Owen Sound Sun Times

"It was just a bad combination of sweaty hands and chicken juice."

Suspect to return to the Ontario Court of Justice Oct. 23

The Owen Sound Attack won their fourth-straight game Wednesday night with a 6-0 drubbing of their Highway 26 rivals.

Suspected fentanyl seizure one of largest ever in Grey-Bruce

Owen Sound police are looking for the driver of a vehicle that fled the scene of a collision in the city on Friday morning. Just before 11 a.m., a pickup truck was travelling eastbound on 10th Street East approaching 3rd Avenue East when a vehicle failed to yield and turned left in front of the [...]

Trade and tariffs and housing affordability among top issues discussed

Owen Sound Girls Field Lacrosse will be well represented at the Ontario University Athletics (OUA) Women's Field Lacrosse Championships, Oct. 17 to 19 at Wilfred Laurier University. In total, twelve North Stars graduates, spread among seven different teams, will be competing for the gold medal. Leading the way will be Ryleigh Elliott with the top-seeded [...]

Owen Sound Attack rookie Max Delisle will suit up for Team Canada Red at the 2025 U17 World Challenge. Delisle is one of 17 players from the OHL selected to represent Canada at the 2025 U17 World Challenge set to take place in Truro, Nova Scotia, from Oct. 31 to Nov. 8. Delisle, 16, has [...]

The winger from Ottawa always displayed a healthy dose of skill, but this season his skating and physicality have helped Harry Nansi reach a new level.

Police shot an aggressive dog in Dundalk on Wednesday morning after the animal bit a child and an officer. At approximately 8:41 a.m. on Wednesday morning, officers received a report of an unrestrained dog on Russel Street that had bitten one child and was attempting to bite another, Grey Bruce OPP said in a news [...]

The Sauble Beach Cross-Country Ski and Snowboard Club has managed to replace all the equipment that was damaged and stolen after it was hit by back-to-back thefts just over a year ago. Club president Vic Weitendorf appeared before South Bruce Peninsula council on Oct. 7 where he thanked the town for a grant the club [...]

The 100 Women Who Care Grey Bruce community group has made its largest donation yet. The group of local women selected the Owen Sound-based Safe N Sound as the recipient of a donation of $36,100. Safe N Sound provides essential services, advocacy, and safe space for some of the most vulnerable members of our community," [...]

The Grey Bruce Community Safety and Well-Being Plan and its community partners are holding a series of town hall meetings to raise awareness about human trafficking. The town halls, which are open to everyone, will shine a light on what human trafficking looks like locally, how it impacts people and what people can do to [...]

Some fine felines will be landing on their feet in Owen Sound this weekend. Approximately 100 cats of a variety of breeds are expected to take part in the No Name Cat Club show at the Harry Lumley Bayshore Community Centre on Saturday and Sunday. Kathy Balmer, vice-president of the local cat club, said Tuesday [...]

Police are looking for a vehicle that left the scene of a collision east of Burgoyne Sunday night. At approximately 9:15 p.m. South Bruce OPP received a report of fail-to-remain collision at the intersection of Bruce Road 17 and B Line in Arran-Elderslie. A vehicle was travelling along Bruce Road 17 when a pick-up truck [...]

The driver of a tractor was airlifted to a London trauma centre after a crash near Holyrood on Monday evening. At approximately 8:30 p.m., South Bruce OPP responded along with Bruce County Paramedic Services and Huron-Kinloss Fire and Emergency Services to a collision on Bruce Road 1 near Kairshea Avenue in the Township of Huron-Kinloss. [...]

The driver of a vehicle was airlifted to hospital following a collision at a property in the Municipality of South Bruce on Monday evening. Just after 8 p.m., South Bruce OPP were called to a report of a motor vehicle collision at an address along Sideroad 40. Police attended along with Bruce County Paramedic Services [...]

