Owen Sound Sun Times

Grey Bruce OPP continues to look for Maryanne Epp, a 64-year-old woman reported missing one week ago from Georgian Bluffs, who police say was recently spotted in Kitchener. Police said in a news release Thursday that Epp is a well-known street musician who was seen in downtown Kitchener Sept. 20. Police said they want to […]

A ribbon-cutting ceremony at 1 p.m. Saturday will officially open a new pedestrian bridge in Tara. The bridge replaces a car bridge over the Sauble River, which has been washed out since 1948 after a particularly hard winter and subsequent flooding, information from the local Rotary club says. There will be beef on a bun […]

The Wiarton “Big Dig” is now in the final stretch. South Bruce Peninsula’s $11 million project, which began in summer 2020 and resumed in April following a winter break, is now at the paving phase. Mayor Janice Jackson said some streetscaping elements also have to be installed before the project is completed. “Other than that, […]

Saturday’s grand opening gala of The Georgian Bay Centre for the Arts has been a long time coming. The arts centre on Owen Sound’s main street, in the 1940 Kresges store building, which later was home to a downtown bingo hall, still sports the “Bingo Bingo Bingo” sign out front. That hasn’t helped identify the […]

A veteran of South Bruce Peninsula’s fire department has been named the town’s new, permanent fire chief. Tim Wilson, who had been serving as acting chief since the spring, has accepted the position of fire chief/manager of emergency services. “I look forward to serving the citizens of the community. It’s been my passion throughout my […]

With much of his own world locked down due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Wiarton singer-songwriter Josh Ritchie turned to what was happening to others around him to inspire the music in his new album. Ritchie, 22, is releasing his sophomore album Love at the End of the World on Sept. 30 with a show at […]

South Bruce Peninsula has made some adjustments to its short-term rentals licensing program ahead of a planned Jan. 1 launch. Council voted Tuesday to reduce from $500 to $300 the initial, one-time registration fee for each short-term accommodation (STA). A licensing fee, which must also be paid in the first year and annually after that, […]

The Grey Bruce Health Unit reported one COVID-19 case on Wednesday, in a resident of West Grey. The health unit is now monitoring 19 active cases and 23 active high-risk contacts associated with them. There have now been 2,305 confirmed cases of the virus in Grey-Bruce since the start of the pandemic, 2,260 of which […]

Widespread power outages this morning stretching from the Owen Sound area up the Bruce Peninsula have left thousands without electricity. Hydro One’s outage map showed power interruptions affecting thousands of customers. Restoration times at 8 a.m. varied from 9 a.m. to 10 a.m. , while some were not known. The Bluewater District School Board announced […]

Conservative Terry Dowdall is headed back to Ottawa to represent the riding of Simcoe-Grey. The incumbent received increased support from voters in the riding according to election results. With all but one Simcoe-Grey poll reported Tuesday afternoon, Dowdall had received 33,734 votes and 47 per cent of ballots cast. That’s an uptick from the 32,812 […]

Conservative support grew in Huron-Bruce in Monday’s election, while the Liberals fell further out of favour with local voters. Voters returned Ben Lobb for a sixth consecutive election, to a Parliament that looks about the same as it did before the election was called. “We can see the Liberal numbers went down quite a bit […]

For a second straight day, the Grey Bruce Health Unit reported no new cases of COVID-19 Tuesday. The number of active local cases has dropped from 22 Monday to 19 and there are now 28 active high-risk contacts. Confirmed cases to date in Grey-Bruce remain at 2,304, while 2,259 of those cases are now considered […]

While COVID-19 vaccine uptake has been quite strong in Grey-Bruce, a project is in the works to help reach local residents who may still be hesitant about getting the jab. The Reaching Rural: Building vaccine confidence in rural Southwestern Ontario program is designed to provide peer support to individuals in the Grey-Bruce-Huron-Perth region who may […]

The Owen Sound Attack have added yet another new face to the club ahead of the 2021-22 season. On Monday, the team announced defenceman Taos Jordan committed to playing major junior hockey in Owen Sound just days after featuring in the lineup for the Attack during a preseason tune-up contest against the North Bay Battalion. […]

Conservative Alex Ruff won a second term as Bruce–Grey–Owen Sound’s MP Monday with a larger vote share than he secured in 2019, while both the local Liberals and Greens saw their support drop from the previous federal election. The NDP and People’s Party of Canada, meanwhile, saw their vote percentages climb locally, with the latter […]

A Grey Highlands woman has been charged with impaired driving after a pedestrian was struck and injured in a parking lot in Collingwood. On Friday at approximately 9:15 p.m., the woman was charged with impaired driving following the reported collision in a restaurant parking lot on First Street, Collingwood OPP said in a news release. […]

