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Barry Wright/The Independent John Chartrand made 44 saves and Dylan Dupuis played overtime hero as the Mooretown Flags downed Blenheim, 5-4 in the south Chatham-Kent community on Sunday night. Landon Marcy sent the game to extra time with the equalizer with just under five minutes to play in regulation time. Recently acquired Ty Therrien scored his first two goals as

The Independent A Thamesville man is facing impaired driving charges after being stopped in Dawn-Euphemia. Lambton OPP stopped a vehicle on Huffs Corners road near Lambton Line Wednesday around 5:40 pm. A 30-year-old Thamesville man was arrested and faces two impaired driving charges and operating a vehicle without insurance. The man’s license has been suspended for 90 days and his

The Independent Seven people are facing 37 charges after a series of raids by police in Sarnia and Corunna. Sarnia police spearheaded the investigation which spanned several months and targeted people trafficking cocaine in Sarnia. Dec. 16, police from Sarnia, Lambton OPP, Chatham-Kent, St. Thomas and Windsor, armed with search warrants went into six homes, including two in St. Clair

Heather Wright/The Independent Bothwell residents concerns about the amalgamated Chatham-Kent have made it to the provincial table. Frustrated by the regional government thrust upon them and feeling ignored by Chatham-Kent, a group in Bothwell and Zone want to return to Lambton County. A petition was circulated in January asking the province to “release us from Chatham-Kent” and allow Bothwell and

Barry Wright/The Independent Tyler McGregor earned two assists, including one on the game-winning goal midway through the second period, as Team Canada beat Czechia, 3-1 at the Para Cup in Dawson Creek, BC on Monday. With the points, the Forest native and team captain becomes just the fourth player in Canadian Para hockey history to reach 300 career points. McGregor

John McGregor opened up the LKSSAA boys basketball season with a pair of road wins on Monday night in Petrolia. The Panthers junior team got a 66-40 win over LCCVI. The Lancers were within striking distance in the fourth quarter but John McGregor pulled away with a 19-0 run in the final minutes. Bibak Koirala had a game-high 31 points

The Independent There are no plans to close, move or sell Dresden’s high school. That from the Lambton-Kent District School Board in a social media post responding to rumours circulating in the community. Last month, Trustee Angie Richards, who is from Dresden, raised concerns about York1 Environmental’s plans to expand the former Dresden dump for its regenerative recycling centre for

The Independent A Sarnia man is facing charges after a child explotation investigation. Nov. 18, the OPP’s Child Sexual Exploitation Unit, with Lambton officers, the digital forensics unit and Chatham-Kent Police executed at a home in Sarnia. Several electronic devices were seized. Eddy John Butler, 35, has been charged with four counts of luring a person under 16. Butler was

The Independent OPP say the arrest of a BC man a decades-long probe into four violent sexual assaults in Lambton and Chatham-Kent has yielded new information. The OPP used genealogy to arrest the former southern Ontario resident in the abductions and sexual assaults. Between March and August 1997, four separate sexual assaults occurred where young women – including a Thamesville

Barry Wright/The Independent Watford’s Ryan Bork notched his fourth goal of the season for the Dresden Jr. Kings in a 3-1 win over the Wild at Walpole Island Nov. 6.  Bork leads the Kings in rookie scoring this season with seven points in 20 games. Wyoming’s Nathan Reidhead is second in team rookie scoring with six points after registering an

Heather Wright/The Independent York1 Environment Services has hung out its shingle, opening for business.  It comes as the company tried to appeal to the neighbours around the former Dresden dump to understand more about the project. York1 purchased the Irish School Road site in 2022. In February 2024, plans for a massive construction and soil waste recycling facility and new

Heather Wright/The Independent York1 Environmental is going to court in a bid to avoid rezoning its Dresden property for its construction and soil recycling facility and landfill. York1 Environmental has plans to turn the derelict dump into a construction and soil waste recycling centre and rebuild the 20-acre landfill. Up to 700 trucks a day could be headed to Irish