Owen Sound Sun Times

Climate change position not needed It was quite the eye opener when Georgian Bluffs residents got a 1.72 per cent tax decrease for 2020. Even more of a shocker was to see how out of line Owen Sound residential taxes have become. “In 2019 Georgian Bluffs residents paid just over $1,086 per $100,000 of assessment […]

Lots of questions about TCEnergy proposal On Thursday Jan. 16 TCEnergy Company held an information meeting in Meaford. My interest in their pumped-storage energy project had been piqued by a recent company announcement as well as letters to various stakeholders, of which I am one. When the meeting began it quickly became obvious that no-one […]

Georgian College was very pleased to host a recent news event that delivered a tremendous win for health-care education in Ontario. As was reported in The Sun Times, Colleges and Universities Minister Ross Romano visited our Owen Sound campus recently to announce a new policy for nursing degree programs at colleges. The minister said colleges […]

A school bus driver has been charged after a two-vehicle collision in Arran-Elderslie on Monday afternoon that left the driver of a car with minor injuries. There were no injuries to the bus driver or any students on the bus following the collision that occurred just before 4 p.m. at the intersection of Concession 2 […]

Inglis Falls Road will close for a major reconstruction project beginning on Monday. Georgian Bluffs has given the contractor for the project, Moorefield Excavating, permission to close a section of the road until October for the complete reconstruction of the travelled surface and retaining wall. The road will be closed from the entrance of 237794 […]

Changes may be coming for the Saugeen Mobility and Regional Transit service. The door-to-door specialized transit system that serves residents in nine Grey-Bruce municipalities is exploring its options after some of its member municipalities requested that it look at amalgamation with various specialized transit services in Grey-Bruce. “Combining multiple service providers and moving service to […]

The Mount Forest Patriots and Wingham Ironmen are back to square one after the opening weekend of their best-of-seven Pollock Division finals series. Each team came out with a win in what is promising to be a nail-biting series with the winner earning a berth into the North Conference finals against the champion of the […]

JUNIOR ATTACK Minor peewees headed to OMHA finals The Owen Sound Garb & Gear Junior Attack minor peewees are headed to the OMHA single-A minor peewee championship finals. The Junior Attack won Game 5 of their OMHA semifinals series against St. Thomas Stars in St. Thomas Sunday, 4-3. Jr. Attack goal scorers were Everett Akerman, […]

The milder weather has led conservation authorities in Grey-Bruce to issue watershed conditions statements, with flows expected to increase in local waterways and flooding in low-lying areas likely to occur. With a minor melt over the weekend and rain in the forecast into Tuesday morning, the Grey Sauble Conservation Authority issued a statement Monday morning […]

Time has not been on the side of many of the old barns that most people see only while speeding through the countryside. These monuments to hard work and skilled craftsmanship are fading landmarks which modern farm practices and land-use changes are making redundant. Age is catching up with them too. Grey-Bruce has the largest […]

The Walkerton Riverhawks will chase down an OFSAA single-A senior girls volleyball championship in their own backyard this week. Twenty high school volleyball teams will be represented at the provincial tournament, including the Bluewater Athletic Association and CWOSSA champion Riverhawks. The action gets underway Monday morning with games scheduled to be played at four area […]

The London Knights rolled through Owen Sound and collected their sixth win in a row, 3-1, over the Attack in front of a standing-room-only crowd at the Harry Lumley Bayshore Community Centre Saturday night. The win snapped Owen Sound’s five-game point streak and kicked a potential playoff-clinching game at home down the road a little […]

Amid the happy bouncing of bowling balls and falling pins at a fundraiser for Big Brothers Big Sisters of Grey Bruce Saturday, the fact remained there are a lot of “Littles” and not enough “Bigs”. That’s especially true now, since the group moved from serving just Owen Sound to all of Grey-Bruce last year, said […]

The head of the local United Way is cheering the Ontario Energy Board’s decision to extend its rules banning electricity companies from disconnecting customers in winter and on Fridays to also include natural gas utilities. Francesca Dobbyn, executive director of the United Way of Bruce Grey, said the organization has been advocating for the changes […]

The story of a Saugeen First Nations member’s rediscovery of old recordings of community songs, stories and voices was shared Friday at the annual International Women’s Day breakfast in Owen Sound. A granddaughter of past Saugeen First Nation Chief James Mason, Bimadoshk Annya Ruth Pucan told the roomful of women how important the digitized 1938 […]

Major League Baseball’s Opening Day is just a few short weeks away, but Kaleb Pearson gave fans a preview with hockey’s version of a walk-off home run Thursday night in Windsor. The St. Marys native scored the overtime winner with two seconds left on the clock to give the Owen Sound Attack a 3-2 win […]

Junior Knights win CWOSSA gold The Kincardine District Secondary School junior girls volleyball team won the CWOSSA single-A championship hosted at Walkerton Monday. The Knights started the day a little slow with a loss to Rockway Mennonite but regrouped with wins over Wellington Heights out of Mount Forest and Dehli securing first place in their […]

