Owen Sound Sun Times

The Owen Sound & North Grey Union Public Library is set to reopen to the public Aug. 11, with capacity and visit time limits in place as well as social distancing and mask guidelines. The library – which has been closed to the public since mid-March due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but has been offering […]

The OPP charged 13 drivers with stunt driving on Highway 6 in Grey and Bruce counties over the long weekend. The motorists, who were travelling at least 50 kilometres per hour above the posted speed limit, were all issued a provincial summons, a seven-day drivers licence suspension and had their vehicle towed and impounded for […]

No new COVID-19 cases were added to the Grey Bruce Health Unit’s confirmed tally over the long weekend. The region remained at five active cases Monday afternoon, with 109 recovered and six referred to other health units, for a cumulative total to 120 cases. No deaths in Grey-Bruce have been attributed to COVID-19 and there […]

A man’s paddling journey in which he hugged the shoreline from south of Grand Bend to Wasaga Beach in his canoe is ending Tuesday with a feast. The Picking Up the Bundles Canoe Journey around Saugeen Ojibway Nation’s traditional territory is part of a year-long advocacy project for Waasekom Niin, also called Edward George. He […]

The beach was hot and busy but not the pedestrian mall, newly created by closing the Main Street and Lakeshore Boulevard intersection to cars at Sauble Beach Saturday. The street was nearly empty of people in the afternoon and town council’s decision to close that very busy piece of road to vehicles was viewed dubiously […]

Songs of perseverance, hope and celebration, family stories of desperate runs to freedom, local Black history, and fond, personal memories all marked Saturday’s 158thOwen Sound Emancipation Festival. Normally a gathering held in Harrison Park, this time the festival was online for almost two hours during a YouTube broadcast due to the COVID-19 pandemic, which made […]

A female motorcycle passenger died and a male driver suffered serious injuries in a collision between a motorcycle and truck on Grey Road 16 at Concession 6 in Chatsworth Township Saturday. OPP West Region issued a notice on its Facebook page about 2 p.m. No news release was issued by early evening. No other details […]

Local public health officials and police warn there’s a “toxic supply” of street drugs which is responsible for “multiple fatal overdoses in the past five days.” People using drugs are at significant risk of overdose due to the potential the drugs contain fentanyl or the even more deadly carfentanil, which is 100 times more toxic. […]

On Sept. 8, most students in Grey and Bruce counties will don their non-medical masks before riding on their assigned and sanitized bus seat en route to their reopened and reorganized school, where they’ll socialize with their provincially mandated cohort of friends and classmates. It’s a strange new world with a lot of unknowns to […]

The Owen Sound Transportation Company’s president and chief executive says Chi-Cheemaun ferry passengers have so far been well-behaved and co-operative, unlike some who refuse to wear a mask amid the COVID-19 pandemic on its Pelee Island ferry. It’s become so egregious that the ferry operator has threatened to ban a belligerent minority of passengers over […]

OPP will be patrolling Highway 6 this Civic holiday weekend, part of a clampdown on aggressive and stunt driving on a notoriously fast strip of Highway 6 and other tourist routes on the Bruce Peninsula. This focus is part of an OPP traffic enforcement campaign across the province this weekend. Grey Bruce OPP Staff-Sgt. Terry […]

Building activity in Saugeen Shores has remained strong this year despite the COVID-19 pandemic, which brought most projects in Ontario to a halt for several weeks in early spring. The municipality on Lake Huron saw construction values hit $32 million in the first half of 2020, which is well above the five-year, January-to-June average of […]

Owen Sound police charged a 53-year-old Cargill man after he blew a tire when he abruptly stopped his vehicle and struck a curb ahead of an impaired-driving spot check Thursday night. City police said in a news release Friday that the man was arrested about 9 p.m. for attempting to avoid a police Reduce Impaired […]

Saugeen Shores police charged a 36-year-old man with offences after three local break-ins and four thefts, a police news release said Friday. The man, identified as someone living in Bruce County and known to police, is charged with three counts of break, enter and commit an offence, possession of property obtained by crime, possession of […]

High water levels have caused a memorial “Summerfolk tree” at Owen Sound’s Kelso Beach Park to topple over, but the other “iconic” tree that’s more commonly associated with the annual music and crafts festival is still standing. That tree, located behind the amphitheatre stage and seen in the Summerfolk logo, seems to be doing fine […]

There was one new case of COVID-19 reported in Grey-Bruce Thursday, according to the Grey Bruce Health Unit’s daily situation report. The new case brings the regional total to 119 with four active cases reported now in Grey-Bruce. The newest case was reported in West Grey, according to the health unit’s data. Trillium Court, a […]

