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  The oil history of Oil Springs is making headlines at Western University in London. A number of students taking their masters in public history recently visited Oil Springs, touring Fairbank Oil Properties and the Oil Museum of Canada, including the oldest oil fields in North America. Charles Fairbank gave the group a firsthand look at the jerker line system

Dawn-Euphemia is getting anxious about the cost of policing; and they’re not alone. Recently, Ontario’s Auditor General told the OPP it needed a funding model which was clearer and more transparent. The OPP has now finished their work and is inviting municipalities to find out how it will work Nov. 15 in London. Dawn-Euphemia Deputy Mayor Leslie Williams plans to

There will continue to be two fire chiefs in Plympton-Wyoming. After the retirement of long-time Wyoming volunteer chief Bill Davidson, council was considering whether it would be a good idea to merge the position with the chief’s job in Camlachie. The departments have operated separately since amalgamation but Dennis Gannon, operations manager of the Office of the Fire Marshal, recently

Editor’s note: The Independent recently requested an interview with Ontario Energy Minister Bob Chiarelli about the concerns about industrial wind turbines. We submitted five questions and here are the unedited responses forwarded by the minister’s office. When will the province outline how it will handle FIT program? The Large Feed-in Tariff (FIT) program is being replaced with a new competitive

When spring rolls around and you hear the roar of the lawnmowers, it may not be your neighbour cutting the grass. The Western Ontario Outlaws Lawn Tractor Association has been racing several different classes of souped up lawnmowers since 2007.  Wendy Calvank says they had several spots to race including a farm on Lasalle Line. But that track closed down

  Petrolia’s minor hockey players will be front and center this weekend as the local association celebrated 51 years of the game. Friday night, minor hockey players from every age group will parade through Petrolia’s downtown starting at 6 pm. Then many of them will end up at the Greenwood Recreation Center for the Petrolia Squires game against Tillsonburg. The

It’s a go. The Central Lambton Family Health Team has been given the green light to start construction on their new building on Countryview Drive. The team of seven doctors and 11 health professionals been working together for over two years on separate sites and received approval to locate in a soon-to-be built health plaza on. Southside Construction will build

An Enniskillen Township teacher is the Lambton County Warden’s Citizen of the Month. Cathy Johnson has been a coach at North Lambton Secondary School for 29 years leading the volleyball, soccer, girls’ hockey, cross country and track and field teams. Johnson has also coached three adult and two student dragon boat teams. She’s also been active in minor hockey with

  Dawn Wakefield doesn’t like the unknown but she and her volunteers have plenty of surprises ready for anyone who enters the Legion of Doom. Wakefield, her family and friends have long been horrifying the community around Halloween. They haunted the third floor of The Squire until it closed, taking donations for local charities But when The Squire closed, Wakefield

 Sarnia-Lambton’s blue water was one of the things visitors were startled by when they visited the area.   Petrolia and Central Lambton politicians are taking a wait and see attitude after hearing the first piece of the plan to brand Sarnia-Lambton. The community effort to come up with a brand and marketing strategy for the community started last spring. North

She had only been gone a couple of days, but Florence Henderson already was missing Petrolia. Henderson wowed audiences at Victoria Playhouse Petrolia for the past two weeks and says she loved every minute of it. Speaking to The Independent by phone from her hotel in Maryland, Henderson says she already missed Petrolia. Henderson was first approached by her friend

  Dead trees piled near the Oil Heritage District Community Center are the only sign of a small stand of trees that stood there until August. It was one of those unusual areas in an urban area which could have been considered a woodlot under Lambton County’s Woodlot bylaw. But Lambton County’s Woodlot Officer, Tim Payne, wasn’t aware the trees