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Heather Wright/The Independent A Plympton-Wyoming councillor says Lambton will have even less representation on the new regional conservation authorities than first thought. The province announced it would merge 36 local conservation authorities, including the St. Clair Region here, into seven. By May, the province changed that to nine and ordered local authorities to prepare a budget for 2027 immediately. St.

From Lambton Public Health Environment and Climate Change Canada is issuing a Heat Warning for Lambton County with hot and humid weather forecast for Tuesday and Wednesday. Heat warnings are issued when two or more consecutive days of daytime maximumtemperatures are expected to reach 31°C or warmer and nighttime minimum temperaturesare expected to sit at 20°C or warmer or when

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

The Independent Lambton OPP are looking for the driver of a pickup truck which crashed Sunday. Around 4 pm, the OPP were called to a single-vehicle accident on Petrolia Line near Mandaumin Road. When police arrived, they found a maroon Dodge Ram 1500 pickup. The driver was no where to be found. Police believe the accident occurred between 3 pm

Blake Ellis/The Independent The recent trade proposal from the United States was “either fair nor economically sound, ” says Secretary of State for the Canadian Revenue Agency Wayne Long. He was describing the recent round of trade talks that fell through six days ago and led to 50 percent US tariffs being imposed on Canada. The secretary of state was

Blake Ellis/The Independent A visit by Thornhill MPP Laura Smith to Oil City seems to have disappeared from the Progressive Conservative politician’s list of priorities this summer. Smith, who serves as parliamentary secretary to the Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing Rob Flack, had promised to come to Oil City this summer to see the lagoon at Oil City. Enniskillen

Barry Wright/The Independent The Camlachie Cougars-Black U15 team went five-for-five over the weekend to capture the London and District Baseball trophy. The Cougars downed Strathroy, 12-3, DKMB – Delaware, Komoka and Mt. Brydges – 14-3 and North Middlesex twice, 13-7 and 6-5 to reach the final. Camlachie scored six runs in the second inning on its way to a 12-3

The Independent The entire Enniskillen council is expected to be acclaimed Monday. It will be the third term in a row without an election in the township. Aug. 21 was the final day to submit nominations to run in the Oct. 26 municipal election. The township, which has acclaimed its council in both the 2018 and 2022 election, seemed destined

Heather Wright/The Independent It appears there won’t be an election for mayor in Petrolia, Enniskillen, Warwick and Oil Springs this year. Nominations for the Oct. 26 municipal election have just closed across the province. Clerks in each municipality will verify the list of candidates Monday. However, in the online portals for Petrolia, Enniskillen, Warwick and Oil Springs, only one candidate

Heather Wright/The Independent The mayors races in the municipal elections are heating up with one Sarnia candidate withdrawing from the race for the top job and another person adding their name to the list to run in St. Clair Township. In St. Clair Township, there will be an election for the mayor’s chair. Incumbent Jeff Agar filed his nomination papers

The Enniskillen Express girls’ PWSA team won the under-13 Tier 2 “C” bronze medals at Provincial Grands inWindsor. The Express went 5-1 with its only loss to the eventual champions from Waterdown, near Hamilton. Enniskillen won a trio of one-sided games in round robin play to secure the number one seed for the playoffs. Theybeat Cobourg 19-1, Burlington 11-0 and

Blake Ellis/The Independent The OPP won’t be setting up shop in Oil Springs. The suggestion by the Village of Oil Springs council to use the Youth Centre has been turned down by the Lambton OPP. The OPP were looking for a location for a remote workspace within either Oil Springs or the townships of Enniskillen or Dawn-Euphemia. It approached each