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An LCCVI Grade 11 student is one of the first championship winners of the school year. Marlee Darrach, 15, took the women’s LSSAA Golf Championship at Sawmill Creek recently. It was Darrach’s first appearance in a championship event. ‘I was nervous, very nervous at first,” she says noting she wasn’t alone since all but one of the competitors were in

As Jaylyn Eastman twirls like a ballerina in her grandmother’s living room, it is hard to believe this is what childhood cancer looks like. The spunky four-year old moves from toy to toy, playing for a moment before coming to the couch to cuddle up to Grandma Tammy Clark. Two seconds, Jaylyn, in her pink ballerina dress with medical tubes

Gary May couldn’t pass up an opportunity to tell the history of Petrolia from a more personal perspective. The former London Free Press reporter has written extensively on the history of the oil industry including Hard Oiler and Groundbreaker. Now, he is examining life in Petrolia after the oil boom in the family history “A Hard Oiler LoveStory.” The book

The Lambton Young Theatre Players made Petrolia Discovery come alive with stories from the past recently. The joint fundraiser featured plays throughout the Discovery, including the funeral of Sparky McCracken who turned out not to be dead at all, just drunk. Rain dampened attendance to the weekend event but Artistic Director Nancy Keys says the actors loved performing in the

Petrolia Discovery will come alive with history as the Lambton Young Theatre Players bring to life fictional stories of the Boom Town Days. The theatre group’s artistic director, Nancy Keys, came up with the Boom Town Series. In past two years, the young people have put on two events featuring characters of the past, Bad Guys in Boom Town and

Danielle Warwick is proud to walk as a survivor with they people who inspired her during a battle with cancer. The Oil Springs woman was one of the people who formed the Chain of Hope – a red-shirted line of cancer survivors – at Petrolia’s Terry Fox Run. Beside her were her grandparents, Mary Katherine and Jim Winder, also cancer

History came alive in Hillsdale Cemetery Saturday and it was a huge hit. The Petrolia Heritage Committee organized the event which featured actors reenacting the family history of some of the community’s founding fathers. Councilor Liz Welsh, who is on the committee, says nearly 400 people came out to hear the history among the headstones. “We had nothing but positive

LCCVI will field both a senior and junior football team in the 2013 season. Last year, the Petrolia high school could only field a junior team because there were simply not enough seniors to form a team. But Rick Tremblay, coach of the junior Lancers, says this year the seniors will field an eight-man team in a rearranged league. “The

Fairweather Road will remain for fair weather drivers. It’s an area which is prone to flooding. In the spring, public works crews leave the flooded road sign by the side of the road for the season knowing that there will be at least a dozen instances when the road will be under water. Enniskillen Township has to repair the bridge

Coyotes have been feasting on a local sheep farmer’s flock and it is costing the Village of Oil Springs a lot of money. Since May, 23 sheep have been killed by coyotes on Charles Fairbank’s land inside the village limits. It’s the first time in a decade there has been a problem he says. “We’ve had a llama (which coyotes

A school bus driver touches the brakes as she hits a bump on the soon to be reconstructed Princess St.   A major road project on Princess Street will start this week likely causing some headaches for homeowners in the area. Joe Adams, director of operations for Petrolia, says Princess between Nelson and Dufferin Streets will be torn up for

Andreas Rutkauskas loves looking at ruins. So the Montreal artist spent two years discovering the “industrial ruins” of the oil industry in Sarnia-Lambton and Pennsylvania to create his exhibit “Petrolia” which is now on display at the Judith and Norman Alix Art Gallery in Sarnia. In 2011, Rutkauskas asked residents of Lambton to go for walks and take pictures of