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Barry Wright/The Independent Hurdlers from LCCVI won a trio of races at Great Lakes Secondary School leading up to the LKSSAA track and field championship. Kole Chapman crossed the finish first in the senior boys’ 400-metre hurdles in a time of 57.3, nearly five seconds faster than his nearest competitor.  Xander Knapp won the junior boys 300-metre hurdles event in

Heather Wright/The Independent Tyler McGregor has stood on the Paralympic podium, but the Forest native says his favourite feeling in the world is turning down Townsend Line as he heads home. The captain of Canada’s Sledge Hockey Team returned to Forest Saturday for a community celebration of his accomplishments. He and his family rode the town’s antique fire truck to

Heather Wright/The Independent There are a lot of familiar faces, some in new places, as the first would-be politicians file their papers to run in the Oct. 26 municipal elections. The nomination period opened May 1. One of the first people to file was Joel Field. The long-time Petrolia councillor and now deputy mayor has thrown his hat into the

Heather Wright/The Independent The head of the Sarnia-Lambton Ontario Health team says more doctors and health professionals will be hired to make sure 5,600 people have health care, thanks to an additional $2.8 million from the province. Sarnia-Lambton MPP Bob Bailey announced the funding April 30 saying both the Rapids Family Health Team and the new E-nangaabe-jig Health Services have

Barry Wright/The Independent Forest resident Brett Case is the new general manager of the PJHL’s Blenheim Blades. He was hired after a season as assistant general manager with the Chatham Maroons. Case, born and raised in Watford, serves as the general manager of the Alvinston Killer Bees and he will continue in that role. ••• Plympton-Wyoming’s Pat Verbeek and his

The Independent People who can’t get to their local library can have the library come to them. The Lambton County Library have been offering some patrons a Library by Mail service since 2024. Now, all library card holders with an accessible membership. It allows people to borrow books in regular print, large print, multilingual and English as a Second Language

Heather Wright/The Independent There is a very large gap between what first-time homebuyers think they should pay for a home and the amount they’ll have to pay to get that house. That’s according to a new study done for the County of Lambton as it prepares a new homelessness and housing strategy. Frazier Fathers, Senior Housing Policy Consultant of TWC

Heather Wright/The Independent Forest is planning a couple of celebrations for their hometown hero Tyler McGregor. The captain of Canada’s Paralympic hockey team won silver at the Olympics this year as his community cheered him on. Decals and prints were created by locals, including Brian Richardson, with the proceeds from their sales going to the Make-A-Wish Foundation, McGregor’s favourite charity.

The Independent The hurdlers led the way for LCCVI at the Lancer Prep Invitational at the University of Windsor. Kole Chapman was first in the Senior Boys 100M with a time of 14.61 and 400M hurdles in 57.55 at Saturday’s event. Xander Knapp placed second in the Junior Boys 100M hurdles. Meagan Munro was third in the Senior Girls 100M

Kole Chapman won the senior boys’ 110-metre hurdles race at a high school track and field event at St. Patrick’s this week.  The LCCVI sprinter broke the tape in 14.82 seconds, nearly three seconds ahead of his nearest competitor. Meantime, Arie Roelands of North Lambton and Mooretown’s Camryn Leitch won field events. Roelands captured the novice boys high jump with

John Wright/The Independent LCCVI’s senior girls soccer team and North Lambton’s senior boys soccer team are both off to perfect starts after the first week of LKSSAA games. LCCVI’s senior girls team got a 1-0 win over North Lambton on Tuesday afternoon in Petrolia. Campbelle Brown scored the lone goal of the match in the first half. Shelby Hewitt recorded

Heather Wright/The Independent Sarnia-Lambton-Bkejwanong MP Marilyn Gladu is praising the Liberal plan to put more money into tradestraining. The Carney government released its fiscal forecast Tuesday with officials say there will be a $66.9 billion budget deficit instead of the projected $78.3 billion. The reduction comes from higher than projected revenue and cost cutting on the government operations. Gladu notes