Owen Sound Sun Times

The Canadian Coast Guard is back at Stokes Bay dock today to deal with another partially sunken fishing boat. The vessel was reported to CCG the morning of November 20, 2024. CCG will work with the vessel owner to ensure appropriate measures are taken to prevent further pollution within the marine environment," a federal spokesperson [...]

The Grey Bruce Community Street Crime Unit said they intercepted two Saugeen First Nation residents with over $20,000 worth of drugs on their way to Saugeen Shores. According to a police media release, the OPP and the CSCU became aware that a person of interest in a drug trafficking investigation was travelling on Highway 21 [...]

Highway 10 between Grey Road 40 and McNab Street in Chatsworth is closed while Grey Bruce OPP investigate a serious two-vehicle collision. The OPP released a statement at 9:25 a.m. Thursday morning providing notice of the road closure and the ongoing investigation, which is being conducted along with the OPP's Traffic Incident Management and Enforcement [...]

A Markdale resident has died after a crash in Brockton on Wednesday morning. Just before 9 a.m., South Bruce OPP received a report of a crash on Bruce Road 20 near Concession 2 northeast of Riversdale. Police found two passenger vehicles involved. Two patients were taken to hospital by ambulance, and a 76-year-old from Markdale [...]

Alpha Street in Owen Sound will reopen to all traffic on Monday after it was closed in May for reconstruction. The nearly $6.8-million project upgraded the water main and sanitary sewers beneath the road and the added wide, paved path on the east side of the road. A pedestrian crossing now has flashing lights, landscaping [...]

About 20 cancer patients per month will have to leave Grey-Bruce for care until a new oncologist can be found, Brightshores Health System vice-president Beth Morris said Wednesday. That's the estimated number of patients affected by the decision to relieve the workload of Brightshores' oncologists by sending some new cancer patients to other hospitals. The [...]

Police charged a 31-year-old Meaford man with careless driving after a school bus was rear-ended Monday morning. No injuries resulted from the incident. According to police, Grey Bruce OPP officers were on patrol just after 8 a.m. when they came upon a collision involving a school bus and motor vehicle on Highway 26 near Clearview [...]

The Bluewater District School Board leadership will be unchanged for 2025. In its annual elections on Tuesday, the board voted to appoint Jane Thomson as chair for a fifth consecutive one-year term. Jan Johnstone was acclaimed to the vice-chair's position and will also serve in that role for a fifth consecutive one-year term. I look [...]

The St. Mary's Mustangs are the team to beat heading into this week's OFSAA boys' double-A volleyball championship at St. Catharines. The Bluewater Athletic Association senior boys' volleyball champions are the top-seeded squad at the 20-team tournament and the only team representing CWOSSA. It's been over 20 years since the Owen Sound school qualified for [...]

Grey-Bruce OPP have charged three men following a weapons complaint at a downtown Wiarton business. According to police, officers responded to a Berford Street business at 11:20 a.m. Monday responding to a report of three intoxicated men. It was believed one of the men may have had a rifle sticking out of their bag. Police [...]

It costs more to live in Grey-Bruce than anywhere else in the province outside of Toronto, according to the 2024 Ontario Living Wage Network's latest report. A resident of the Grey, Bruce, Perth, Huron, Simcoe region needs to earn $23.05 hours per 40-hour work week to make ends meet this year, which is up 1.3 [...]

Appreciative Inquiry helps cross rural community divides

Some local cancer patients will temporarily have to leave Grey-Bruce for care due to an oncologist shortage, Brightshores Health System announced Tuesday. All cancer patients will continue to be referred to Brightshores as they are now and patients with new diagnoses of lung, colorectal and breast cancer will continue to be seen at Brightshores. Patients [...]

West Grey's legal team argued in front of a panel of three judges last week that the province should reverse the South Bruce Grey Health Centre's decision to remove all 10 inpatient beds from Durham's hospital. West Grey communications coordinator Ashley Noble said that the municipality's legal counsel provided an update following the Nov. 13 [...]

Reservations are now open for the third annual Downtown Dine Around. The unique evening includes a three-course dinner at three restaurants in Owen Sound's River District hosted by the city's business community to highlight downtown social services. With staggered start times of 5:30 p.m., 6 p.m., and 6:30 p.m., groups of diners will learn about [...]

Owen Sound building department staff will continue to provide building permit and inspection services for Georgian Bluffs. Also, city staff are to support bylaw enforcement and any future short-term rental licensing program in the township by providing inspections and licences. The pilot project for building department support started in May to solve a township staffing [...]

