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  Jean Windover is hopeful a new stained glass window in the Petrolia Library reflects a little of her long-time friend. Friends, family and members of the Margaret Stokes IODE in Petrolia donated money to purchase the window to honour the life of Pat Moloney who died recently after a long battle with cancer. The flowering dogwood window is a

  The oil history of Oil Springs is making headlines at Western University in London. A number of students taking their masters in public history recently visited Oil Springs, touring Fairbank Oil Properties and the Oil Museum of Canada, including the oldest oil fields in North America. Charles Fairbank gave the group a firsthand look at the jerker line system

When spring rolls around and you hear the roar of the lawnmowers, it may not be your neighbour cutting the grass. The Western Ontario Outlaws Lawn Tractor Association has been racing several different classes of souped up lawnmowers since 2007.  Wendy Calvank says they had several spots to race including a farm on Lasalle Line. But that track closed down

  Petrolia’s minor hockey players will be front and center this weekend as the local association celebrated 51 years of the game. Friday night, minor hockey players from every age group will parade through Petrolia’s downtown starting at 6 pm. Then many of them will end up at the Greenwood Recreation Center for the Petrolia Squires game against Tillsonburg. The

  Dawn Wakefield doesn’t like the unknown but she and her volunteers have plenty of surprises ready for anyone who enters the Legion of Doom. Wakefield, her family and friends have long been horrifying the community around Halloween. They haunted the third floor of The Squire until it closed, taking donations for local charities But when The Squire closed, Wakefield

She had only been gone a couple of days, but Florence Henderson already was missing Petrolia. Henderson wowed audiences at Victoria Playhouse Petrolia for the past two weeks and says she loved every minute of it. Speaking to The Independent by phone from her hotel in Maryland, Henderson says she already missed Petrolia. Henderson was first approached by her friend

He shoots! He falls! The littlest players in Petrolia Minor Hockey, the Timbits, took to the ice at the Greenwood Recreation Centre Saturday. Minor Hockey is offering incentives to encourage more Timbits to come out to learn to play the game.   There aren’t as many little people lacing up for hockey on Saturday morning. Charlotte Wright Boyd of the

The Independent wants you to show us your fall colours. Autumn is a wonderful time for photographers. The Independent is hosting a photo contest so you can “Show Us Your Fall Colours.” Your pictures may be of wonderful fall foliage in the area or of your family playing in the leaves. Amateur and professional photographers are welcome to submit photos

“That girl is a singer. She knows how to perform.” David Hogan, co-artistic director of Victoria Playhouse Petrolia, is in awe of Florence Henderson. The woman many people know as Carol Brady from the classic TV Show The Brady Bunch is in Petrolia to perform her one woman show “All the Lives of Me” for the first time in Canada.

For decades, the Brigden Fall Fair has for many marked the beginning of fall, but for Barry Ford, it is an ending. The Nanticoke man is a crew leader of World’s Finest Midways which makes its circuit around the Ontario providing rides for all the community fairs. Brigden is the last stop on the tour which starts in April. The

Duncan MacRae just likes to keep people smiling. Of course, they likely wouldn’t know it’s MacRae; they would be smiling at his alter-ego, Windy the Clown. MacRae has been delighting the crowds at the Brigden Fair since 1963. It was that year that his new mother-in-law convinced him to don the clown suit to entertain the crowds at the fair

 Erin Hawryluk, whose work Highland Glen placed second in the Victoria Hall Art Advisory Committee’s first juried art show views the art Wednesday.   Alvinston artist Liana Russwurm’s encaustic work ‘Beak’ has been named Best of Show at the first juried show by the Victoria Hall Arts Advisory Committee. Committee member Linda Smith says over 40 works were submitted to