Owen Sound Sun Times

February 23, 2023

The Grey-Bruce real estate market has started off 2023 much differently than it did 2022, with home sales and prices significantly lower than they were a year ago. According to the Realtors Association of Bruce Grey Owen Sound, there were 117 units sold through its MLS System in January, which was 33.9 per cent fewer […]

Driving with liquor available was just one of the charges laid against the driver of a vehicle who was stopped at a RIDE check in Georgian Bluffs on Friday afternoon with dozens of beer cans scattered around the front of the vehicle. Just before 5:30 p.m. on Friday, Grey Bruce OPP were conducting a RIDE […]

Airspace was closed over the Tobermory area Sunday afternoon as the U.S. military tracked and shot down an object flying over Lake Huron. Search efforts were underway Monday. Reuters cited two U.S. officials Sunday, who spoke on condition of anonymity, that “the military had shot down the object” near the U.S.-Canada border. On Monday, aircraft […]

Georgian Bluffs has announced its Volunteer of the Year awards for seniors and youths for 2022. The Senior Volunteer of the Year award went to Keith Davidson, Robert Knapp and Ann and Clark Schneider. Anna Zandvliet is Youth Volunteer of the Year. “Each year countless volunteers devote their time, energy and expertise to enriching the […]

We’re a long way from Hockey Day. Three weeks after the Owen Sound Attack played some of their best hockey of the season to defeat two beasts of the east in Peterborough and Ottawa, the Bears have stalled with four losses in their last five games. Including a 4-2 defeat to the struggling Flint Firebirds […]

Ontario snowmobilers are mourning the loss of a popular clubhouse that was gutted by fire early Monday morning. The Owen Sound Eastside Snowmobile Club announced on its Facebook page Wednesday afternoon that fire investigators are planning to report back to the club after testing samples. According to the club, the fire comes just months after […]

When Saad Alibrihim’s sister called him from northern Syria, at what would have been around 4:30 in the morning for her, he knew it couldn’t be good news and he didn’t answer. He and friends who were visiting the 47-year-old at his Port Elgin home listened together to the Whatsapp message. Forty to 50 relatives […]

Special teams and a sluggish start played a big part in the Owen Sound Attack’s defeat at the fins of the Mississauga Steelheads inside the Paramount Fine Foods Centre Friday night. The Steelheads topped the Bears 3-2 inside the building where the Owen Sound Attack won the franchise’s only league title over a decade ago. […]

Grey County has decided to take no action in relation to a long-running disagreement over two bridges on a closed section of the Holland Sydenham Townline near Walters Falls. At its committee of the whole meeting on Thursday, Grey County council received for information a report on the bridges, known as Structures 21 and 22, […]

Grey County is working with University of Guelph students for a study to assist municipalities develop policies about additional residential units on urban and rural properties. And while county staff expressed enthusiasm about the ability of ARUs to provide additional housing options in the county, some councillors raised concerns about the unintended consequences of allowing […]

A Torontonian with a strong tie to the Georgian Peaks ski club in Thornbury is a world champion. James (Jack) Crawford is just the third Canadian man to win a world title in alpine skiing. On Thursday, he took the super-G gold medal at the FIS Alpine World Ski Championships by 0.01 of a second […]

Lights. Camera. Markdale. The small community in the heart of Grey County and its residents are about to be featured on a CBC television show about communities that pick themselves up and soldier on after facing adversity. The Markdale episode of Still Standing with Jonny Harris is set to air on CBC on Wednesday, Feb. […]

A new ambulance base in Feversham, a larger new base in Durham and phasing in additional shifts over the next decade to maintain and improve response times and keep up with increasing call volumes are among recommendations Grey County council heard Thursday. County council received a report from Andrew Greggan of Operational Research in Health […]

The average homeowner in Owen Sound will pay an additional $36 in annual property taxes this year if the city’s proposed budget is passed in March, the lowest increase in over a decade. Owen Sound city council met earlier this week for two days of discussions regarding the draft operating budget and capital spending plan. […]

The Grey Bruce OPP have charged a 21-year-old Meaford man with arson following an investigation into a series of fires set in the municipality over a two-year period. The OPP assigned detectives from the Grey Bruce Major Crime Unit (MCU) to investigate the fires and on Feb. 3, 2023, charged a man from Meaford with […]

