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PHOTOS BY SYDNEY GOODREAU AND HEATHER WRIGHT Eight LCCVI Lancer track and field athletes are heading to the provincial championships. Jack Helps led the team at the West Region Championship in Windsor Friday and Saturday, winning Gold in the Men’s Senior Javelin. He beat the field with a throw of 55.94m to earn his place at the championships in London

Award-winning songwriter Madeline Merlo will be the opening act for Thursday’s night of country at the Hard Oil Music Festival. Merlo won the Canadian Country Music Association’s Rising Star Award and was nominated twice for Female Artist of the Year, and the winner of the reality TV series Songland. Her son Champagne Night was recorded and released by Lady A

Mayor looks for residents ideas for the Petrolia Line building Heather Wright/The Independent Petrolia has purchased the vacant Scotia Bank in the downtown. And it plans to designate the 1911 building under the Ontario Heritage Act. Employees of the branch were told in mid-October that the 112 year-old fixture on Petrolia Line would be closing. Clients were told the accounts

Heather Wright/The Independent Petrolia’s planner is worried there will not be enough parking at a proposed housing development on Wingfield Street. May 13, the town held a public meeting on the proposal for 411 Wingfield Street, which used to house the office of one of the town’s longest serving physicians, Dr. Frank Riedl. After Riedl’s passing, the building went up

Heather Wright/The Independent An Ontario Superior Court justice says a Lambton County couple’s concerns about the care their mother received in a Petrolia nursing home during the pandemic were a matter of public interest. Justice J. Ross Macfarlane dismissed a defamation case launched by Michael Fiddick, the former owner of Fiddick’s Nursing Home, which charged the Moores’ dispute was private

Canadian favourite April Wine will hit the Hard Oil Music Festival stage Friday night. The Halifax band is the latest act revealed for the Aug 15 to 18 musical celebration in Petrolia. April Wine formed in 1969. It’s second album, On Record (1972), reached the top 40 in Canada and yielded two hit singles: a cover of Elton John’s “Bad

Blake Ellis/The Independent A plaque, honouring First World War Private Newell Hastings, is being returned to a headstone at St. James Cemetery on Churchill Line near Watford. The Deadman’s Penny of the Brooke born, Petrolia soldier will be commemorated June 9 near Alvinston. The plaque was found by a Point Edward couple at an auction and the family contacted. “It

From Lambton Public Health Environment and Climate Change Canada has issued a Special Weather Statement for Lambton County today, Tuesday, May 21, due to hot and humid weather present in the region.The Special Weather Statement is issued when there are episodes of high heat early in the warmseason for significant portions of the province, but do not meet the heat

 The man famous for bringing the classic song ‘Life is a Highway’ is heading down the highway to Petrolia. Tom Cochrane will headline the Friday night Classic Rock concert at the Hard Oil Music Festival in August. Cochrane– a Canadian singer-songwriter and musician – is best known as the front man for the rock band Red Rider and for his

Blake Ellis/The Independent Pauline Freer of Petrolia took the opportunity to have a chat with Lambton OPP Staff Sergeant Jon Kurtz Wednesday. Lambton OPP held Coffee with a Cop at the Coffee Lodge in Petrolia, as part of Police Week. OPP hoped to have an open dialogue with the public about anything involving policing in Lambton County.

Heather Wright/The Independent Don’t expect to see swim passes at the Petrolia Y anytime soon. The Y’s General Manager Wade Babula and Joe Cebulski, the former Petrolia Y manager who now works with YMCA of Southwestern Ontario spoke with Petrolia Council Monday on the heels of a suggestion by Councillor Chad Hyatt. Hyatt wondered if the facility, which has run

Splash pad likely won’t open this year Heather Wright/The Independent Petrolia’s splash pad won’t be ready for this summer as expected. Petrolia town council approved a nearly $1.2 million contract for AgriUrban Construction to build a washroom and concession stand and lay the ground work – concrete, drainage, water and electricity – for the building at the Tank Street centre