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Heather Wright/The Independent Ontario is moving ahead with changes to conservation authorities, merging 36 agencies into nine in a bid to harmonize regulation and make it easier for developers to get housing projects approved. In Lambton, boundary change being met with guarded optimism with the head of the St. Clair Region Conservation Authority saying the new regions may be the

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 heads to court in March 17. The company filed a motion in court saying it shouldn’t need any municipal approvals to move ahead with the project without further municipal zoning approvals.  It has been

Blake Ellis/The Independent The Lambton Kent District School Board is using technology to teach Indigenous languages in the classroom.  Trustees heard at its meeting on Feb. 24, that the school board launched an app for Anishnaabemowin and Lenape languages to assist in the learning of the language. The school board offers Anishnaabemowin as a second language and Lenape as a

Blake Ellis/The Independent “Our education system is in crisis,” said Chandra Pasma, the NDP’s education critic at Queen’s Park, as well as the Ottawa West-Nepean MPP. Pasma was speaking Wednesday at the Ontario Secondary School Teachers’ Federation office in Sarnia during a town hall meeting. “The Ford government has taken more than $6.3 billion out of the education system since

The St. Clair Region Conservation Authority is keeping an eye on local streams and creeks as rain and warm weather are expected to cause water levels to rise. A weather system is expected to bring 10 to 25 mm of rain by Saturday and the temperatures are expected to be above zero throughout the time period rising to 18 C by

Cabin Fever received Creative County grant to record video Heather Wright/The Independent The printing press at Huron Web is usually a noisy place with dozens community newspapers rolling off the presses weekly. But Feb. 19, music filled the Wyoming plant as Cabin Fever worked on a video for the alternative folk/roots trio’s song No Back Page. It’s a song about

The Independent The Independent of Petrolia and Central Lambton has been nominated in six categories, including for best newspaper, in the Ontario Community Newspaper Association Better Newspaper Competition. The Independent has been nominated in the General Excellence category for best newspaper in the 1,500 to 8,000 circulation category with the Eganville Leader and the New Liskeard Temiskaming Speaker. Reporter Tara

The Independent A Chatham man has been charged with careless driving after an accident in St. Clair Township. Lambton OPP were called to the intersection of Kimball and Courtright Saturday around 5:30 pm. They found a SUV and a sedan collided. One person was taken to hospital with non-life threatening injuries. A 22 year-old from Chatham has been charged.

Blake Ellis/The Independent The pending amalgamation of all conservation authorities in Ontario hung in the air as the St. Clair Region Conservation Authority held what could be its last annual general meeting. Ontario’s Bill 68, the Plan to Protect Ontario Act moved to create the new Ontario Provincial Agency, to oversee and potentially consolidate the existing 36 conservation authorities into

Barry Wright/The Independent The LCCVI Lancers gained a measure of revenge with a 3-1 victory over Lambton Kent Composite in the LKSSAA boys’ A/AA hockey final Thursday at Greenwood in Petrolia. The Dresden school had beaten LCCVI in a shootout in the final last year. After Marc Simmons had given the visitors a 1-0 lead, Jace Hall and Sam Hayter

Barry Wright/The Independent Corunna’s Blake Barnes has recorded his first Ontario Hockey League goal. He scored with 9.8 seconds left in the third period to give the Saginaw Spirit a 2-1 win over Sudbury last Thursday in Michigan. Barnes is a graduate of the Lambton Jr. Sting program. He was drafted by the Spirit in 2024. ••• The Lambton Attack

Heather Wright/The Independent Chris Verrall never expected he’d help a bald eagle down from a tree. But that’s exactly what the City of Sarnia arborist did Feb. 11 after an eagle was caught in a tree nearDresden. An eagle-eyed resident spotted the bird in distress hanging from its leg in a tree and called the Bluewater Centre for Raptor Rehabilitation