Owen Sound Sun Times

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Georgian Bluffs has started a process it hopes will help clear up the muddy waters" around the ownership and use of the shoreline road allowance in the municipality. Council approved a motion Wednesday directing staff to hire Weir Foulds LLP to work with the township on a comprehensive background study of the shoreline road allowance. [...]

Bruce County councillors voted to approve a reallocation of $26,500 to fund 50 per cent of Grey Transit Route 5 from Wiarton to Owen Sound for the remainder of 2024 after Grey County cuts off funding in September. Grey County council voted Feb. 22 to cease operating Route 5 on Sept. 2, among other changes [...]

Rural history professor Catharine Wilson will talk about 19th and early 20th century daily life in Grey-Bruce and elsewhere in southern Ontario as revealed in diaries. The University of Guelph professor emeritus, who founded the online Rural Diary Archive, will speak at the Bruce County Museum & Archives on April 6 from 2 to 4 [...]

Community members are invited to a memorial Sunday for an Owen Sound teen who died last weekend. The ceremony will begin at 1 p.m. at Jubilee Bridge. Community members are asked to gather at the bridge and toss flowers into the Sydenham River. TracyLee King said she didn't know 16-year-old Meredith Wiebe but felt pulled" [...]

Two young pedestrians suffered minor injuries and a Meaford resident has been charged following a fail to remain collision in Markdale on Thursday morning. Just after 10:30 a.m., Grey Bruce OPP received a report of a collision between a vehicle and two pedestrians at the intersection of Toronto Street North and Grey Rd. 12 in [...]

The YMCA of Owen Sound Grey Bruce is hoping a final fundraising push will help it reach its $100,000 goal in its YMCA Strong Communities Campaign. The local YMCA said on Thursday that with 10 days left until the campaign ends on March 31, it had to raise $10,000 more to reach its goal. The [...]

This article is sponsored by Unsmoke Canada, an initiative of Rothmans, Benson and Hedges Despite decades of government programs and regulations, today, nearly five million Canadian adults continue to smoke. Even if you are not a smoker yourself, chances are someone you know, love or work with, is. About 22 per cent of the world's [...]

The Owen Sound Attack needed a win Thursday night in Guelph to clutch and grab at any chance of climbing the ladder in the Western Conference. A slow start followed by a 5-3 defeat at the hands of the Royal City club means Owen Sound will finish no higher than seventh place. And there's a [...]

Owen Sound police charged a 27-year-old man with manslaughter and fentanyl trafficking after a 37-year-old man overdosed in the city and was pronounced dead at hospital. Police said in a news release Thursday that officers and paramedics responded to a 911 call on March 5 seeking medical assistance for a drug overdose at an apartment [...]

The back and forth over a plan to set up a pickleball club at the Kemble arena continues after Georgian Bluffs council determined a floor rental fee that had been proposed was just too low. On Wednesday, council approved amending its fees and charges bylaw to offer a reduced floor rental fee to the Georgian [...]

Three dogs died in an eastside Owen Sound house fire that caused an estimated $250,000 damage Wednesday afternoon. Firefighters received a 911 call at 12:41 p.m. about a fire in the front unit a century home in the 200 block of 13th Street East. The residents had left early in the morning and the rear [...]

With maple syrup festival season right around the corner, people are gearing up to drown themselves in the sweet elixir of the sugar bush. Local maple syrup producers have worked hard this year thanks to wonky weather patterns and warmer-than-normal temperatures. It's extending the season over a longer period of time. So, we're getting more [...]

South Bruce Peninsula council has supported the construction of a new town hall at its newly purchased property near Bluewater Park in Wiarton. At a meeting on Tuesday, council endorsed the use of the property for the town hall, using the existing steel frame structure of the former grocery store on the site, which is [...]

Though not home at the time, a homeowner witnessed three people breaking into his home via surveillance cameras and called police in time to catch them Monday. Grey Bruce OPP received the report at 4:42 p.m. and found three people on the property. Police charged Charolette Beirnes, 49, of Meaford, Jeffrey Carder, 49, of Meaford [...]

Grey County council has approved four major road project tenders for this year, three quarters of which have come in significantly under budget. At its committee of the whole meeting on Thursday, county council approved tenders for repaving projects for Grey Road 40, Grey roads 9 and 14, Grey Road 13, and Grey Road 3 [...]

The Canadian Mental Health Association Grey Bruce has announced Stephen Musehl as its next chief executive officer. Musehl has been appointed CEO of the organization effective April 15 following a search process conducted by the CMHA Grey Bruce board of directors and a CEO recruitment committee. He will be aided in his transition to the [...]

A new nature reserve at Hope Bay will protect 463 acres on the Bruce Peninsula considered critical habitat to a variety of birds and mammals. The Bruce Trail Conservancy announced Thursday the creation of the MapleCross Nature Reserve at Hope Bay. Located along the Niagara Escarpment two kilometres east of Hope Bay and adjacent [...]

