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Lambton County Warden Todd Case is looking for a meeting with the Minister of Finance after funding cuts he says are a “kick in the pants to rural Lambton County.” Rural municipalities across Lambton will be receiving fewer dollars under the Ontario Municipal Partnership Fund – the main grant the province gives municipalities to pay for thing such as policing,

Maia Blackmore, 2, is engrossed in a story read in French by Michelle Koskitalo at the Petrolia Library Friday. She’s part of the French for Fun story hour held every week.   Josane Blackmore is trying to pass on her Acadian heritage to her children, but it is a bit difficult in the middle of rural Ontario. But there is

The cold weather is causing problems for construction workers, business owners and residents along Princess Street. There have been four disruptions in water service as work crews try to complete the installation of the new watermain on the Petrolia Street. Construction on the $1.3 million rebuild of the street began in September and was expected to be complete tomorrow. But

Lambton County will be one of the groups asking questions as NextEra makes its case for transmission lines in Warwick Township to the Ontario Energy Board. NextEra is building two industrial wind farms along the border of Lambton and Middlesex County, the 92- turbine Jericho Project which is in Warwick and Lambton Shores and the 45-turbine Bornish Project in North

Christa Woods and Helga Mursall look over some of the 70 collector dolls which were donated to the CEE Auxiliary to sell at their store.   Doll collectors have been heading to Charlotte Eleanor Englehart Hospital this week. They’re not sick; they’re looking for deals on dolls. Recently, the hospital auxiliary received a donation of 70 collector dolls and decided

  Super Storm Sandy and tough economic times made 2012 a difficult year for Petrolia Discovery. But the chair of the board’s foundation says the work of preserving Petrolia’s oil heritage continued with the help of many dedicated volunteers. The foundation held its annual general meeting Monday, showing the public its financial statements for 2012 and electing a new board

Becca Amendola wants to encourage people to do what they can to help the environment. So when the new Petrolia resident noticed a garbage can overflowing with paper in the Petrolia post office, she became concerned. When Amendola found out the paper was simply being thrown out, she began a quest to make sure the unwanted items made it to

WAIT of Plympton-Wyoming has gone where Lambton County councilors have yet to go. The anti-industrial wind turbine group fighting a 42-turbine project near Camlachie has joined a Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedom case as an intervener. WAIT had urged county council in September to become part of the challenge to a project near Goderich.  WAIT is also seeking status

Glen Easterbrook says from its very beginning, Brigden Public School had a sense of community. Easterbrook was the first principal of the elementary school which was one of two built in then Moore Township in 1963. He returned to Brigden Saturday to help the school celebrate its 50th anniversary. Easterbrook recalls working with the six staff members hired from the

An early onset of frost may make it impossible to pave a section of Princess Street still under construction. Work crews have been pressing hard to complete the $1.3 million rebuild of the street and half of the road has now been repaved from Nelson to just past Dufferin. But Joe Adams, director of operations for Petrolia, says when the

When Lulu Marriott was born, Wilfred Laurier was starting his fourth term as prime minister, Mother’s Day was being celebrated for the first time and Ford was just beginning production of the Model T. The life-long Lambton resident passed away Friday at the age of 106. Enniskillen Mayor Kevin Marriott is Lulu’s grandson. His mother introduced the then Lulu Weatherstone

A local VIA advocacy group says municipal, county, provincial and federal governments all have to invest and promote passenger rail service. RAIL officials were part of a summit held by the South Western Economic Alliance recently. Service providers at the conference pointed out 60 percent of the VIA riders are female, 30 percent are students and 25 are seniors. While