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  There have also been two fires  south of Florence   Officials in Dawn-Euphemia are calling on people to be vigilant and keep an eye out for strange cars after six fires in the community the last few days. The fires in Dawn-Euphemia are only part of a wider problem with three fires in Brooke-Alvinston last night and two fires

Brooke-Alvinston wants the Flyers to stay in Alvinston. The municipal council passed a resolution March 10 at the suggestion of Mayor Don McGugan “saying we are opposed to the move.” The resolution will outline some of the municipality’s concerns, including the loss of a major ice user and an institution in the community. It will be sent to the Ontario

Young people in crisis have another place to turn to in Petrolia. St. Clair Child and Youth Services and the Central Lambton Family Health Team have opened a new Walk-In Clinic. The walk-in therapy clinic offers quick access to a single session of therapy to address a specific and it is a way to connect with other services from St.

Petrolia is looking at ways of spurring landlords to fix up vacant buildings in the downtown. It is part of a series of programs being suggested to increase business. The town’s Director of Marketing, Laurissa Ellsworth, recently attended a conference where officials from San Antonio, Texas relayed how they took a tough stand to have the downtown’s vacant buildings cleaned

  Neil Bain was beaming. “Isn’t she a beauty?” he says laughing. Two years ago, there were few smiles. Bain and four other firefighters were called out to Highway 402 in a snowstorm for a car accident. They ended up in the middle of a pileup and Bain was eventually charged with careless driving. He was the only person charged

Lambton county councillors are setting aside a large portion of a $734,000 budget surplus to help pay for a project to bring fiber optic Internet service to all of southern Ontario. Lambton County’s General Manager of Finance, John Innes, reviewed the county’s year-end financial position in a report to council explaining the surplus which is equivalent to about one per

It may be tough to bring down the power bills at the Brooke-Alvinston-Inwood Arena. For the first time, the municipality had a bill of over $11,000 in a month. Public Works Manager Randy Hills says it is a reflection of the Christmas time use of the arena and community centre and the rising cost of power. The municipality had an

Brooke-Alvinston employees are getting a 1.5 per cent wage increase this year. Municipal council recently approved the increase. Brooke-Alvinston spends $972,000 on wages each year and generally gives its employees increases around the rate of inflation. In 2014, staff received a 1.25 per cent increase and 2.5 per cent in 2015. This year municipalities in the area have been awarding

St. Clair Township is tired of Ontario Power Generation  trying to wiggle out of paying taxes. Mayor Steve Arnold and his council have been dealing with the “unintended consequences” of the Liberal’s promise to stop using coal to produce power since the first of the four units were shut down in Oct. 2010. There were, of course, local job losses

Nick Salaris is hoping Petrolia will show its hockey spirit this weekend as the Petrolia Minor Hockey Association waits to find out if the town will vie for the title of Hockeytown. The president of the PMHA says the group is one of 3,200 communities in the contest run by Kraft which could see the town win $100,000 to improve

Lambton County politicians want Bluewater Health to explain the “glacial” pace of building a new detox centre. Sarnia Mayor Mike Bradley says it has been four years since the Erie-St. Clair LHIN met with county councillors and agreed to move forward on a 10-bed facility to help solve the community’s addiction problem. To receive provincial funding for the centre, a

The earth is moving in Dawn-Euphemia as Union Gas begins construction on one of its biggest projects in massive expansion of its natural gas infrastructure. Construction on the new $250 million compressor station on Bentpath Line is now underway with dozens of gravel trucks traveling the back roads of Dawn-Euphemia in the last few weeks. Officials say some of the