As the number of coronavirus cases globally and in Ontario continues to climb, people at many pharmacies in Grey-Bruce say they’ve sold out of hand sanitizers and medical masks and aren’t able to order more in. “I feel like a lot of people are getting nervous,” said Peter Hanna, owner of the Dundalk Village Pharmacy. […]

The Grey Bruce Health Unit says it is ramping up its response to the novel coronavirus as the number of confirmed cases in Ontario hit 22 Thursday. While none of the cases of COVID-19 have been in Grey-Bruce, the agency said it has escalated to a “containment phase” to safeguard the health of its communities. […]

English and French Catholic teachers on strike Thursday in Owen Sound said their fight is still about the quality of education, regardless of what the government says. Ontario Education Minister Stephen Lecce softened his bargaining positions this week by “effectively freezing class room sizes, a parental opt out for online learning, a commitment to full-day […]

The Owen Sound Attack topped the Flint Firebirds 5-2 inside the Dort Federal Event Center Wednesday night. The first of a two-game road swing got off to a strong start for Owen Sound who controlled the pace of the game for most of the evening. Brady Lyle opened the scoring less than a minute into […]

Georgian Bluffs has hired an executive search firm to help the municipality find a new chief administrative officer. On Wednesday township council approved the hiring of Phelps Executive Search Solutions to conduct a search for a new CAO. “We are hoping it will be a shorter than usual process. They sort of indicated it will […]

A local radio station has raised $250,000 for the oncology department at Grey Bruce Health Services. The station 92.3 The Dock’s “Radio for Oncology” campaign raised the money in less than four years – the second $250,000 raised by the station for the Owen Sound hospital, a hospital news release said. This is the second […]

An online petition opposing a request by Barry’s Construction to buy a portion of Owen Sound’s Timber McArthur Park for new housing received more than 1,700 signatures within a day of being posted. Resident Tania Gurr, who launched the change.org petition after city council voted Monday to further examine the company’s request, said she’s concerned […]

A Georgian Bluffs driver was charged for allegedly threatening another driver with a machete in what police called a “road rage” incident. Grey Bruce OPP said police were dispatched to a confrontation on Monday between two motorists on Kemble Rock Road in Georgian Bluffs. After a near-collision at an intersection north of Kemble, the vehicles […]

The St. Mary’s Mustangs fell to Centre Dufferin 67-54 in the CWOSSA double-A senior boys basketball championship semifinal Tuesday in Guelph. Lee Stephens led the Mustangs with 13 points. The BAA champions went 2-0 in the round-robin by topping Paris District 42-32 and Holy Trinity 71-53. Zach Meikle led the way in both contests with […]

The CHL’s smallest market hit the world stage early Monday morning when Justin Bieber blasted out a photo wearing a personalized Owen Sound Attack jersey while posing with assistant coach Joey Hishon to his 129-million Instagram followers. Bieber’s caption read “Owen Sound Attack, the best team in the world, no wait universe, actually no wait […]

The new director and chief curator of the Tom Thomson Art Gallery is Aidan Ware. She brings 17 years of public gallery experience, most recently as director of Cambridge Art Galleries, an Owen Sound news release said Tuesday. Ware begins her new role April 27. “It is an honour to return to my roots in […]

Owen Sound now has a plan in place to create a designated “green burial” area at Greenwood Cemetery. Council approved Monday an updated five-year master plan for the 166-year-old, city-owned facility. It recommends the city create the natural burial section within the next one to three years and sets out the steps – many of […]

When John Anderson, Sandy Grahlman and their black lab Ava set out for a snowshoe hike at Meaford’s Bayview Escarpment Provincial Nature Preserve on Sunday, they were unaware of the afternoon of drama that lay ahead. They set out about 1 p.m. along a route they were quite familiar with, having hiked in the area […]

Hannah Woodhouse represented Team Canada at the 2020 PanAm Cross Country Nations Cup Championships at the Bear Mountain Resort in Victoria on Feb. 29. Woodhouse described the Nations Cup course as the “hardest race of my life.” “The hills were a killer,” she said. With teams competing from Canada, USA, South America, Central America and […]

Skiers from the Owen Sound Waxwings and Centre Bruce Snow Gliders medalled at the 2020 Special Olympics Canada National Winter Games in Thunder Bay last week. Jaqueline Gravel won gold in the 7.5-kilometre F1 Freestyle, gold in the 2.5-kilometre F1 Freestyle, and bronze in the 5-kilometre F1 Freestyle. Anne Howlett won gold in the 2.5-kilometre […]

Representatives of three local organizations brought pie to Monday night’s Owen Sound council meeting. Francesca Dobbyn of the United Way of Bruce Grey, Colleen Trask-Seaman of OSHaRE and Abby Drimmie of Canadian Mental Health Association Grey Bruce were promoting next week’s “Pi Day” events, which will raise money to support mental health programming in the […]

CWOSSA SINGLE-A VOLLEYBALL Sadie Morrow crushed the serve that sent her team to OFSAA. The game-point ace helped the Walkerton Riverhawks top the Valley Heights Bears in the CWOSSA single-A girls volleyball championship Monday night in Walkerton. The Riverhawks breezed through the regional championship, only dropping one set before the championship game. It looked like […]

