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Barry Wright/The Independent Petrolia’s Gage Brandon will play for the OJHL’s Cobourg Cougars this season after being reassigned from the FlintFirebirds training camp. Brandon had 12 goals and 24 points in 46 total games with Sherwood Park of the BCHL and Fort Erie of the GOHL lastseason. He was a third round pick by the Firebirds in 2024. ••• The

Heather Wright/The Independent It will be 2027 before Lambton County takes a close look at truck traffic patterns on Oil Heritage Line. Plympton-Wyoming council is asking for an origin-destination study of Oil Heritage Road – which includes Wyoming’s main street – as concerns mount about increased traffic due to the rehabilitation and expansion of a dump near Dresden. The town

Barry Wright/The Independent The Mooretown Flags open the 2026-27 PJHL season against the Walpole Island Wild Saturday at the Moore Sports Complex hoping to honour their former teammate Dane Nisbet in the process. The Flags finished fourth in the league’s Stobbs Division last season with a record of 22-19-1. They lost to Blenheim in six games in the first round

The Port Lambton 16U Pirates were a perfect 5-0 at the Provincial Championship over Labour Day weekend. The Pirates defeated Simcoe team 11-6 to capture the gold. The 11-team tournament was originally scheduled to begin Thursday, but heavy rain left the diamonds in Petrolia, Courtright and Port Lambton too wet to play until Saturday. Port Lambton opened with a 13-5

Barry Wright/The Independent Watford’s Evan Van Gorp drew a pair of assists in London’s 5-3 preseason win against the Royals in Victoria, BC last weekend during the preseason Clash of the Kingdoms. The WHL team prevailed 7-1 in the opener of the two-game series on the west coast. The Knights and Sting close out the exhibition season with home-and-home contests

Cathy Dobson/The Independent Twenty-five local workers will be offered jobs, and 125 families will soon have daycare for their little ones thanks to two new Lambton Rural Child Care centres opening this fall. “It’s a win-win in terms of new employment and childcare spaces,” says Lori Veroude, Lambton Rural Child Care’s (LRCC) executive director. A $6.9 million LRCC childcare centre

Barry Wright/The Independent A single in the final inning of the semi-finals by Warren Boersma drove Noah Harse home and gave the WyomingCattlebarons a shot at another OBA Senior Baseball title. The Wyoming Cattlebarons qualified for the OBA Senior AA baseball championship contest– they just don’t know who they will play, where or when. After play last weekend in Kincardine,

Heather Wright/The Independent Sarnia-Lambton’s unemployment rate inched up to eight per cent in June. That from Statistics Canada’s region numbers reported by the Sarnia-Lambton Workplace Development Board. The unemployemnt rate is up from 7.7 per cent in May. Mikelle Bryson-Campbell, executive director of Sarnia-Lambton Workforce Development, says Sarnia-Lambton’s unemployment rate is similar to Windsor-Essex and Chatham-Kent. While Sarnia-Lambton’s unemployment rate

Heather Wright/The Independent Dawn-Euphemia Mayor Al Broad says it is “absolutely ridiculous” that York1 Environmental Solutions isn’t communicating directly with Lambton County as it plans an expansion of the former Dresden dump. The township is one of the half dozen small communities in Lambton and Middlesex counties which will see garbage trucks rumbling through town as they head to York1’s

Barry Wright/The Independent After an opening night one-run loss to the host Wyoming Cattlebarons, the Corunna Giants rattled off three straight wins to capture the Western Counties Senior baseball championship tournament for the 2026 season. Corunna downed Port Lambton, 11-1 in the final at Canton Park on Sunday afternoon. Nolan Nicholson of the Giants was chosen as tournament MVP with

Heather Wright/The Independent York1 officials say a letter sent to Dresden residents outlining its latest proposal for a regenerative recycling project is only the beginning of consultation for the project. Monday, Dresden residents within 1.5 km of the site received an envelope in the mail addressed “current occupant” saying the company “is submitting” an application to change the Environmental Compliance

Activist says the letter raises more questions than answers Heather Wright/The Independent York1 Environmental Waste Solutions is looking for input on its new plan for the former Dresden dump. But the company is only asking residents in Dresden and they have very little time to have their say. Dresden residents are receiving an envelope in the mail addressed “current occupant”