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Heather Wright/The Independent There are calls for better water safety training after three people died in the waters of Lake Huron in Lambton County over the Labour Day weekend. Two of the deaths – including a young mother who saved her son from drowning at Mike Weir Park – were in Sarnia at beaches without lifeguards. The deaths followed another

Barry Wright/The Independent After a trio of dates on the road, the Petrolia Flyers will skate up against the Exeter Hawks in their 2026-27 PJHL homeopener on Thursday Sept. 24. Game time will be 7:30. Petrolia begins the regular season away from the friendly confines of the Greenwood Recreation Centre with contests at Lucan on Sept. 12, Exeter on Sept.

The Independent Sarnia Fire Rescue officials say a person has drown Monday in Lake Huron off The Cove near Canatara Park. This is the second person who has drown in Sarnia over the Labour Day weekend. Sept. 7, fire officials were called to The Cove around 3 pm for a report of a possible drowning. Three marine fire units and

Barry Wright/The Independent A single in the final inning of the semi-finals by Warren Boersma drove Noah Harse home and gave the WyomingCattlebarons a shot at another OBA Senior Baseball title. The Wyoming Cattlebarons qualified for the OBA Senior AA baseball championship contest– they just don’t know who they will play, where or when. After play last weekend in Kincardine,

The Independent The Sting continues its OHL pre-season with a game against the Petes in Peterborough Thursday. Sarnia is coming off a 3-2 loss to the Rangers in Kitchener last Sunday to open the exhibition season. Carter Chadwick and Matthew Manza scored against the defending Memorial Cup champions. Ivan Tkach Tkachenko and Kale Osipenko shared goaltending duties for Sarnia stopping

Heather Wright/The Independent Before the Mooretown Flags dropped the puck on the first game of the new PJHL season, they stopped to honour Dane Nisbet. The club opened its season with a game against the North Middlesex Stars where Nisbet had played last season before his death. Nisbet was murdered during a pub night at Lambton College April 10. Before

Heather Wright/The Independent A Plympton-Wyoming councillor says Lambton will have even less representation on the new regional conservation authorities than first thought. The province announced it would merge 36 local conservation authorities, including the St. Clair Region here, into seven. By May, the province changed that to nine and ordered local authorities to prepare a budget for 2027 immediately. St.

Supports under change rooms need to be replaced Mooretown Library above change rooms also will close until project is complete Heather Wright/The Independent It will likely be early 2027 before the pool at the Moore Sports Complex opens after contractors uncovered structural problems in the facility’s change rooms. The issue is also affecting library services at the Mooretown facility. The

From Lambton Public Health Environment and Climate Change Canada is issuing a Heat Warning for Lambton County with hot and humid weather forecast for Tuesday and Wednesday. Heat warnings are issued when two or more consecutive days of daytime maximumtemperatures are expected to reach 31°C or warmer and nighttime minimum temperaturesare expected to sit at 20°C or warmer or when

Heather Wright/The Independent Sarnia-Lambton’s unemployment rate inched up to eight per cent in June. That from Statistics Canada’s region numbers reported by the Sarnia-Lambton Workplace Development Board. The unemployemnt rate is up from 7.7 per cent in May. Mikelle Bryson-Campbell, executive director of Sarnia-Lambton Workforce Development, says Sarnia-Lambton’s unemployment rate is similar to Windsor-Essex and Chatham-Kent. While Sarnia-Lambton’s unemployment rate

Blake Ellis/The Independent The recent trade proposal from the United States was “either fair nor economically sound, ” says Secretary of State for the Canadian Revenue Agency Wayne Long. He was describing the recent round of trade talks that fell through six days ago and led to 50 percent US tariffs being imposed on Canada. The secretary of state was

Heather Wright/The Independent The Ontario Plowmens’ Association has found a new Lambton County home for the 2027 International Plowing Match. It will be at the farm of Clayton and Linda McLauchlin east of Petrolia. In a news release the OPA says, their farms provide an “open agricultural landscape” and is accessible for the show which is expected to draw upwards