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The Lambton Concert Band is returning to its hometown for Christmas and Conductor Tessa Catton says it’s going to be a lot of fun. The concert band began in Petrolia in the 1990s when then LCCVI teacher Chris Coyle felt there was a need for a community band. Petrolia and Forest had the White Rose Band and Sarnia had the

  Homes with seniors and the disabled will have to pay to have their fire plans reviewed each year. This spring, the province decided all seniors’ homes and those for the medically vulnerable had to have sprinklers. More than 50,000 seniors live in about 700 retirement homes in Ontario Part of the changes made at the time included making each

Jesse Grandmont expects this year’s VPP Christmas Jamboree to be little like the music which happens when family gets together during the holidays. Grandmont, know for his show Fiddler on the Roof and as part of the Starbright Christmas ensemble, is one of five artists bringing Christmas to Victoria Playhouse Petrolia starting Friday. “The way I’m describing the shows this

It will be a nerve-racking weekend for some would-be actors as Petrolia Community Theatre holds auditions for its April production Auditions for Things my Mother Taught Me will be held Friday at 7 pm and Saturday and Sunday at 2pm at the theatre’s rehearsal hall on Centre Street. Theatre spokesperson Carol Graham says the comedy is written by Katherine DiSavino,

The Town of Petrolia is looking for a home for an oil derrick. Town council agreed to move ahead on a new entrance sign at its Monday meeting. It will be placed at the corner of Petrolia and Discovery Line where the current sign, complete with a steel replica oil derrick, stands. “Pride Signs will start making the sign over

Ten jobs will be created as Ubiquity Solar sets up a new plant to manufacture silicon wafers used in solar panels in Sarnia. But there could be a lot more jobs to come. Ian MacLelland, president and CEO of Ubiquity, announced the company is setting up an $11 million pilot plant at the TransAlta Bluewater Energy Park. The plant will

Seed farmers may soon have a way to gain extra revenue from their crop. Don McCabe, an Inwood farmer who is the vice president of the Ontario Federation of Agriculture, says a new study by the University of Guelph shows corn stocks could be the next feedstock for biochemical companies. But he says farmers will have to ban together to

The Corunna Community Policing Committee, the Optimist Club of Moore, and the St. Clair Township Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) are teaming up to host the Ninth annual drive thru in support of “Operation Christmas Tree”. The event will take place on Saturday, December 14  from 10:00 a.m. until 2:00 p.m. with Santa being there to greet the children.  Non-perishable food items,

LCCVI claimed second place at its own swim meet. Both the boys and girls placed second in the ranking at the Lancer Invitational at the Oil Heritage District Community Centre Friday. Bethany Robinson of Wyoming once again led the team to the strong finish, placing first in the 50 meter freestyle, the 100 meter freestyle and the 100 meter Individual

Petrolia residents have come to the aid of a young Petrolia family whose family was devastated by fire. On the weekend, the Blevins were out running errands and had stopped to watch the Santa Claus parade when Brian received a call from the OPP saying his house was on fire. Blevins, his wife Andrea and their four children all under

A young Petrolia family “in a haze” working to find a home in time for Christmas. The Blevins are staying with friends in Sarnia after their Eureka Street home was extensively damaged  by fire. And an effort is already underway to help them have a merrier Christmas. Just before the town’s Christmas parade was to begin, fire trucks raced from

If the province is going to continue cutting back funding to municipalities, Lambton County Warden Todd Case wants to know about it. That was the message the warden and two other Lambton County officials took to Queen’s Park last week. They were there to speak to senior Finance Ministry officials on behalf of the rural municipalities in Lambton. The province