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Blake Ellis/The Independent The Township of Enniskillen will reach out to the Ontario Plowmen’s Association (OPA) to meet about plans for the International Plowing Match to be hosted in the township in 2027. During the Sept. 8 council meeting, Councillor Tim Williams questioned whether the township had been notified about the 2027 International Plowing Match. It was announced in April

Blake Ellis/The Independent Enniskillen Mayor Kevin Marriott may not have a municipal election contest this year, but he did face some of his political colleagues at the Lambton County Plowing Match. And Marriott, who is also Lambton’s Warden, handily handled the competition. Marriott won the annual plowing contest between politicians over St. Clair Township Mayor Jeff Agar, Plympton-Wyoming Mayor, Gary

Heather Wright/The Independent It will be 2027 before Lambton County takes a close look at truck traffic patterns on Oil Heritage Line. Plympton-Wyoming council is asking for an origin-destination study of Oil Heritage Road – which includes Wyoming’s main street – as concerns mount about increased traffic due to the rehabilitation and expansion of a dump near Dresden. The town

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,

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

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,

Heather Wright/The Independent The owners of three major business in Wyoming are questioning why a housing development is going to be constructed in a light industrial area. Monday, Plympton-Wyoming heard an application from Norstead Properties and its principal, Roger Buurma, to build 19 seniors condominium units in a 2.4 acre field next to the new Home Hardware store and across

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.

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

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.