Owen Sound Sun Times

The number of Grey-Bruce residents in hospital with a confirmed case of COVID-19 rose over the weekend from 14 Friday to 17 Sunday. Fourteen of those patients are hospitalized in Grey-Bruce, while three are in hospital outside of the region, according to the Grey Bruce Health Unit’s daily situation report for Sunday. All local cases […]

HIGH SCHOOL SPORTS ON HOLD The Bluewater Athletic Association winter sports season won’t resume Monday when students return to in-person classes according to the region’s top administrators. Bluewater District School Board Director of Education Lori Wilder said the board has made the decision to hold off on sports to better assess the situation once students […]

Police have charged a 54-year-old Collingwood resident with first-degree murder after a man was found dead inside of a home in the town Friday morning. Officers with the Collingwood-Blue Mountains OPP were called to a residence on Hurontario Street in Collingwood at about 8:20 a.m. They found a deceased adult male inside and an individual […]

As temperatures dipped below -25 C with the wind chill Saturday morning, 76-year-old Joan Barton stripped down to her “skivvies” and plunged into the near-freezing waters of Colpoys Bay. The spirited South Bruce Peninsula woman swam in the frigid deep-blue water for exactly three minutes — one minute for each degree of water temperature — […]

The Owen Sound Attack let the league’s best power play go to work Saturday night and ended up with a 5-2 loss at the hands of the Greyhounds in Sault Ste. Marie. The ‘Hounds entered the game with 39 power-play goals while operating at an over 30 per cent clip on the man advantage. Owen […]

Twelve local people are in a local hospital and two more are hospitalized outside Grey-Bruce due to COVID-19, the health unit reported Friday. Five of them are in a local ICU and two more are in an ICU outside Grey-Bruce, said Dr. Ian Arra, the Grey-Bruce medical officer of health. None of them is fully […]

With temperatures in Owen Sound expected to hit -30 C with the windchill this weekend, the city is working with Safe ‘n Sound to extend the agency’s hours for those seeking shelter from the cold. Due to COVID-19 restrictions, city facilities that have served as warming stations during cold temperatures in the past are not […]

Both Grey and Bruce county councillors received snapshots Thursday of the homelessness situations in their communities. Just over 140 individuals and families experiencing homelessness in Grey County and another 64 in Bruce County participated in a point-in-time homelessness enumeration study, conducted jointly by the two counties and front-line service providers Oct. 18. Of those surveyed, […]

Several residents in a Walkerton apartment building had to be rescued by firefighters after they were trapped by smoke from a fire late Wednesday night. Crews responded at about 11:40 p.m. after receiving a report of a fire in the residential seniors’ apartment building at 401 Cayley St., known as the Thompson-Bolden Seniors Apartments. Firefighters […]

Eleven facilities have active COVID-19 outbreaks in Grey-Bruce, according to the health unit’s latest situation report. On Thursday, the affected locations were Maple Court Villa retirement home in Walkerton, Lee Manor in Owen Sound, Grey Gables in Markdale, and Rockwood Terrace in Durham – as well as Pinecrest Manor in Lucknow, Errinrung in Thornbury, McVean […]

South Bruce OPP are continuing to investigate an incident in Kincardine where someone walked along a freshly poured sidewalk before it set, leading to an estimated $13,000 repair job. Police first received the report of the incident on Nov. 9 at the intersection of Gordon Street, where they found that a section of the freshly […]

Students, staff and parents are being asked to help minimize the spread of COVID-19 through self-screening and self-imposed isolation protocols in the absence of public health interventions when they return to school Monday. “I think it’s going to be a change. I think it’s going to take time for families to adjust to that, but […]

Two Grey County residents have been charged after a pickup truck that had been reported stolen was stopped by police in Chesley on Wednesday. Just before 4:30 a.m., a South Bruce OPP officer was on patrol when the officer used the cruiser’s emergency lights to signal the truck to stop. The vehicle continued driving through […]

The Kemble Mountain trail has been permanently closed to off-road vehicles. On Wednesday, Georgian Bluffs council passed an amendment to its off-road vehicles bylaw to no longer permit the use of ORVs on the Kemble Mountain Trail along the Cole’s Road Sideroad unopened road allowance. The motion passed 5-1 in a recorded vote with only […]

Building heating and staffing issues will keep the Owen Sound & North Grey Union Public Library closed to the public until Monday at 1 p.m., CEO Tim Nicholls Harrison said Thursday. The library announced on Facebook and on its website Thursday that the library was addressing a “facilities issue” which it hoped would be remedied […]

Gavin Bryant’s four-point night and a 27-save shutout courtesy of Nick Chenard sparked the Owen Sound Attack to a 5-0 victory over the Sarnia Sting Wednesday night. The win is the team’s third straight on the road and the first since an extended break for the holiday with two bouts of COVID protocol. Owen Sound […]

