Owen Sound Sun Times

Owen Sound police charged a 35-year-old man with impaired driving after he fled a collision on foot early Sunday morning in the city, police said. Police responded to a 3:30 a.m. report of a single-vehicle collision just east of 7th Avenue East and 6th Street East. A Nissan Xterra failed to negotiate a turn, left [...]

An Owen Sound police officer used a fleeing suspect's abandoned bike to chase and arrest him Sunday night. Police received a report of a suspicious man pointing a firearm at a person in the area of 13th Street West and 4th Avenue West in Owen Sound just before 7 p.m. When police arrived the suspect [...]

The Owen Sound Attack are going to the playoffs. The Attack planted their flag firmly inside the Erie Insurance Arena this weekend winning back-to-back games and clinching a spot in the postseason. On Sunday afternoon, Carter George made all three stops in the shootout as the Attack topped the Otters 7-6. With the win, the [...]

Meaford rang in its sesquicentennial celebrations in style on Sunday. More than 250 people packed into the community hall at the Meaford and St. Vincent Community Centre for a birthday celebration kickoff, where an afternoon of history, speeches and stories was capped off with a group ringing of the bells to both celebrate its150th anniversary [...]

The Tom Thomson Art Gallery has launched two new exhibitions. On Saturday, the gallery unveiled its spring exhibitions - Soheila Esfahani: Are you buying these with loonies or toonies? And Racquel Rowe: Saltwater Cures All. A joint artist talk will take place on March 23 at 1 p.m., followed by an opening reception at 2 [...]

Betty Wood of Georgian Bluffs has always loved the old lamps that sat in the corner of her living room. But there was just one problem - they didn't work - so all they have done over the years is collect dust. On Saturday she gathered them up and headed down to the Owen Sound [...]

Deni Goure's nickname is Menace. He's making a case that it should be clutch". The Attack's leading scorer netted his 33rd goal of the season, 99th of his OHL career, and eighth game-winning goal of the year in overtime Saturday night to give the Owen Sound Attack a 4-3 win over the Erie Otters in [...]

The Owen Sound Attack are in the middle of a tailspin the likes of which fans of the Scenic City team haven't seen for quite some time. With seven games left in the regular season schedule, the Attack are 26-27-5-3, and just two points out of eighth place in the Western Conference. Only two teams [...]

Green hydrogen equipment start-up Hydrogen Optimized has hired a top gun" to be its new president and chief executive officer to help the company grow. Denis Krude, a 54-year-old former CEO of German green hydrogen technology manufacturer thyssenkrupp nucera for six years - reputed to be the largest green hydrogen company in the world - [...]

Rebecca Diem is looking forward to connecting more with the many talented poets in the area throughher new role as Owen Sound's poet laureate. Diem was appointed to the role by the board of the Owen Sound and North Grey Union Public Library at a meeting on Feb. 29 and took on the position on [...]

Home sales remained subdued in Grey-Bruce in February, despite a continued influx of new listings coming onto the market. The number of homes sold through the MLS System of the Realtors Association of Grey Bruce Owen Sound totaled 148 units in February, a decrease of 5.7 per cent - or nine sales - from February [...]

Owen Sound's Special Olympics athletes are home from the Canada Winter Games in Calgary, and they needed to make some extra room in the luggage for a little hardware. Owen Sound's Martin Soder earned a pair of silver medals in the 5-pin bowling competition. Soder won silver in his division in the individual competition and [...]

The St. Mary's Mustangs boys hockey team are Central Western Ontario Athletic Association (CWOSSA) champions. And it's been a long time coming. I've been here for seven years, and I've talked to coaches who were here before me and no one can remember it happening," Mustangs head coach Aeric Annetta said. It's quite the feat." [...]

Last year's Roxy Star Company participants knocked the socks off their audience, and they are backwith plans to do it all again. The program that provides adults living with intellectual, developmental or physical disabilities a chance to participate and perform in the theatre arts is now accepting registrants for its second year. Director Carrie Keeling [...]

A judge in Owen Sound found Taran Hibma guilty Thursday of criminal negligence causing death involving a tree house fire at Sauble Beach about 3 years ago. Superior Court Justice Roger Chown called the circumstances tragic." Genesis Young, 17, died of smoke inhalation in the tree house, where she and her boyfriend Jonas Renaud [...]

Hanover Police arrested a 32-year-old Kitchener man at gunpoint after an early morning disturbance at a residence Wednesday. Police Chief Christopher Knoll said that after assaulting a resident at the 13th Avenue home the suspect fled with a shotgun. When police responded at approximately 7:30 a.m., officers located the suspect hiding in the basement of [...]

Local organizations have prepared several opportunities for kids to learn and play during March Break. The Owen Sound & North Grey Union Public Library has daily programming for youth all week long, alongside regular storytime, babytime, teen writing circle and youth social justice group programs. On Monday, March 11, the library will be host to [...]

