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If you had asked Andy Braet in high school where he would be in 2014, he would have never have guessed in uniform in London, England. But that’s exactly where the Petrolia native is, one of two Canadians to be part of the Band of the Irish Guard. The Band is one of five bands in the British Army’s Foot Guards

Lambton’s Woodlands Conservation Officer says the landowner who took down trees in a pioneer cemetery didn’t break any of the rules under the county’s woodlot conservation bylaw. Three woodlots on Petrolia Line were bulldozed by the landowner earlier this month. One of the lots contained a pioneer cemetery dating back to the 1840s. The landowner says he knew there was

A small clinic on the other side of the world is giving some comfort to a Petrolia couple who lost their daughter in a fire. Last December, Charmaine Collins was killed in a fire in the Ottawa home she shared with six other girls. The Petrolia native had told her parents, Karen and Jaime, a few days before hand that

  Bronwyn Wonnacott is a typical 17 year old so when it came to step into the life in the 1930s, it was a bit of work. Wonnacott is one of the cast of 18 in Petrolia Community Theatre’s production You Can’t Take it With You.  The story centers around Alice and Tony who are in love and they’re trying

Libraries have always been a place for children, but Kathy Matlovich wants parents to know just how much there is available for children. The branch assistant in Petrolia is hosting a Baby Shower Saturday with the goal of showing as many young families the things they can find at the local library. Matlovich leads the Tales for Tots story hour

There is lots of Halloween fun on tap tonight: Fiery Faces will be lighting up more than 300 carved pumpkins tonight and Saturday at the Plympton Wyoming Fairgrounds. Admission is a donation to local school snack programs. The U17 World Hockey tournament makes a stop in Petrolia with Canada Black on the ice tonight against Sweden at the Greenwood Recreation

Lambton OPP have released a surveillance photo of a suspect in a Corunna bank robbery. On Oct. 6 around 1:45 pm a man police believe was armed walked into the RBC Branch on Lyndoch Street demanding money. He fled through a parking lot to Murray Street and no one was injured in the robbery. Police released a description of the

Election victory cookie anyone – returning Petrolia Councilor Joel Field shares a cookie with Mayor John McCharles who was returned to council with 80 percent of the vote in town. Joining the pair on Petrolia Council are Tim Brown, Ross O’Hara, Liz Welsh, Mary-Pat Gleeson, and Grant Purdy. In Oil Springs, Ian Veen defeated Gord Perry for the mayors job

  One of the five people injured in an industrial explosion has died of his injuries. Saturday afternoon, police, fire and EMS were called to Veolia ES Canada Industrial on Scott Road after a powerful explosion rocked the building. A photo provided by the fire department shows the roof of the building caved in and windows were blown out by

Southside Construction had never seen so many visitors to a construction site. That from Sarah Milner, the executive director of the Central Lambton Family Health Team. The team of 25 doctors, nurses, nurse practioners and health care professionals spent about three days moving from the teams former homes in CEE Hospital and on King Street. They brought their equipment and

Lambton County has agreed to consider extending its lease at Sarnia’s Bayside Mall. Bayside has been in receivership since Dec. 2012 and was put up for sale a couple of months later. But a complicated lease that sees the City of Sarnia own the land the building stands on and the deteriorating condition of the parking garage has made it

Don McGugan has always liked to try new things on his Brooke-Alvinston farm. The mayor was among the first in the province to plant his corn 20 inches apart and also was an early devotee to the no-till method. So when the Ontario Federation of Agriculture Don McCabe was looking for a place to demonstrate cornstalk harvesting, McGugan was more