Owen Sound Sun Times

Five local action tables are doing what they are designed to, in helping to address the most pressing risks and concerns in communities across Grey-Bruce, according to the coordinator of the multi-agency initiative. Members of the Grey-Bruce Community Safety and Well-Being Planning Steering Committee updated Owen Sound council on Monday about the work being done [...]

A Grand Valley woman has been charged with impaired driving after a two-vehicle crash in South Bruce Peninsula on Monday afternoon. Grey Bruce OPP responded to the crash on Highway 21 just before 5 p.m. Officers determined the driver of one of the vehicles had previously consumed alcohol and was showing signs of impairment, police [...]

A Bruce County man has been charged with more than two dozen sexual offences in relation to an ongoing investigation by Owen Sound police. In December, the city police service commenced an investigation into an allegation of sexual abuse at a local business. Ten victims were identified and provided statements to police, police said in [...]

A man from Melancthon has been charged after a large combine header was reported stolen from a property in Southgate. Just before 10 a.m. Saturday Grey Bruce OPP responded to a report of a farm implement that was taken from an outbuilding on a property in Southgate sometime between Wednesday and Saturday. The item that [...]

The cold will soon be the greatest enemy for local reservists departing to the Moosonee area in northern Ontario next month to train alongside NATO allies in sub-arctic conditions. Canadian Army Reserve personnel from 31 Canadian Brigade Group are deploying to the town of Moosonee and the surrounding area to train for Arctic operations in [...]

Noah Morneau is embracing a bigger offensive role with the Windsor Spitfires. A Windsor native, the former 15th-round pick was originally signed because of his tenacious work ethic and strong defensive habits. However, with several veterans moved at the OHL trade deadline, the 19-year-old Morneau is now being counted on to add more offence. Everybody [...]

Six athletes, three builders, three teams and one special merit inductee will be enshrined this spring as the Owen Sound Sports Hall of Fame names its Class of 2024. The induction ceremony is scheduled for Friday, May 3, at the Harry Lumley Bayshore Community Centre where the Owen Sound Sports Hall of Fame has a [...]

It might get even busier at area hospitals in 2024 as babies born during the Year of the Dragon are considered destined for success. This weekend marked the start of the Lunar New Year and the change to the Year of the Dragon. Grey-Bruce residents helped celebrate with events at the Grey Roots Museum & [...]

The Owen Sound Attack surely can't expect to give the potent Saginaw Spirit eight power plays, allow 52 shots against, and still come out of Michigan with two points. The Scenic City Skaters did, however, manage to force overtime and extend their point streak to six games. Zayne Parekh continued his incredible season with a [...]

The Tom Thomson Art Gallery has selected three award-winning feature-length documentaries for the 16th edition of Owen Sound's upcoming Reel Festival. The festival, to be presented at the Roxy Theatre on March 2, will include the films The Lebanese Burger Mafia at 11 a.m., Four Daughters at 3 p.m. and Aitamaako'tamisskapi Natosi: Before The Sun [...]

Meaford's proposed operating and capital budgets will be put before the public at a statutory meeting on Feb. 12 at 6:30 p.m. Staff presented draft budgets to council on Jan. 15 with a projected tax rate increase of 3.47 per cent on the municipal portion of property tax bills in 2024 and a total tax-supported [...]

The buyer of the CJOS Bounce 92.3 FM radio station in Owen Sound is calling the addition a natural extension" of the company's presence in the southern Georgian Bay region. It was announced Thursday that ZoomerMedia was purchasing the local station from Bell Media, subject to Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission approval and other closing [...]

Home sales in Grey-Bruce remained tempered to start off 2024. While the 118 homes sold in January was up slightly from January 2023, sales were more than 16 per cent below the five-year average and close to 14 per cent below the 10 year average for the time of year, according to the latest statistics [...]

A car was stolen in Meaford Thursday morning while the owner was reportedly just steps away. At about 8:30 a.m. police were told that the running vehicle was taken from Trowbridge Street while the owner was approximately 15 metres away. While walking to the vehicle, the owner heard the door shut. The vehicle was driven [...]

Grey County has approved some user fee increases at its Grey Roots Museum and Archives and rental rates at its Sydenham Campus regional skills and training centre. County council gave final approval Thursday to a bylaw that updates its fees and services charges for 2024. The update is the first since 2020 and is required [...]

Grey County is creating a no parking zone along Grey Road 18 in front of the Grey Roots Museum and Archives and neighbouring Morland Place due to safety concerns about cars parking on the shoulders of the well-travelled road, particularly during high school proms. County council approved a number of amendments to its bylaw that [...]

Lyndsay Budgell said lifting nearly 40 pounds over her head 324 times in 30 minutes is the easy part. The hard part is staying focused. The Owen Sound business owner is the newest member of Team Canada's kettlebell squad after qualifying in the one-arm long cycle half marathon category. Budgell, 37, will now represent her [...]

