Owen Sound Sun Times

The region that includes Grey and Bruce counties posted its lowest unemployment rate, in May, since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. Last month the unemployment rate for the Stratford-Bruce Peninsula Economic Region fell two percentage points from April, from 6.1 per cent to 4.1 per cent. It is the first time the unemployment rate […]

Police have identified the two people who died in a boating incident in Northern Bruce Peninsula on Saturday. The two people who were recovered from French Bay, southwest of Miller Lake along the Lake Huron shore, have been named as Shonethan Spencer, 21, of Scarborough, and Ali Haider Shakir Faleeh, 24, of Richmond Hill. Grey […]

Owen Sound is set to increase a list of city fees, from facility rental and campground charges to internment and death registration costs. Council provided notice Monday night of its plan to approve a new, updated fees and charges bylaw, recommended by city staff. The new charges are to take effect July 1. Council reviews […]

Police are interested in viewing any video surveillance leading to the Willow Creek trestle bridge west of Paisley, after the structure was heavily damaged by a suspicious fire on the weekend. The South Bruce OPP and South Bruce OPP Crime Unit are continuing to investigate the cause of the fire, and are looking for video […]

The Grey Bruce Health Unit reported no new COVID-19 infections Tuesday. The health unit is now following 20 active confirmed cases in the two counties including five identified as a variant of concern. That’s one fewer active cases than was reported Monday. The health unit is also following 47 high-risk close contacts associated with the […]

Owen Sound will be taking the pulse of the community this summer. A citizen satisfaction survey, set to launch July 12 and close July 30, is intended to gauge public opinion on a wide range of topics, from property taxes and council decision-making to municipal programs and services and customer service, council heard during a […]

An Owen Sound-based hydrogen company has received $4.8 million in federal funding to advance its technology. Sustainable Development Technology Canada announced in late May that Hydrogen Optimized would receive the funding toward its $12 million project to advance, scale and commercialize its large-scale green hydrogen production systems. President and CEO Andrew Stuart said Monday that […]

FedDev Ontario announced $1.2 million in direct support of 100 tourism-dependent businesses in Grey and Simcoe counties Tuesday. It’s said the money will help maintain 225 jobs in the region. “With today’s funding announcement, FedDev Ontario is delivering targeted support to about 100 businesses to prepare for a more resilient future. This investment is ensuring […]

Owen Sound’s first rainbow crosswalk will include four additional colours to represent members of the transgender community as well as Black, Indigenous and people of colour. Dennis Kefalas, director of public works and engineering, said stripes of baby blue and pink – the colours of the transgender pride flag – along with black and brown […]

Owen Sound Mayor Ian Boddy says he thinks council will soon change the name of Ryerson Park, whose namesake is considered a primary architect of Canada’s residential school system for First Nations’ children. In the interim city staff removed the large wooden Ryerson Park sign Tuesday after Boddy made the request at Monday’s city council […]

Case counts are waning and the provincewide shutdown will start coming to an end Friday. Step One of Ontario’s “Roadmap to Reopening” will come into effect just after midnight on June 11, Health Minister Christine Elliott announced Monday. Public health units throughout Ontario reported the lowest daily total of new COVID-19 infections since September of […]

A longtime stalwart of Owen Sound’s classic vehicle, military and museum communities has passed away. Bob Alexander, a Korean War veteran, died on Saturday at the age of 91. Whether it was at the Bluewater Garage at the Grey Roots Museum and Archives, driving around town in his 1947 Ford pickup, chatting with friends over […]

June 07, 2021

A pilot program is being launched in Bruce County to allow farmers and producers to recycle their agricultural plastics like twine, bale wrap and bunker covers. Beginning this week, farmers will be able to pick up collection bags at four sites in Bruce County that they can fill with the materials and return to the […]

June 07, 2021

Three new cases of COVID-19 were being reported by the Grey Bruce Health Unit on Sunday. The cases reported on Sunday were in Brockton, South Bruce and The Blue Mountains. Two cases were reported in Grey-Bruce on Saturday, one each in Hanover and Kincardine. There have now been 1,365 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Grey-Bruce, […]

For his 85th birthday Bob Kay was told that a friend would be stopping by his Mallory Beach home. An old friend did come by, but the Royal Canadian Air Force veteran was surprised when it was a flypast visit from a Harvard Mk. IV, the same aircraft he trained in as a teenager. “It […]

