Owen Sound Sun Times

The planned demolition of the 148-year-old historic rectory at St. Mary’s Catholic Church in Owen Sound is on hold, for now. City officials say council must still approve a site plan from the parish before a demolition permit can be issued. A staff report on the site plan is expected to be presented at the […]

Eight local Royal Canadian Legions got federal funding to help them with expenses incurred during the pandemic, including for insurance, utilities, rent or mortgages, property taxes and wages. The money comes from the federal Veterans Organizations Emergency Relief Fund. It went to those Legions which applied for the funding, which was distributed through Dominion Command, […]

Renowned wildlife painter George McLean admits that he has ruffled some political feathers over the years. So when the longtime Bognor-area resident recently learned he was to be appointed to the 2020 Order of Ontario, the province’s highest honour, he was “astounded” and “gobsmacked.” “I am not known for being quiet about the things I […]

Grey-Bruce is expected to get its first shipment of COVID-19 vaccine in the coming week. The Grey Bruce Health Unit announced on Sunday that the Ministry of Health had approved the release of two initial shipments of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine to the Grey-Bruce region. The first shipment is to arrive the week of Jan. […]

Nobody was injured after fire destroyed a home at Berford Lake, but the family that lived there lost everything in the blaze. There was nothing crews could do to save the home when they arrived at the property on Parkside Avenue late Saturday afternoon, South Bruce Peninsula Director of Emergency Services and Fire Chief Normand […]

The Grey Bruce Health Unit is reporting six new cases of COVID-19 on Saturday. The new cases include two in West Grey and one each in Brockton, Owen Sound, South Bruce and Southgate, according to the health unit’s daily situation report. There have now been 588 confirmed cases in the two counties of which 58 […]

This Sunday, 20 to 30 families will steady their buggies outside the North Bend Old Order Mennonite Meetinghouse in Arran-Elderslie for a drive-in church service during the dead of winter and in the middle of a pandemic. “It would sure be nice to be inside where it’s warm, but that’s not the way the law […]

The Grey Bruce Health Unit reported 13 new cases of COVID-19 Friday, the third straight day with double-digit cases reported in the region. The newest cases were found in Owen Sound (6), Huron-Kinloss (2), The Blue Mountains (2), Grey Highlands, Hanover and Southgate. The health unit also reported six probable cases and 175 high-risk contacts […]

A Brockton resident has been scammed out of about $20,000, police say. South Bruce OPP received a report of a fraud on Thursday, in which the victim received a call from someone claiming to be an employee of an established tech company. Once remote access was gained, the suspect completed a number of banking transactions […]

Work has started on converting a portion of the former PPG plant in Owen Sound into a micro-cultivation facility to grow “craft” cannabis. Robert Stanford, president, and founder of Micro Marketing along with his wife Julia Stanford, confirmed on Thursday that Owen Sound had just approved the building permits for Phase 1 of their venture […]

Real estate records were broken again in December in Grey and Bruce counties as the number of homes sold and average prices reached new benchmarks for the month. The Realtors Association of Grey Bruce Owen Sound released its December home sales numbers, which showed 203 homes sold – a 50 per cent increase year-over-year. There […]

Dairy farmers have reason for optimism but challenges are many, including consumer expectations, competition and the need for farm efficiencies, speakers on at Grey Bruce Farmers’ Week panel said Thursday. It turns out people have been drinking more milk lately. Increased milk sales are welcome in an industry used to year-over-year declines, viewers of a […]

Holiday gatherings with family and friends have resulted in another upswell of COVID-19 cases in Grey-Bruce. The Grey Bruce Health Unit reported 18 new cases Thursday, a day after 17 new cases were added to the region’s total. There are now 59 active cases, nine probable cases and 178 high-risk contacts being followed by the […]

Police in The Blue Mountains are investigating thefts from vehicles parked at entrances to hiking trails. In the last month, Collingwood and the Blue Mountains OPP have received six complaints of thefts from unoccupied vehicles that were parked at entry points to hiking trails in the town, police said in a news release on Thursday. […]

Senior school administrators and public health officials believe schools in Grey-Bruce are prepared for the safe return of students, but they’ve been told by the province to stay away and online until at least Jan. 25. The provincial government announced Thursday elementary school students in southern Ontario will continue to learn remotely through online teacher-led […]

It’s not the Nick Suzuki blockbuster trade of yesteryear, but in a market starved for hockey and with the Ontario Hockey League’s 2020-21 season shelved and collecting dust it may as well be. The Attack acquired 17-year-old Nikita Tiatinkin in a deal with the Niagara IceDogs Thursday. Going the other way is a conditional 15th […]

Less than a year after production ended at the Tenneco plant in Owen Sound, the property has been sold with plans to bring new tennants into the vacant building. The same local ownership group, known as 1799 Corporation, that owns the former PPG property next door in the city’s eastside industrial park has purchased the […]

