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The Petrolia Rep team secured a place in the New Year’s Day final of the Earl Trevail Memorial Silver Stick B Division Final with a convincing 4-0 victory over Ingersoll Monday. The Reps have been strong throughout the tournament. They beat the West London Hawks 5-2 Saturday and then hammered Wallaceburg 9-2 Sunday. The Oilers opponent in the final is

  Plympton-Wyoming councilors say the town’s volunteer firefighters will be safer on the roads after approving $1 million worth of new vehicles. Eight months after a chain reaction crash on Highway 402 involving the Wyoming Fire Department, Plympton-Wyoming approved the purchase of a new heavy rescue truck and a fire tanker truck. In March, the rescue truck and fire tanker

Kathy Wodzinkski wants people to know they don’t have to accept cuts to their home care services. The paralegal with Community Legal Assistance Sarnia has been hearing from people who had home care services cut after the Community Care Access Centre in this area began re-evaluating who gets service. The CCAC had a $5 million deficit when it began reassessing

It’s been a very busy year at Victoria Hall. Richard Poor, director of performing arts for Petrolia says between the professional theatre performances and community performances nearly 40,000 people visited the historic theatre in 2014. Eighty-two per cent of the professional theatre’s performances were sold this year – high for industry standards. There were two shows which were complete sellouts

    A Plympton-Wyoming family trying to stop Suncor Energy from building industrial turbines will have to shell out $10,000 to look at data they think will help prove turbines hurt human health. Lawyers for the Bryce family have asked the Environmental Review Tribunal to adjourn the hearing into the appeal of the project for six months so they can

The name Sarnia is not playing as prominently as it once did in the effort to market the community. After two years of consulting and strategizing, a community branding group with help of a firms from Tennessee and Toronto – and $70,000 – have come up with a new way to market Sarnia-Lambton. “Discoveries That Matter” is to point to

Heather Wright Photo Eugene Smith pins the French Legion of Honour on Petrolia’s Sid McLean while Hon. Col. Barry Hogan of the First Hussars looks on. The Second World War Gunner fought through France, Belgium and Holland, helping to liberate them from the Nazis. The Legion of Honour is France’s highest privilege. With it, McLean is a knight and entitled

If you’re looking for someone to light up Christmas – Phil Osmond is your guy. The Petrolia man has spent nearly a week stringing lights on and around his home on 528 Maude St. creating a musical synchronized light show. It’s something Osmond has always wanted to do. “I have a three-year-old boy…now he’s at an age where I feel

Petrolia Town Hall is closed for the rest of the afternoon. Officials say some plumbing work is being done and town hall will reopen as usual Monday at 8:30 am. The closure will not affect the VPP Jamboree scheduled for this evening at 8 pm and Saturday and Sunday at 2 pm.    

  Two Petrolia teens have some explaining to do after the OPP were called for what appeared to be knife attack. Around 8:30 pm last night the OPP received a call that a teen was injured with a knife behind a business after being confronted by two masked men The OPP called in the Canine Unit and the Emergency Response team

Oil Springs Mayor Ian Veen  seen here receiving congratulations from the new Warden Bev MacDougall, will be Lambton County’s deputy warden for the next two years. He was elected over four other candidates including Lonny Napper of Plympton Wyoming and Don McGugan of Brooke-Alvinston.

Sarnia City/County Councilor Bev MacDougall gets a hug from 2014 Warden Warwick Mayor Todd Case after being elected to the top post in Lambton County this afternoon. MacDougall, who was elected over St. Clair Township Mayor Steve Arnold, says she plans to collaborate with the community and upper levels of government to improve Lambton County. “I’ve always been about cradling