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The Inn of the Good Shepherd’s mobile market is out on the road again. It was seen recently at the Petrolia Food Bank off Robert Street; one of 14 stops it makes throughout Lambton County each week. The fresh vegetables donated by local growers are free to those who need them. The mobile market, which was manned recently by Koty

Kristen Douglas gets right into the action as one of six young women who were part of the Petrolia/North Enniskillen Jr. Firefighter program for girls. The young ladies were put through their paces, learning first aid, how to use equipment and how to extricate people from car accidents. This week, the department is running a co-ed program at the fire

Hundreds of people came out to learn more about Lambton County’s oil heritage at the Oil Museum of Canada’s Black Gold Day. Visitors got their hands on oil drilling equipment including Gabriella Baird of Allen Texas who learns how to drill wood. Visitors watched spinning displays with Spinners Elaine Dobbin, Christie Poolman and Missy Whaley, were serenaded by piper David

A large field of wheat ready to be harvested went up in flames, costing a local farmer well over $12,000 according to Dawn-Euphemia’s fire chief. Dave Williams says the department was called to the field on Edys Mills Line near Esterville Road Monday after a hot tailpipe in the extremely dry field started a fire that quickly ate up about

  The small white cross and a tombstone on the road catches the eyes of drivers on Robert Street. The traffic even slows down for a moment. Jeff Johnson painted the tombstone with RIP on the road after his kitten, Gloria, was hit by a car late Saturday. While he’s sad his pet was killed, Johnson is worried with so

Investigators aren’t sure what caused a home in Oil Springs to go up in flames. Monday, around 1:30 pm neighbours to the Oil Springs Line home called 9-11 after noticing flames. About 18 members of the Oil Springs/South Enniskillen department responded as well as members of the Petrolia/North Enniskillen department were on scene for hours trying to knock down the

Firefighters from are fighting a house fire on Oil Springs Line between Duryee and Sherrif Streets. Around 2 this afternoon the Oil Springs/South Enniskillen Department got the call to the two story home. The owner was not at home and neighbours had already got the family dog out of the garage when firefighters arrived. The Petrolia/North Enniskillen department was also called in

A Petrolia man is blaming changes at the local post office for a snafu which has cut his retirement income in half. Recently, Canada Post asked residents in the town to stop using their post office box numbers on mail and use their street address instead. Each home and business was assigned a new box number during the change. That

If you saw a tractor or two – or 26 – in Petrolia today, your eyes weren’t deceiving you. It’s Tractor Day at LCCVI and 26 students convinced their parents to let them take the family farm vehicle to school for the day. It’s the most tractors that have been involved in what is becoming a yearly event at the

Workers at Munro Honey in Alvinston were preparing hundreds of hives for a trip to Quebec recently. The Ontario bees will pollinate Quebec’s vast blueberry crop before returning home.  

LCCVI Lancer Marissa Mueller has won OFSAA gold in javelin. The Grade 11 student threw an even 42 meters at today’s event in Windsor to capture the Ontario title. Mueller went into the two-day event ranked number one in senior girls javelin but told The Independent before she went, she was just thankful to be competing after a knee and then

  Four students from LCCVI will be vying for provincial titles this weekend at the OFSSA Track and Field Championships. Cody Bell, Amanda Frayne, Alex Jeffery and Marissa Mueller will travel to Windsor as the Lancer contingent. Mueller won the Western Region OFSSA Senior Girls Javelin event Saturday with a throw of 41.93 metres. She goes into the event ranking