A Wiarton man plans to buy the whole store after winning $1 million playing the lottery. Choong-Kyu Park won the big prize after matching all seven Encore numbers playing the Oct. 6 Lotto Max draw, the OLG announced in a news release on Thursday. And he has big plans for his winnings, according to the […]

The Harrison Park Good Cheer Outdoor Rink will reopen on Friday with health restrictions in place. The rink, which has been closed since a provincial shutdown took effect on Boxing Day, will reopen after Owen Sound officials consulted with the Grey Bruce Health Unit, according to a news release issued by the city Thursday. The […]

The Grey Bruce Health Unit’s proposal to act as a pilot location for mass COVID-19 vaccinations in small urban and rural centres will be reviewed by the province, but those at the greatest risk for COVID-19 are getting the first doses. A government spokesperson for the province’s COVID-19 vaccine distribution task force didn’t say whether […]

Bruce County long-term care homes will allow essential caregivers back into both Brucelea Haven in Walkerton and Gateway Haven in Wiarton on Jan. 8, at 8 a.m. Essential caregiver visits were paused for two weeks at the Bruce County long-term care homes at the beginning of the province’s shutdown beginning on Dec. 26. “As you […]

The Grey Bruce Health Unit reported 17 new cases of COVID-19 in the region Wednesday. Four of the newest cases were reported in Owen Sound, with three in Chatsworth, two in The Blue Mountains, two in Huron-Kinloss, two in West Grey, two in Hanover and single cases in Meaford and South Bruce. The 17 new […]

A New Year’s Eve night of comedy and local music raised more than $44,000 for CMHA Grey-Bruce Mental Health and Addiction Services. The streamed event was open to viewers in return for a donation to that organization. With matching contributions from Bruce Power and NPX, the total raised was $44,250. It was one of two […]

While the beef industry in Grey-Bruce weathered 2020 and the challenges that came with the COVID-19 pandemic, work continues to address concerns around packing capacity in the province. Rob Lipsett, president of Beef Farmers of Ontario, participated in Beef Day at Grey Bruce Farmers’ Week on Wednesday, where he said finding solutions to address the […]

A new lifeline is being thrown to help rescue some tourism operators who are struggling through the second province-wide COVID-19 lockdown since March. Small- and medium-sized tourism business operators have until month’s end to apply for $2,500 to $20,000 to help offset COVID-related expenses incurred to stay open during the pandemic. “If we hadn’t had […]

Bruce County’s new director of planning and development says housing affordability, recovery from the pandemic and managing growth are big challenges ahead. Mark Paoli, 54, succeeds Kara Van Myall, who assumed the role of chief administrative officer in Saugeen Shores in December. The county’s biggest planning project this year is to update its planning policies, […]

Grey Bruce OPP charged a 48-year-old Meaford woman who police say assaulted an officer after she was investigated for drinking and driving. On Dec. 30 at 4:10 p.m., police were dispatched to a possible impaired driver on Moore Street in Meaford, near the 11thLine. The driver showed “obvious signs of impairment” and was arrested. Back […]

The Grey Bruce Health Unit reported four new COVID-19 cases Tuesday — a single case each in West Grey and Hanover and a pair of cases in Owen Sound. There are now 43 active and known COVID-19 cases in the region with 10 probable cases and 135 high-risk contacts. The health unit defines probable cases […]

Despite a lockdown in the middle of a worldwide pandemic the show is going on for some young aspiring theatre actors in Owen Sound. But the opening curtain is being cast aside right now, replaced by computer “on” buttons as the Roxy Youth Program kicks off in a virtual format this month. “From the beginning […]

Grey Bruce OPP charged a 39-year-old West Grey man with impaired driving after finding a vehicle stopped in the middle of Grey Road 12 in the middle of the night just outside Markdale. Police located the vehicle stopped in the middle of the road on Dec. 28 at 3:25 a.m., a police news release said. […]

Five impaired drivers were charged, two of them after collisions on roads patrolled by South Bruce OPP between Nov. 26 and Jan. 3. Police investigated 84 collisions in that period, four of which involved reported injuries, a police news release said. “Every impaired driver is a threat to road safety and it only takes one […]

Algoma Central Corporation’s 680-foot lake freighter Algoma Compass has returned to Owen Sound Harbour. Peter Winkley, the company’s chief financial officer, said the self-unloading bulk carrier arrived in the port Monday night and will spend the rest of the winter moored at the harbour. Maintenance work will be carried out onboard the vessel over the […]

Police would like the public’s help locating a third suspect involved in a home invasion in Collingwood Dec. 19. Collingwood/The Blue Mountains OPP issued a news release Tuesday about the home invasion with photos of a Honda Civic, about which police are seeking information. Police said three males forced their way into a home and […]

West Grey police charged a 36-year-old man of no fixed address with a number of crimes after officers were called to investigate a stolen snowmobile. Police were called Monday near midnight to Albert Street in Durham regarding a stolen snowmobile, which they found abandoned on Grey Road 4, a West Grey Police Service news release […]

