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  A new financing arrangement at The Research Park of Sarnia-Lambton will give it better footing and insulate taxpayers from risk. A year ago, the Research Park underwent drastic restructuring after its biggest tenant pulled out. Staffing was cut and a new administrator was hired to find new tenants. It also asked Lambton County – the owner of the park

You may soon be able to buy all your local produce in one spot. The sustainable food group One Tomato is putting together a business plan for a local food hub. Spokesperson Megan O’Neil-Renaud says the idea would be to have a main warehouse with cold storage in Sarnia so food service providers and homeowners would be able to access

  A Plympton-Wyoming family has new hope of removing noisy rumble strips. John Prins has been complaining about the ripples in the pavement in front of his home at the corner of London Line and Mandaumin Road for a number of years. He renewed his calls to remove them again this summer. Lambton County staff said the county could open

Will Hull, 8, is busy reading his favourite book to help others. Hull and 15 other students at Tree Top Learning near Petrolia are taking part in Read to Feed, a contest devised by teacher/tutor Michelle Duquette. She’s asking her after school students to collect cash or canned goods for every book or every page of a book they read

The reconstruction of Princess Street will take longer than planned. Joe Adams, director of operations from the Town of Petrolia, says construction workers rebuilding the street from Nelson to Petrolia Line were doing well until the wet weather rolled in during November. Tuesday’s snow also didn’t help. “It slow going,” says Adams of working through the snow “but they decided

    There have been lots of little people visiting the Lorne C. Henderson Conservation Area this fall. Outdoor Educators have been seeing a lot more school groups since the provincial government provided boards of education with about $20 million in funding specifically for outdoor education. “We’re fully booked,” says Rick Battson, communications director of the St. Clair Region Conservation

Andrew McNabb and Bruce McDonald would have been just about the same age as Hugh Murray McQueen but their lives have taken a much different course thanks to his service. McNabb and McDonald researched the life of McQueen, a Canadian soldier from Petrolia who fought during the Great War for their history class at LCCVI. They shared his story with

Warren Graham pokes his head through a stage window as the Petrolia Community Theatre prepares for tonight’s ‘Til Beth Do Us Part.   Lindsay Peterson loves to watch a play evolve. Peterson, a long-time member of Petrolia Community Theatre, plays Beth in the company’s production ‘Til Beth Do Us Part that opens tonight. It’s the third time she’ll grace the

Lambton OPP are investigating a two-car crash in Oil Springs this morning which sent two people to hospital. Oil Springs Fire Chief Ken McIntyre  say a car was waiting to turn off Oil Heritage Line onto Victoria Street when it was hit from behind. One of the cars ended in the ditch beside the road, the other was in a

Troy Adams wants to make sure no one rides a bike or a four-wheeler without a helmet. Adams, who ran across Canada last year for his foundation – Troy’s Run, has been a strong advocate for wearing a helmet to prevent brain injuries since suffering brain injury in a car accident. Adams has been speaking about brain injuries across Ontario

There was lots of sweat but not a lot of sleep as cycling enthusiast hit the stationary bikes to raise money for the Oil Heritage District Community Centre and the families of veterans. Five teams, some with up to 25 people, took spin classes for 24 hours starting Friday at 7 pm. Miranda Cole, an employee at the wellness centre,

It is not as bad as they thought. Petrolia Mayor John McCharles says an engineer has recently looked at what repairs will be needed in the Petrolia water treatment system and it is not nearly as expensive as officials had expected. In the past few years, engineers had said the water system would need about $18 million worth of repairs