Owen Sound Sun Times

Both the okra and cowpeas seed I planted this year were supplied by Ken and Martha Laing through the seed exchange that was part of the Ecological Farmers Association of Ontario conference last December

The Tara Twins under-15 boys' won the Ontario Select Softball Tournament Association's provincial championship in Cambridge this past weekend. The Twins went undefeated in the tournament and beat Drayton-Moorefield in the final to take the OSSTA under-15 title. Family and friends said they are proud of how well the boys played, and how much they [...]

The Owen Sound Baysox are bound for the second round. The Baysox earned victories in both games of a doubleheader over the Barrie Angels Sunday and punched their ticket into the semifinals of the North Dufferin Baseball League's eight-team playoff bracket. The Baysox finished the first round of the series with a record of 3-0-1. [...]

It was so windy at Sauble Beach Sandfest on Saturday that at times the blowing sand stung. The wind pushed the lake up the beach, close enough to make a visitor wonder how much closer the water might get to the sand sculptures at the centre of the annual event. But it was still an [...]

When you like your adventure sports challenging and brutal, but not too brutal, there was the new Subaru Sprint Course to try Saturday in Wiarton. It involved a particularly challenging two-kilometre paddle against strong winds, 12-km bike and 3.4-km run with some steep and rough terrain, in all about 15 kms starting and finishing [...]

For Martin Kewageeshig, dancing with his daughter Alicia at the Chippewas of Saugeen First Nation's powwow Saturday was about being with family and sharing their culture. The Stoney Point residents, each dressed in their special powwow regalia, were among the dozens of dancers, who celebrated their culture and competed for money prizes. Hundreds watched them [...]

A group of volunteers who strove to create an innovative, dynamic and new-age food co-op face closure for the second time in less than two years. No one from Eat Local Grey Bruce wanted to speak Friday, but the shelves at the group's expansive Meaford warehouse were nearly empty and board member Jen Harrop confirmed [...]

Grey Bruce Public Health has lifted a swim advisory at Southampton Beach now that new water samples show bacterial levels have returned to within Ministry of Health guidelines for safe swimming and bathing. We'd like to extend our thanks and appreciation to Saugeen Shores residents and visitors who adhered to the no-swim advisory at Southampton [...]

A developer is seeking official plan amendments from Meaford and Grey County for a new 135-hectare residential and commercial waterfront village proposed for the Christie Beach area. Parkbridge Lifestyles Communities Inc., headquartered in Collingwood, is seeking the amendment to construct as many as 1,250 dwellings west of Christie Beach Road between Highway 26 and Georgian [...]

A rider was taken to hospital with serious injuries after their horse collided with a vehicle on King Street in Kincardine Thursday morning. South Bruce OPP say two people were riding their horses north on King Street when one horse was spooked by nearby construction and ran into traffic. The horse was struck by a [...]

A fifth local suspected fatal drug poisoning this summer has prompted public health to issue an opioid alert to community partners this week. Grey Bruce Public Health said in a media release the most recent suspected fatal overdose, along with three non-fatal drug poisonings, took place between Aug. 3 and Aug. 6. Two of the [...]

Three more people have been charged following a search warrant and concerning a rash of recent property crimes in Meaford. The Grey Bruce OPP and members of the Grey Bruce Community Street Crime Unit executed a search warrant on July 28 at a residence on Marshall Street. During the search, officers discovered two firearms, a [...]

Grey County staff plan to secure suitable land in the Feversham area for a new ambulance base. The Feversham base will join a new larger base in Durham and new bases proposed for Ayton (2026), Thornbury (2027), and Cobble Beach (2028) all in an effort to keep up with increasing call volumes. However, at county [...]

The Owen Sound Baysox looked a little rusty in celebrating their 6-5 walk-off win over the Barrie Angels under the lights in Owen Sound Thursday night. Kirk Gibson admitted he doused the wrong player with his water while the Baysox bench cleared to celebrate Ryan Bartley's seventh-inning game-ending hit to right field. Catcher Greg Slater [...]

Owen Sound Salmon Spectacular co-chair Chris Geberdt has a good feeling that the derby could see a bigger fish this year thanthe one that won the recent Chantry Chinook Salmon Derby That's becausethe nearly 26-pound salmon was caught in Georgian Bay waters off Lion's Head, part of the Owen Sound-based derby's waters too. The 25.62 [...]

Nick Oldrieve thinks someone must know what happened to Shawn and Leslie Jones, two Neyaashiinigmiing teens who got into some trouble and, it's thought, fled the Bruce Peninsula almost 31 years ago. That's why Oldrieve is helping to organize a 31-kilometre community walk like one held in November for them. It's hoped this public display [...]