Grey Bruce OPP charged a 48-year-old Owen Sound man whose blood-alcohol level was more than double the legal limit, after finding his sport utility vehicle stuck in the ditch. Police were called to single motor vehicle collision along the 2ndConcession, near Sideroad 22 in Meaford, at 7:25 p.m. Dec. 26. The driver failed a roadside […]

Saugeen Shores police charged one of two men alleged to have beaten up a third man, leaving him with significant injuries, a police news release said. Two men who knew the victim entered his home about 11:30 p.m. Dec. 31 and assaulted him. He chose not to go to hospital but the next day friends […]

A legal scholar with deep roots in Neyaashiinigmiing just received one of Canada’s highest civilian honours, an appointment to the Order of Canada. John Borrows, 57, was appointed Officer in the Order of Canada by Governor General Julie Payette. She named a total of 61 people to the Order of Canada this year, her office […]

An ardent supporter of the Owen Sound Attack who donated to many initiatives and organizations over the years, including the Owen Sound Regional Hospital Foundation, has died. Georgina McKelvie died Saturday of acute leukemia at the Chapman House hospice. She was 82. A funeral service is planned for Tuesday at 11 a.m., but attendance will […]

The Grey Bruce Health Unit reported nine new cases of COVID-19 Monday. A pair of cases were found in Brockton, South Bruce, and Grey Highlands with Georgian Bluffs, Owen Sound, and Southgate each reporting one new case. The nine new cases have resulted in 46 active cases in the region. The health unit is also […]

The Grey Bruce Health Unit is pitching a plan to the provincial government that would result in the Grey-Bruce region piloting a COVID-19 mass immunization program for small-urban and rural communities in Ontario. The Pfizer-BioNtech vaccine was first available to Ontarians on Dec. 14 and the Moderna vaccine approved for use in Canada shortly thereafter. […]

Three new cases of COVID-19 were reported to the Grey Bruce Health Unit Sunday. Two of the cases were from West Grey, while the third was from Huron-Kinloss. They bring to 43 the number of active confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus in the two counties, according to public health’s daily situation report. One of […]

A COVID-19 outbreak has been declared at Sepoy Manor Retirement Home in Lucknow after a staff member tested positive for the virus. Provincial guidelines state that a single case of COVID-19 triggers an automatic outbreak within long-term care facilities, according to a news release from the Grey Bruce Health Unit. The person who tested positive […]

Larry Mercey has stacks of scrapbooks and datebooks that help to tell the story of his remarkable 60-plus years in the Canadian music industry – from his early days as a budding musician in Hanover to his 31 years with The Mercey Brothers and, most recently, his solo career. The Hanover native’s mother, Cecilia, began […]

Sixteen new cases of COVID-19 – the highest daily new case count in the region since Nov. 21 – were reported to the Grey Bruce Health Unit Saturday. Five of the new cases were from The Blue Mountains, while four were from Huron-Kinloss and two were from West Grey. Arran-Elderslie, Georgian Bluffs, Hanover, Neyaashiinigmiing and […]

Eleven new cases of COVID-19 were reported to the Grey Bruce Health Unit on the first day of 2021. Three of the cases were from Grey Highlands, while Southgate had two new cases and single cases were reported in Chatsworth, Hanover, Meaford, Saugeen Shores, South Bruce Peninsula and West Grey, according to public health’s daily […]

Grey-Bruce’s first baby of 2021 will have quite a story to share about her birth when she gets older. Not only was she the region’s New Year’s baby and welcomed into the world amid a global pandemic, but Kyla Johnston and Kyle Bosch’s daughter was unexpectedly born at home as Bosch relayed and followed instructions […]

A 19-year-old man has been charged with a Reopening Ontario Act and other offences after police were called to a New Year’s Eve party at an east-side apartment complex in Owen Sound. The charge was laid as a result of a party exceeding the gathering limits set out in the act, Sgt. Elizabeth Cranny said […]

No one was injured in a fire Thursday afternoon that caused significant damage to a two-storey home in Neustadt. West Grey Fire Chief Phil Schwartz said firefighters from all three of the municipality’s stations – Durham, Ayton and Neustadt – responded to the call, which came in just after 2 p.m. New Year’s Eve with […]

The Grey Bruce Health Unit reported eight new cases of COVID-19 Thursday including the first case in Neyaashiinigmiing since the start of the pandemic. An additional media release stated public health is working with the chief and council of the Chippewas of Nawash First Nation to make sure contact management is done in accordance with […]

Grey Bruce Farmers’ Week organizers are making the final preparations for their first fully virtual conference. The annual event, which is marking its 55th year, will bring the farming community together online for more than 50 sessions featuring more than 60 speakers and panelists covering a wide variety of agricultural topics. Lorie Smith, who leads […]