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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

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