Owen Sound residents packed 1,215 shoeboxes as part of Operation Christmas Child this year, a 30 per cent increase from the 933 packed in 2022 according to organizers. Operation Christmas Child, a project of Samaritan's Purse, collected 11,330,126 gift-filled shoeboxes globally in 2023 - 425,209 of them packed in Canada. Each of the shoeboxes, filled [...]

Owen Sound's Reel Festival is returning to the city on March 2 featuring three award-winning documentaries selected by the Tom Thomson Art Gallery and presented at the Roxy Theatre. The films selected for screening at this year's Reel Festival are The Lebanese Burger Mafia, Four Daughters, and Aitamaako'Tamisskapi Natosi: Before the Sun. The Reel Film [...]

Two fatalities were among six suspected opioid overdoses in the Owen Sound area in the first week of February, according to Grey Bruce Public Health. Five of the six overdoses reported between Feb. 1 and 6 were in Owen Sound, including the two fatalities, while the sixth occurred in Georgian Bluffs, the health unit said [...]

There's no tomorrow for the Owen Sound Attack's elder statesmen playing their final games in Canada's major junior hockey circuit, and they're playing that way. Deni Goure, Ethan Burroughs and Sam Sedley have been on fire lately and were key contributors as the Owen Sound Attack topped the Sarnia Sting 6-2 Wednesday night to continue [...]

Pizza Huts in Port Elgin and Owen Sound are trying to help feed people who are homeless or hungry and unable to afford a meal. Throughout February and March, the local pizza places are holding an Everyone Eats initiative, in which those in need can visit one of the locations and receive a personal pizza [...]

Patients in Kincardine now have access to a Rapid Access Addiction Medicine (RAAM) clinic thanks to a partnership between two regional healthcare organizations. Brightshores Health System and South Bruce Grey Health Centre recently announced a collaboration to enhance access to the RAAM clinics for individuals facing urgent addiction and substance use-related challenges. Brightshores will operate [...]

Bruce-Grey-Owen Sound MP Alex Ruff is applauding a parliamentary budget officer costing note that determined the private member's bill he introduced last fall would reduce the amount of federal GST collected from the carbon tax by billions of dollars. According to the note published by the office of the parliamentary budget officer on Jan. 23, [...]

The Bluewater District School Board and Bruce-Grey Catholic District School Board will follow suit with other boards across the province and will hold a professional activity day on April 8, when a total solar eclipse is to occur. The two local boards announced in a joint media release late Tuesday evening that they would be [...]

Saugeen Shores Police continue their search for a man in the area of the Saugeen River at Southampton. The 57-year-old man, identified by police as Lijun S., was last in contact with his family at approximately 6:30 a.m. on Jan. 27. A surge of river water and ice occurred as Lijun was suspected to be [...]

West Grey is planning to sell a property in Durham to Grey County for a new paramedic base. At its council meeting on Tuesday, West Grey council declared the 0.73-acre parcel of land at 451 Durham Rd. W. surplus to its needs and directed staff to proceed with the next steps in the process to [...]

West Grey is searching for a new chief administrative officer after Laura Johnston tendered her resignation, after accepting a position with another municipality. At its meeting on Tuesday, West Grey council directed staff to bring forward a bylaw to appoint director of finance and treasurer Kerri Mighton as interim CAO and deputy clerk and proceed [...]

South Bruce Peninsula is acquiring the former Foodland property near Bluewater Park in Wiarton for a new town hall. The town announced on Tuesday that it had successfully entered into a binding agreement with Sobeys for the acquisition of the property at 370 William St. The purchase price of the property is $1.25 million. A [...]

West Grey's first mayor and a former warden of Grey County has died. Delton Becker, who was West Grey's mayor from 1999 to 2006, died in Fort Myers, Florida, at the age of 81 on Jan. 31. Before municipal amalgamation, Mr. Becker was reeve of Bentinck Township. He had a career in municipal politics that [...]

Grey County has issued the construction tender for a new long-term care home in Durham that is expected to cost close to $100 million. The county announced that with the site prepped and the drawings complete, the tender had gone out for the new 128-bed Rockwood Terrace that is to be built directly south of [...]

Police are investigating a string of break-ins over several months at a subdivision under construction in Meaford. Grey Bruce OPP most recently responded to the new-build subdivision on Hilton Lane on Sunday, where there was damage to the soffit and the drywall, along with spray paint on drywall inside the residence. Similar break-ins were reported [...]

Restoration efforts for the British Methodist Episcopal Church in Owen Sound gained new public exposure Saturday night at the Owen Sound Attack hockey game to kick off Black History Month. The BME Church, an early Black church that ministered to freedom seekers and their descendants, needs a new roof, windows and mould remediation, among other [...]