Accessibility renovations, to reconstruct the front entrance and replace a passenger lift with an elevator, have been completed at the Tom Thomson Art Gallery. The project, which began a little over a year ago, concluded with the final inspection of the elevator on March 1. With the project complete the gallery is now fully accessible [...]

A 31-year-old man of no fixed address faces a slew of drug and weapons charges after being spotted by the owner of a Sauble Beach cottage on video surveillance. According to the Grey Bruce OPP, police responded to a report of a suspicious vehicle parked in the laneway of the property owner's vacant seasonal residence [...]

Life comes at you fast in the Ontario Hockey League. In mid-January, the Owen Sound Attack won three straight games on the team's annual Eastern Ontario road swing. Then, later that month, the Attack tuned up Guelph, beat Barrie, and narrowly lost to the London Knights in a shootout before buzzing past the Sarnia Sting. [...]

The wheels are in motion to bring a new event to Wiarton during the Civic Holiday weekend. Mike Mason and Joe Vanderzand were at South Bruce Peninsula council on Tuesday where they outlined plans for the Wiarton Homecoming Weekend 2024, filling the void left by the discontinuation of the long-running Wiarton Village Fair. The pandemic [...]

Experts will try to help people repair their clothing, small appliance and electronics Saturday at a Repair Cafe in Owen Sound. Volunteers will be on duty from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. at the Owen Sound & Union Public Library auditorium every second Saturday of the month. The impulse for the initiative is environmental stewardship [...]

A man was arrested after an incident in Owen Sound on the weekend in which a knife was pulled on a taxi driver and an attempt was made to steal the vehicle. Police responded to a 911 call on the upper east side of the city Saturday after a man attempted to rob a taxi [...]

Grey-Bruce high school students went head-to-head at the annual Regional Technological Skills Challenge March 1. Eight schools from both public and separate school boards sent students to compete and the top finishers advanced to higher stages of the provincial competition. They competed at Georgian College, Sydenham Campus and OSDSS in Owen Sound in carpentry, culinary, [...]

Grey Bruce Public Health has issued an opioid alert after receiving reports of multiple suspected overdoses and poisonings in a 24-hour period, including two that were fatal. The suspected opioid overdoses happened on Monday and Tuesday and were primarily in the Owen Sound area. The individuals who died were in their 30s and 40s, with [...]

Austin Cubitt was sentenced to mandatory life imprisonment for shooting and killing Clarence Solomon at Saugeen First Nation more than 3 years ago. He must wait 10 years to apply for parole. Cubitt, 25, was found guilty of second-degree murder on Dec. 1, 2023 after a two-week jury trial in Walkerton's Superior Court of [...]

The Owen Sound River District has won a pair of awards from Festival and Events Ontario. The organization's Wheel and Ride event has received the FEO Innovation Award for events with an operating budget of $100,000 or less, while its Holiday Magic event has been named one of the top 100 festivals and events in [...]

A collection of military medals is among the items reported stolen following a residential break-in in Chatsworth Township. Grey Bruce OPP received information Sunday about a residential break-in. When officers arrieved they learned that numerous items had been stolen. Along with the victim's military medals, other items taken included jewelry, silver coins, unique coins, bank [...]

Owen Sound's short-term rental licencing bylaw came into effect on Friday, and already a handful of complete applications have been submitted. The city's STR licensing co-ordinator Niels Jensen said Monday that they are working through the licence applications that have come in. He said some operators have gone to offering long-term rentals, while others didn't [...]

A Thunder Bay man has been charged after a vehicle that was reported stolen in Toronto was located in Owen Sound. On Friday, the Toronto Police Service advised police services in the area to be on the lookout for a stolen white Ford Transit van. Just after midnight on Saturday morning, the Grey Bruce OPP [...]

Sunday night's listless, apathetic performance by the Owen Sound Attack in a 4-1 loss to the rebuilding Peterborough Petes is either a wake-up call or perhaps the curtain call for the Owen Sound Attack's 2023-24 season. The Peterborough Petes enjoyed a stellar goaltending performance from Liam Sztuska, who made 45 saves on 46 shots in [...]

Three St. Mary's High School students have qualified for a prestigious international competition meant to prepare emerging leaders and entrepreneurs. Rose Merritt, Islay Graham and Jiya Kukreja are headed to the DECA International Career Development Conference in California in April to compete against some of the brightest young business minds in the world. The DECA [...]

The Owen Sound Attack threw their newest Cub to the wolves Saturday night in a 6-2 loss to the Saginaw Spirit. The Memorial Cup host Saginaw Spirit entered the Harry Lumley Bayshore Community Centre with a roster that could double as an Ontario Hockey League all-star team. Locked and loaded to make a deep run [...]

More people are living outside of the workforce in Grey-Bruce than ever before, according to a new labour report. Nearly 110,000 people within the Stratford-Bruce Economic Region were not a part of the labour force in 2023, which is a historic high according to the Four County Labour Market Planning Board's Local Labour Market Plan [...]

