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One person was seriously injured in an accident in Warwick Township. Lambton and Middlesex OPP were called to Egremont Road on the edge of Lambton County around 1 pm Tuesday along with paramedics and Warwick Township firefighters after a two vehicle crash. Police say one person was taken to hospital with life-threatening injuries. Egremont between Wisbeach and Sexton Road was

A London woman is facing four charges after a number of people called Lambton OPP about an erratic driver on Egremont Road in Warwick Township. Lambton OPP received a number of calls Sept. 8, just before 10:30 am, about an driver on Egremont Road. Police stopped the car and arrested a 59 year-old London woman and issued a 90 day

Lambton OPP have laid a charge in a hit and run death on Walpole Island. On Aug. 25, around 3 am, Lambton OPP were called to an accident between a vehicle and pedestrian. Police said the vehicle left the scene. A 47 year-old Walpole Island First Nation was pronounced dead at the scene. On Aug. 30, police arrested a 27

Three people are facing drug trafficking charges after a traffic stop in Lambton Shores early Friday morning. Lambton OPP say members of the Street Crimes Unit and the Strategic Operations Intelligence Unit as well as the Anishinabek Police stopped a car on Arkona Road just after 1 am Friday. Three people were taken into custody and police seized fentanyl and

A 25 year-old has been charged after a stabbing in Wyoming. Lambton OPP were called to a home on Niagara Street in Wyoming Sept. 2 around 3 in the morning after getting reports of an assault. When they arrived officers found a person had been assaulted with an edged weapon but had sustained minor injuries. Cain Ryan, 25, of Plympton-Wyoming

A Toronto area lawyer is calling on the province to send homelessness funding directly to urban municipalities instead of county governments. And he’s citing some of the issues Sarnia is having with Lambton County Council as evidence county councils are ” standing in the way of efforts by Ontario’s urban municipalities to provide the ‘truly accessible’ accommodation which the courts

INEOS Styrolutions, the Aamjiwaang First Nation and the federal and provincial environment ministries have come to an agreement of how to meet the new federal benzene storage rules. May 1 – more than two weeks after high levels of benzene in the air sickened members of the the Aamjiwnaang First Nation – the Ministry of the Environment, Conservation and Parks,

Heather Wright/The Independent Plympton-Wyoming Deputy Mayor Netty McEwen says the proposed site of a mini-arena in Camlachie is “ridiculous.” She made the comments Aug. 28, during a discussion at Plympton-Wyoming council on the results of a survey of residents about the Huron Shores Optimists’ proposal. The Camlachie service club first floated the idea of an outdoor ice rink – at

Heather Wright/The Independent Before it became publicly known York1 Environmental Waste Solutions planned to repurpose the Dresden dump, it filed its plans for stormwater management at the site. The request to amend the Environmental Compliance Approval at the site was posted on the Environmental Registry of Ontario Nov. 30, 2023 and the chance for the public to comment closed two

Heather Wright/The Independent A move to have homeless people in Ontario “shipped” to Ottawa to live in vacant office buildings has failed. St. Clair Township Mayor Jeff Agar made the motion at Wednesday’s Lambton County Council meeting. While politicians were discussing the latest housing report showing a 20 per cent increase in the number of people seeking affordable housing over

Construction on Maxwell Park Place expected to start again this month Heather Wright/The Independent Lambton County will spend another $1.7 million to complete the long-delayed 24-unit seniors complex in Sarnia. County council approved the move after a seven minute in-camera meeting Wednesday. The 24-unit development at Maxwell Park Place was announced in March 2018, but has faced multiple construction delays.

The St. Clair District Catholic School Board is looking for a new director of education. Scott Johnson announced his retirement at Tuesday night’s board meeting. He began his career as an elementary teacher with the Halton Catholic District School Boardin 1992 and came to Sarnia in 2005 where he was an elementary and secondaryteacher, student success teacher, behavioural resource teacher,