Owen Sound Sun Times

The Grey Bruce Health Unit has released its vaccination plan for Grey-Bruce, which aims to have at least 75 per cent of the population immunized by the end of the year. The plan, released on Monday, outlines the health unit’s three-phase approach to vaccinating the population, using mobile clinics, distribution to primary care, hospitals and […]

The provincial Special Investigations Unit has reassessed its decision and will now investigate the circumstances that led to a man falling through a greenhouse roof and fracturing his shoulder in Hanover Sunday. Spokeswoman Monica Hudon said by email Tuesday that “given the updated information regarding the nature of the man’s injury, the SIU has now […]

Since the return to class on Monday, Owen Sound police have been out educating students at the city’s high schools about the measures in place to slow the spread of COVID-19. But education could turn to enforcement for those who don’t comply with the Reopening Ontario Act, which can include fines of $750 to those […]

A suspected electrical fire in the attic of a two-storey brick house caused an estimated $100,000 damage Sunday, Owen Sound Fire Chief Doug Barfoot said. Firefighters were called to 1096 4th Ave. A W. in Owen Sound after people inside the house noticed smoke coming from the attic as they were leaving their residence. The […]

A man fell through the glass roof of a greenhouse at the former John Diefenbaker Secondary School in Hanover and fractured his shoulder while police tried to talk him down, a police news release said Monday. Police were alerted about the 33-year-old man from West Grey, who was reported to be in a mental-health crisis […]

The Grey Bruce Health Unit received 600 doses of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine Monday and expects another 700 doses next week. The health unit plans to administer the vaccines to long-term care, high-risk retirement, and First Nations elder care residents in Grey and Bruce counties, according to a news release issued late Monday afternoon. The […]

A pilot made a bumpy emergency landing on snow-covered, frozen Lake Eugenia late Sunday morning and walked to shore virtually unharmed. The 56-year-old was flying his homemade two-seater plane alone when his engine failed, Grey Bruce OPP Const. Rick Sadler said Monday in an interview. Photos show the sleek white Van’s RV-7A plane, with a […]

Two people have been charged with drug trafficking after a search warrant was executed in Georgian Bluffs on Friday. Grey Bruce OPP were assisted by members of the Grey Bruce OPP Community Street Crime Unit with the execution of the warrant at a residence on Highway 6 on Friday. Police seized cocaine, heroin, hydrocodone, methamphetamine, […]

With preparatory work set to begin soon to add a CT scanner at the Kincardine hospital, South Bruce Grey Health Centre officials are planning to hold a virtual information session Tuesday evening to update the community on the project. The session is set to begin at 6 p.m. on Zoom and Facebook Live. Hospital corporation […]

With Ontario under lockdown and indoor public spaces off limits for the time being, the Tom Thomson Art Gallery has found a new way to invite people in. Last week the art gallery launched its new online digital portal, including interactive tours of the gallery’s current exhibitions, educational activities and information about upcoming exhibitions. Gallery […]

Owen Sound is launching a new four-week, “physically distanced experience” aimed at supporting physical and mental health, while ensuring people remain safe during the COVID-19 pandemic. SNOWen Sound Frolics is set to run from Feb. 1 to 28 and will include 10 outdoor landmarks in the city. “While we need to stay home, stay safe […]

The long-time executive director of Home & Community Support Services, which provides programs aimed at helping adults in Grey-Bruce remain in their homes longer, is retiring this spring. Andy Underwood, who’s led the organization since June 6, 2000, said he feels this is the right time to pass the torch to a new top staffer, […]

South Bruce Peninsula Mayor Janice Jackson says the town is excited to “open the doors” to food trucks now that council has approved a bylaw to licence and regulate them. “We constantly hear there’s not enough food options in South Bruce Peninsula. And in the summer, when we’re full of tourists, there’s always lineups at […]

Seven new cases of COVID-19 were reported to the Grey Bruce Health Unit over the weekend. The two cases confirmed Sunday were from Hanover and Owen Sound, while there were single cases Saturday from Brockton, Hanover, Huron-Kinloss, Saugeen Shores and West Grey. There are now 25 known active cases of the novel coronavirus in the […]

A 36-year-old Saugeen Shores man is facing several charges after police say he resisted arrest, kicked an officer and threatened to kill another. Saugeen Shores police were called to Cemetery Road just before 5 p.m. Friday after a citizen reported a suspected impaired driver in a truck in a ditch. The male driver was still […]

The Grey Bruce Health Unit reported four new COVID-19 cases Friday, including three long-term care residents from Huron-Perth transferred to the hospital in Kincardine. One new case was found in West Grey. Grey-Bruce Medical Officer of Health Dr. Ian Arra said he didn’t know why the decision to move long-term care patients from their home […]

