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  If you needed proof that this was an unusual winter, just look at the Lambton County Road budget. By the end of February, the public works department spent $1.7 million on snow removal. That’s 81 percent of the budget for the entire year. And that doesn’t include the big snowstorm in early March which saw road crews clearing waist

  Sarnia is hosting a special one-day event to help families of murder victims and the people who try and help them. The Aftermath of Murder is a two-part workshop April 10 aimed at meeting the unique needs of survivors of homicide, as well as helping train police, courts, clergy and policy-makers. “These folks deserve the best possible support,” said

Richard Poore made a discovery on the way to his garage which may fuel speculation about the presence of cougars in Petrolia and Central Lambton. The Petrolia resident was at his Crescent Park home Jan. 11 when he looked down. “I said, ‘Whoa! What’s that?’ It struck me because it was so big.” That thing was a paw print which

Hunter Burgess is ready to hit the boards at Victoria Playhouse Petrolia. It’s quite an accomplishment at age 10. The Grade 5 student from Sarnia was one of about a dozen young men to audition for the part of Thor Waldgrave in the VPP’s production of The Nerd. Waldgrave is The Nerd’s childhood tormentor. It’s hard to believe when you

He still has a long way to go, but Jamie Gibbons says his brother, Danny, is slowly coming back to them. The 21 year-old Petrolia man was one of four people in a pickup truck which rolled several times just outside of Oil Springs over a month ago. Gibbons suffered severe head injuries and was in a coma until two

Frank Feenstra  took  a break from cleaning windows downtown to listen to Danna Andrade singing outside the Mercantile. Andrade, director, was promoting the upcoming play “Things My Mother Taught Me” recently. The play runs April 3 to 6 at Victoria Playhouse in Petrolia.

The stretch of Highway 402 which seems prone to winter accidents is now under investigation by Ministry of Transportation. Plympton-Wyoming Mayor Lonny Napper asked Transportation Minister Glen Murray to look at winter maintenance on the 402. Five firefighters were injured Tuesday on the way to an accident on the Westbound 402 between Oil Heritage Road and the MTO’s weigh station.

Plympton-Wyoming Mayor Lonny Napper wants Transportation Minister Glen Murray to look at winter maintenance on the 402. Five firefighters were injured Tuesday on the way to an accident on the Westbound 402 between Oil Heritage Road and the MTO’s weigh station. One needed surgery on his hand. It’s not the first accident there this winter. Two people died in a

They were on the way to help strangers, but they ended up helping their brothers. Five Plympton-Wyoming firefighters were helped by their colleagues after ending up in the middle of a multi-vehicle pile up on Highway 402 near Camlachie Road which included eight transports, a dozen cars and trucks and two fire trucks. The department was called out to an

Krista Mueller says the LCCVI community plans to help people in memory of a former student. Kim Anderson McGuire was one of two people who died in a massive car accident on the 402 in late February after a wall of snow blinded drivers. Mueller, a teacher at LCCVI, knew McGuire well. She was active at LCCVI when she was

Petrolia Mayor John McCharles put his shovel to work as officials marked the official start of construction of the Central Lambton Family Health Team office on Glenview Drive Tuesday morning. He was joined by officials from Southside Construction, Mary Pat Gleeson, the CLFHT chair, Mary Vergeer, CLFHT executive director and Dr. John Butler. The 19,500 square foot building is already under

The Petrolia Lion Pee Wee Reps are Ontario champions. The team took the six-point series against Penetang with a 4-3 win over the Flames Sunday afternoon. It was do-or-die for Penetang and they had the lead into the third. With 10:50 left, Braeden Nickles scored the Oiler’s first. Caleb Guthrie scored at about 7:40. Then with 3:38 left in the