Blenheim Blades. He was hired after a season as assistant general manager with the Chatham Maroons. Case, born and raised in Watford, serves as the general manager of the Alvinston Killer Bees and he will continue in that role. ••• Plympton-Wyoming’s Pat Verbeek and his

The Independent People who can’t get to their local library can have the library come to them. The Lambton County Library have been offering some patrons a Library by Mail service since 2024. Now, all library card holders with an accessible membership. It allows people to borrow books in regular print, large print, multilingual and English as a Second Language

Heather Wright/The Independent There are some familiar faces running in Lambton municipalities in the October elections. Todd Case is the first to file in Warwick Township for the position of mayor. Jamie Armstrong is seeking the mayor’s seat in Brooke-Alvinston. He ran in the 2022 election which David Ferguson became mayor. So far, he’s the only one in the municipality

Blake Ellis/The Independent There will be no special treatment for a pot-hole filled section of Petrolia Line. Brooke-Alvinston will hire an engineer to assess all of the paved rural roads in the municipality to create a five-year capital plan. Councillor Craig Sanders first raised the issue saying some sections of Petrolia Line were dangerous. Council asked staff to give an

Barry Wright/The Independent The Alvinston Killer Bees third period rally was not enough as the Bees came up just short in the Outlaw Cup final bowing to the host Smiths Falls Rideaus, 4-3 in the eastern Ontario community on Saturday afternoon. Jack Nevins, who played with the Sarnia Sting in the 2010s, scored twice for the winners and Dallas Slack

The Independent The Alvinston Killer Bees are playing for the Outlaw Cup. The Bees took down the North Dundas Rockets 6-3 in the semi final gaining a birth to Saturday’s final in Smiths Falls. Brennan Feasey had two goals and an assist for Alvinston in the win and was named the game’s first star. Ethan Lamoureux had one goal and

Heather Wright/The Independent Sarnia-Lambton-Bkejwanong MP Marilyn Gladu is praising the Liberal plan to put more money into tradestraining. The Carney government released its fiscal forecast Tuesday with officials say there will be a $66.9 billion budget deficit instead of the projected $78.3 billion. The reduction comes from higher than projected revenue and cost cutting on the government operations. Gladu notes

Blake Ellis/The Independent The next Brooke-Alvinston council members get a big pay bump, but they’ll still be the lowest paid municipal politicians in Lambton. Councillors looked at the pay structure for members during the April 23 meeting, deciding to increase theannual honorarium paid to the mayor from $5,248 to $7,500. The new councillors elected in the October 26th vote will

Heather Wright/The Independent Sarnia-Lambton-Bkejwanong MP Marilyn Gladu is keeping a lower profile after facing death threats and vandalism since becoming a member of the Liberal government. The long-time Conservative MP was welcomed into the Liberal fold April 8. While the Carney government had been wooing MPs, hoping to secure a majority government at the time, virtually no one expected Gladu,

Heather Wright/The Independent Lambton County spent $1.14 million more than expected for winter maintenance in 2025. That’s 50 per cent more than officials budgeted. The cost over run was not a surprise. The county’s general manager of infrastructure and development said in February the $2.4 million snow budget was over by at least a million. Staff, in a report to