The Grey Bruce OPP are seeking the public’s assistance locating a pair of missing persons in South Bruce Peninsula. Keith Campbell, 33, and Justin Yeo, 37, were last seen on Bruce Street in Hepworth on Jan. 31 at 4:16 p.m. Campbell is described as standing six-foot-two and 185 pounds with a medium build, brown facial […]

Owen Sound Police have charged a 48-year-old man of no fixed address after being called about a man brandishing a knife while robbing a store in downtown Owen Sound Wednesday. According to a police media release, on Wednesday afternoon a man entered a 10th Street East business while wearing a disguise and went behind the […]

After being made to feel like little fluffy puppies over the weekend the Owen Sound Attack barked back and took a big bite out of the loafing Niagara IceDogs Wednesday. The Scenic City Skaters filled the net in front of 2,255 fans and topped the ‘Dogs 9-3 to snap a two-game skid. Niagara has now […]

Markdale will get a new elementary school the same size as the one it now has, larger than one that had been approved in 2018. The Ontario government announced it will spend nearly $15.5 million on the new school. That includes an additional $6.8 million, according to a news release from Bruce-Grey-Owen Sound MPP Rick […]

Eat Local Grey Bruce has raised more than $100,000 to keep its doors open, after the the not-for-profit co-operative declared insolvency in December. The group announced Wednesday its fundraising efforts are enough to help pay off immediate debts and “get operations back up and running.” “We’re thrilled to get the chance to re-envision a new […]

Tyler James Geiger was found guilty of manslaughter and trafficking in carfentanil after a trial in the Superior Court of Justice Feb. 6 in Walkerton. Geiger, 37, of Harriston, Ont. was charged after West Grey Police Service officers investigated a sudden death in Neustadt on April 19, 2019, a police news release said this week. […]

The death of Ken Rae, the former local Crown attorney whose eloquence, ferocity and force of personality often made for must-see courtroom drama, was met with sadness by many who knew him. Kenneth Amyot Rae died of vascular dementia, at 83, on Jan. 30. He was living at a local retirement home when he died. […]

About $100,000 damage, including to aviation electronics, was done at the Kincardine Airport after a break-in on the weekend, police say. Officers were called to the airport, at 1987 Hwy. 21, shortly before 10 a.m. Sunday. A witness located a person, who was still inside the building, and notified police, according to a South Bruce […]

A longtime volunteer, official, minor sports executive and junior hockey leader has received the Western Ontario Athletic Association’s O.M. “Mike” Weichel Trophy for his outstanding efforts in minor sports. Durham’s Rob Nixon received the annual award at an alumni game celebrating the history of the Durham 72’s and Thundercats senior men’s teams in January. Nixon […]

The Windsor Spitfires average nearly five goals a game and they did a little bit better than that in an 8-1 win over the Owen Sound Attack Sunday night at home. With the win, the Spitfires improved their league-leading record to 32-12-3-1 and extend a winning streak at the WFCU Centre to eight games. Owen […]

The West Grey Minor Hockey and Hanover Minor Hockey Associations are one step closer to joining forces and becoming the Saugeen Valley Steelheads when the puck drops next season. Last year, both minor hockey boards voted in favour of amalgamating due to falling numbers and volunteer support. Eighty-one per cent of eligible voters who cast […]

Wearing special purple jerseys in memory of longtime volunteer and billet mom Ashley Clock the Knights of Meaford beat the Temiscaming Titans 7-4 and raised more than $12,000 for Clock’s young daughters and surviving family Thursday night. Ashley Clock, a single mother, died suddenly and unexpectedly on Nov. 12, 2022, at the age of 39. […]

Raoul Edema is used to extreme temperatures, being from Australia and spending time in the outback where the thermostat can regularly hit 50 C. But on Saturday it was extreme cold and a biting wind that settled over the Wiarton Willie Festival at Bluewater Park and Edema was certainly feeling it. “It is cold,” said […]

Cops For Cancer Canadian ambassador Mike Duhacek hit the road in Owen Sound early Saturday morning. With the temperature around -15 C, much colder with the wind chill, Duhacek set off on his more than 200-kilometre trek pulling a sled that weighed well over 200 pounds containing a wood block displaying the word CANCER . […]

The Flint Firebirds like to play high-event hockey and the Owen Sound Attack didn’t get the message until it was too late. Flint scored four unanswered goals in the opening 40 minutes inside the Dort Financial Centre en route to a 5-3 victory. Flint’s first win in five games snaps Owen Sound’s four-game winning streak […]

