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An Aamjiwnnang councillor calls it a “small win in a large fight.”The Ministry of the Environment, Conservation and Parks has turned down Clean Harbors application to accept thallium at its Petrolia Line site.Clean Harbors has been working with a BC company since 2017 to ship up to 175,000 tonnes of the waste overland to the Brigden area site. The company

Lambton OPP have laid charges in the death of three St. Clair College students south of Oil Springs. On Oct. 4, a sedan carrying four people left Oil Heritage Road, just south of Gumbed Line, as it headed into a curve. Three people from India, Harpreet Kour, 19, Gurvinder Singh, 19, Tanveer Singh, 19, who were in Windsor to attend

Bridgeview Park in Petrolia is undergoing some big changes.The St. Clair Region Conservation Authority has approved a plan to deal with stagnant water in the park on the south side of Petrolia Line. Work began Wednesday.Bridgeview Park floods each season with the water slowly receding into Bear Creek. When the town rebuilt Petrolia Line, the Ministry of the Environment said

Three people lost their lives in a car accident south of Oil Springs. Oil Springs Firefighters and Lambton paramedics were first on the scene of the accident around 1:30 am Friday morning. Three people were dead at the scene. The driver, according to sources, was standing at the side of the road when emergency crews arrived and was taken to

Five Wyoming firefighters were taken to hospital with minor injuries after the fire truck they were on tipped into a creek while responding to a call. The department was called to London Line this morning after a stolen pick up truck caught fire in a bean field north of London Line near South Plympton Road. Chief Steve Clemens says the

Brooke-Alvinston wants a one-year lease to the Inwood fire hall so it consider its options.The municipality and the Inwood Fire Association have been at odds over an agreement since 16 firefighters resigned last year. The association wants to continue the current lease for the next five years and refused to negotiation behind closed doors.Council rejected the associations offer and asked

A Petrolia councillor says he’ll try to have the Nicol Scholarship Fund money given to the town turned back to the foundation for scholarships during the next budget session.Joel Field made the comments after hearing the results of an online poll taken by The Independent after officials from the foundation came to town council Sept. 9 outlining how the town’s

The sunflowers may be starting to fade in a Plympton-Wyoming field, but the good that has come from a tribute to a two-year-old Thedford boy is still glowing.Saturday, Brian Schoonjans invited friends and neighbours, and Max Rombouts’ family, to the sunflower field on Douglas Line to reveal visitors taking photos and flowers had left behind over $48,000; money Jamie and

Tim Hummel says in the last 10 years the Nicol Scholarships have not been doing what was originally intended.And the advisor to the foundation is asking Petrolia Council to help turn that around.For decades, students at LCCVI in Petrolia have been receiving the prestigious award set up by former resident Robert Nicol. For 25 year, 10 students would receive the

One man is in London hospital with stab wounds after a late night fight in Petrolia.Lambton OPP are releasing little information about the Sunday night incident at an apartment at 4168 Robert Street.Derek Rogers, media relations officer for the OPP in the West Region confirmed “There was an assault on a male at that address and that a 21 year-old

The six rolling acres of sunflowers in front of Brian Schoonjans’ Douglas Line home remind him of Max Rombouts.Max was two and the son of one of his seed customers, Kevin and Jamie Rombouts. Just days after he was born, doctors found out the little boy had leukemia. There was treatment for more than a year and it appeared Max

Just a month after he officially retired from politics, Bill Bilton has died.Bilton, who was the first mayor of Dawn-Euphemia and Warden of Lambton County, had served in local politics for over 35 years.Bilton was first elected in Nov. 1982 as a councillor in Euphemia Township. He was the deputy reeve and then the reeve before the township amalgamated with