So far, Owen Sound homeowners are facing an overall estimated four per cent tax levy increase on their property tax bill, city hall estimates show. If estimates hold, for a home assessed at $232,000, taxes would increase by $178.25, or $14.85 per month, a report to city council Monday says. The city uses 2016 assessed [...]

The municipality of Northern Bruce Peninsula is moving to adopt formal policies for selling shore road and unopened road allowances now that the courts have said Saugeen Ojibway Nation no longer has a legal claim to ownership of the waters surrounding the Bruce Peninsula. According to a staff report presented at a council meeting on [...]

It acquired the processor ten years ago but does not see it as a fit moving forward

VOLLEYBALL Triple-A The Owen Sound District Wolves finished atop Pool B at the CWOSSA triple-A championship tournament before falling to St. Benedict's in straight sets in the semifinals at Conestoga College this past weekend. John F. Ross went on to beat St. Benedict's to earn the gold medal. Owen Sound's junior team also exited the [...]

The Owen Sound Attack's eastern road swing began with a big win over the struggling Peterborough Petes complete with Carter George becoming the first goaltender in the city's major junior hockey history to score a goal. But the Bears couldn't ride that wave and were quickly sunk. Owen Sound lost 7-1 to former first-round pick [...]

A Bluewater District School Board trustee, who a majority of his peers voted to censure, says he is still weighing a possible response to the board's decision. Derrick Long said Friday that there was still a possibility he could respond to the Bluewater board's decision to censure him and bar him from sitting on all [...]

The spirit of the holiday season was everywhere in Owen Sound on Saturday night. Thousands lined 2nd Avenue East, three rows deep in places, for the 79th annual Kiwanis Santa Claus Parade, then afterwards large crowds headed over to the nearby banks of the Sydenham River, where the switch was thrown on the 37th annual [...]

Sentencing for a man found guilty of setting a church fire at Saugeen First Nation four years ago will be on Nov. 27. Emric Thompson, 50, was found guilty in September of arson at the Church of Jesus Christ, at 379 Scotch Settlement Rd., and mischief over $5,000 to a pavilion there where worship services [...]

An Owen Sound youngster has put her creativity to work to help the people of Ukraine. Scarlet Fleming, 9, hasbeen busy the last couple of days creating ornaments, bows and wreaths for her table at the eighth annual East Ridge Community School Craft and Vendor Show being held at the school this Saturday from 9 [...]

Postal workers picketed around the downtown Owen Sound post office Friday. Picketing started overnight and continued Friday. Some carried signs saying C.U.P.W. on strike," and one man waved blue and gold flag with the motto The struggle continues." Occasionally a passing motorist honked support. A spokesperson for the local workers was unavailable Friday morning. The [...]

On a Tuesday at Hoard's Station more than 100 regulars and not so regular customers gathered for the weekly sale

It's not often an empty-net goal is the play of the game, but then again it's not often a goalie scores. With the Owen Sound Attack leading the Peterborough Petes 3-1 inside the Peterborough Memorial Arena Thursday night, Los Angeles Kings prospect Carter George made history. With the Petes' net empty and the extra attacker [...]

Grey County is replacing the elevators at its apartment building on 14th Street West in Owen Sound. At its meeting on Thursday, county council agreed to award the tender for the elevator replacement project at 305 14th St. W., to Allen Hastings Ltd. in the amount of $866,864. A report from community services director Anne [...]

Pierce Mbuyi said pulling on the Team Canada sweater felt like a dream. And that's because it's not too long ago he was playing mini sticks and dreaming about playing hockey as a member of the Canadian team at the IIHF World Junior Ice Hockey Championships. Me and my buddies used to act like we [...]

Hockey hysteria has taken over The Scenic City. HockeyFest 2024 began Thursday inside the Harry Lumley Bayshore Community Centre with the East vs. West High School Challenge. It's the second year of the high school hockey rivalry games kicking off Owen Sound's ode to Canada's national winter sport. Elementary school kids burst in by the [...]

Grey County has opened a roundabout at an intersection that had in the past been identified as the most dangerous in the county. The county announced last week that the roundabout at the intersection of Grey Road 3 and Grey Road 4 between Hanover and Durham was open to motorists. In 2019, the same year [...]

Farm groups welcome the moves, which allow farmers to make repairs and bypass digital locks

No injuries were reported in a late-night Saugeen First Nation house fire south of Sauble Beach that caused significant" damage. Saugeen Fire & Emergency Services and Sauble Beach firefighters responded to reports of structure fire with flames showing in the area of the Southampton Parkway and Edison Circle about 11:40 p.m., a Saugeen department Facebook [...]