Sixty to seventy per cent of vet calls can be done remotely," says Colin Yates, CEO of VETSon

Police laid five charges against a 54-year-old driver after someone made a driving complaint. Police were told at 1:07 p.m. on Aug. 3 that a pickup truck was unable to maintain its lane" on Highway 26 in Meaford, Grey Bruce OPP said in a news release. Police released a photo of the truck bed, which [...]

South Bruce Grey Health Centre's president said she appreciates the Ontario government's recently announced 4.5 per cent base funding increase to her budget. But like other local hospital administrators, she said it still leaves a budget gap created by inflation over the past few years. This year's base funding for SBGHC increased by $1,808,100, [...]

Bruce-Grey-Owen Sound MP Alex Ruff is warning constituents to remain vigilant after a wave of energy rebate calls came to his attention. In recent weeks, my office has been made aware that there are unsolicited calls being made to residents of Bruce-Grey-Owen Sound trying to sell energy rebates claiming an affiliation with my office," Ruff [...]

People will gather to Walk for Wenjack on Thursday, Aug. 15, at Cape Croker Park in Neyaashiinigmiing, Bruce County and its community partners are host for the fundraising and awareness-raising event named in memory of Chanie Wenjack who, in 1966, ran away from Cecilia Jeffrey Residential School in Kenora, Ont. He walked for 36 hours [...]

Georgian College is expanding its partnership with an online platform helping to connect students to shared living spaces in an effort to house its growing population in Owen Sound. The college asked for the community's help to support students who will become the region's future workforce" in a media release issued Wednesday. With 300 new [...]

Dogs of all kinds have returned to Harrison Park for the annual three-day show, which ends Thursday. The Grey Bruce Kennel and Obedience Club's show offers the chance for a close-up look at the widest variety of dogs most people would ever see in one place. There are morning shows starting at 8 a.m. and [...]

A former first-round pick and COVID-era franchise cornerstone won't return to the Owen Sound Attack this season. On Tuesday, the Attack announced they've traded Cedrick Guindon and a 2028 10th-round pick to the Kingston Frontenacs for five future draft picks. In the deal, the Attack get a 2027 second-round pick (Flint), a 2026 third-round pick [...]

Playoff baseball returns to Owen Sound this week. The Owen Sound Baysox finished second in the North Dufferin Baseball League and will take on the seventh-place Barrie Angels in the first round of the postseason. The first round is a best-of-five, or first to six points series, beginning Thursday night in Owen Sound at Tom [...]

Three Owen Sound North Stars girls' field lacrosse players and one coach won gold medals at the Ontario Summer Games in London this past weekend. Team Blue, featuring Camryn Stauffer, Hannah Davies, Willow Smith-Spinney and coach Reese Wilkins, defeated Team Pink by a score of 13-5 to win gold. Goalie Mykah Harris, and team manager [...]

A thunderstorm that bubbled up threw a curveball at organizers of the Rotary Club of Wiarton's Shore to Shore Race, but it couldn't stop the Civic Holiday weekend tradition from going ahead. The start time of the annual road race across the Bruce Peninsula was pushed back to let the storm pass on Monday morning, [...]

Sisters Jeanette Mallard and Margaret Adams-Williams were enjoying the chance to catch up with family and friends at the inaugural Wiarton Homecoming Weekend. The pair said they had spent almost the entire day at the event on Saturday and were met with a near-constant parade of familiar faces to reminisce with. We have been able [...]

As Jesse Walker made his way along his fundraising run through the Georgian Bluffs countryside on Saturday morning, his thoughts often turned to his friend Tyson Downs, who passed away suddenly a year ago. I did start thinking about Tyson while I was running," the 19-year-old brain cancer survivor from Balmy Beach said once he [...]

As the Emancipation Festival and Picnic marked its 162nd year in Owen Sound over the weekend, participants celebrated the event's roots as a close-knit family reunion, along with its transformation more recently into a welcoming community celebration. Festival chair Linda Johnson said Saturday at Harrison Park, that she has been coming to the Emancipation Day [...]

Adventure sport racers will be descending on Wiarton again as the Bruce Peninsula Multisport Race returns for its 14th year. The event, which combines paddling, bicycling and running into a test of strength, stamina and power will hit the waters, back roads and trails of the peninsula on Aug. 10. Starting and finishing at Bluewater [...]

The beach at Southampton has been posted unsafe for swimming, just as the Civic Holiday weekend begins. Grey Bruce Public Health announced Friday that in consultation with Saugeen Shores, the beach had been posted unsafe after water-sampling results showed bacterial levels exceeding Ontario Ministry of Health standards. The water was tested Wednesday and the results [...]

