Owen Sound Sun Times

The United Way of Bruce Grey is bringing the “magic of Hollywood” to snowy, sub-zero Grey County. Its 11th annual Awards Night at the Movies fundraiser, which will feature a live screening of the 92nd Academy Awards and the pre-ceremony red carpet show, is set for Sunday at Galaxy Cinemas Owen Sound on the Sunset […]

It’s the end of an era for Canada’s first full-scale nuclear power plant. Douglas Point, a 200-megawatt CANDU reactor, ran from 1967 until 1984, when it was permanently shut down. As a prototype nuclear reactor it showed that a CANDU plant could be scaled up for commercial power generation. By 1986, the fuel had been […]

An 83-year-old woman is among three people facing drug trafficking charges after a drug bust in Arran-Elderslie on Wednesday. Members of the OPP Community Street Crimes Unit, West Region OPP Emergency Response Team, OPP Canine Unit and Saugeen Shores Police Service executed a search warrant at a property on Grey Road 3. As a result […]

The patience of some on Georgian Bluffs council is wearing thin as they continue to watch taxpayers fork out hundreds of thousands of dollars a year to operate the Wiarton-Keppel International Airport. The township, which has solely owned the airport since 2015, plans to hold a special council meeting on March 25 to go over […]

The Panthers sure are persistent. Despite letting their foes claw back into the game on three separate occasions, the Thunder snuck away with a three-set victory Wednesday afternoon at OSDSS in Bluewater Athletic Association senior girls volleyball action. Early it looked like the Georgian Bay Thunder would rocket to a straight-sets victory over the Bruce […]

St. Mary’s is perfect heading into the postseason. The Mustangs have finished the 2019-20 Bluewater Athletic Association varsity boys hockey season with an undefeated record after topping the crosstown OSDSS Wolves 3-0 Wednesday inside the Julie McArthur Regional Recreation Centre to cap off the unblemished run. The Wolves fell to 2-4 on the year. Lawson […]

The man accused of robbing the CIBC in downtown Owen Sound on Jan. 22 appeared in bail court by video this morning and he’ll will do the same Feb. 12. Cory Church, 34, of Chatsworth was charged after the CIBC was robbed just after 11:30 a.m. two weeks ago. City police arrested him about 2 p.m. […]

Inglis Falls Road is set to be closed for a short period of time this month for preliminary work for a major reconstruction project planned for later in the year. The Township of Georgian Bluffs has allowed contractor Moorefield Excavating to close a section of the road from Feb. 10 to Feb. 21 for the […]

How satisfied are you with your life? That’s one among 35 questions in an online survey created to help create a Bruce and Grey Community Safety and Well-Being Plan. It will address the top issues of concern in the community, which you can help identify. The 15-minute survey, which closes March 22, also asks how […]

Elementary teachers at the Bluewater District School Board will be back out on the picket lines with two strikes affecting Grey-Bruce announced for Feb. 11 and 13. On Tuesday, the Elementary Teachers’ Federation of Ontario announced its continued strike action as it continues to battle the province over a new contract. The action planned for […]

A visitor to Grey-Bruce who showed symptoms of a mild respiratory disease and who had recently traveled to an area affected by the novel coronavirus has tested negative for the disease. The unidentified person visited a Grey Bruce Health Services hospital, the Grey-Bruce Health Unit said in a news release Tuesday. The person did not […]

The Grey Bruce Labour Council is criticizing the mayor of South Bruce Peninsula for words it claims she used toward a protester at the Wiarton Willie prediction ceremony on Sunday morning. But Mayor Janice Jackson says she doesn’t recall telling Labour Council president Kevin Smith, “you might get beat up.” Smith was among a group […]

A 27-year-old man who produced a pellet gun and a knife during a fight in downtown Owen Sound in November was sentenced to six months in jail after he pleaded guilty in the Superior Court of Justice to four related offences Tuesday. Michael Follis pleaded guilty to possession of a weapon dangerous to the public […]

Two people suffered minor injuries following a collision involving a school bus in Grey Highlands on Monday. Grey Bruce OPP responded to the collision involving a car that had been rear-ended by a school bus on Highway 10 south of Flesherton at 7:18 a.m. The driver of the car and a passenger on the school […]

Kathleen Cassidy saw the play West Moon while in Newfoundland in 2018. Then over the next few weeks as she toured the province, she saw firsthand the effects the resettlement of small fishing villages had on the people there. Cassidy said resettlement, which continues to this day on the East Coast, seemed to be on […]

Ontario Secondary School Teachers’ Federation president Harvey Bischof responded Monday to Premier Doug Ford’s criticism that teachers’ unions are holding parents and students “hostage.” Ford made the comments while he visited the annual Wiarton Willie festival Sunday, amid a tense set of labour negotiations involving four major teachers’ unions who continue to escalate their strike […]

