Enniskillen farmer is among AALP’s new crop of leaders   
Posted 12 hours ago
GUELPH — Enniskillen Township cash crop farmer and vegetable producer Tim Williams is among 30 individuals chosen to participate in the Advanced Agricultural Leadership Program (AALP) Class 13. Class selections were recently made by the board of The Centre for Rural Leadership (TCRL). [more]

Provincial curfew being enforced   
Posted 12 hours ago
By Petrolia Topic Staff Lambton OPP officers are enforcing a provincial curfew in the county. “Corunna has specifically seen an increase in petty crime, but there have still been similiar incidents elsewhere in the county,” said Lambton OPP Const. [more]

Proposed bylaws would prohibit firearms, fireworks   
Posted 1 day ago
By Petrolia Topic Staff A bylaw to prohibit and regulate the sale and setting off of fireworks and another bylaw to prohibit or regulate the discharge of firearms in the Town of Petrolia have been given two readings. [more]

REPORTER'S NOTEBOOK: Kids say the darndest things   
Posted 1 day ago
Art Linkletter and Bill Cosby used to have a TV show — Kids Say the Darndest Things — on which children said and did the darndest things. They are still saying and doing it, if the cute actions and comments of children at a recent family reunion are any indicator. [more]

VIEWPOINT: Steering toward financial stability   
Posted 1 day ago
Amid the financial doom and gloom everywhere today, it’s nice to see a little sunshine with the Town of Petrolia’s financial picture. According to an auditor’s report for 2008, the town is in good financial shape and Mayor John McCharles concurs. [more]

Pride of ownership shown at car show    
Posted 1 day ago
Many car enthusiasts arrived early for the 2009 Petrolia Discovery Classic Auto Show held in Petrolia’s Bridgeview Park.  Owners spent the day (Father’s Day — June 21) polishing their own cars and admiring others on view for the show. [more]

Logan awarded $3,000 for med studies   
Posted 1 day ago
Petrolia’s Angela Logan has been awarded a $3,000 scholarship to help with her family medicine studies. [more]

Kayla Darrach earns Cox scholarship    
Posted 1 day ago
By TYLER KULA Osprey News Network A student from each of Lambton County’s eight secondary schools — including LCCVI’s Kayla Darrach of Petrolia — were honoured at the third annual Norma and Edward Cox Scholarship Awards. [more]

Ludwig chosen for minister's Student Advisory Council    
Posted 1 day ago
BY KATHERINE HIGHGATE For The Petrolia Topic Tim Ludwig, a Grade 11 student at Petrolia’s LCCVI, has been appointed to the Minister’s Student Advisory Council. Nearly 1,000 applications were submitted, and Ludwig was one of just 60 students from across the province to be chosen. [more]

Town adopts strategic plan   
Posted 1 day ago
By Petrolia Topic Staff The town's 10-year strategic plan has been adopted by council. At a recent open house to collect public input into the plan, the vast majority of verbal comments from 31 people who attended the open house and eight written comments were positive. [more]

ER deal signed   
Posted 1 day ago
By SHAWN JEFFORDS Sun Media Rumours that a deal to save the emergency room at Petrolia’s Charlotte Eleanor Englehart Hospital of Bluewater Health is dead are greatly exaggerated. So says Erie-St. Clair Local Health Integration Network (LHIN) CEO Gary Switzer. [more]