Meaford’s battle for the downtown shoreline rages on in 2020 as high water levels and storms have claimed more public infrastructure and land. Earlier this year council approved $80,000 to clear debris and make critical infrastructure fixes at both Fred Raper and David Johnston parks, which bookend the Meaford Harbour along the Georgian Bay shoreline. […]

Spotty radio reception on the peninsula for its stations and demand for a radio service are why Bayshore Broadcasting will be putting a transmitter at Tobermory, the company’s managing director said Thursday. The CRTC issued its decision July 23, which allows the Owen Sound-based radio broadcaster to erect a transmitter to repeat the signal from […]

City officials expect a significant chunk of Owen Sound’s 2020 operating deficit due to COVID-19 – now projected at about $600,000 – will be caused by reduced transit revenue during the pandemic. “I think we’re going to be short in the neighbourhood of $200,000 this year on transit fares alone,” corporate services director Kate Allan […]

South Bruce Peninsula council has directed staff to create a pedestrian mall at the main corner of Sauble Beach for the Civic Holiday long weekend by closing portions of Main Street and Lakeshore Boulevard North. The move is being made to help with the large number of people expected to travel to the beach this […]

When people complained anonymously to police about marijuana being grown outdoors in Hanover, officers began an investigation. On Tuesday police executed a warrant and searched two neighbouring properties in the 200 block of 17thStreet East, where they seized 386 pot plants, 898 grams of dried cannabis and a small amount of cocaine. A 42-year-old Hanover […]

Owen Sound is vowing to stand up against racism. Council on Monday approved a motion by Coun. Carol Merton that says the city will “actively work towards anti-racism and anti-oppression at every opportunity,” including through things like information-sharing and ongoing education and training for council and committee members and staff regarding anti-racism, diversity and inclusion. […]

Missy Bauman’s second album “Sweet” is set to be released on Aug. 7, and the folk singer with roots in Owen Sound said she’s ready to release her newest songs out into the world even if the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has made touring the music impossible. The album – all songs written and mixed by […]

Work is set to begin this week on Habitat for Humanity Grey Bruce’s new Owen Sound build, which will take place under current COVID-19 safety guidelines. Executive director Greg Fryer said the organization will be constructing a semi-detached home at 1320/1322 4th Ave. E. – where a duplex once stood that was destroyed during an […]

South Bruce OPP is investigating the reported theft of an ATV. A yellow Can-Am Renegade 800 cc all-terrain vehicle was taken from a residence in the 500-block o Conc. 4 in the former Arran Township between nighttime July 21 and the morning of July 22. The ATV had no licence plate. The vehicle’s estimated value […]

Owen Sound police charged a driver found asleep at the wheel of a running vehicle in Harrison Park Tuesday. Police were called before 10 a.m. by concerned citizens who reported seeing two men passed out in a running vehicle in the park. Police found them there and had difficulty waking the driver, a police news […]

A COVID-19 outbreak has been declared at Trillium Court, a long-term care home in Kincardine. The outbreak was declared Tuesday and is listed on the Grey Bruce Health Unit’s outbreak web page. The home was asked to step up already routine, heightened precautions Sunday, Dr. Ian Arra said Tuesday. That’s after receiving a report of […]

Owen Sound is planning to start a $2.3-million project to rehabilitate 16th Street East between 9th and 18th streets in early August. City council voted Monday night to award the contract for the project to Harold Sutherland Construction, which submitted the lowest of two bids received. “Anyone that travels this city is well aware of […]

Owen Sound intends to hold several free drive-in movie events and concerts later this summer now that the region is in Stage 3 of Ontario’s COVID-19 reopening plan. Council voted 7-2 Monday to hold in late August or early September – and subject to final approval in consultation with public health – two movie nights […]

It would cost Owen Sound between $250,000 and $1.3 million – depending on the option – to demolish some or all of the former jail structures adjacent to its historic courthouse on 3rd Avenue East, according to estimates received by city hall. With those figures in hand, council approved Monday a community services committee recommendation […]

Police say officers charged a couple from Quebec after a woman starting hitting and punching a man in what was called a domestic dispute July 26 in Hepworth. Grey Bruce OPP was dispatched to the scene at 6:21 p.m. Officers looked at surveillance video of the incident, a police news release said. The pair was […]

A socially distanced Sauble Sandfest will return this year, with sandcastle building and rock bands Saturday, Aug. 8 at Sauble Beach. Pandemic restrictions require some changes from past years to control the numbers of people viewing the sand sculptures any given time, and how many may enter the cordoned-off area in front of the portable […]

The OPP charged five more motorists with stunt driving Monday along Highway 6 on the Bruce Peninsula. Stunt driving is a Highway Traffic Act offence which includes speeding 50 kilometres per hour or more over the posted limit. It’s been an increasing and sometimes deadly problem on the peninsula in recent years, particularly as it […]