Long drive, amazing results. The South Saugeen team from the Walkerton area – 180 kilometres northwest of Toronto – had a whirlwind visit to Cornwall on the weekend, rubbing shoulders with some legends of the sport and capturing the Special Olympics Ontario provincial curling A division crown. It all went down in what was barely […]

The Orangeville Otters Swim Club were the big winners at the 2020 Huronia Short Course Regional Championship this past weekend in Owen Sound. The three-day swim meet wrapped up Sunday at the Julie McArthur Regional Recreation Centre with the Otters leading the combined team score at 5,204 points according to results posted through the Owen […]

Quarterfinal matchups set in WOAA Quarterfinal matchups for the AA Championship have been set in the Western Ontario Athletic Association senior hockey circuit. The Durham Thundercats (8th) will play the role of the underdog against the top-seeded Ripley Wolves. The Shelburne Muskies (2nd) will take on the Minto 81’s (7th). The Clinton Radars (3rd) and […]

Grey County’s Lee Manor long-term care home in Owen Sound is currently experiencing an influenza A outbreak, in what has so far been a relatively quiet flu season in Grey-Bruce. The county issued a statement on Sunday about the building-wide outbreak, notifying the public of a number of visitor restrictions that are in place, including […]

Teachers’ union leaders are holding parents and students “hostage,” Ontario Premier Doug Ford said Sunday, as job action by all four major teachers’ unions continues with more strikes slated for this week across the province. Ford, who made a surprise visit to Wiarton Willie’s Groundhog Day prediction ceremony, said parents and the government are losing […]

Wiarton’s pug-nosed albino groundhog is predicting an early end to this unpredictable winter. Wiarton Willie failed to see his shadow on an overcast, snowy Groundhog Day Sunday, which, according to legend, heralds an early spring. The trusty weather-prognosticating rodent whispered his prediction into the ear of South Bruce Peninsula Mayor Janice Jackson, who relayed the […]

If the Windsor Spitfires and Owen Sound Attack meet in the playoffs there won’t be an empty seat or inch of standing room available inside the Bayshore. Saturday night’s contest ended with the two teams jawing at each other near centre ice as the officials tried to usher the gladiators out of the arena. The […]

Ontario Power Generation says it will now explore other options for the permanent disposal of low- and intermediate-level nuclear waste after Saugeen Ojibway Nation members overwhelmingly rejected OPG’s proposal to create a deep geologic repository at the Bruce nuclear site near Kincardine. “OPG respects the decision of SON members. We will now move forward to […]

Ontario Power Generation officials say they will look for alternatives to a deep geologic repository for low- and intermediate-level waste at the Bruce nuclear development site at Tiverton after Saugeen Ojibway Nation members voted strongly against the plan. SON’s environment office posted the results of the vote Friday night after voting was conducted over the […]

Sixteen seconds of Mike Petizian is all the Kitchener Rangers needed to best the Owen Sound Attack 2-1 inside the Kitchener Memorial Auditorium Friday night. Well, that, and another 60 minutes of stellar goaltending from Jacob Ingham who is quickly becoming the boogieman-in-blue for Owen Sound Attack shooters. The win improves the record of the […]

Two regional farm co-ops want to merge operations to become more efficient, be more competitive and better protect their members’ investments, said Sam Luckhardt, the president of the board of Huron Bay Co-operative. The proposal is to merge Huron Bay with North Wellington Co-operative. Before the proposed merger comes into effect, two-thirds of the members […]

Owen Sound is now accepting nominations for its volunteer of the year, senior of the year and youth volunteer of the year awards for 2020. The application submission deadline is Feb. 21. Nomination forms can be found on the city’s website and hard copies are available at city hall. The volunteer of the year and […]

A Kincardine resident has lost more than $40,000 in a telephone scam. South Bruce OPP are warning the public after the scam, which started with a phone call from someone pretending to be a bank employee concerned about suspicious activity. After a series of transactions to assist the “special investigator,” the victim realized a loss […]

The Blue Mountains council has promoted one of its own to fill the formerly vacant deputy-mayor’s seat, while the town’s mayor continues to recover after a mild heart attack in mid-January. Rob Potter, a former newspaper editor who has served as councillor since June 2018, was appointed and sworn in as deputy-mayor at a special […]

Owen Sound council is formally requesting a presentation with year-end and current financial statements from the non-profit Festival of Northern Lights, which receives $40,000 annually from the city plus in-kind labour support. But Jamie Walpole, chair of the organization’s board of directors, said he already has a delegation scheduled for the March 23 council meeting […]

A man has been arrested and stolen tools worth thousands of dollars have been returned to their owners after a break-in and theft at an Owen Sound condominium on Thursday. Early Thursday morning, a man broke into the condominium and stole the power tools belonging to contractors working at the site, the Owen Sound Police […]

A small heavy water spill at Bruce Power on Thursday has been cleaned up without any adverse impact to employees, the environment or the public, according to the company. Bruce A staff discovered the heavy water on the floor of Unit 2. Station staff followed procedures to allow for safe clean-up, including the assembling of […]

