Owen Sound Sun Times

New COVID-19 outbreaks have been declared at the Seasons Retirement Community in Owen Sound as well as in the in-patient and complex continuing care unit at the Wiarton Hospital. A Grey Bruce Health Services spokesperson said Thursday afternoon that they were early in the investigation of the outbreak at the Wiarton hospital. As of Thursday […]

The Ontario government announced on Thursday that it would ease restrictions at restaurants, cinemas, non-spectator areas of sports and rec facilities including gyms, and other venues beginning Jan. 31. The move was announced as the government has said in recent days that key public health indicators are starting to show signs of improvement. Marcia Cunningham, […]

The evidence is in and the trial to resolve a 30-year dispute over ownership of a popular sandy strip of Sauble Beach is moving on to final arguments. Superior Court Justice Susan Vella heard from 18 witnesses in a trial which started Nov. 23, broke for the Christmas period, and resumed in the new year. […]

With the sale of the Sauble Area Medical Clinic building to South Bruce Peninsula, the not-for-profit group that owned it is donating $1 million of the proceeds to buy equipment for the hospitals in Wiarton, Owen Sound and Southampton. The Sauble Family Health Team still works in the building, at 672 Main St. E. in […]

Georgian Bluffs has put its proceeds from the sale of the Wiarton-Keppel International Airport into reserves. On Wednesday during its committee of the whole meeting, council approved a staff recommendation to use a portion of the funds from the sale to pay off the outstanding balance of $205,000 on a loan the municipality took out […]

The driver of an SUV has been charged with failing to stop for a red light after a collision resulted in another vehicle striking a church in Owen Sound on Wednesday. Both drivers sustained minor injuries in the collision, which occurred at the corner of 10th Street West and 3rd Avenue West, and left one […]

South Bruce Peninsula council will be exploring a developer’s proposal to build its multi-purpose community hub in the planned Wiarton Meadows development at Wiarton’s south end instead of on a town-owned site on Jenny Street. Planning consultant John Tennant, who presented the proposal to council Tuesday, said Wiarton Meadows Inc. would contribute up to 15 […]

The Omicron-fuelled wave is expected to peak later this month in Ontario according to the latest COVID-related data and modelling trends in the province. Health Minister Christine Elliott and Ontario’s Chief Medical Officer of Health Dr. Kieran Moore held a news conference Wednesday morning where they discussed the pandemic’s next horizon. “We are starting to […]

An Owen Sound man played the $50 Instant Supreme 7 lottery and won $700,000, the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation announced Wednesday. Daniel Armstrong, 56,”likes to play Instant tickets and purchases online games when the jackpots are high,” an OLG news release quoted him saying. “I played my ticket at home and then checked it […]

A fundraiser is being held next month to support a program in Grey-Bruce that provides care and comfort to people while in the area’s hospitals. The We Care – We Walk fundraiser is being organized in February by the Grey Bruce Spiritual Care Council to support the work of their spiritual care providers. Spritual care […]

A Mercedes SUV was recovered and returned to its owner after it was stolen in the village of Chatsworth on Monday. A 38-year-old man of no fixed address was arrested and charged in relation to the incident. At about 11:30 a.m., the Mercedes R 35 SUV was stolen from a driveway and the theft was […]

A Wiarton man has been charged with impaired driving after being involved in a collision in Owen Sound on Tuesday. Two vehicles sustained significant damage but neither driver was injured in the collision that occurred at about 11:15 a.m. near the intersection of 8th Street East and 9th Avenue East, Owen Sound police said in […]

Bruce Power announced several key contracts for its Major Component Replacement (MCR) Project Wednesday, which it says is advancing the company’s strategy to contribute to economic revitalization in Ontario. “Last July, Bruce Power announced a $3 billion ‘Made in Ontario’ plan to invest in Ontario jobs and economic prosperity through our Life-Extension Program, medical isotope […]

The owner of the long-vacant former Black Clawson Kennedy site has submitted plans to city hall to develop the eight-acre block near Owen Sound’s harbour. Toronto-based Hansa Financial & Property Management has submitted a site plan application that proposes building six four-storey residential buildings, with a combined 224 units, along with a one-storey amenity building […]

A father and son, and five other family members, are suing the West Grey Police Services Board and two of its officers after a police encounter two summers ago in Chesley left one of the men with what they say were life-threatening injuries. David and Casey Hillier were each charged on June 6, 2020 with […]

A Hanover-based provincial association of wood manufacturers hopes to persuade the federal government to devise a national, emergency foreign worker program to help solve its labour shortage problems. The industry needs thousands of workers in Ontario alone, Wood Manufacturing Cluster of Ontario CEO Mike Baker said. The organization used to be called Bluewater Wood Alliance. […]

Strong northerly winds and “significant weather” are what prompted the captain of the M/V Herbert C. Jackson lake freighter to anchor off Sauble Beach Saturday. Chrissy Kadleck, spokesperson for The Interlake Steamship Company, which owns the self-discharging bulk carrier, said the 690-foot vessel was headed north on Lake Huron at the time and was not […]

The Grey Bruce Health Unit says a COVID-19 outbreak at the Owen Sound hospital is over. Public health declared the outbreak on Unit 6-2, the medicine unit, Jan. 3 after three asymptomatic patients tested positive for the virus. The outbreak was declared over Monday. Gary Sims, president and CEO of Grey Bruce Health Services, said […]

Police are asking for the public’s help after a black Tesla sedan, valued at $70,000, was destroyed by fire in Tiverton. South Bruce OPP officers and Kincardine firefighters were called to King Street in the southern Bruce County town at about 7:20 a.m. Friday to find a car fully engulfed in flames, according to a […]

The Grey Bruce Health Unit has added more appointments at this week’s COVID-19 vaccination clinics and says walk-ins are now also welcome. Public health is still recommending people book an appointment to get their jab as wait times could increase if walk-in numbers are high. The Hockey Hub vaccination clinic at the Harry Lumley Bayshore […]

On wildcard weekend in the National Football League the Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds put up a touchdown against the Owen Sound Attack to sweep the weekend set in style. The ‘Hounds notched a pair of power-play goals and picked up their second shorthanded tally in as many games to top the Bears 6-1 at the […]

The Owen Sound-Port Elgin area has earned a spot on a list of the Top 25 growth cities in Canada. The list, which puts the local area at Number 9, is based on a “U-Haul Growth Index,” which records the net gain of one-way U-Haul moving trucks arriving in a city, versus departing, within a […]

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 […]