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Lambton-Kent falls to LaJeunesse in SWOSSAA final Heather Wright/The Independent After a season of winning, the first loss was particularly hard; but Lambton-Kent Coach Sarah Weed says the team “gave it everything.” The LK Cardinal Senior Girls’ Basketball team lost for the first time this season in the SWOSSAA final. LaJeunesse won in the Cardinal’s nest 42-29. Julia Pegg and

Heather Wright/The Independent York 1 Environmental Services is hiring staff for it’s controversial Dresden facility and planning for a meeting with municipal leaders. The Mississauga company has plans to turn the former dump site into a modern landfill and construction and soil waste recycling centre. Community members have been fighting to stop the project along the banks of Molly’s Creek,

Heather Wright/The Independent The unbeaten North Lambton Eagles are Lambton-Kent Senior Girls’ basketball champions. The Eagles beat the John McGregor Panthers 53-31 Friday at the Forest high school. Alexis Wice led the Eagles with 17 points, Lainie Rintoul had nine and Lily Heynbergen had seven in the victory. Coaches Adam Willemse, Jacinda Sanders and Tara Petrus, all alumni and teachers

John McGregor defeated LCCVI in the Junior and Senior Boys Volleyball finals on Thursday. The Panthers won a tight junior final in four sets with scores of 25-23, 22-25, 25-21, and 25-21. John McGregor won all three sets of the senior game on Nov. 6 to take home their first LKSSAA title since 2022. .

The unbeaten LCCVI Junior Girls and North Lambton Senior Girls are heading to the Lambton-Kent finals. The Lancers defeated John McGregor Wednesday 50-22 to win a spot in the final. The Junior girls will take on North Lambton in the final on Friday at 4:00 pm. The Eagles defeated Wallaceburg 19-12 in the semi final. Julia Leyten and Meaghan Green

The gym in Dresden was electric as the Lambton-Kent Cardinals Senior Girls basketball team cruised to victory in the Lambton-Kent final. LK topped Tilbury 57-17 Thursday at home to move on to the SWOSSAA final against Windsor’s Lajeunesse in Dresden on Thursday (Nov. 13). The time has not yet been announced. The Cardinals won every game they played in the

The Independent Noah Waybrant scored his first career PJHL goal in Mooretown’s 7-1 win over Lakeshore.  Landon Marcy, Dylan Dupuis, Ryan Vidler, Carson Crawford, Thomas Browning-McFeggan and Owen MacDonald also scored for the Flags. Masen Flett had three assists to eclipse the 100-point plateau in his career with Mooretown. John Chartrand made 28 of 29 saves for the win. He

The Independent Northern handed LCCVI its third loss of the season in a cold, rainy game at Norm Perry Park Thursday. The Vikings were up 23-0 in the first half. The Lancers scored once in the second and contained Northern’s offense allowing just one field goal in the final frame. LCCVI ends the regular season at 3-3. Northern is 4-3.

The Independent Hayden Smith from Aberarder Central, Penn Allison and Hunter Pembleton of Lambton Centennial were top finishers from Central Lambton in the Lambton-Kent District Elementary Cross Country meet at Canatara Park Wednesday. Smith took second place in the Grade 7 Boys race, Allison took third in the Grade 5 Girls race and Pembleton was third in the Grade 8

Heather Wright/The Independent OPP are calling it a major breakthrough in a decades-long investigation into four violent sexual assaults in Lambton and Chatham-Kent. After 28 years, the OPP has used Investigative Genetic Genealogy to arrest a BC man, who is a former southern Ontario resident, in the abductions and sexual assaults. Between March and August 1997, four separate sexual assaults

Blake Ellis/The Independent Lambton-Kent District School Board Trustee Angela Richards might have another way to prevent York1 Environmental from developing its recycling and landfill project, just outside of Dresden. The Mississauga company plans to expand a former landfill site, situated less than a kilometre outside of Dresden, from a two acre site to 20 acres, and bring up to 4,000

Heather Wright/The Independent The St. Clair Region Conservation Authority says it is the first indication of potential water supply problems and they’re asking you to take action to help. The authority issued a Level 1 Low Water Condition advisory Saturday.  Oct. 17, special committee met to review the precipitation levels and water flow conditions in the region.  “Precipitation data collected throughout