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FROM LAMBTON PUBLIC HEALTH With the prediction of hot and humid weather expected for Wednesday, June 10through Thursday, June 11, Environment and Climate Change Canada is issuing a Heat Warning forLambton County. Heat warnings are issued when two or more consecutive days of daytime maximum temperatures areexpected to reach 31°C or warmer and nighttime minimum temperatures are expected to sit

Heather Wright/The Independent Sarnia-Lambton-Bkejwanong MP Marilyn Gladu is calling out the OPP after failing to charge a man who released her home address online. Gladu has been subject to public ridicule and harassment online, attacks at her Sarnia constituency office and threats to her staff as well as personal death threat after the long-time Conservative MP decided to join the

Barry Wright/The Independent Watford’s Kyle Brothers is the latest area talent to return home to play senior hockey for the Alvinston Killer Bees of the Northern Premier Hockey League. The 32-year-old has played professionally in Europe for the past eight seasons. He played junior hockey in Alvinston, Lambton Shores and Chatham before skating for four seasons of NCAA hockey at

FROM LAMBTON PUBLIC HEALTH AN AIR QUALITY WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED BY ENVIRONMENT CANADA FOR SARNIA-LAMBTON. The Yellow Warning is issued when the Air Quality Health Index is forecast to reach the high risk category. This following a ‘Yellow Warning – Air Quality’ issued for Sarnia-Lambton by the Ministry of the Environment, Conservation and Parks and Environment and Climate Change

The Independent A Thedford man is facing five charges after a crash. Sunday, Lambton OPP were called to a collision on Egremont Road near Digby Street up the road from the Warwick Conservation Area when a vehicle left the road. The driver fled. Police later arrested a 46-year old from Thedford and charged him with two counts of impaired driving,

Heather Wright/The Independent Lambton County needs 1,096 affordable and specialized housing units in the next 10 years. That from Org Code Consulting which presented a 10-year Housing Plan for the county at Wednesday’s county council meeting. “Affordability concerns are now affecting more people, with rents rising between 38 and 42 per cent since 2020 and deeply affordable housing is also

Heather Wright/The Independent Sarnia Police have charged a 41-year-old London man after a rock telling ‘floor crossers’ to resign was thrown at MP Marilyn Gladu’s Sarnia constituency office. Police say a man wearing a ski mask went to her office May 28 and threw the rock at the window. The glass didn’t break, but a few scratches were left behind.

The Independent Lambton OPP are looking for clues after about $40,000 worth of power tools were stolen in Watford. Police say sometime between May 22 just before 10 pm and May 23 at 11 pm, someone cut a lock and broke into a utility trailer on Industrial Drive. Police say multiple cordless power tools and pieces of equipment, primarily Hilti

Cathy Dobson/The Independent Six new doctors with connections to Lambton County are receiving a combined $43,000 from the Norma and Don Moore Scholarship Fund this year. In 2017, the Oil Springs farmer set up the $1 million fund with the Sarnia Community Foundation in his late wife’s name. Moore passed away in 2022 but the interest from the fund continues to

Heather Wright/The Independent One month into the nomination period for municipal council, there are a few more people announcing their intentions to run for office. Most notably, Kevin Marriott is looking for a fourth term as the mayor of Enniskillen township. Marriott was elected as a councillor 1994. He held the position of deputy-mayor for seven years before becoming mayor

Heather Wright/The Independent The London Knights OHL exhibition game in Watford is a go. Word of the possible game in support of the Brooke-Alvinston-Inwood arena floor project came to light in March when Jill Joris, Brooke-Alvinston’s fundraising and marketing coordinator, went to Warwick Township council for help to get the fundraiser off the ground. The Knights offered to host a

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