All St. Clair Township News

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 There are some familiar faces running in Lambton municipalities in the October elections. Todd Case is the first to file in Warwick Township for the position of mayor. Jamie Armstrong is seeking the mayor’s seat in Brooke-Alvinston. He ran in the 2022 election which David Ferguson became mayor. So far, he’s the only one in the municipality

The Independent The Sarnia Legionnaires have a new GM and Head Coach and a formal affiliation with the OHL’s Sarnia Sting. In a news release Sunday, President Theo Bet said Tate Philips will be the new general manager and director of hockey operations while Ryan Foster will be head coach. Foster most recently has been the coach of the U16

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

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

Heather Wright/The Independent Sarnia-Lambton-Bkejwanong MP Marilyn Gladu is keeping a lower profile after facing death threats and vandalism since becoming a member of the Liberal government. The long-time Conservative MP was welcomed into the Liberal fold April 8. While the Carney government had been wooing MPs, hoping to secure a majority government at the time, virtually no one expected Gladu,

Cathy Dobson/Local Journalism Initiative & Heather Wright/The Independent Family and friends sat listening as Sarnia Police gave details of the arrest of the suspect in the murder of Dane Nisbet Tuesday. The 20-year-old Sarnia man was with two friends at the Lambton College pub – The Lion’s Den – April 10 when shots were fired around 1 am. Nisbet and

Heather Wright/The Independent Lambton County spent $1.14 million more than expected for winter maintenance in 2025. That’s 50 per cent more than officials budgeted. The cost over run was not a surprise. The county’s general manager of infrastructure and development said in February the $2.4 million snow budget was over by at least a million. Staff, in a report to

The Independent The man wanted in the murder of Dane Nisbet has been arrested in London. The 20-year-old Sarnia man was with two friends at the Lambton College pub – The Lion’s Den – April 10 when shots were fired around 1 am. Nisbet and his two teammates from the Mooretown Flags, were hit and Nisbet died of his injuries.

Cathy Dobson/Local Journalism Initiative Tourism Sarnia-Lambton is coming under heavy criticism from Sarnia council with one councillor suggesting the promotional organization has “gone dormant” since the pandemic. And some councillors, including Councillor Anne Marie Gillis, suggest it may be time to create a new tourism group with Sarnia, Point Edward and possibly St. Clair Township.  Sarnia does not have its

Barry Wright/The Independent The Alvinston Killer Bees will travel a return trip of nearly 1,200 km to eastern Ontario this weekend to play the Tilbury Bluebirds in the quarter-finals on Thursday. The Bees were among eight teams which played a seeding round over the weekend. Alvinston opened the preliminary round in Smiths Falls on Saturday with a 7-2 win over