Tickets still available for Tankard Weekly ticket packages are still available for the 2022 Port Elgin Chrysler Ontario Tankard presented by Bruce Power. One-week packages are available for $125 plus applicable taxes and fees. Due to current Covid restrictions, there is a limited number of tickets available at this time. Tickets are available at www.portelgincurlingclub.com. […]

Eleven athletes from Owen Sound’s Kilian Academy represented Grey-Bruce at one of the country’s largest Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu tournaments at the Markham Pan Am Centre this past weekend. The 2021 GTA Classic invites over 500 competitors from Canada and abroad. The local academy athletes brought home two golds, two silvers and a bronze medal. “Our athletes […]

Liberal candidate Anne Marie Watson says she received a lot of positive feedback while on the campaign trail in Bruce-Grey-Owen Sound. “I found it absolutely amazing and so gratifying; the support – the sometimes overwhelming support – and welcome that I got, it was just amazing to me,” said the first-time candidate, who, with 90 […]

Conservative Alex Ruff will return to Ottawa for a second term as member of Parliament for Bruce-Grey-Owen Sound. As of 11 p.m., Ruff held just over 44 per cent of the vote in the riding with 65 of 250 polls reporting, well ahead of Liberal candidate Anne Marie Watson, who was in second place with […]

After taking an early lead, Conservative candidate Terry Dowdall built an insurmountable margin to win the riding of Simcoe-Grey Monday night. Dowdall led five others who ran in Simcoe-Grey including Liberal party candidate Bren Munro, who trailed Dowdall by nearly 600 votes early. NDP candidate Lucas Gillies, People’s party candidate Adam Minatel, Green Party candidate […]

With less than four per cent of the vote reported, Huron-Bruce Conservative candidate Ben Lobb was leading with nearly 50 per cent of the vote. He maintained that advantage later in the night, when it was clear he had won. With 76 per cent of the vote in shortly before midnight, Lobb had 21,810 votes, […]

A look at the national election race and results from ridings across the country as they become available.

A look at the national election race and results from ridings across the country as they become available.

Grey Bruce OPP has received tips of “apparent sightings” of Maryanne Epp, a 64-year-old woman reported missing one week ago, but police yet to locate her. “We have had tips of apparent sightings, around Owen Sound and Georgian Bluffs, however none can be substantiated or confirmed,” Const. Nick Wilson said in an emailed response to […]

While the pandemic kept the community from gathering for the annual Terry Fox Run on Sunday, the Owen Sound community was certainly still behind the event this year. For the second straight year the annual run was held in a “one day, your way,” format, where participants were encouraged to complete the event at a […]

When the COVID-19 pandemic hit in March 2020, Francois Larouche saw his gigs as a professional guitar player quickly dry up. But thanks to a chance encounter in a Quebec park last summer, Larouche has discovered a new passion in flying kites. “Kite flying has been like a godsend,” Larouche said on Saturday afternoon at […]

When Metis artist Tracey-May Chambers began her #hopeandhealingcanada installations earlier this year, her main goal was about reconnecting as Canada and Ontario began to reopen from the pandemic. Since then her installations have remained symbols of connectivity, but have also become about creating a dialogue about the difficult subjects of past and present racial discrimination […]

One new COVID-19 case was reported in Grey-Bruce on Sunday, in The Town of the Blue Mountains. With the new case, there are 26 active cases in the two counties, according to the Grey Bruce Health Unit’s situation report, which includes case counts and vaccine data as of midnight on Saturday. There are 39 active […]

Three new cases of COVID-19 were reported in Grey-Bruce on Saturday. The new cases included two in West Grey and one in Brockton, according to the Grey Bruce Health Unit’s Situation Report, which includes case counts and vaccine data up to midnight on Friday. The health unit is monitoring 54 active high-risk contacts. There are […]

The Bruce Trail stares Karen Holland, a resident of Kimberley in the Beaver Valley, in the face every day. And now the ultra runner has added her name to Bruce Trail lore after she became the first person to run the length of the more than 900-kilometre trail in under nine days. Holland, 34, said […]

A free, six-week construction labourer training program starts Oct. 4 in Wiarton. A two-week work placement follows the training, which is for unemployed and under-employed people who are 18 and older. Anyone living in Grey, Bruce, Huron or Perth counties may apply. The program can accommodate 15 students and some spots remained as of Friday, […]

About 6,000 people in the Owen Sound area don’t have a family doctor, Owen Sound Family Heath Team the executive director Paul Hobban said in an interview this week. About five family doctors are needed right now in the Owen Sound area alone to meet that demand, he said, with each new family doctor taking […]

