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The Independent The season has ended for the Petrolia Squires. The home team fell 4-3 in overtime to Elora at Greenwood Friday. After, Petrolia won the series opener, the Rocks reeled off four straight wins to take the Ontario Elite Hockey League semi-final in five games. Friday, after the visitors scored early in each of the first and second periods,

Heather Wright/The Independent Twenty-five per cent of Lambton County households can’t afford the food on their table. That’s according to Lambton Public Health’s annual food affordability study. Over a week in May 2025, county officials collected food pricing data in grocery stores in Sarnia, Petrolia, Corunna and Forest for 61 items which should feed a family of four, according to

Heather Wright/The Independent Ontario is moving ahead with changes to conservation authorities, merging 36 agencies into nine in a bid to harmonize regulation and make it easier for developers to get housing projects approved. In Lambton, boundary change being met with guarded optimism with the head of the St. Clair Region Conservation Authority saying the new regions may be the

Heather Wright/The Independent The LCCVI Girls Hockey team is on the way to the provincial championship in Coburg. The team beat the L’Essor Eagles 2-0 to win the AA SWOSSAA Championship title Tuesday afternoon at the Greenwood Recreation Centre in Petrolia. Ella McCallum had both goals for the Lancers, one in the second off the stick of Meagan Munro and

John Wright/The Independent The LCCVI Lancers boys hockey season has come to an end after losing 5-2 to the L’Essor Eagles in the SWOSSAA ‘AA’ final in Tecumseh on Tuesday afternoon. L’Essor scored the lone of the opening period 43 seconds into the frame to take the lead. The Eagles came out hot again in the second period, getting a

The Independent Over 500 students may get a surprise when they head to school Tuesday. Lambton Public Health officials say as of late Monday, 513 elementary and secondary school students have incomplete immunization records and will be suspended Tuesday. Parents and guardians are required under the Immunization of School Pupils Act to report their child’s immunization or exemption status to

Blake Ellis/The Independent The Lambton Kent District School Board is using technology to teach Indigenous languages in the classroom.  Trustees heard at its meeting on Feb. 24, that the school board launched an app for Anishnaabemowin and Lenape languages to assist in the learning of the language. The school board offers Anishnaabemowin as a second language and Lenape as a

Heather Wright/The Independent Warwick Township will start construction on a solution to flooding in Watford this year, thanks to a cash infusion from the provincial government. In 2023 and 2024, massive rainstorms hit the area flooding homes and backing up water on Highway 402 at the Nauvoo Road exit. “It really crippled our community,” said Warwick Mayor Todd Case as

The Independent Lambton OPP are looking for a black Ford F-250 truck after a break in at MJ’s Variety in Watford early Sunday morning. It’s a strikingly similar description to a truck observed in Brigden just an hour and 15 minutes earlier when the Super Choice Gas Bar was broken into in Brigden. In a news release March 5, police

Blake Ellis/The Independent “Our education system is in crisis,” said Chandra Pasma, the NDP’s education critic at Queen’s Park, as well as the Ottawa West-Nepean MPP. Pasma was speaking Wednesday at the Ontario Secondary School Teachers’ Federation office in Sarnia during a town hall meeting. “The Ford government has taken more than $6.3 billion out of the education system since

The St. Clair Region Conservation Authority is keeping an eye on local streams and creeks as rain and warm weather are expected to cause water levels to rise. A weather system is expected to bring 10 to 25 mm of rain by Saturday and the temperatures are expected to be above zero throughout the time period rising to 18 C by

Cabin Fever received Creative County grant to record video Heather Wright/The Independent The printing press at Huron Web is usually a noisy place with dozens community newspapers rolling off the presses weekly. But Feb. 19, music filled the Wyoming plant as Cabin Fever worked on a video for the alternative folk/roots trio’s song No Back Page. It’s a song about