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The Wyoming to Reece’s Corners Trail under construction last year.   Plympton-Wyoming Mayor Lonny Napper says the internal disputes about the Wyoming to Reece’s Trail have to stop. Councilor Muriel Wright has taken town council to task for using money from the sale of road allowances – about $51,000 – to pay for the outstanding cost of the trail. When

McGugan to run again for mayor in Brooke-Alvinston Don McGugan has decided to seek a fifth term as mayor of Brooke-Alvinston. He was first appointed as mayor of the municipality in 2002 following the sudden death of Leonad McNeil and was re-elected in 2003, 2006 and 2010. “It was not an easy decision,” said McGugan after making the announcement at

In the still early morning hours, about 12 bleary-eyed teenagers board a school bus in Florence. The Lambton County teens are doing what generations of teens have done before them; waking up in the early morning hours to head to the fields for what may be one of the most difficult jobs of the summer – corn detassling. The Florence-area

OPP officials say it is going to take longer than expected to change how it bills municipalities. The province asked the OPP to come up with a better way of billing the municipalities and it has been working on a system where municipalities would pay a base rate  for services and then a per call fee. Lambton OPP Inspector Scott

Michael Paisley says he would stop to help a stranger again. The 21 year-old Petrolia man was the first person on the scene when a retired man riding his bicycle was hit by a car and left on the side of Petrolia Line. Paisley was on his way home from a friend’s house when he spotted a man lying on

Petrolia is looking to be one of the friendliest towns around even when it comes to bylaw enforcement. Town council recently ended its contract for bylaw enforcement with MEU. The Sarnia company started working for the town in 2001 and its specially trained municipal law enforcement officers routinely enforced local bylaws. But recently the town released MEU from its contract

 The Nerd is the next show in the VPP’s summer line up. The Petrolia theatre has already earned 86 percent of its projected revenue this year. It’s a very encouraging sign. Richard Poore, the director of performing arts in Petrolia, says with a little more than half of the summer season done, more than 80 percent of the projected revenue

Submitted story   Strong winds caused significant damage in the Grand Bend area on Sunday including downed power lines and trees. The area most significantly impacted by the storm is north of Klondyke Road to Grand Bend Main Street. Public works and hydro crews worked through the night to clear downed trees from municipal roadways to allow for emergency services

A member of the OPP’s Emergency Response Team has been charged with failing to stop after a collision while on they way to a bank robbery in Petrolia. In a news release late Friday, the OPP says a fully-marked OPP Ford pickup truck was heading west on Petrolia Line going to the robbery at the CIBC Wednesday afternoon.It hit another

Lambton OPP are expected to release more details today about an accident between a police vehicle and a small SUV during Wednesday’s bank robbery. Around 2:30 pm Wednesday a lone-armed gunman robbed the CIBC in downtown Petrolia and fled. Minutes after the robbery, a large OPP SUV was headed to the scene and was making its way around the corner

It was one more award than the MPP bargained for. Bob Bailey went to hand out awards at the annual general meeting of the Inn of The Good Shepherd to help hand out long-standing service medals. But after his work was done, Myles Vanni, the Inn’s Executive Director, and the Chair of the Board, Alex Palimaka, called the Sarnia-Lambton MPP

Lambton OPP Criminal Investigation Unit have released full description of a suspect in the armed robbery at the CIBC bank on Petrolia Line. OPP want help to identify the man they think is involved. He’s described as about 6 feet tall. He was wearing a grey hoodie, a ball cap, a white shirt, winter gloves, sunglasses, and a he had a