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Heather Wright Photo The cloudy skies have cleared and Song Machine from Sarnia has the crowd singing along at the second night of the Hard Oil Music Festival in Petrolia. The three-day concert event at Greenwood Park is part of the weekend celebrations for Petrolia’s 150th anniversary. Canadian favourite April Wine will hit the stage around 7:30, singing their classic

Heather Wright Photos Music filled Greenwood Park in the first night of the Hard Oil Music Festival. Colt McLauchlin and his band took the stage Thursday around 6:30 to open Country Night at Greenwood Park. Madeline Merlo then entertained with Josh Ross headlining the first concert in the festival organized to celebrated Petrolia’s 150th Anniversary. April Wine and Tom Cochrane

LCCVI graduate Rylee Kerr was one of four winners of the annual Gallery in the Grove Art Scholarship. The photographer will receive $1,000 toward her education in photography at Lambton College this fall. Awards were also presented to Samantha Guertin and Reese Waller of Northern and Lina Chanaga of St. Pat’s. Submitted phot

Heather Wright/The Independent Hundreds of volunteers are doing the heavy lifting as the Town of Petrolia prepares for the Hard Oil Music Festival weekend.Since Monday, volunteers have been at the Greenwood Park, preparing the grounds for up to 3,000 concert-goers nightly. The first group of fans will arrive Thursday for the Josh Ross concert.Monday, about 16 volunteers and town staff

James Grant had a pair of top ten finishes at the Canadian National Legion Track and Field Championship in Calgary on the weekend. The middle distance runner from Petrolia, representing the Sarnia Athletics Southwest Club, just missed a medal finishing fourth in the under-18 1500 metre final in a time of 4:02.11. He also placed tenth in the 800 metre

Addison Hext, 3, and her mom, Amy, were serving up lemonade during The Big Squeeze. The Big Brothers/Big Sisters of Sarnia-Lambton hosted the event Wednesday as a fundraiser. In the four years The Big Squeeze has been held, the number of lemonade stands has grown from 19 to 62. The Hext family set up their stand at their business, Johnny

Cathy Dobson/For The Independent Volunteers with Caregivers of Petrolia Ferals are being deployed this week to distribute nearly three tonnes of donated pet food across the region. For Petrolia’s Julie Medeiros, the largest donation of food in the group’s history is a godsend and she’s happy to share it. It’s enough to feed a huge population of feral cats daily

The line up for the Petrolia150 Hard Oil Music Festival is almost complete. Friday, the organizers announced another act joining Saturday’s ticket featuring Sam Roberts Band. Treble Charger started with an indie rock style but evolved to a pop punk band after signing with a major label in 1997. Tickets for the Aug. 15-17 shows are on sale at www.petrolia150.com.

Heather Wright/The Independent Four years after it was first proposed, construction of ‘small home’ for seniors with dementia in Lambton has been approved. In 2020, staff in Lambton’s long term care division proposed a different approach for people with dementia. Instead of being housed in a traditional nursing home, people would be in a smaller, home-like setting. Each person would

Petrolia’s Hunter Campbell will represent Ontario at the Legion National Track and Field Championship. Campbell set a personal best at the Ontario Legion Track and Field Championships at Toronto’s York University last weekend. He uncorked a throw of 49.60 metres and won a silver medal in the boys’ under 18 discus final. He also won silver in the hammer throw.

A Petrolia hockey player will be honoured by the The Sarnia Lambton Sports Hall of Fame. Brayden Kominek and Hunter Boucher have been named co-winners of the Pappy Burr Award, which goes to outstanding students about to enter post secondary education. Kominek, a LCCVI graduate, also achieved high academic marks while participating in hockey, cross country and track and field.

Water eight feet above normal The heavy rain that pelleted Lambton County is now flooding low-lying areas from Strathroy to Dresden. In Petrolia, Bridgeview Park, which historically floods in the spring, the water now covers the entire park with picnic tables and and porta potties bobbing in the water. Girish Sankar, director of water resources at the St. Clair Region