Owen Sound police say that while watching two suspicious men known to be involved in drug and property crimes, one of them stole a leaf blower from a trailer at a local high school Monday afternoon. A plainclothes officer saw the man enter a construction trailer at Owen Sound District Secondary School, take a leaf […]

Hanover police arrested a robbery suspect about two hours after a Circle K variety store clerk in Hanover was threatened with a knife. A masked man who brandished a knife made off with an undetermined amount of cash late Monday afternoon from the store on 10thStreet, Hanover Deputy Chief George Hebblethwaite said Tuesday in an […]

A man faces drug and assault charges after Saugeen Shores police say they found him with 31 grams of suspected purple fentanyl while sleeping on a Southampton park bench. Officers were called to the park to investigate the man, who was suspected of consuming drugs there. Police woke the man, who was wanted on an […]

Though COVID-19 hit migrant farm workers hard in southwestern Ontario, it didn’t do so in Grey-Bruce. There’s been just one outbreak on a Grey-Bruce farm, on the border with Huron County, where two migrant workers showed symptoms at the end of May. The farm operator called Huron County Health Unit, which got the Grey Bruce […]

Grey Bruce OPP charged a 30-year-old Kemble man for drinking and driving after his white car rolled on 13thStreet West in Georgian Bluffs Sunday. Police were dispatched at 4:10 a.m. to the single-vehicle crash and were assisted by the Inter Township Fire Department. He and an injured passenger went to hospital by ambulance. The driver’s […]

Police seized more than a kilo of meth and hundreds of oxycodone pills worth more than $100,000 on July 25 after a drug investigation impacting Grey, Bruce and Wellington counties. It’s the second largest seizure of meth since the OPP community street crime unit formed in 2017, OPP Const. Kevin Martin said in response to […]

The annual Owen Sound Emancipation Festival held in Harrison Park for 157 years will have a virtual homecoming presented on its YouTube channel Saturday at 11 a.m. Some past festival singers, musicians, speakers and prominent local festival attendees will all be showcased in an hour-long or so video production, said Barry Penhale, a festival spokesman. […]

There were no new cases of COVID-19 reported by the Grey Bruce Health Unit Sunday, and still one case pending. The region’s total case count remains at 118, with three active cases. None of the active cases currently require hospitalization, and no deaths have been attributed to the disease locally. The COVID-19 outbreak in the […]

Nearly all race events for 2020 have been cancelled by Sauble Speedway organizers amid the COVID-19 pandemic, but the APC Series will start their engines on the track for 100 laps later in August. Joe Chisholm, marketing and new business development director at the speedway, made the announcement in a video Facebook update. “It breaks […]

Events have been hard to come by in the tough times brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic, but on Aug. 8 the Island View Drive Ratepayers Association is inviting people to visit some beautiful local gardens and enjoy an ice cream while supporting the Chapman House Residential Hospice of Grey Bruce. For a minimum suggested […]

One new case of COVID-19 was reported by the Grey Bruce Health Unit Saturday. A preliminary positive case was also reported, but not added to the total regional case count that now stands at 118. If the preliminary positive case is confirmed, it will be added to the total. The newest confirmed case of COVID-19 […]

An announcement clarifying what kind of world students will enter into after Labour Day is expected to come from Ontario Education Minister Stephen Lecce next week. Local school boards have been busy preparing plans for three separate models proposed by the province – a conventional in-school model, a learning from home model, and a hybrid […]

Around 10 a.m. Saturday morning a man entered the downtown Tim Hortons in Owen Sound and demanded cash before indicating he had a weapon concealed in his backpack, according to an Owen Sound Police Service media release. Tim Hortons staff called police while the incident was occurring. The police were able to arrest the man […]

There were no new cases of COVID-19 reported in Grey-Bruce Friday, according to the Grey Bruce Health Unit’s daily situation report. The region’s total case count remains at 117. Two new cases were recorded in Kincardine earlier this week. Those cases are related and linked to international travel, according to public health. Twenty-eight local healthcare […]

Grey County is developing a proposed county-wide face mask bylaw, which officials say would only be enacted if needed during the COVID-19 pandemic and on the direction of the region’s top doctor. County council directed staff Thursday to create the bylaw in consultation with Bruce County, lower-tier municipalities and medical officer of health Dr. Ian […]

Saugeen Shores is looking for a new chief administrative officer. The town issued a brief announcement Thursday which said Smith has “announced his intention to pursue a new career opportunity.” He’s been with the town since 2016 and expects to remain until September. “CAO Smith has successfully delivered on many of council’s priorities. I wish […]

A man in custody since last August, after a crime spree which included West Grey and Hanover offences last summer, was sentenced Wednesday to 19 months in jail. Hanover Police Service announced that David Andrew Malott, 34, originally of Kitchener, was sentenced in the Ontario Court of Justice in Walkerton. He pleaded guilty to 31 […]