South Bruce Peninsula is pursuing a plan to create a “community hub,” with town hall, indoor pool, arena and other amenities, at the north end of Wiarton and has outlined how it would pay for it. “The community hub will be the centre of our municipality. We want to create a place where it’s the […]

After a third independent investigation, and with 18 Bruce County meetings now deemed improperly closed to the public since 2016, Ontario’s ombudsman has been asked to take a close look at Bruce County’s practices. Bruce County council received a Dec. 31 closed-meeting investigation report by the firm Aird & Berlis on Jan. 14 and asked […]

January 23, 2020

A shop and truck in Georgian Bluffs were destroyed by fire overnight Thursday, but firefighters managed to stop it from spreading to a nearby home. The fire at the property on Grey Road 170 was the second call of the evening for the Inter Township Fire Department, Deputy-chief Andy Redmond said Friday morning. Crews had […]

School officials in Grey-Bruce are confident in the measures they have in place to ensure a safe return to school on Monday. The Ontario government announced late Wednesday afternoon that seven health unit regions in the province, including Grey-Bruce, had been given the OK to resume in-class learning on Monday. The Bluewater District School Board […]

Seven new cases of COVID-19 were reported to the Grey Bruce Health Unit Thursday, bringing to 34 the number of active cases of the novel coronavirus in the region. Two of the new cases were from Grey Highlands, while Arran-Elderslie, Chatsworth, Kincardine, Saugeen Shores and West Grey each had one new case, according to public […]

The Tom Thomson Art Gallery advisory committee is to decide next week whether the city should again start exploring a potential expansion of the city-owned gallery. Council supported a motion Monday by Coun. John Tamming, the committee’s chair, to ask gallery director and chief curator Aidan Ware to present a report to the committee on […]

Grey-Bruce’s medical officer of health spoke up Wednesday about what he views as unwarranted concerns that local Amish and Menonnite communities aren’t following COVID rules. Dr. Ian Arra issued a news release in which he called for “calm” after hearing public concerns last weekend and this week about religious gatherings of the groups. Arra says […]

Students and teachers in Grey-Bruce will be heading back to the classroom on Monday. The Ontario government announced late Wednesday afternoon that Grey-Bruce was one of seven health unit regions in the province that would be returning to in-class learning next week. Both the Bruce-Grey Catholic District School Board and Bluewater District School Board confirmed […]

A new community group has been formed to support and encourage women in municipal politics in Grey-Bruce. The electHER group officially kicked off on Tuesday with a goal to increase the number of women elected to municipal office in Grey-Bruce in 2022. The organization is made up of a group of women from across the […]

Violence Prevention Grey Bruce has formed a subcommittee and launched a new violence prevention campaign in an effort to shine a light on elder abuse. Grey Bruce Elder Abuse Prevention (GBEAP) started earlier this year by producing a poster and educational campaign highlighting elder abuse resources in Grey and Bruce counties. “We wanted to create […]

The province’s Special Investigations Unit has terminated its investigation into the arrest of a man in Hanover in October after evidence showed an injury to his pinky finger occurred before he was taken into police custody. The 42-year-old man was arrested by Hanover police on Oct. 18 at the Travellers Inn in Hanover and taken […]

The West Grey Public Library will hold a virtual public meeting via Zoom conference call Wednesday evening to discuss the closure of the Elmwood Resource Centre. The meeting is scheduled to start at 7 p.m. Meeting details and Zoom conference login information can be found by visiting the West Grey Public Library website or Facebook […]

The Grey Bruce Health Unit reported just one case of COVID-19 on Tuesday. The lone case was in The Blue Mountains, bringing the total confirmed cases to date to 654. A total of 35 cases remain active, with 103 high-risk contacts associated with active cases. In Grey-Bruce, 576 people confirmed to have the virus have […]

Owen Sound has extended until Jan. 29 the commenting period for its draft $64.8 million 2021 budget, which includes an overall property tax hike of just under two per cent. Council received written questions from only one person during a public meeting on the spending plan Monday. Comments received by the clerk by 4:30 p.m. […]

An attempt by users of the Owen Sound Billy Bishop Regional Airport to persuade the city to cancel its plan to introduce landing fees at the facility failed to get off the ground at the council table Monday. Council passed a bylaw to approve the fees – which will start at $35 for aircraft under […]

The Grey Bruce Health Unit reported five new COVID-19 cases on Monday. According to the health unit’s daily situation report, there were five municipalities with one new case each. They were in Owen Sound, Brockton, Grey Highlands, Hanover and West Grey. There have now been 653 confirmed cases of the virus in Grey-Bruce since the […]

The West Grey Public Library is teaming up with the Alzheimer Society to offer a pair of programs aimed at supporting those with dementia and their caregivers. Alzheimer Society Grey-Bruce executive director Stephen Musehl said the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent shutdown measures have been hard on the more than 1,000 Grey-Bruce residents who are supported […]

