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Petrolia has become one of the first Lambton County communities to bring history alive on a new social media site. Historypin allows viewers to find old photos and put them in context of the current streetscape of the city. It is used around the world and now Petrolia has a presence there thanks to Petrolia Heritage and the Lambton County

Petrolia has curb appeal. That from the Sarnia-Lambton Chamber of Commerce’s Greenbelt Committee which has honoured the town with the 2013 “Put a Shine on Lambton” Award. The award honours the town for their “people, plants and pride” and was presented in Sarnia Sept. 19. “Our residents can take pride in working together for this achievement,” says Mayor John McCharles

When Patti Black signed four of her children up for piano lessons, she wanted only wanted them to be able to play music. But the mother of 10 could never envisioned this: packing fiddles, a piano, guitars, mandolins, accordions and even an Irish drum in a trailer behind their van and traveling all over southern Ontario playing 80 shows a

Nicky Beatty and Chris Burdett will go just about anywhere to find a BMX bike park to try, but the Wyoming teens would rather stay at home. The pair, who travel to Sarnia, Watford and as far away as Toronto to bike, was among the crowd of 18 teens and pre-teens – and a handful of adults – who came

The Wyoming to Reece’s Corners Trail is not quite done yet, but their throwing a party to celebrate. A community group has been raising funds for a couple of years to build a trail for walking and cycling from the village to Reece’s Corners. Recently, Plympton-Wyoming Council gave the go-ahead to construct the $233,000 trail as the committee continued to

Gary May couldn’t pass up an opportunity to tell the history of Petrolia from a more personal perspective. The former London Free Press reporter has written extensively on the history of the oil industry including Hard Oiler and Groundbreaker. Now, he is examining life in Petrolia after the oil boom in the family history “A Hard Oiler LoveStory.” The book

The Lambton Young Theatre Players made Petrolia Discovery come alive with stories from the past recently. The joint fundraiser featured plays throughout the Discovery, including the funeral of Sparky McCracken who turned out not to be dead at all, just drunk. Rain dampened attendance to the weekend event but Artistic Director Nancy Keys says the actors loved performing in the

The big guy has been invited. Petrolia’s Community Services Department has set Dec. 7 at 2 pm for the annual Santa Claus Parade. The theme this year is An Island Christmas. Dave Menzies, director of community services, says floats can focus on any island including Caribbean, tropical or even the island of Newfoundland. “Has the big guy been invited?” asked

Petrolia Discovery will come alive with history as the Lambton Young Theatre Players bring to life fictional stories of the Boom Town Days. The theatre group’s artistic director, Nancy Keys, came up with the Boom Town Series. In past two years, the young people have put on two events featuring characters of the past, Bad Guys in Boom Town and

History came alive in Hillsdale Cemetery Saturday and it was a huge hit. The Petrolia Heritage Committee organized the event which featured actors reenacting the family history of some of the community’s founding fathers. Councilor Liz Welsh, who is on the committee, says nearly 400 people came out to hear the history among the headstones. “We had nothing but positive

The story of Hard Oilers opening up the oil fields of the world is about to hit the worldwide web. The Oil Museum of Canada has received a $35,000 grant to the federal Virtual Museum of Canada Investment Program to produce a virtual exhibit called The Untold Story of Canada’s International Oil Drillers: The Canadians are Coming! The virtual exhibit,

Andreas Rutkauskas loves looking at ruins. So the Montreal artist spent two years discovering the “industrial ruins” of the oil industry in Sarnia-Lambton and Pennsylvania to create his exhibit “Petrolia” which is now on display at the Judith and Norman Alix Art Gallery in Sarnia. In 2011, Rutkauskas asked residents of Lambton to go for walks and take pictures of