A former president and director of the Saugeen Ojibway Nation Finance Corporation is facing fraud and forgery charges. The charges come after in March 2021 the Neyaashiinigmiing First Nation Police Service commenced a fraud investigation after receiving a complaint from the Saugeen First Nation and Chippewas of Nawash Unceded First Nation band councils. The complaint [...]

Oxenden's Julian Smith competed at the 96th Canadian Ski Nationals at the Nakkertok Ski Trails in Ottawa this past week. With temperatures of 12 degrees and no snow in the forecast, it is a miracle that the races were run at all, Smith's team said. Normally a 7.5-kilometre trail would be used, but the man-made [...]

The Young Guns ladies' broomball team won gold at the 2024 FBAO Intermediate Provincials held in Fergus on the weekend. Heading into the tournament, and sitting pretty after earning a bye, the Young Guns didn't play their first game until late Friday against Witches of Brooms. The game was a nail-biter, but the Guns came [...]

At the risk of over-stating the importance of a moment during a St. Patrick's Day afternoon in Owen Sound, the space between the second and third periods Sunday may have saved the Owen Sound Attack's legacy. After watching the Sudbury Wolves score three unanswered goals in just over ten minutes of game time to take [...]

OPP divers recovered the body of a missing 16-year-old girl from the Sydenham River Sunday afternoon. Owen Sound police confirmed it was Meredith Wiebe, of Owen Sound, who was reported missing by her family about 12:30 p.m. Saturday. The death is not suspicious. Two divers with the OPP Underwater Search and Recovery Unit and two [...]

Bluewater Quilters' Guild members shared their enthusiasm for their craft Saturday in various locations around Owen Sound. They marked International Quilting Day by being at information tables at the Owen Sound Farmers' Market, the Owen Sound & North Grey Union Public Library, YMCA Owen Sound and at Grey Roots museum to answer questions and present [...]

OPP divers will search for a missing 16-year-old girl Sunday afternoon in Owen Sound, police said. Police issued a social media plea Saturday for people to call them immediately if they saw the missing girl, Meredeth. Her family reported her missing about 12:30 p.m. in the area of the Jubilee Bridge, in the 400 block [...]

Unforced errors and thousand-yard stares - - the Owen Sound Attack are sliding down the standings. The Bayshore Bears lost 5-2 to the Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds Saturday evening in front of 3,044 hometown fans, and have fallen to eighth place in the Western Conference with three games remaining in the regular season. Rookie goaltender [...]

Emergency responders have been at the Jubilee Bridge Saturday afternoon, searching the river for signs of a missing girl, city police said. Owen Sound police posted on social media about 3:30 p.m. a photograph and name of a 16-year-old girl, last known to have been in the area of 5th Street and 2nd Avenue East, [...]

It's been a busy winter in Hepworth, where the new Royal Canadian Legion branch 586 is taking shape. Fire destroyed the old legion building on Jan. 21, 2022. The cause was never determined but suspicions have included the electrical or heating systems, legion president Jim Copp said Saturday in an interview. The legion lost its [...]

It's St. Patrick's Day weekend and the Kitchener Rangers started the party early Friday night with a 9-2 shellacking of their Midwest Division counterpart Owen Sound Attack. The Rangers fans enjoyed a start-to-finish dismantling of the Bears inside the storied Kitchener Memorial Auditorium, with a team-high 23 shots recorded in the first period. By the [...]

Workers will be cutting down and removing high priority" ash trees infested with the emerald ash borer on Monday in Owen Sound's Harrison Park. The entrance road to the park will be closed from the entrance pillars from 5:30 a.m. until 4 p.m., a notice from the city said. Access to the small parking lot [...]

Downtown business owners looking for an injection of capital and small-business support can now apply for a My Main Street grant until March 31. The $15 million federal government investment through the Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario (FedDev Ontario) is aimed at supporting the revitalization of neighbourhoods. Eligible businesses must be brick-and-mortar establishments [...]

The annual Maple Magic sugar bush event in Georgian Bluffs, which was to have been held this weekend, is cancelled for this year. Typically, the Wiarton Rotary Club's maple syrup fundraiser takes place during the last two weekends of March at Regal Point Elk Farm. A notice on the Wiarton Rotary website announces the cancellation, [...]

ATTACK ALUMNI COMPETE IN UNIVERSITY CUP Cole Cameron, Jackson Doherty, Zachary Roberts (Toronto Metropolitan University), and Justin Brack (Brock University) will join 182 Canadian Hockey League Alumni at the 2024 U Sports Men's Hockey Championships from March 14 to 17. The four former Attack players will try to topple the top-seeded University of New Brunswick [...]

City bylaw enforcement staff opened double the number of files concerning homeless encampments in 2023 than in 2022 - which represented a four-fold increase over 2021. City bylaw enforcement officers opened 134 files concerning homeless encampments in 2023, 60 files in 2022 and 27 files in 2021. Bylaw enforcement staff were unable to speculate why [...]