SNC-Lavalin’s subsidiary Candu Energy Inc. has been awarded three contracts from Bruce Power with a combined value of $34 million. The projects are all in support of Bruce Power’s Major Component Replacement program, which began in January when Unit 6 was taken offline and will eventually upgrade six units at the site, extending the life […]

Getting the job Dunn The Owen Sound Tamming Law Ice Hawks hosted the Collingwood Lightning on Jan. 24 and skated away with a hard-fought victory. 2-1. Collingwood opened the scoring in the first period but the Ice Hawks answered seconds later when Ally Dunn fired off a snappy wrister assisted by Ava Jones to tie […]

Police have identified the driver of a pick-up truck who died in a crash in Arran-Elderslie late Thursday afternoon. Kevin Warren, 41, of the former Elderslie Township was pronounced dead at the scene of the crash on Conc. 2 near Chesley. South Bruce OPP responded to the single-vehicle crash at 4:18 p.m., attending the scene […]

Police in Huron County got some help from a furry woodland creature to catch a Hanover man who was wanted by West Grey Police Service on a number of outstanding charges. The man was found shaken and cold, hiding about 30 feet up in a pine tree, telling police that he had been chased by […]

A driver was pronounced dead after a pickup truck hit a hydro pole west of Chesley Thursday afternoon. South Bruce OPP said in a news release they got the call at 4:18 p.m. Police and Bruce County Paramedics went to the area and found a truck had left the roadway and hit a hydro pole. […]

Patti Belle Sargent, a former Owen Sound city councillor and daughter of the popular city mayor and beloved MPP Eddie Sargent, died Monday at the age of 71. Ms. Sargent was diagnosed more than a year ago with stage 4 colorectal cancer. She died in the Chapman House hospice. Ms. Sargent followed her father’s footsteps […]

There’s a consistency issue in the Western Conference. Most of the Ontario Hockey League teams who ply their trade in the wild west have been great at times and they’ve been awful at times. Sometimes the pendulum swings heavy and full, as is the case for the Guelph Storm right now who are plummeting through […]

Owen Sound’s arbitration victory over the local firefighters’ union, which allows a minimum of four on-duty firefighters instead of five in certain circumstances, will produce “substantial savings” in overtime costs, the city says. The city also said in a news release that arbitration board chair Lorne Slotnick “agreed with the city’s position that the reduction […]

Northern Bruce Peninsula council will hold a special meeting Thursday to discuss how it will recruit a new top town hall staffer. Chief administrative officer Bill Jones has announced he will resign March 11. Council voted at its meeting Monday to accept the resignation. “The mayor and members of council wish to thank Mr. Jones […]

Owen Sound will be refreshing discussion on a potential green bin program for the city. Council supported a motion Monday by Coun. Richard Thomas to request a staff report on the possibility of launching a source separated organics program with a focus on funding it through an increase in bag tag prices. The report will […]

A city councillor wants Owen Sound to hit the pause button on its plan to add a climate change specialist position at city hall. Coun. Marion Koepke notified council Monday that she will present a motion Feb. 10 to delay hiring the climate change adaption and mitigation co-ordinator – which council authorized Jan. 13 – […]

Ontario Finance Minister Rod Phillips was in Owen Sound Tuesday for pre-budget consultations. Bruce-Grey-Owen Sound MPP Bill Walker’s office said in a news release that municipal, health care, agriculture and other sector leaders offered suggestions and advice. “The government is looking for ideas that will help build Ontario together by putting jobs, skills and workers […]

Owen Sound council members and staff honoured the late former councillor Peter Lemon with a moment of silence before one-by-one snapping open cans of his favourite drink, Coca-Cola. It took place at the start of Monday’s meeting, the first council session since the long-time municipal politician died Jan. 17 at age 76. Mayor Ian Boddy […]

Georgian Bluffs residents are looking at the possibility of a tax decrease in 2020. On Tuesday, the municipal council held its first budget meeting, where staff presented a proposed budget containing a municipal tax rate decrease of 1.72 per cent. For a home in the municipality valued at just under $307,000 that had no change […]

Two local lacrosse standouts were selected in the Major Series Lacrosse Junior Entry Draft Monday night. Goaltender Ethan Woods was taken eighth-overall by the Cobourg Kodiaks while Jake McNabb went 11th overall to the Brampton Excelsiors. Major Series Lacrosse is Ontario’s Senior A box lacrosse league. Most of the players in the league play – […]

With the Wuhan coronavirus now confirmed in Ontario, the Grey Bruce Health Unit says it’s actively monitoring the situation and has issued alerts to local health care providers. “The clear message to the public – to our audience – is the risk remains low. But we are going to continue to assess this risk and […]

Owen Sound homeowners will see their property tax bills rise by about 1.7 per cent this year after council approved the city’s $71-million operating and capital budget Monday night. Corporate services director Kate Allan said the combined hike – which factors in Owen Sound, Grey County and education levies – is the lowest for the […]