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Caroline St. in Enniskillen Township will be closed west of 3869 Caroline St to the end of the road July 31 from 7 am to 5 pm for drainage work. The work will be rescheduled to Aug. 1 if the weather hampers the construction.

When Adam Veen was just 16, he decided to put his curly hair into dreadlocks. It was a bold fashion statement for a teen and the hairstyle stuck for 17 years. The Oil Springs man admits over the years he’s faced a lot of questions about how he washes the hair and “It must be hot in the summer.” That’s

Editor’s Note: This is the first in a series of articles on the candidates in the Sarnia-Lambton Riding. When Kathy Alexander was a high school student in Hamilton, her teacher would challenge her to think. Mr. Gillis would organize debates for the students and would challenge her to examine her beliefs. “I remember once he actually said; ‘Ms Pastour –

  EDITORS NOTE: The Independent is doing a series of personality profiles on the candidates. The first is NDP Candidate for Lambton-Kent-Middlesex Todd Case Politics has always been a part of Todd Case’s life. The Warwick Township mayor can remember sitting in front of the television at the age of nine, watching the news reports of the FLQ crisis “worrying”

Ticket sales for Victoria Playhouse Petrolia 2017 season were down compared to 2016. A report to council by Richard Poore, director of cultural services, shows this summer $1,062,187 worth of tickets were sold. That compared to $1,095,592 the year before. Expenses were also up about $42,000. Happy Together 1967 was the best selling performance of the year. Just under 6,400

Janet Wilpstra loves to help people with diabetes how their choices will affect their long-term health. And the Wyoming woman has received a national award for her work as a Certified Diabetes Educator. Wilpstra, a nurse at the North Lambton Community Health Care Centre, has received the Canadian Diabetes Educator Certification Board’s CDE Award of Dedication. Her colleagues who nominated

There was a long line of LCCVI Lancers in downtown Petrolia as the school donned red and white for Homecoming. Students had an escort from the Petrolia/North Enniskillen Fire Department from the high school to the arena where they took in the Boys and Girls Hockey games. The Boys defeated North Lambton 9-0 and the Girls score wasn’t available.

For the last 147 years, people of Scottish descent – and those who wish they were – have been getting together in Petrolia for St. Andrew’s Day. St. Andrew is the patron saint of Scotland and Nov. 30th became the time for the St. Andrew’s Society to meet and celebrate their roots. The tradition lives on in six communities in

Bluewater Health officials say the emergency department at Charlotte Eleanor Englehart Hospital will be renovated in the next two to five years and then replaced as part of a 25 year plan to upgrade the hospital. Officials unveiled their plans for the hospital during a Nov. 21 Open House. Bluewater Health and the Town of Petrolia have been working together

Sue Wright’s father-in-law witnessed part of southwestern Ontario’s most infamous kidnapping. The Wrights lived on Egremont Road in what was then Plympton Township in 1934 when two cars came down the road one night. Cars were not the norm on the Egremont so Wright took notice. He, his family and the rest of the world learned the heir to the

There was hockey, laughter and a few tears as Alvinston Fire hosted the first ever Hayter Memorial Charity Hockey Tournament. It’s named after former fire chief Jim Hayter and his wife, Mary Louise, who were tireless volunteers in the community and who both died suddenly earlier this year. Eight teams from across Ontario came for the weekend event and raised

Talia Mielke sounds a bit like the Canadian icon she is about to bring to life. Mielke has the title role in Petrolia Community Theatre’s Anne of Green Gables which opens next week. “It’s like being able to enter a whole new world for a couple of hours.” The sweet, purely Canadian musical, Anne of Green Gables, at the Victoria Playhouse