It's two weeks until Summerfolk, the 49th annual music, arts and crafts outdoor festival on the west shore of Owen Sound. Organizers are arranging which performers will stay in which hotel rooms, the lanyards for volunteers are being printed and their assignments are going out, festival artistic director James Keelaghan said by phone Friday. There's [...]

Grey-Bruce hospital administrators welcomed $8.566 million in new permanent base funding, but some said it's not enough. The money will be distributed $5,962,500 to Brightshores Health System, $1,808,100 to South Bruce Grey Health Centre and $795,400 to Hanover & District Hospital. Brightshores will see permanent base funding go up by 3.1 per cent. It's [...]

While the whirlwind of a ride of the past couple of years has taken Owen Riegling across North America, the rising country music star from Mildmay always looks forward to coming back to where it all began. I look forward to shows at home more than anything," Riegling said Friday morning, hours before he was [...]

Two local First Nations communities will hold their annual pow wows in the coming weeks. Saugeen First Nation will hold its pow wow on Aug. 10-11, while the Chippewas of Nawash Unceded First Nation at Neyaashiinigmiing will hold its pow wow on Aug. 16-18. The Saugeen First Nation pow wow will once again take place [...]

Grey County and its nine lower tier municipalities will take part in a joint all councils meeting on Aug. 8. The purpose of the meeting, which will be held electronically, is to discuss shared service delivery and service efficiencies, the City of Owen Sound said in a news release. The meeting begins at 8:30 a.m. [...]

People have answered Salvation Army Major Mary Millar's recent food bank plea but more help is needed. My food bank worker said when saw she the food, like she was in tears because she realized she could give to those families that extra food," Millar said Thursday. She issued a Facebook callout on July 19 [...]

Another opioid alert has been issued in Grey-Bruce after the local health unit was notified of two fatal and two-non-fatal suspected drug poisonings. The suspected drug poisonings occurred in Owen Sound and Meaford over the past seven days, with fentanyl suspected in three of the cases, including one fatality, Grey Bruce Public Health said in [...]

A Meaford man faces several charges in relation to a rash of property crimes in the Municipality of Meaford. Grey Bruce OPP announced on Wednesday that members of the Grey Bruce OPP Community Street Crime Unit executed a search warrant at a residence on Marshall Street in Meaford just before 3:30 p.m. on July 25. [...]

A suspect has been apprehended and roads have reopened in an area southeast of Teeswater. On Thursday afternoon, South Bruce OPP announced that an individual police had been searching for in the area had been located. Just after 9 a.m., police received a report of an individual on a property along Conc. 4 in the [...]

Statistics Canada's annual crime severity index and weighted clearance rates for police services in Ontario include data for Grey-Bruce. The conventional crime rate is a measure of crime volume. It adds up all crimes reported by police and divides that total by the population for the area. This means a murder has the same impact [...]

People who rescued a woman from a car that was accidentally driven into Meaford Harbour were being widely praised for their heroic efforts. Kyle Gilas, a board member and former coach with Sail Georgian Bay, said Wednesday morning that the adrenaline was still high after the rescue that saw the woman pulled from the car [...]

Owen Sound's violent crime severity index soared in 2023 over the year before. Unlike the conventional crime rate, the violent crime severity index is weighted, with more serious but less frequent offences, like first-degree murder, given a CSI rating 280 times greater than property theft, for instance. The city's crime severity index was 123.41 in [...]

From other oil regions, we see that the trick is to own the oil or gas resource, but shed off the liability. When will it come to Ontario?

Enbridge Gas confirmed Tuesday it could take two days for it to relight appliances for all 700 natural gas customers affected by Monday's gas leak. A gas line was damaged at about 11:30 a.m. Monday as worked continued on the Alpha Street reconstruction project. Residents in the area were evacuated from their homes, with help [...]

Fertilizer Canada wants all minerals important to food security to be on the list

Gas service was being restored in areas of Owen Sound Monday night after what city officials called a significant leak in the Alpha Street area that afternoon. At approximately 1 p.m. (Monday) Owen Sound Fire and Emergency Services responded to the area of Alpha Street for a report of a significant natural gas leak," the [...]

The 162nd Emancipation Festival features a speakers' forum Friday, a community celebration Saturday and gospel musicSunday. Cyrus Sundar Singh will speak at Grey Roots Museum Friday night. He's an assistant professor at the University of Toronto, a musician and filmmaker who was born and raised in India. He'll talk about Nova Scotia's Africville, a one-time [...]

It will cost about $100,000 more than budgeted to fix Owen Sound's Sk8and Bike Park's concrete pad, which has been partly fenced off for more than a year because sections were crumbling and considered unsafe to use. Owen Sound council voted Monday morning, during a special meeting to discuss this issue, to withdraw an additional [...]