by George Mathewson for The Sarnia Journal (2014) City councillors seemed to surprise even themselves last week by granting the condemned Cull Drain Bridge a second chance at life. In a unanimous vote, city council agreed to spend $230,000 to demolish the bridge but save its steel trusses, which will [...]
by George Mathewson for The Sarnia Journal (2014) It’s an old rusty bridge that goes nowhere. Yet on June 4, the gymnasium of Bright’s Grove Public School filled up with a standing-room only crowd of nearly 200 vocal residents eager to talk about the Cull Drain Bridge. The scenic bridge [...]
by Paul Morden for the Sarnia Observer (2012) The future of a more than century-old steel bridge on Sarnia’s lakefront is undetermined, for now. Built in 1910, the span crosses the Cull Drain, also known as Perch Creek, on Old Lakeshore Road, but has only been used by pedestrians and [...]
by Tara Jeffrey for the Sarnia Observer (2013) It seems like just yesterday that Sarnia native Mike Weir made history at Augusta National. “It's hard to believe it's been 10 years – it was a thrill of my golfing career,” Weir said during a media teleconference held Wednesday to discuss [...]
by George Mathewson for The Sarnia Journal (2015) Today we offer another first hand glimpse (of Sarnia) through the eyes of one Julia Marie Jones, who, in the summer of 1830, kept a journal of her transatlantic crossing and arrival in Upper Canada. Julia was the spirited daughter of Henry [...]