A 60-year-old Georgian Bluffs resident is dead and two others were taken to a London hospital with serious injuries following a two-vehicle collision near the Sauble Beach Golf and Country Club Saturday morning. Officers responded to reports of a head-on collision early Saturday morning at Bruce Road 8 and Bruce Road 14 in Sauble Beach, [...]

Take a bow, Brayden Gillespie. The 18-year-old goaltender from Oakville put on a stunning performance in overtime, and in the shootout, as the Guelph Storm topped the Owen Sound Attack 3-2 to snap a four-game losing streak inside the Sleeman Centre Friday night. Gillespie called it the game of a lifetime" in a post-game interview [...]

Georgian College has announced that one of its students is the first registered nurse in Ontario to receive credentials that allow him to prescribe certain medications. Cyril Lee Turley, an RN at a Manitoulin Island health-care clinic, earned the credential to prescribe medications and communicate diagnosis for the purpose of prescribing those medications. He earned [...]

Local writer Richard Thomas is gathering personal photos and stories about travels on the MS Chi-Cheemaun ferry for a commemorative 50th anniversary book. Chi-Cheemaun has been shuttling passengers and vehicles between Tobermory at the tip of the Bruce Peninsula and South Baymouth on Manitoulin Island since 1974, when it replaced two ferries, the Norgoma and [...]

An investigation is underway at Neyaashiinigmiing after an officer crashed a police vehicle on Thursday evening. Grey Bruce OPP responded to a call for service at 10:45 p.m. on the Chippewas of Nawash Unceded First Nation. No injuries were reported in the crash, police said in a news release. The investigation is ongoing and community [...]

The federal government is earmarking $50 million for predevelopment work at the Bruce Power site for what would be the first new nuclear construction project in Canada in 30 years, if approved. The Bruce C Project is a proposed expansion at the nuclear power plant in Tiverton. If given the go-ahead, the expansion would increase [...]

With current funding to run out in a little over a year raising questions about the future of municipally operated intercommunity transit systems in Grey County, a private player appears poised to enter the market. On Monday, Owen Sound council approved an operations committee recommendation directing staff to bring forward a bylaw that will allow [...]

The answer to food insecurity isn't food banks and other stop-gap programs, it is to give people money to buy food for themselves, a local poverty reduction advocate says. That's the long-term solution Jill Umbach calls for in blog posts on the Grey Bruce Poverty Task Force website. The posts began Feb. 23 and will [...]

Coldest Night of the Year walkers raised more than $175,000 in Grey-Bruce. Walkers in Saugeen Shores, Kincardine, Grey Highlands and Meaford raised $103,000 with fundraising walks to help people who are hungry or homeless. The two- and five-kilometre walks involved 527 walkers and volunteers, co-ordinated by the United Way Bruce Grey and local community partners, [...]

Grey Bruce OPP charged a 44-year-old from Montreal with careless driving after a truck collided with a hydro pole amid deteriorating weather conditions along Highway 6 near Shallow Lake Wednesday afternoon. No injuries were reported but the truck was blocking much of the road and traffic was directed around the mishap, which was reported to [...]

Police say a 67-year-old from Etobicoke died in a two-vehicle crash on Highway 21 Wednesday night in Georgian Bluffs. Highway 21 reopened today between Springmount and Jackson after police investigated the crash, reported at 9 p.m., which involved a sedan and a pickup truck. The 67-year-old was a passenger in one of the vehicles, Grey [...]

The fourth and final person convicted in relation to the death of a 22-year-old man in an Owen Sound hotel almost three years ago has been sentenced. Robert Jackson has pleaded guilty to manslaughter for the stabbing death of Kody Hunter and was sentenced by Superior Court Justice John Sproat to 15 years in jail. [...]

The recycling depot at the Miller Waste transfer station will continue to operate until at least the end of June. Owen Sound council on Monday approved an operations committee recommendation that the city fund the recycling convenience depot at the Miller Waste facility in the industrial park until June 30. The cost to the city [...]

Grey-Bruce residents who took the national Push-Up Challenge raised more than $33,000 for mental health support this month. The event challenged participants to do 2,000 push-ups between Feb. 1 and 23. As a result, more than 49,000 Canadians raised $2.4 million for the Canadian Mental Health Association. Collectively, they did 44.8 million push-ups, the event [...]

Grey Bruce OPP is warning road conditions are deteriorating after a single vehicle crash which closed Highway 6 in Georgian Bluffs this afternoon. No injuries were reported in a crash which involved a hydro pole, forcing police to close the road. They were dispatched at 2:27 p.m., amid dropping temperatures and blowing snow. Highway 6 [...]

The libraries of Bruce and Grey counties are looking for work from young and aspiring filmmakers for the Grey Bruce Youth Film Festival. The submission deadline for this year's festival is May 10 with a screening of the selected films to take place at the Owen Sound Galaxy Cinemas in June. Selected films will also [...]