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John Wright/The Independent Three LCCVI athletes hit the podium during the first day of the OFSAA West Regional track and field championships. Rayah Minten, Kole Chapman and Kallee Elliott are among seven Lambton athletes advancing to the provincial championship. Minten topped a field of 16 competitors with a throw of 11.56m, just one centimetre more than her throw best throw

Barry Wright/The Independent What has been anticipated for weeks is now a reality. Jack Nesbitt has announced his commitment to the University of Michigan for the 2026-27 NCAA hockey campaign. The 19-year-old left-shot power forward averaged a point per game last season with the Windsor Spitfires. The Sarnia native, with family ties to Petrolia and Alvinston, had 32 goals and

The Independent The sound of music drew a crowd a the Petrolia Farmers’ Market Wednesday as LCCVI held its annual Music Night. Family and friends pulled up lawn chair to listen to everything from the drum line to the Smash Band, students from different grades with different levels of musical experience who get together to jam.

The Independent The powerhouse Ursuline College Girls’ Rugby team defeated LCCVI claiming the Lambton-Kent championship in Chatham Thursday. UCC Lancers have dominated play in the league’s short season, going 4-0 before the L-K final, including defeating the Petrolia Lancers in the first game of the season. In the Lambton-Kent final May 27, LCCVI came out strong in the first half,

Heather Wright/The Independent Meghan Clarke has loved camels since she was a little girl. “We would go to the Toronto Zoo every year and they had camel rides at that time… I would beg my parents, literally, to go and go again and again and again. And one year, because they have sponsored the animals at the zoo down there…I

John Wright/The Independent LCCVI’s senior boys soccer team and North Lambton’s senior girls soccer team took home LKSSAA ‘AA’ titles on Monday afternoon in Forest. LCCVI kicked off the doubleheader by ending North Lambton’s undefeated season with a 4-2 win in the LKSSAA senior boys final. Liam Lahey led the way for the Lancers, scoring a hat trick. Gavin Carver

Heather Wright/The Independent Petrolia has given the green light for Lambton County to ink a deal with the developers of Petrolia Sky subdivision. But it will take a lot of coordination and time before any shovels are in the ground. May 12, Petrolia council gave Lambton County planning staff the okay to draw up a subdivision agreement for Petrolia Sky,

Heather Wright/The Independent The federal riding which serves Lambton County will continue to be called Sarnia-Lambton-Bkejwanong. That’s after MP Marilyn Gladu wrote to the Procedure and House Affairs Committee removing her request to drop Bkejwanong from the riding name. Gladu says the issue dates back several years when Charles Sampson was Chief of Bkejwanong. When it was suggested the First

John Wright/The Independent It will be a battle of the Lambton county high schools in the LKSSAA soccer finals. LCCVI and North Lambton will square off in both the senior boys and senior girls ‘AA’ final in Forest on Monday. The boys final begins at 3:30 with the girls final following at 5:00. North Lambton’s girls team advanced with a

John Wright/The Independent For the third consecutive year LCCVI has won the ‘AA’ team title at the SWOSSAA Track and Field Championships at Sandwich Secondary School in LaSalle. Kole Chapman (Senior Boys 110m Hurdles), Kallee Elliott (Novice Girls High Jump), Liam Hackett (Novice Boys 300m Hurdles), Rayah Minten (Novice Girls Shot Put), and Jonah Wagner (Novice Boys Long Jump) were

The Independent It was a good day for LCCVI Hurdlers as Kole Chapman, Xander Knapp, Meagan Munro and Kallee Elliott all advanced to the OFSAA West Regional Track and Field Championships. The four placed in the top five of their respective events at SWOSSAA May 20, giving them a berth in the regional event May 28 and 29 in Cambridge.

EDITORS’ NOTE: This article was editted May 20 to correct the name of the Conservative Co-Deputy Leader Melissa Lantsman. Blake Ellis/Local Journalism Initiative Lianne Rood says sitting Conservative MPs will give a voice to Sarnia-Lambton Conservatives abandoned by their MP. Hundreds of people from Sarnia and Lambton County and the surrounding region packed into the exhibition hall at the Plympton-Wyoming