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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

The Independent The man wanted in the murder of Dane Nisbet has been arrested in London. The 20-year-old Sarnia man was with two friends at the Lambton College pub – The Lion’s Den – April 10 when shots were fired around 1 am. Nisbet and his two teammates from the Mooretown Flags, were hit and Nisbet died of his injuries.

Barry Wright/The Independent The Alvinston Killer Bees will travel a return trip of nearly 1,200 km to eastern Ontario this weekend to play the Tilbury Bluebirds in the quarter-finals on Thursday. The Bees were among eight teams which played a seeding round over the weekend. Alvinston opened the preliminary round in Smiths Falls on Saturday with a 7-2 win over

The Independent Members of the St. Clair Region Conservation Authority board will have one big task to complete before it merges into a new regional authority – building a budget. And it has to be done by June. General Manager Ken Phillips told board members April 16 the province is now directing the 37 conservation authorities to prepare one last