The Grey Bruce Health Unit reported two new COVID-19 cases on Friday, both in Brockton. There are now 26 active cases among the 2,300 confirmed in Grey-Bruce since the beginning of the pandemic, according to the health unit’s daily situation report, which includes case counts and vaccine data in the 24-hour period prior to midnight […]

Eight more cases of COVID-19 were reported in Grey-Bruce Thursday and seven of the eight people infected were unvaccinated. There were five cases in Arran-Elderslie, and one each in Hanover, Chatsworth and West Grey. Seven cases were reported Monday and single cases were added Tuesday and Wednesday. When asked how the latest eight people were […]

Georgian Bluffs is updating its official plan. Jason Ferrigan and Guarang Khandelwal of J.L. Richards and Associates Ltd. made a presentation to council Wednesday during a special meeting to set the stage for the update. Ferrigan explained that the municipality’s official plan came into effect in 2014 and since that time, much has changed. “I […]

A ceremonial farewell to the Paisley Inn this week included old stories and new promises that a building looking much like the old tavern in its prime will be built in its place. An estimated 100 people attended the evening gathering at the cenotaph Monday, across the road from the three-storey, red-brick Paisley landmark, with […]

A man has been charged with multiple counts of failing to care for animals after police received reports of puppies that appeared to be abandoned throughout Port Elgin. Overnight, Saugeen Shores Police received multiple calls about newly born puppies that appeared to have been abandoned at different locations throughout the town, police said in a […]

Georgian Bluffs is planning to put the Wiarton-Keppel International Airport up for sale. At a special meeting Monday, Georgian Bluffs council voted unanimously to declare the airport surplus to the needs of the municipality and deem the property for sale. “We have had many public meetings on the airport and from every one of the […]

For the second year in a row the Terry Fox Run will be virtual due to the COVID-19 pandemic. But an organizer of the Owen Sound event said that even though people are being encouraged to do the run on their own time in their own location, it is as important as ever to hold […]

Meaford is planning to remain in a partnership with Georgian Bluffs that will see the Inter Township Fire Department continue to provide fire suppression in the western part of the municipality. Meaford council passed a motion Monday during a committee of the whole meeting expressing support for the current ownership structure of the ITFD and […]

A single case of COVID-19 was reported Wednesday by the Grey Bruce Health Unit. The lone case was from Hanover, putting the active case count locally at 17, according to public health’s daily situation report. There are also 83 active high-risk contacts in the region and two Grey-Bruce residents are in a local hospital with […]

For the second Wednesday in a row, the Northern Tornadoes Project has sent a team of investigators to Bruce County to survey damage caused by a severe late-summer storm. David Sills, executive director of the Western University-based NTP, said the team was headed to Cargill, north of Walkerton, as well as Dungannon in neighbouring Huron […]

Police continue to search for a 64-year-old Georgian Bluffs woman reported missing about 9:30 a.m. Monday. Grey Bruce OPP issued a public plea Tuesday for assistance in locating Maryanne Epp, whose disappearance police said is described as out of character. Police had no new details to share about her Wednesday but confirmed they are still […]

With days left until the federal election ends, Bruce-Grey-Owen Sound candidates fielded questions in a live-streamed event from downtown Owen Sound Tuesday night. For two hours they answered questions from nine topic areas selected by meeting organizers, plus some emailed in by the public. One about TC Energy’s Meaford pumped-storage plan was the only truly […]

Joan Matthews didn’t go into the Haliburton Forest 100-Miler over the weekend expecting to even finish the gruelling trail race. But the 44-year-old runner from Allenford far exceeded her own expectations, not only completing the 29-hour overnight run through the Haliburton Forest and Wild Life Reserve near Algonquin Park, but finishing fourth overall and first […]

Owen Sound is working on a COVID-19 vaccination policy for council and staff. City council unanimously approved, in a recorded vote Monday, a motion from Mayor Ian Boddy to direct staff to present a report on such a policy, which the resolution says will be designed to protect employees, contractors, volunteers and the public. “There’s […]

Owen Sound council has directed staff to present a first-draft financial blueprint for 2022 with an operating budget increase under 2.5 per cent. It has also asked staff to include in the budget a dedicated one per cent levy increase for capital spending, which would increase tax-supported capital spending to $3.05 million, and allocate all […]

The Grey Bruce Health Unit reported just one new case of COVID-19 on Tuesday. The case was in a resident of The Blue Mountains, according to the health unit’s situation report for the day, which includes case counts and vaccine data in the 24-hour period prior to midnight on Monday. The health unit is now […]