A Northern Bruce Peninsula man has been charged after crashing his vehicle into a telephone pole when he swerved to avoid a deer, police said. Grey Bruce OPP were dispatched to single-vehicle collision on Stokes Bay Road in Northern Bruce Peninsula just after 8 p.m. Monday. The 58-year-old driver of the vehicle, who was uninjured, [...]

Nicholas Sykora can't win rookie of the year because he's 18, but the Owen Sound Attack's first-year player is making a mark in the Ontario Hockey League. Sykora scored a pair of goals on Thanksgiving Monday as the Owen Sound Attack beat the North Bay Battalion 6-4 inside the Boart Longyear Memorial Gardens. Sykora's seven [...]

Thanksgiving Monday is often the time to either sleep off the turkey-induced tryptophan tiredness or walk off the third helping of pumpkin pie. Inside OSHaRE's 3rd Avenue East headquarters, a group of dedicated volunteers were busy preparing meals for hundreds of community members. We had 346 people on Friday, and about 286 on Saturday, so [...]

More than 3,000 full-time jobs were added in the Bruce, Grey, Huron, Perth region in September. Those gains were partially offset by losses in part-time employment, totalling 1,400 jobs. The unemployment rate for the region served by the Four County Labour Market Planning Board fell marginally by 0.1 per cent to 4.8 per cent last [...]

It's about to get spooky, night-at-the-museum style, in Owen Sound this month. The Billy Bishop Museum is hosting a Spooktacular Trivia Night at the Royal Canadian Legion in Owen Sound (1450 2nd Ave. W.) on Friday, Oct. 25. Billed as a ghoulishly good time, doors open at 6 p.m. the night of the event, with [...]

Thursday is Dress Purple Day, and Bruce Grey Child and Family Services is inviting the community to take part. Dress Purple Day is an annual awareness campaign led by the Ontario Association of Children's Aid Societies (OACAS). The day is meant to highlight the importance of supporting vulnerable children, youth, and families in Ontario. Those [...]

Bruce County held its first cultural symposium last week. On Wednesday, Oct. 8, the county invited participants to attend the symposium, entitled Common Ground: Connecting Through Culture, at the Chesley Community Centre. Keynote speaker Heather Keam, from the Tamarack Institute for Community Engagement, discussed new ways of fostering a culture of volunteerism. Keam addressed the [...]

It's early, but the Owen Sound Attack are starting to look like the real deal. Happy Thanksgiving, Grey-Bruce hockey fans. They've got the league's best goaltender, which was expected coming into the season. Not to mention Matthew Koprowski and Trenten Bennett, the latter of whom backstopped Owen Sound to a 5-3 win over the North [...]

More than 700 runners gobbled up the kilometres as part of the Rotary Club of Thornbury-Clarksburg's annual Thornbury Turkey Trot on Saturday morning. The sun peeked out behind the clouds just in time for the start of the Kids' Fun Race, a short course that featured another 300 chick" runners. Spectators, make sure you're behind [...]

The Tom Thomson Art Gallery is opening a pair of fall exhibitions. Convergence and Bianca Artemida Nam: Where the Willows Weep and Orchids Dream will open with a public reception at the gallery on Oct. 18 from 2 to 4 p.m. The Convergence exhibition, which runs until Jan. 17, is the gallery's biennial juried exhibition [...]

BASKETBALL It's getting crowded at the top. With three weeks in the books, the cream is starting to rise in the Bluewater Athletic Association senior girls' basketball circuit. In the North Division, the Georgian Bay Thunder are still undefeated at 4-0 after a 41-17 win over the Grey Highlands Lions. The St. Mary's Mustangs are [...]

Program being launched after homelessness and substance use concerns raised

Grey County has awarded the tender for its planned paramedic base in Feversham. On Thursday during its committee of the whole meeting, council awarded the tender for the base to Domm Construction Ltd. for $2.155 million. Director of paramedic services Kevin McNab told council that the area is underserviced and the southeast corner of the [...]

