Petrolia’s recycling blues
Squires advance to Senior A championship series
February 28, 2022
The Petrolia Squires will play for the WOAA senior A hockey title following a four-game sweep of Milverton in the semi-finals.
The Squires got out the brooms with a 4-3 overtime win on the road Sunday afternoon. TJ Harris had the game-winner in the extra period.
Eric Marsh, on the powerplay, Jack Hackett and Isaac Mclean, shorthanded, also scored for the Squires.
Petrolia set up the sweep with a 6-2 win at Greenwood Saturday.
The Squires now await the winner of the other semi-final between Lucknow and Shallow Lake. Lucknow leads that series, three games to two.
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Petrolia’s recycling blues
November 11, 2025
Heather Wright/The Independent Petrolia is returning to blue box recycling and nobody is happy about it. Residents, according to Circular Materials Ontario, will soon receive two-80L blue boxes for their recyclables. The wheelie bin with the yellow top, which rolled into Petrolia backyards last November, will be taken away – recycled to be used in other communities which will receive
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PHOTO GALLERY: Remembrance Day 2025 across Lambton County
November 11, 2025
Across Lambton County this weekend, people stopped to reflect on the sacrifices made by Canadians. Photos by Blake Ellis/The Independent In Oil Springs, residents gathered at the local cenotaph Sunday, Nov. 9. Chrystal Bressette Photos In Alvinston, residents faced the cold and mounds of freshly fallen snow as they paused at the cenotaph on River Street Nov. 11. Lambton Shores
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Petrolia pauses on Nov. 11
November 11, 2025
Photos by John Wright/The Independent At the 11th Hour of the 11th month on the 11th day, people in Petrolia stopped to remember at the Cenotaph in Victoria Park.
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‘Would you want it out your back door’ ask Enniskillen residents
November 11, 2025
Residents urge council not to support battery storage project Blake Ellis/The Independent “I am very upset that this has gotten this far,” said Jean St. Pierre, a neighbour of the proposed Inwood Energy Storage project. St. Pierre, who lives on Courtright Line, appeared before Enniskillen Township council on Nov. 3 wanting to go on the record with her concerns about
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