Denver Barkey's dagger in the form of a shootout goal pierced straight through the heart of the Owen Sound Attack and their supporters Saturday. Barkey's fourth-round shootout goal capped off a third-period comeback effort and extended the Knights' point streak to 19 games with a 4-3 win in front of a sold-out Harry Lumley Bayshore [...]

Durham hospital's emergency department closed Saturday at 5 p.m. due to a staffing shortage but is to reopen Sunday, Feb. 4 at 7 a.m. Ambulance will take patients to the nearest open emergency room, South Bruce Grey Health Centre announced Saturday afternoon. Anyone requiring immediate medical attention should call 911 to be taken to the [...]

While Wiarton's Bluewater Park became a little kid magnet with fun things for them to do Saturday during Wiarton Willie weekend, the annual Lions Club pool tournament at Lloyd's Smoke Shop drew different fun-seekers. Willie predicted an early spring Friday and there's been a winter bash in his honour since 1956. But Lloyd's has been [...]

Taos Jordan reached his boiling point recently. The third-year Owen Sound Attack defender with Jamaican roots grew up hearing racial slurs and taunts directed at himself and his teammates inside Ontario rinks but said it never really bothered him. In one ear and out the other," he said of the experience. Sometimes I would just [...]

Owen Sound could lose its recycling drop-off bins at the the Miller Waste transfer station, a casualty of a recent transition in who's paying to collect recyclables in the province. Miller has asked the city to pay the cost to operate the city recycling depot, estimated at about $21,000 annually, or it will be closed. [...]

One man is facing charges of indignity to a human body and fraud under $5,000 after the Neyaashiinigmiing Police Service investigated an incident on Jan. 6, 2024, at a residence located on the Chippewas of Nawash Unceded First Nation. Police have charged Kenneth Albert, 56, from North Bruce Peninsula. The man is scheduled to appear [...]

No shadow, spring is on the way. That was the word South Bruce Peninsula Mayor Jay Kirkland passed on to a waiting crowd in Wiarton shortly after 8 a.m. Friday. The crowd began to gather well before the 8:07 prediction, where Wiarton Willie was attended by his tuxedo-clad Shadow Cabinet, after fireworks started the day [...]

Owen Sound is requesting proposals for city garbage and recyclables collection and a residential organic waste collection program that could start in mid-2025. Council on Monday approved the Jan. 18 city operations committee minutes, which contained recommendations to issue the RFP. Council earlier extended Miller Waste's contract to provide garbage and recycling pickup by one [...]

Grey Bruce OPP says stunt driving continues to be a huge concern" in Grey-Bruce, where officers charged 10 drivers with stunt driving, for excessive speed, in January. Stunt driving includes speeding 50 kilometres per hour or more over the limit if the limit is 80 km/h or more. It's also speeding 40 km/h or more [...]

Meafordites are celebrating a sesquicentennial. Say that 10 times fast. The bayside community is celebrating its 150th birthday this year and the municipality is set to party like it's 1874 when the booming little town formally known as St. Vincent (Peggy's Landing and Stephenson's Landing before that) was welcoming both steamships and train cars with [...]

Oxenden's Julian Smith will proudly represent Canada in two FIS Cross Country World Cup races against the best and fastest cross-country skiers in the world this month. Four World Cup races will take place at the Canmore Nordic Center in Alberta from Feb. 9 to 13. Athletes will then fly to Minnesota to race at [...]

That's the epitome of a junior hockey game right there," said Owen Sound Attack assistant coach Sean Teakle after his team topped the Barrie Colts 7-6 in overtime to close the book on a wild, whacky and at times plain weird hockey game in front of 2,445 fans at the Bayshore Wednesday night. Epitome: a [...]

Council voted unanimously Monday to hold at least one townhall-style public meeting this year for information sharing and public input. The idea started with Coun. Jon Farmer, who called for one meeting in October, the midway point in council's term, to answer people's city questions and provide space for other groups to share their information [...]

Georgian Bluffs residents are looking at a residential tax rate increase of 9.19 per cent. For the average single-family dwelling assessed at $294,000 in the municipality, it would result in an annual increase of $168.68, before county and education taxes are factored in. Grey County approved a net levy increase of 6.3 per cent for [...]

Brightshores Health System has introduced outpatient endoscopy services at its Markdale hospital, while the medical device reprocessing department has opened in a newly renovated space in Owen Sound. General surgeons began leading the outpatient endoscopy program at the recently opened Markdale hospital on Monday. The procedures will take place on Mondays each week with plans [...]

Northern Bruce Peninsula officials want to further explore options for the Lion's Head and District Community Centre after concerns were raised about the cost presented to upgrade the facility and the challenges of managing water at the current site. Council voted Monday to receive a report outlining arena design and cost options from chief administrative [...]

After Owen Sound council received detailed written budget criticisms, urgent cries for no city budget increases and calls for council to respond to concerns raised, just a few people spoke Monday night at a public budget meeting called by city council. I've lived here all my life, I'm retired, I have no pension and it's [...]