Grey County is continuing to take steps to try to control unauthorized motorized vehicles in the Glenelg Klondyke county forest. On Thursday, county council directed staff to continue with education, sign and trespass abatement methods to minimize any future trespassing in the forest in West Grey southwest of Markdale. The county will also repair sections [...]

Grey County has an unprecedented 11 ambulances on order as it awaits delivery of some of the vehicles from the only approved ambulance vendor in the province. On Thursday, county council approved the purchase of seven ambulances from Demers Ambulances. The ambulances include three that have been budgeted for in 2024 for enhancements to the [...]

Despite rising call volumes, Grey County Paramedic Services met all its response time targets last year. On Thursday, director of paramedic services Kevin McNab called the response times achieved by the county's ambulance service last year very positive," after call volumes exceeded 15,000 for the first time in the service's history. Grey County is committed [...]

It's down to four in the PJHL Pollock Division playoffs where the Hanover Barons and Mount Forest Patriots appear to be on a collision course barring an upset. The Barons and Patriots dispatched their quarterfinal opponents - the Goderich Flyers and Mitchell Hawks respectively - with first-round sweeps. And both clubs won Game 1 of [...]

New provincial funding to help local people access health care includes money for Saugeen First Nation to create a health team to treat band members with non-urgent needs on the reserve. This historic announcement for our community will avail funding sufficient for the recruitment of a nurse practitioner, chronic disease management nurse, occupational therapist, social [...]

The unemployment rate for the Grey-Bruce region continued to be lower than the provincial rate in February. According to the Four County Labour Market Planning Board's February report, the unemployment rate decreased to 4.5 per cent in February in the Stratford-Bruce Peninsula Economic Region. That's 0.3 percentage points lower than the region's unemployment rate in [...]

Calling all changemakers" in Owen Sound who want to schmooze and booze. Owen Sound's Harmony Centre is bringing together local community groups for a night of live entertainment set in a pub-like atmosphere complete with a cashbar and light snacks on March 22. The event builds on last year's sold-out pub night offering a networking [...]

The Owen Sound Crescent Club Junior Attack under-18 squad is headed to the Tri-County Minor Hockey League Smith Division semifinals. The top-ranked Jr. Attack topped the Centre-Wellington Fusion 4-2 in a Tri-County loop single-A representative playoff quarterfinal playoff game Wednesday night. Owen Sound will play the Oakville Rangers (Red) for a chance to compete in [...]

Kincardine council will begin implementing measures this year to help address safety concerns at its piers. At a meeting on March 6, council gave 2024 budget approval to spend a maximum of $92,000 for safety measures at the piers, including new ladder installation, sign upgrades, lifesaving station improvements and more. The recommendations were contained in [...]

Northern Bruce Peninsula is expanding its four per cent Municipal Accommodation Tax (MAT) to commercial owners beginning in 2025. Council moved to expand the MAT at its March 11 meeting after reviewing a report from staff that noted the expanded tax program will increase revenues by as much as $350,000 to $400,000, according to an [...]

Northern Bruce Peninsula residents can expect a tax-rate increase of 6.15 per cent, of which the municipality's portion increases 8.28 per cent. The 6.15 per cent figure includes county and education levies. Council approved the budget at its meeting on March 11. Homeowners will pay an additional $38.67 per $100,000 home assessment. The approved budget [...]

Two more people have been charged with indignity to a human body in relation to an incident at a residence at Chippewas of Nawash Unceded First Nation on Jan. 6. The Neyaashiinigmiing Police Service arrested Paul Nadjiwan, 65, and Sheila Robson, 51, and they have both been charged with indignity to a human body after [...]

Revitalization work in the 900 block of 1st Avenue East in Owen Sound is to start in April and be mostly finished by the end of August. City council approved a recommendation Monday to award the construction contract to do the work, which was modified to make it more affordable. The lowest bidder got the [...]

Bids to reconstruct Alpha Street came in about $3.1 million under budget. Now the work will begin, likely in April, and be substantially completed by Nov. 1. Owen Sound city council Monday approved Moorefield Excavating's low bid of $5.25 million to replace buried infrastructure, reconstruct the road, create a path beside it and landscape the [...]

It would cost about $16 million, plus tax and increases for inflation, to expand the Tom Thomson Art Gallery and create a shared entrance for the gallery, the public library next door and a new location for city tourism, a feasibility study says. The study addressed four primary needs: to increase professional collection storage, add [...]

Charges were stayed against two people with local ties who police alleged were involved in a Brampton nightclub kidnapping. Ontario Court of Justice staff in Brampton confirmed stays were entered for Jessica Proctor, 31, of Meaford, and Aaron Marshall, 35, of no fixed address, who has ties to Hanover, Kincardine, Owen Sound and Walkerton, as [...]