For one apple-growing family in Ayton, money from a government program to help farmers grow more popular and resilient fruit varieties will help a lot. Filsinger's Organic Ltd. in Ayton is getting up to $50,000 to help pull out three or four acres of less productive and higher maintenance standard-sized McIntosh apple trees for more [...]

The man in charge of curbing chirping in the Ontario Hockey League said the league is dealing with the growing pains of adjudicating the language of teenagers in an evolving game. We have certain language we're attempting to eradicate from the sport," said Rico Phillips, the league's director of culture and community. Hired in 2020, [...]

The sights and sounds of the holiday season are about to descend on Owen Sound. A full lineup of festive events are planned on Saturday, including the 79th annual Kiwanis Santa Claus Parade, the Festival of Northern Lights kick-off, and the River District's Holiday Magic. The 79th annual Santa Claus Parade starts the fun [...]

The AAA estimated that animal activist groups will earn about $800 million in the U.S. in 2024 from charitable donations by its members.

People supported by the Canadian Mental Health Association will have an opportunity to go Christmas shopping at a unique holiday store on Dec. 4. It's not really a store and items displayed on tables will have no price tags, but shoppers are invited to select items they'd like to give to loved ones. Someone will [...]

A lithium-ion battery in a pet collar which caught fire while charging caused a $550,000 house fire in Lion's Head, Northern Bruce Peninsula's fire chief said. The fire was reported Tuesday, when an occupant outside heard a smoke alarm inside, opened the door and discovered thick black smoke. She closed the door and called 911, [...]

The Ontario government has announced it will build a dozen new electric vehicle charging stations in areas of Grey and Bruce counties. On Tuesday, Bruce-Grey-Owen Sound MPP Rick Byers issued a news release announcing the 12 new EV charging stations in his riding. The new chargers, part of the government's $63-million EV ChargeON Program Community [...]

The new owner of Wiarton's marina is planning an expansion. According to Town of South Bruce Peninsula staff, Robert Caissie purchased the marina in May and aims to expand capacity from 240 to 268 boats. As part of the planned expansion, Caissie and the town have entered into a lease agreement to store boats in [...]

South Bruce council has adopted the community's narrow referendum decision in favour of hosting an underground vault for used nuclear fuel, thereby unlocking a $4 million milestone payment," whether the facility is built there or not. In a unanimous recorded vote on Tuesday, council members adopted the Oct. 28 vote and directed that the Nuclear [...]

Kiwanis Club of Owen Sound volunteers will start selling Christmas trees Friday in Owen Sound. The annual sale raises money for Kiwanis causes, from the Santa Claus parade to the Gitche Namewikwedong Reconciliation Garden. It's the 74th year the service club has sold trees for Christmas and 2024-25 is the local club's 100th anniversary. Club [...]

More than $22,000 in cash and prizes was distributed to local business owners who pitched their dreams to Meaford's Dragons at Meaford Hall last week. Modelled after the popular CBC show Dragon's Den, the Meaford Chamber of Commerce adaptation - Meaford Dragons -puts local small business owners up against local business leaders for a chance [...]

United Way Bruce Grey will collect donations of warm socks at Santa Claus parades in the region for homeless people. Last year, people donated 648 pairs of socks during these events, which police, paramedics and homeless outreach initiatives distributed throughout the region, a United Way news release said. Socks are one of the most requested [...]

Lightly used Christmas decorations and garden club Christmas urns and swags will be featured at a Christmas sale to support the Community Waterfront Heritage Centre on Saturday, Nov. 16 in Owen Sound. The Christmas decorations will be displayed for sale in the 1953 railway car, Coach 4884, while the Georgian Bay Garden Club's urns and [...]

A Country Christmas Dance Party at the legion featuring the Ridge River Ramblers will take place in Owen Sound on Sunday, Nov. 17 from 2 to 5 p.m. Dance tickets cost $20 and can be purchased at Bayshore Country Feeds at 1304 2nd Ave. E. and at the dance. Proceeds will support the Community Waterfront [...]

The Owen Sound and District Junior Optimists are teaming up with local legions to spread kindness to local seniors and those serving in the military. The youth are inviting the public to write to a member of the Canadian military in gratitude of their service or send a positive message to a local resident in [...]

Gwen Lamont says she buried the memories of a chaotic and abusive childhood until she felt ready to reconcile her past with her present. For 14 years, the co-owner of Coffin Ridge Winery near Owen Sound travelled to the places from which she had spent so long turning away, and wrote her smothered memories onto [...]