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If there is one thing Bruce Bailey has learned in his 42 years in the jewelry business it is that the woman always wins. Bailey is closing the doors of the iconic main street shop Saturday. A jewelry store has stood at 4190 Petrolia Line since at least the 1940s. Bailey has recently been given an old picture of Cecil

  There should be another way in and out of Petrolia for drivers by the end of the week. Enniskillen Mayor Kevin Marriott says construction on Tile Yard Road on the outskirts of Petrolia should be complete by Friday if the weather holds. For the second year in a row, Enniskillen has been repairing one of the main routes out

Sarnia Lambton MP Marilyn Gladu’s appearance as The Grim Reaper drew online scorn but she says it a humorous attempt to get members of her party to get past the “gloom and doom” of the election. During a forum billed as a time for new MPs to outline their new ideas, Gladu came out on the dark stage dressed as

Alvinston may be a teeny, tiny town, but it is big enough to host a conference about developing Ontario’s rural communities. That’s according to Brooke-Alvinston Councillor and member of the Alvinston Community Group Jeannette Douglas. The community group works to improve the village of Alvinston and earlier this year, Douglas heard about a conference offered by the Ontario Ministry of

A local environmentalist is “over the moon” as Ontario Nature plans to preserve the freshwater mussel capital of Canada near Alvinston. The conservation group has an agreement to purchase 192-acres of ravine land near Alvinston which borders on Middlesex County. An almost two-kilometer stretch of the Sydenham River winds through the middle of the property. Twenty-three species at risk have

Colleen Johnston says CERV is a great place for people who want to help the community. The member of Community Emergency Response Volunteer program got involved eight years ago to fulfill a childhood dream of being the medical field. “I always wanted to be a nurse,” she says “but back then…my parents couldn’t afford to send me to school.” So she

The Dawn-Euphemia Fire Department has finally got a handle on biomass fertilizer piles, which have been catching on fire. In the last few months, the department has answered about half a dozen calls from citizens saying the piles in farmers’ fields – particularly one on Dawn Mills Road south of Rutherford – were either smoking or in flames. Chief Dave

If you have a budding filmmaker in the house, this may be for them. The Lambton Film and Food Festival is looking for entries into its Lambton Youth Short Film Festival. There are five categories, comedy, drama, documentary, commercial application and animation for the three minute films. Organizers say they’ve already had a number of entries after a training session

You’ll soon be able to see what is going on in Petrolia’s Victoria Park without ever leaving your computer. Recently, the Town of Petrolia contracted Damar Security to reconfigure the security cameras in the downtown. The cameras were originally installed in about five years ago for $25,000 under a Safe Community Grant. The town can’t access the footage without the

  Warwick Council has thrown its weight behind a proposed collaboration between the Twin Creeks landfill site and a greenhouse operation to be built near the landfill which will employ up to 25 people. Council has passed a motion supporting an amendment to the landfills Environmental Compliance Approval to allow gas from the Watford-area site to be used at the

Warwick Township is not taking no for an answer, at least not without an explanation. Council asked staff to write a letter to the provincial government requesting additional reasons why the municipality was turned down for a grant to build a public electric vehicle charging station at the Watford Museum. While recognizing that the proposed charging station in downtown Watford would

Hydro One’s big fix of Lambton County’s power infrastructure is continuing with a $3.5 million upgrade to the Wyoming Churchill distribution station. In Jan. 2014, politicians began to raise the alarm about the frequency of power outages in the Petrolia/Wyoming/Oil Springs area. Bluewater Power, which serves much of the area, said the infrastructure of its supplier, Hydro One, was in