The future of the Kemble arena is in question, after Georgian Bluffs council has decided to “take a pause” after the projected price tag to renovate the facility ballooned to more than three times the original estimate. At its committee of the whole meeting on Wednesday, council passed a motion to withdraw its existing grant […]

A second degree murder charge has been laid in connection with crash that occurred in the Town of the Blue Mountains on Jan. 26. James Schwalm, 38, of Collingwood has been charged with second degree murder and indignity to a dead body in relation to the death of Ashley Schwalm, 40, also of Collingwood. The […]

Polycor Inc., a company with quarries and manufacturing plants across North America and Europe, has big plans for its newly purchased Ebel Quarries Inc. near Wiarton. The Quebec-based company plans to invest more than $1 million worth of quarrying and sawing equipment into the long-time family-run businesses this year, said Matt Howard, co-chief operating officer […]

A group of residents in opposition to a pumped storage hydroelectric project being proposed by TC Energy at the 4th Canadian Division Training Base in Meaford are holding another polar bear plunge and “freezin’ for a reason”. The Save the Bay Polar Dip is set for Feb. 25 from noon to 2 p.m. at Fred […]

A 10-building indoor self-storage facility proposed to neighbour the Van Dolder’s Custom Exteriors building at the east end of the city is one step closer to having shovels in the ground. Owen Sound city council carried a motion directing staff to bring forward a bylaw to amend the zoning at 1730 27th Avenue East from […]

The operator of a snowmobile who fell off a sled near the Julie McArthur Regional Recreation Centre late Thursday night will be without a driver’s licence for three days. According to an Owen Sound Police Service media release, when officers arrived at the scene around 11 p.m., in the area of 10th Street East, they […]

Saugeen Shores police have charged a Kitchener woman with manslaughter and trafficking in a controlled substance as part of a fatal overdose investigation. A news release said Saugeen Shores Police Service in 2021 attended a residence in Saugeen Shores for a fatal overdose investigation. On Tuesday police arrested and charged Christine Seibert, 28, with manslaughter […]

Grey Highlands Mayor Paul McQueen questioned consultants designing the new Rockwood Terrace long-term care/assisted living home in conjunction with county staff about how pandemic-resistant it will be. One of the most difficult things during the worst of the COVID-19 pandemic was when home residents couldn’t visit with their families, he said. Would the new home […]

In a hurry to get hitched? Do you want to “say yes” without the fuss and stress – and with up to 15 guests? Owen Sound and the Owen Sound River District are inviting couples to city hall on Valentine’s Day for an all-day “I do” assembly line of love. The city’s Just Say Yes […]

Feb 2, 2023

Fire completely destroyed a home west of Walkerton on Highway 9, according to officials. Walkerton Fire Chief Chris Wells said an older two-storey home near Riversdale was fully engulfed when firefighters arrived on the scene at approximately 8:30 p.m. Monday There was no one at the property at the time and no injuries as a […]

Jan 21, 2023

The prediction is in and Wiarton Willie says it is an early spring. The weather prognosticating albino groundhog made his 67th annual prediction at 8:07 a.m., and since he didn’t see his shadow, an early spring it was. It was the first prediction for the latest Willie, who arrived in Wiarton late last year after […]

Colby Barlow is the Ontario Hockey League’s player of the month for January. The Owen Sound Attack captain produced 14 goals and six assists in 12 games to usher in the new year and was a plus-six to boot. The Orillia, Ont., native also managed to score in the 2023 Kubota CHL/NHL Top Prospects game […]

The Knights of Meaford are hosting a memorial game Thursday to raise funds for the young daughters of a woman who helped take care of the team and its players for 10 years as a faithful volunteer and billet mom. Ashley Clock, a single mother, died suddenly and unexpectedly on Nov. 12, 2022, at the […]

Snowmobile season has arrived in Grey-Bruce. The combination of cold and snow is just what local snowmobile clubs were looking for after a mild start to 2023, and trails in the area are starting to open. “The clubs have been out there since it started snowing finishing up their staking and signing, making sure no […]

A stone monument will mark a former early Black settlement, home to 19th-century freedom seekers, around Negro Creek Road in Chatsworth Township, possibly by this summer. About 20 people packed the small township council chambers Wednesday to seek council’s support for a monument inscribed with the settlement’s history. The mood was collegial and generous. Council […]