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Environment and Climate Change Canada has issued a Heat Warning for Lambton County after the prediction of temperatures climbing from 32 to 35 degress in the next two days. Heat warnings are issued when temperatures reach 31 degrees Celsius or warmer during the day and 20 degree Celsius or warmer at night for two consecutive days. Environment Canada says there

Ryan Beattie won the Super Sonic School Pro-Am on the weekend at Grand Bend Speedway. It was the second leg of the Bridgestone Canadian Superbike Championship. The third round is in Alberta in two weeks. (June 21-23). Beattle, from Marthaville in Enniskillen Township, was the top amateur and second overall at the season-opening event in eastern Ontario last month.

Meagan Munro, Jack Helps and James Grant all finished in the top 10 for their events at the OFSSA Track and Field Championship in London. Saturday, Munro placed fourth in the Novice Women’s 300m hurdle event with a time of 47.42s – faster than her time at the West Region Championships a week ago but two thirds of a second

LCCVI’s Jack Helps placed fourth in the Senior Men’s Javelin at OFSSA. Helps best throw was 53.65m at the provincial meet held at Western University in London. That was about two meters less than his throw at West Region and the bronze medalist at OFSSA. Also Saturday morning; Meagan Munro placed second in her heats of the Novice Women’s 300m

The Independent presents the second week of a six-part series by Reporter Cathy Dobson and Photographer Glenn Ogilvie focused on the alarming number of rural Lambton residents who increasingly cannot afford to feed themselves and their families.  Over the last nine months, we investigated how food insecurity is impacting our community and talked to the people who regularly access more

The Independent presents the second week of a six-part series by Reporter Cathy Dobson and Photographer Glenn Ogilvie focused on the alarming number of rural Lambton residents who increasingly cannot afford to feed themselves and their families.  Over the last nine months, we investigated how food insecurity is impacting our community and talked to the people who regularly access more

The Independent presents the second week of a six-part series by Reporter Cathy Dobson and Photographer Glenn Ogilvie focused on the alarming number of rural Lambton residents who increasingly cannot afford to feed themselves and their families.  Over the last nine months, we investigated how food insecurity is impacting our community and talked to the people who regularly access more

Lambton’s rural leaders say the county has no place to advise Sarnia on providing washrooms in a growing homelessness encampment at Rainbow Park. The city has been struggling to deal with the issue since the tents began popping up. Wednesday, Sarnia Mayor Mike Bradley asked councillors to allow county staff to comment on providing sanitation services at the encampment. While

A year after Sarnia offered a downtown parking lot as a spot for social housing, Lambton County says it wants to move forward and strike a deal for the land with the city. But the pace of developing the 267 unit supportive housing development is frustrating Sarnia’s mayor. In July 2023, Sarnia council offered the land to the county for

Emergency responders have been given two alerts in the last week after a number of overdoses in Lambton. Sarnia Mayor Mike Bradley raised the issue during Wednesday’s county council meeting, saying “there’s been a number of overdoses in the community in the last week or two, and we’ve been told there are a number of very bad drugs out there.

The Independent of Petrolia and Central Lambton has won four awards in the Ontario Community Newspaper Association’s provincial competition. The Independent placed first for Best Police/Court series for articles about a the Lambton County & LDN Active Club which started placing posters in residential neighbourhoods in Petrolia. The group has ties to white supremacists groups. The judge commented on the

Lambton County marked its 175th anniversary Wednesday by thanking 27 people and groups who have preserved the area’s heritage. Warden Kevin Marriott presided over the presentation of the Heritage Champion award winners announced in May. Bill Dokter Masonry, for their most recent project involving the restoration of ahistoric commercial building at 599 Broadway Street in Wyoming. Charlie Fairbank and Pat