Two world cup champions were crowned at the base of Blue Mountain Sunday. The finale of the FIS Snowboard Alpine PGS (parallel giant slalom) World Cup race season wrapped up a weekend of elite head-to-head snowboard racing at the hill west of Collingwood. Germany’s Ramona Theresia Hofmeister and Russia’s Dmitry Loginov took the top spots […]

The diagnostic imaging services at Grey Bruce Health Services is the first hospital organization in Canada to receive accreditation from a nationally recognized healthcare accreditation body. GBHS learned last week it had achieved ISO 15189 Plus Diagnostic Imaging Accreditation status from the Institute for Quality Management in Healthcare. “Overall it was an opportunity to recognize […]

JUNIOR ATTACK Minor peewees in semifinal dogfight The Owen Sound Garb and Gear Junior Attack minor peewee hockey club is tied 1-1 with the St. Thomas Stars after the opening two games of their OMHA semifinal series. The Stars took Game 1 Saturday at the Joe Thornton Community Centre 3-2 before the Jr. Attack bounced […]

Advance tickets for Friday’s fundraising Women’s Day breakfast at the Best Western Inn on the Bay were still available Monday. The 7:30 a.m. breakfast, which will wrap up by 9 a.m., will feature two guests, the Women’s Centre Grey Bruce, the beneficiary of the funds raised, said in a news release. Saugeen First Nation member […]

Some Grey-Bruce students are expected to once again be out of class on Thursday, as job action continues by the province’s teachers’ unions. All Bruce-Grey Catholic District School Board schools will be closed on Thursday as the Ontario English Catholic Teachers’ Association has announced a one-day, province-wide walkout. The Association des enseignantes et des enseignants […]

Public health officials who hope to avoid a dog-bite victim having to receive anti-rabies treatment thanked the public after the dog’s owner came forward. About 5:15 p.m. at the Owen Sound Leash-Free Dog Park on Tuesday, on Feb. 25., a large chocolate-coloured lab named Whiskey bit the victim’s dog, then the victim herself, when she tried […]

Wilmer Nadjiwon spent much of his life trying to bring people together. On Sunday, it was Owen Sound’s arts community that came together and honoured the late Ojibway elder, residential school survivor, Second World War veteran, chief, author, storyteller and artist with a lifetime achievement award. Nadjiwon, who passed away at the age of 96 […]

There’s a built-in excuse if the Owen Sound Attack care to explain away their 5-4 shootout loss to the Kitchener Rangers Saturday night inside the Harry Lumley Bayshore Community Centre. Best among them, a controversial five-minute major and game misconduct penalty to Barret Kirwin for running into the Rangers’ goalie in the third period as […]

Owen Sound Little Theatre’s production of West Moon has been selected to participate in the Western Ontario Drama League Festival later in March. The play, which ran at the Roxy in Owen Sound earlier in February, is one of five plays from theatres across western Ontario that have been invited be performed at the festival […]

With the dumping of snow that hit Grey-Bruce recently, it may not feel quite like running season, but registration has opened for a couple of runs in the area. Registration is now open for the 68th annual Shore to Shore Road Race from Wiarton to Oliphant on Aug. 3, as well as the Meaford Harbour […]

Grey County is doing what it can to make itself as cyclist-friendly as possible. On Thursday, county council received a draft of its new cycling and trails master plan, which proposes the development of more than 830 kilometres in “facilities” geared towards cyclists in the future. The plan calls for the development of 459 km […]

Grey County is preparing to enter year six of the 10-year Community Homelessness Prevention Initiative with close to $1.9 million once again coming from the province. On Thursday, Grey County council approved the investment plan for the initiative, which will fund a number of programs to prevent homelessness throughout the county. Last year, at the […]

The days are numbered for one of just two unique bowstring arch bridges in Grey County. On Thursday, Grey County council approved the removal of the Orchardville Bridge located just east of Highway 6 near Holstein. Grey County Director of Transportation Services Pat Hoy said an environmental assessment of the bridge was started in 2017, […]

Both the CWOSSA single-A girls volleyball championship and CWOSSA single-A boys basketball championships scheduled at Walkerton District Community School have been rescheduled. Heavy snowfall has led to the rescheduling of both regional championships. The girls volleyball championship originally set for Thursday will now go March 2 at WDCS while the boys basketball championship originally scheduled […]

Friday night’s game between the Owen Sound Attack and Mississauga Steelheads was put on ice. A massive snowfall in Owen Sound, and predictions of more squalls en route, prompted the Ontario Hockey League to postpone the game scheduled to take place inside the Paramount Fine Foods Centre. The official reason was inclement weather and potentially […]

Snowplows assisted paramedics who needed help transporting patients to hospital in Grey-Bruce due to closed roads Friday. The snowstorm, which brought most things to a stop, also sent some plows in the ditch and some faced 12-foot drifts. Grey County paramedics had to make an emergency transfer from Markdale hospital to Owen Sound hospital but […]