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Barry Wright/The Independent LCCVI entertains its perennial foes from Chatham-Ursuline to open the LKSSAA girls’ rugby season on Tuesday, April 21. Game time is 1 p.m. Meantime, the track and field season also opens the same day at Great Lakes and the SWOSSA badminton finals are set for next week at St. Francois Xavier and in Chatham. The seniors participate

John Wright/The Independent The Lambton Attack U15 ‘C’ team took home a silver medal and the Sarnia Lady Sting U11 ‘C’ team won a bronze medal at the OWHA Provincials this weekend in the GTA. The Attack went unbeaten with wins over Flamborough and Woodstock and a tie against Stratford in the round robin to advance to the semifinals. In

Barry Wright/The Independent Marthaville’s Megan Munro and Mooretown resident Camryn Leitch and their Bluewater Hawks team won the OWHA U18 AA Southern League championship with a 2-0 win over Kingston at Scotiabank Pond Arena in Toronto. The Hawks had beaten the London Devilettes, Waterloo Ravens, and Stoney Creek Sabres, to reach the final last Sunday. They had a perfect 11-0

Barry Wright/The Independent The Mooretown Flags and East Lambton Eagles were ranked one and two in their age classification going into the OMHA tournament in Kingston on the weekend. The teams lived up to that billing with the Flags prevailing 3-2 over the Eagles in double overtime to capture the coveted red hats on Sunday. After a scoreless first period,

Barry Wright/The Independent We are the champions, my friend. That’s the refrain from the Alvinston Killer Bees after beating the Oshwegen Six Nations Ironmen, 5-2 on the road Saturday afternoon. With the win, the Bees win the best-of-five NPHL Metro Conference final in four games. Joseph Raaymakers made 43 saves and was named the first star of the decisive contest

Heather Wright/The Independent The Alvinston Killer Bees are just one win away from becoming Metropolitan Division Champions. The Bees beat the Six Nations Ironmen 4-2 to take a 2-1 lead in the best of five series. Caden Faulkner opened the scoring for Alvinston at 9:21 in the first. The bulk of the action was in the second as Terry Brigland

Blake Ellis/Local Journalism Initiative Helen Cole wants to know why fewer people are voting in municipal elections. Across Ontario, only 32.9 percent of eligible voters marked their ballot in the 2022 municipal election – an historic low.  The picture was a bit different in Lambton where 53.6 per cent of Brooke-Alvinston voters cast a ballot and the lowest turnout was

Heather Wright/The Independent The Alvinston Killer Bees and Six Nations Ironmen are tied up 1-1 in the Metro conference final after each team got a win on home ice this weekend. Brandon Couto had both the tying and winning goal in the Killer Bees 4-2 win over the Ironmen in the first game in front of a hometown crowd on

Barry Wright/The Independent Oil Springs’ Cash McKinnon and Team Ontario blanked Montreal, 2-0 in the championship contest to capture the Tier 1 title at the Silver Stick Sled Finals in Grand Rapids, Michigan last weekend. The win avenged a 1-0 loss to Montreal in the preliminary round. Ontario beat Pittsburgh and New York in pool play and went 3-1 overall.

Heather Wright/The Independent The legal fight to stop York1 Environmental from using a former Dresden landfill as a large construction and soil recycling centre and landfill is headed to court Sept. 21. The company filed a motion in Chatham court saying it shouldn’t need any municipal approvals to move ahead with the project without further municipal zoning approvals. It has

The Independent Goals by Brandon Couto and James McEwan 28 seconds apart midway through the third period broke a 2-2 tie and led the Alvinston Killer Bees to a 5-2 home ice playoff victory Friday. The Bees scored four unanswered goals in the final frame. Alvinston now leads the best-of-seven Metropolitan Division final two games to one. Game four is

The St. Clair Region Conservation Authority says Environment and Climate Change Canada has issued a rainfall warning for the region, with 20 to 40 mm of rainfall from Tuesday night to Wednesday. Locally higher amounts of rain are possible in areas that receive thunderstorms. Heavy downpours may cause flash floods and water pooling on roads. Localized flooding in low-lying areas