Police are seeking the public’s help in identifying a man who reportedly committed an indecent act in the presence of a teenage girl in Owen Sound on Friday. Just before 4 p.m. along 3rd Avenue West at 11th Street West, a 16-year-old girl was walking past a parked truck when the driver got her attention, […]

A Meaford man has been charged with impaired driving after a vehicle was found in the ditch on Thursday evening. Just before 7:30 p.m., Grey Bruce OPP were dispatched to the vehicle in the ditch on the 3rd Line near Sideroad 7 in the Municipality of Meaford. Police spoke with the driver, who failed a […]

The Women’s House Serving Bruce and Grey is accepting nominations for its women of distinction awards. Nominations are being accepted for both the Woman of Distinction Award and the Young Woman of Distinction Award in advance of the International Women’s Day Celebration, which will be going online this year. The event is slated to be […]

Bruce-Grey-Owen Sound MP Alex Ruff will hold a virtual information session for local businesses on the Canada Summer Jobs Program. The session with Service Canada, which will be held on Wednesday at 3 p.m., is aimed at educating employers about the application process and best practices for a successful application, it said in a news […]

A Barrie woman has been charged with impaired driving after a minor collision in Walkerton on Sunday evening. Just after 7:30 p.m. South Bruce OPP received a call about a single-vehicle collision in a parking lot on McGivern Street. Officers found the vehicle with two tires off the ground after running over a parking lot […]

A Collingwood woman has died after a crash near Craigleith on Monday morning. The investigation is continuing into the two-vehicle head-on collision, which occurred around 8 a.m. on Highway 26 near Fraser Crescent. A 60-year-old woman from Collingwood, who was a driver of one of the vehicles, was pronounced dead at the scene. The other […]

There were four new cases of COVID-19 reported by the Grey Bruce Health Unit Sunday: two in Meaford and one each in Southgate and Blue Mountains. At present, two people are in hospital as a result of the pandemic virus. No one’s death has been attributed to COVID in Grey-Bruce. Those four new cases brought […]

Seniors, staff and essential caregivers in care homes who’ve received their first dose of the Pfizer-BioNtech COVID-19 vaccine will still get their second shot within 21 to 27 days despite an anticipated shortage of the drug, Ontario’s chief medical officer of health said in a statement Saturday. But the timing of the second dose of […]

An Alexandra Community School student in Owen Sound is among an elite group of Grade 3 and 4 students who scored 100 per cent in a worldwide math test. Nived Menon competed against high achievers in Canada and other countries including China, Iran, Russia and Turkey. Alexandra teacher and math competition co-ordinator Greg Fullerton said […]

After government officials said in news reports that police don’t have authority to randomly stop people to check if they’re following pandemic stay-home orders, the Ontario Provincial Police issued a statement Friday. OPP officers will focus on non-compliance in businesses and restaurants, complaints from the public and outdoor gatherings of more than five people to […]

Eleonore Kueber made history Friday. The 93-year-old Maple View Long Term Care home resident is the first person in Grey County to receive a shot of the Pfizer BioNtech COVID-19 vaccine. She’s already had a run of luck to say the least. She never caught the pandemic infection even though most residents and many staff […]

Eleonore Kueber made history Friday. The 93-year-old Maple View Long Term Care home resident is the first person in Grey County to receive a shot of the Pfizer BioNtech COVID-19 vaccine. She’s already had a run of luck to say the least. She never caught the pandemic infection even though most residents and many staff […]

Grey County will be using just over $1.2 million in provincial relief funding to help three organizations create a combined 11 new transitional housing units in Owen Sound as well as to assist people with rent arrears and boost mental health and emergency shelter support. Warden Selwyn Hicks said each of the initiatives is “very […]

Hospitals in Grey-Bruce have started to review the province’s new standard on how to decide who gets an intensive care unit bed if COVID-19 patients begin to overrun the system. “We’re preparing for making some of the toughest decisions we’ve ever had to make, and hoping, of course, we never have to do that,” said […]

Grey County council has chosen the members of a new committee that will oversee the planning stages of projects to redevelop and expand both Grey Gables and Rockwood Terrace into 128-bed long-term care homes. Along with Warden Selwyn Hicks, the members of the long-term care redevelopment task force will include Grey Highlands Mayor Paul McQueen […]

The Grey Bruce Health Unit reported eight new cases of COVID-19 Thursday while announcing the first COVID-19 vaccines in the region will be administered Friday. Two residents at long-term care facilities in Grey and Bruce counties will receive the first doses of the COVID-19 vaccine Friday morning. A resident of Golden Dawn Senior Citizen Home […]