Grey-Bruce has lost two more people to COVID-19. The Grey Bruce Health Unit added two deaths to the area’s total Wednesday. Now 27 Grey-Bruce citizens have died due to the pandemic virus There have been 19 deaths in Grey-Bruce, plus one Grey-Bruce citizen who died after acquiring the infection and receiving treatment outside of Grey-Bruce, […]

The weeklong 56th-annual Grey Bruce Farmers’ Week wrapped up Tuesday and managed to broaden its audience while navigating through a surging wave of COVID-19 by going fully virtual for the second year in a row. Farmers’ Week coordinator Lorie Smith said she’s glad the planning committee decided back in September to take the conference fully […]

Home sales in Grey-Bruce ended 2021 by smashing the average monthly price record for a month at more than $830,000. At $830,982, the average price for December was more than $127,000 above the previous monthly average price record of $703,934 that was just set in September. The average price last month was also 48.5 per […]

Efforts to present a petition to South Bruce council calling for a referendum on municipal election day, not after, about a proposed long-term nuclear waste storage project bogged down over privacy issues just before Tuesday’s council meeting. The referendum is supposed to decide whether South Bruce residents are willing to be host to a subterranean […]

Owen Sound’s operations committee is recommending council give the green light to a series of traffic signal timing changes aimed at improving the flow of vehicles along 10th Street in the city’s downtown. The suggested changes are among those proposed by consultants Safe Roads Engineering, retained by city hall to analyze both traffic data — […]

There are now 10 long-term care and retirement homes in Grey-Bruce with COVID-19 outbreaks. An outbreak was declared at Maple Court Villa retirement home in Walkerton on Monday. The other homes in the region with COVID-19 outbreaks includes all three Grey County-run long-term care homes – Lee Manor in Owen Sound, Grey Gables in Markdale, […]

Owen Sound is seeking a consulting firm to undertake a comprehensive service review of the city’s operations later this year. A request for proposals for a “professional, qualified” consultant was posted to the city’s bids and tenders webpage Friday, with a closing date of Jan. 28. The city is planning to set aside $100,000 in […]

A 20-year-old Owen Sound man is facing robbery and firearm-related charges following a confrontation in Georgian Bluffs. The Grey Bruce OPP says officers responded to a report of a person with a weapon at about 1 a.m. on Jan. 5 in the Township of Georgian Bluffs. Const. Nick Wilson said Tuesday the call to police […]

Owen Sound has removed a “hotspot” designation on a neighbourhood that had been experiencing significant crime and bylaw-related problems now that a house that city officials say was considered at the centre of the problem has sold. City manager Tim Simmonds said Owen Sound police and bylaw enforcement spent more than 400 hours dealing with […]

An Owen Sound-based company that is developing large-scale hydrogen production systems has signed a Letter of Intent with a large industrial company. Hydrogen Optimized announced on Monday that it had signed the LOI with the company to supply more than 40 megawatts of its RuggedCell water electrolyser capacity for hydrogen production. “This is a big […]

The Ontario Hockey League’s trade deadline passed by at noon Monday with the Owen Sound Attack laying dormant and satisfied. Attack General Manager Dale DeGray confirmed his team stayed put this year, electing to ride into the homestretch with the athletes already stabled in the Scenic City. The only moves made were those done in […]

There are now nine long-term care and retirement homes in Grey-Bruce reporting COVID-19 outbreaks, three more than there were on Sunday. The additional facilities with outbreaks are Lee Manor in Owen Sound and Grey Gables in Markdale, which are both long-term care homes run by Grey County, and the Mapleview Long-Term Care Home in Owen […]

The Protect Our Waterways – No Nuclear Waste community group will hold a car rally during a scheduled delegation at South Bruce council on Jan. 11 in support of a referendum they want to happen this fall in concert with the municipal election. The Nuclear Waste Management Organization is proposing to build an underground storage […]

Unacceptable but somewhat understandable. That seemed the general consensus Attack leaders had after losing 7-3 to the Barrie Colts in their return to the ice for the first time since Dec. 11. The deck was a little stacked against the Bears. The normally raucous and cramped Bayshore felt cavernous and hollow without any fans to […]

With COVID-19 outbreaks now in six long-term care or retirement homes in Grey-Bruce, more stringent isolation and testing requirements are coming into effect in these facilities, the medical officer of health said. Sunday the Grey Bruce Health Unit reported two more outbreaks in such homes than the day before, as well as 60 new cases […]

A Port Elgin lawyer has been found guilty of professional misconduct. John Douglas King was given 30 days to surrender his licence to practise law or else the Law Society of Ontario would revoke it, the law society announced last week. King pleaded guilty in a Walkerton courtroom and received a conditional discharge in August […]

A new media studies scholarship has been created in memory of long-time local Rogers TV producer Darlene Vanwyck. Vanwyck, 43, died in her Allenford home Jan. 3 after complications associated with a liver problem, her husband Paul Vanwyck said. The Darlene Vanwyck Award in Media Studies will be supported in perpetuity by an endowed fund […]