One of Paisley’s historic trestle bridges has been ravaged by fire. The bridge on the Bruce County Rail Trail, which runs over the Willow Creek about a kilometre west of the village, was heavily damaged by the blaze late Saturday afternoon. The fire is “definitely suspicious,” Paisley Fire Department Acting Chief Dave Teeple said Sunday […]

Bayleigh Hooper of Chatsworth is Tokyo-bound. The 22-year-old rower and the rest of her PR3 mixed coxed four crew won the final at World Rowing’s Final Paralympic Qualification Regatta in Gavirate, Italy, on Saturday, which secured their berth in the Tokyo Paralympic Summer Games at the end of August. “Honestly it is kind of surreal,” […]

Two people are dead after police responded to a report of a vessel in distress southwest of Miller Lake in Northern Bruce Peninsula on Saturday morning. At approximately 6:30 a.m., police were dispatched to the vessel in distress near Donald Road, which is located at Pleasant Bay on the Lake Huron shoreline. Two deceased individuals […]

The Grey Bruce Health Unit reported two new cases of COVID-19 on Saturday. The two cases – one in Hanover and one in Kincardine — came a day after 12 cases were reported locally, most of which were linked to an outbreak at a rooming house in Hanover. As of Friday, 11 cases were associated […]

After selecting a big-bodied forward with their first pick on Day 1 of the OHL Draft, the Owen Sound Attack picked hulking defender Conor Thacker with their first selection on Day 2. The Oakville Rangers triple-A product was the first of 10 new prospects the Attack selected Saturday during the second half of the OHL […]

An Owen Sound man is being credited with likely averting a tragedy after he pulled another man from the Sydenham River in Owen Sound on Friday evening. Owen Sound Police, Grey Couny EMS and the Owen Sound fire department responded to the river near 7th Street East. When paramedics arrived they found a 49-year-old man […]

Owen Sound’s newest top-prospect won’t have to travel far for training camp. With the eighth-overall pick in the 2021 OHL Priority Selection, the Owen Sound Attack drafted Orillia’s Colby Barlow. “That’s always good,” Attack GM Dale DeGray said about the proximity. “It means we’ll have some more fans in the stands too.” He can probably […]

A COVID outbreak in a Hanover rooming house caused Grey-Bruce’s new cases to spike Friday. Cases current to midnight Thursday added 12 new cases, including nine in Hanover and one each in Arran-Elderslie, Brockton and Owen Sound, the health unit’s daily situation report said. By late Friday afternoon, there were 11 cases linked to the […]

A series of art installations around downtown Owen Sound this month are designed to bring awareness about those who are deafblind. The installations, known as yarn bombing, were being done Friday on the cutout of Tom Thomson paddling his canoe outside the art gallery, along with the Percy England Parkette at the north end of […]

As a sacred fire burned Friday in Owen Sound to honour the 215 children whose remains were found buried at a former residential school, local Indigenous leaders were calling on the federal government to conduct investigations at every institution site in Canada. Chief Greg Nadjiwon of the Chippewas of Nawash Unceded First Nation sent a […]

Bruce Power and its partners were among those praised by Premier Doug Ford during a tour of a Peel Region “hockey hub” for mass vaccinations Thursday. The hockey hub model, now running in an NHL-size hockey rink in Brampton, streamlines the movement of people through the vaccination centre, which relies on volunteers, while limiting clinical […]

So far 11 cases of COVID-19 have been identified in an outbreak at the Forum rooming house in Hanover, after someone from outside Grey-Bruce who stayed there tested positive. Efforts to track down close contacts are ongoing, including a flyer distribution by Hanover police to contacts and places close contacts of the rooming house residents […]

Andrea Love says she was hoping the province would announce a regional approach to reopening schools, allowing her three children to finish up their year in the classroom. But the Arran-Elderslie resident said she was left shaking her head by Wednesday’s announcement by Ontario Premier Doug Ford that all schools will remain closed to in-person […]

High-speed Internet through fibre-optic cable is being installed in southern Bruce County, the latest rollout of the SWIFT broadband network across southwestern Ontario. More than 350 homes and businesses throughout South Bruce, within Huron-Kinloss and in the village of Formosa, will soon have cable installed to provide these underserved, rural areas access to high-speed Internet. […]

The Grey Bruce Health Unit crossed the 100,000 vaccination threshold Thursday with 102,898 in arms as of Thursday morning, including 9,504 in the preceding seven days. Meanwhile, the health unit reported two new local infections, in Huron Kinloss and The Blue Mountains. There are now 12 active and confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the two […]