Owen Sound Deputy-mayor says municipalities should be left to decide if they want to use speed cameras

Local hospital corporation is re-introducing its internal office of research and innovation

The Saugeen Bruce Peninsula Gravel Gran Fondo raised around $70,000 for conservation efforts. More than 400 riders took part in the sixth annual Gran Fondo on Oct. 5 in support of the Bruce Peninsula Biosphere Association. Eighty volunteers supported the event, including a support and medical vehicle. Riders could choose from 115-kilometre, 80-kilometre, 56-kilometre and [...]

A 31-year-old Saugeen First Nation man is facing robbery charges after a theft from a Highway 21 business on Tuesday. Just before 9 p.m., Tuesday, Grey Bruce OPP officers responded to a report of a robbery at a Saugeen First Nation business on Highway 21. Police said it was reported that a person entered the [...]

A 68-year-old male from Mildmay is dead following a single-motorcycle collision near Mount Forest on Monday. Members of the Wellington County OPP were dispatched to Sideroad 3 West, south of Mount Forest, at approximately 5:15 p.m. on Monday for a report of a motorcycle crash. Police arrived a the scene to discover the 68-year-old male [...]

Some larger companies are considering assembling their products in the United States to get around the tariff.

Multiple portables being used at both Beaver Valley and Georgian Bay schools

A local family recently donated a 46-hectare property near Mountain Lake on the Bruce Peninsula to the Nature Conservancy of Canada. The property, southeast of Wiarton, features a mosaic of forests, wetlands, and regenerating fields that provide habitat for a wide range of species, including several that are at risk, according to the NCC. The [...]

Action plan to address findings of independent assessment, which province has not made public.

The Bluewater District School Board is inviting the public to comment on the design of a planned new Kincardine District Senior School. Between now and Oct. 24, student, staff, families and other community members are being invited to visit the board's website to view a preliminary floor plan for the proposed two-storey school. Questions and [...]

Nick Suzuki, Jordan Binnington, Sean Durzi, Jonah Gadjovich, Cody Ceci, Jacob Middleton and Kurtis MacDermid are all on NHL rosters to start the year.

A trio of local ball players keep hauling home the softball hardware. Matthew Weiler (Hepworth), Alex McGillivray (Durham) and Mac Mulvay (Wingham) helped Team Canada win the silver medal at the 2025 U23 Pan American Softball games, held in La Pampa, Argentina, last month. Canada finished 5-2 in the preliminary round, placing third behind Mexico [...]

Plan will outline actions to revitalize elements of the River District streetscape

Police seized more than $5,500 of suspected fentanyl, more than $1,100 of suspected cocaine, more than $500 in cash, a prohibited knife, drug trafficking paraphernalia and stolen property.

On Saturday, Oct. 4, Kim-Thibodeau Tae Kwon Do (KT TKD) sent three young athletes to the 24th Jung Ko Canadian Classic in Markham. The competition was fierce, and David, Ava Marie, and Justina brilliantly showcased everything they had been practicing. David placed third in poomsae (patterns) and second in kyorugi (sparring). David embodied the tenet [...]

Document will help guide Owen Sounds direction over the next 25 years

Amazon is planning to build a last mile" distribution centre in Owen Sound's industrial park. City staff have given site plan approval for the company to construct a 1,100-square-metre (11,800-square-foot) distribution centre and 6,280-sq.-m. (67,600-sq.ft.) parking, staging and loading area at 1875 16th Ave. E. The application was included in minutes of the Sept. 17 [...]

Maple holds historical and cultural significance for local First Nations

A London resident has been arrested in relation with a series of thefts across Southwestern Ontario involving boats, jet skis and trailers, including some in the Grey-Bruce region. On Oct. 1, members of the Grey Bruce and Middlesex OPP street crime units executed a search warrant at a residence on Sevilla Park Place in London, [...]

The Owen Sound Attack played big-boy" hockey Sunday afternoon and took down the league's top dogs. The 7-0 Windsor Spitfires were looking to set a new franchise record for consecutive wins to start a season, and were coming off a big shootout win in Brantford a day earlier. Owen Sound popped that bubble with no [...]