Saugeen Shores police charged a 56-year-old Port Elgin man because customers were threatened with a baseball bat for not wearing masks at a Port Elgin grocery store, police said. Police were called on Jan. 6 at 8:08 p.m. about a man who allegedly was threatening people and causing damage at the grocery story, a police […]

Eighty-eight new cases of COVID-19 were reported in Grey-Bruce Saturday. There are now 383 active COVID cases, including nine local people in a local hospital and one in hospital outside Grey-Bruce, the Grey Bruce Health Unit reported. Figures were current to midnight Friday. Grey Bruce Health Services’ Owen Sound hospital has a continuing COVID outbreak. […]

Omicron has forced Wiarton Willie’s live, annual morning prediction online only, with the public not present, and cancelled Groundhog Day festivities in South Bruce Peninsula. If Willie doesn’t see his shadow at 8:07 a.m. Feb. 2., legend has it we’ll have an early spring. If he does, here come six more weeks of winter. “The […]

Owen Sound will request prices for five potential transit service options — from maintaining the status quo to moving to a fully on-demand system — when it seeks proposals this winter for a new operator contract. Coun. Travis Dodd said the motion, approved during a special council meeting Friday, is an initial step toward the […]

The Grey Bruce Health Unit confirmed 53 more COVID-19 cases Friday, although with testing restricted to certain groups the data does not deliver an accurate account of regional case spread. The health unit said it will soon modify its daily situation reports because of the shift in testing protocols and case management. Individuals with symptoms […]

The Ontario Hockey League’s overage trade deadline passed at noon Friday, but Dale DeGray and the Owen Sound Attack had completed business two days earlier. The trade deadline for all other OHL players is noon Monday. As it stands, Andrew Perrott is in Windsor and Nicholas Porco will be skating in the Scenic City. An […]

A 53-year-old Owen Sound man was charged with impaired driving and drug offences after an SUV crashed into a parked police cruiser south of Goderich on Dec. 23. Just after 12:30 p.m. the cruiser, parked on the shoulder of Bluewater Veteran’s Highway with emergency lights flashing, behind a vehicle with a flat tire, was struck […]

The Canadian Snowcross Racing Association has rescheduled its Sauble Speedway event to Family Day weekend in February. The Royal Distributing Cup Snowcross races will now take place from Feb. 19 to 21 at the speedway. They were originally scheduled to run from Jan. 7 to 9 at Sauble and would have been the racing association’s […]

West Grey police said a suspect fell into the South Saugeen River while fleeing from officers who responded to a 911 call on Jan. 2. The incident happened in Ayton and involved a reported domestic assault. “The suspect fled on police arrival, but was tracked by keen officers. The suspect was found suffering the onset […]

The future of Owen Sound’s transit service will be put under the microscope Friday. Council is set to hold a special meeting at 1 p.m. that will be live-streamed on the city’s website to discuss potential options for the service. The discussion comes after council learned in early December that the cost to provide the […]

The Grey Bruce Health Unit said Thursday it will soon modify what it reports about COVID-19 each day as a result of shifting testing and case management protocols, driven by the spreading Omicron variant. Thursday’s daily situation report was No. 660 of the pandemic and listed 132 new COVID-19 cases in the region. However, because […]

Two people pleaded guilty and were sentenced in the Superior Court of Justice Tuesday to offences related to a drug bust in Meaford June 4, 2020. Bernie Picard, 60, of no fixed address, pleaded guilty to illegal possession of a prohibited weapon, brass knuckles, and was fined $500. Robina Grant, 31, of Meaford, pleaded guilty […]

Dairy farmers wrestled with the topic of sustainability and its impact on the industry during Dairy Day at the virtual Grey Bruce Farmers’ Week conference Thursday. “I think we’re well placed. It’s interesting that it’s not necessarily the challenges we think of that will be the tough cookies to deal with,” said Dairy Farmers of […]

The cause of a five-unit apartment fire in Ayton early Wednesday, which left no one seriously injured, is undetermined but not suspicious, West Grey Fire Chief Phil Schwartz said Thursday. Neighbours got all residents out of the building and they’d left by the time firefighters arrived, Schwartz said. The Red Cross and Victim Services were […]

Hospice about living best with time left I am a 76-year-old man with Stage 4 terminal cancer. I am currently in Residential Hospice of Grey Bruce’s Chapman House. When I was brought here, I assumed that everything that could be done had been done, so all I was here for was to die; that was […]

The Owen Sound Attack dealt assistant captain and overage defender Andrew Perrott to the Windsor Spitfires for a haul of draft picks Wednesday. In return, Owen Sound gets a second-round pick in 2022 (OTT), a third-round pick in 2023 (HAM), a third-round pick in 2025, and a sixth-round pick in 2024. Perrott currently sits second […]

Results of aquatic studies now underway for a proposed 500,000-square-foot land-based recirculating salmon farm north of Wiarton will determine the project’s next steps, says the head of the company behind the plan. Gerry Sullivan, president of Georgian Bay Salmon, said the company is working with the senior levels of government to ensure the proposed recirculating […]