Georgian Bluffs is informing its residents about bears after sightings of the animals in the municipality this spring. The municipality intends to post some information on its website about what people should do when encountering the animals and how to prevent bear encounters. The move comes after the animals were spotted in the municipality in […]

The Bruce Ski Club hopes to expand its trail system at Hepworth. Georgian Bluffs council will receive a report from staff on a proposal by the ski club to expand into the municipality’s landfill property, which is adjacent to the club’s trail system at the Sawmill Nordic Centre. The landfill closed in 2017 after reaching […]

The Owen Sound Attack’s second pandemic-era draft gets underway Friday night at 7 p.m. Owen Sound will make three selections in the first three rounds of the draft Friday, first with the eighth overall pick and followed by two selections in the third round. The balance of the 15-round draft will be completed Saturday, beginning […]

Owen Sound Aquatic Club para-swimmer Meghan Calhoun is heading to Germany later this month to perform at the final stop of this season’s World Para Swimming World Series. Calhoun will complete the international classification process that, if successful, will give her future access and opportunities to represent Team Canada at international competitions. The season finale […]

The Owen Sound Girls Field Lacrosse program has received a $10,000 grant from Canadian Tire’s Jumpstart Sport Relief Fund. The North Stars program is one of over 500 recreation organizations across Canada to be provided with funding support through the latest round of Jumpstart’s Sport Relief Fund grant process. Earlier this year, Canadian Tire announced […]

A large portion of the 4th Canadian Division Training Centre is so heavily contaminated with unexploded ordnance military personnel are restricted from entry, Meaford officials recently heard. Now, the municipality is planning to ask federal officials to fully disclose the severity of the contamination and their plans to remediate the site over the next 25 […]

Everything is on the table during Owen Sound’s transit service review, from fares to routes and buses to potential on-demand ride options, a city supervisor overseeing the project says. Dennis Fletcher & Associates has been hired to study the transit systems and work has just begun, said Rick Chappell, the city’s interim supervisor of environmental […]

A 39-year-old Owen Sound resident received serious injuries that required surgery after being hit by a vehicle while operating an e-bike. The Owen Sound Police Service says the e-bike was struck after a 32-year-old Wiarton man drove out of a convenience store parking lot in a stolen vehicle and onto 10th Street East. The owner […]

Ontario’s stay-at-home order expired Wednesday, although for most people much will remain the same. Most existing restrictions on businesses, services, gatherings and activities remain in effect and will likely remain in place until the province enters Step 1 of its roadmap to recovery. Ontarians are now able to travel within the province to a secondary […]

Grey County officials expect to decide by the end of June if they will proceed with the purchase of lands adjacent to the Old Durham Road Black Pioneer Cemetery east of Priceville. County officials met with representatives of the committee that cares for the cemetery on Tuesday to discuss concerns they raised about a proposal […]

West Grey is experiencing a building boom. The municipality’s building department says permits for 33 new housing units were issued in the first quarter of 2021, which set a new record. Karl Schipprack, West Grey’s chief building official, said the number of building permits issued in the first three months of 2021 is up 82 […]

South Bruce Peninsula’s decision to temporarily convert a Sauble Beach ball diamond into an off-leash dog park has proven so popular that council will consider creating a permanent facility in the beach town in 2022, Mayor Janice Jackson says. “Staff is going to come forward with an area at the Bannister Park and the costing […]

A new system to expedite child and youth mental health visits through emergency rooms has begun in Grey-Bruce. It was prompted by a recent spike in referrals to a local mental health agency and in anticipation of a COVID-19-related wave of mental health problems. Keystone Child, Youth & Family Services has created a system navigator […]

No new cases of COVID-19 were reported Tuesday in Grey-Bruce. The number of positive cases reported is current up to midnight Monday. Grey-Bruce has had 1,345 cases of the pandemic virus, including 389 variants of concern so far, the daily situation report by the Grey Bruce Health Unit said. The health unit is following 10 […]

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Kincardine Pride is holding a three-part webinar series during June, which is Pride Month. While there will be no in-person pride festivities for the second year in a row due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Kincardine Pride organizers will instead hold the series called “Out” in the Country, which will explore what it means to […]

A petition has been launched asking Owen Sound to rename one of its parks because of the role its namesake had in the establishment of Canada’s Indian residential school system. The petition on change.org calls for the city to change the name of Ryerson Park, at 805 5th Ave. E. By early Tuesday afternoon close […]