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Petrolia Flyers beef up roster heading into season opener
September 11, 2026
Barry Wright/The Independent The Petrolia Flyers will ice a veteran team when they visit the Irish to open the 2026-27 PJHL season at Lucan on Saturday night at 8 p.m. Over the past several days, the Flyers has announced the re-signing of Cam and Parker Davidson along with Masonand Casey Guerette. They have also locked up returning players Ryan Nichols,
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Flags host Wild in opener
September 11, 2026
Barry Wright/The Independent The Mooretown Flags open the 2026-27 PJHL season against the Walpole Island Wild Saturday at the Moore Sports Complex hoping to honour their former teammate Dane Nisbet in the process. The Flags finished fourth in the league’s Stobbs Division last season with a record of 22-19-1. They lost to Blenheim in six games in the first round
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Sports Briefs: Van Gorp, Knights get preseason win out West
September 9, 2026
Barry Wright/The Independent Watford’s Evan Van Gorp drew a pair of assists in London’s 5-3 preseason win against the Royals in Victoria, BC last weekend during the preseason Clash of the Kingdoms. The WHL team prevailed 7-1 in the opener of the two-game series on the west coast. The Knights and Sting close out the exhibition season with home-and-home contests
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Watford intersection opens, Grand Bend bridge work begins
September 8, 2026
The Independent One major construction project is complete and another is set to begin again in Lambton County. Lambton County officials say the intersection of Confederation and Nauvoo Road is complete. It had been closed to summer traffic since July 1. Officials say the lights hanging at the intersection are not yet working. For now, traffic will operate as it
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A Knight to remember in Watford
September 4, 2026
Blake Ellis/The Independent He would have liked the ‘W’ but Evan Van Gorp was happy to be home. He and the London Knights were in Watford Saturday for an OHL exhibition game against Erie – a fundraiser for theAlvinston arena floor renovations. “It is great to play in front of them, unfortunately we weren’t able to get the win,” said
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Warwick considers netting for East Lambton arena
September 4, 2026
Heather Wright/The Independent Warwick Township council is considering putting up netting in the East Lambton Community Complex arena after a spectator at a fundraising hockey game was hit with a puck. Ryan Chamney, manager of parks and recreation for the township, says during the warm ups for the OHL exhibitiongame between the London Knights and the Erie Otters – a
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Lambton may only get two reps on new conservation authority board
September 1, 2026
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.
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Heat warning issued for Lambton County
September 1, 2026
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
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Flags fly at half staff for Warwick deputy fire chief
September 1, 2026
The Independent Flags are at half staffed in Warwick Township following the death of a long-time volunteer firefighter. Roger Sitlington has volunteered with the Warwick department for 42 years including as a captain and deputy chief. “His unwavering commitment, leadership, and service to the community will not be forgotten. We extend our deepest condolences to Roger’s family, friends, fellow firefighters,
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Local unemployment rate at eight per cent
September 1, 2026
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
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Feds say tariff support for business and agriculture will last as long as its needed
August 27, 2026
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
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Sports Briefs: Myers having a red hot summer in Bowling Green
August 26, 2026
Barry Wright/The Independent Noah Myers is having a tremendous summer with the Bowling Green Red Hots of the South Atlantic Baseball League. The Wyoming Wranglers grad has reached base in 20 straight contests dating back a month. He has hit safely in 17 of 20 games and has drawn at least one walk in each of the other three contests.
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