Owen Sound Sun Times

The Owen Sound Selects will head into the final day of round-robin competition at the Softball Canada U23 Canadian Championship with a 4-2 record after splitting a pair of games Thursday in Saskatoon. A three-run bottom of the sixth gave the New Hamburg Mustangs just enough leverage to hold off a late comeback attempt and […]

Eleven-year-old Owen Barfoot from Georgian Bluffs represented Canada at a ten-day invitation-only International Hockey Tournament in Sweden from July 24 to 27. Port Elgin resident and Grey Bruce Highlanders hockey player Dillon Atkinson served as captain of the North American Draft Day team. It’s the second time Atkinson has worn the ‘C’ for the squad. Barfoot, […]

Someone broke into the car wash in Chatsworth and stole money from the coin boxes. Grey Bruce OPP were dispatched on Sunday after the owner discovered the forced entry on Saturday evening, police said in a news release. The break-in occurred between Friday and Saturday. The unknown suspect or suspects would be in possession of […]

The Saugeen Shores Police Service is investigating a series of residential break and enters “targeting high-end valuables.” The force’s criminal investigations and drug unit is currently investigating the break ins, which police say have common links. The break and enters have occurred during daylight hours and have targeted the valuables inside the residences, police said […]

A 32-year-old Owen Sound man has arrested in connection with counterfeit $100 bills that have been circulating in the area. The man has been charged with several counts of distributing and possessing counterfeit money as well as fraud, theft and breach of probation following his arrest on Wednesday evening, it said in a news release […]

The Chatsworth West Grey Dodgers fell to the Napanee Express in the Softball Canada U14 Canadian Championship semifinal Wednesday to finish third at the national competition. The Dodgers finished the tournament with an overall record of 6-3. Chatsworth West Grey went 4-1 in the opening round of the tournament to finish in first place for […]

Owen Sound Attack head coach Al Letang was recently named a pre-scout coach by Hockey Canada ahead of the 2020 World Junior Championship. Letang took over for Todd Gill at the helm of the Attack midway through last season, his first lead role in the Ontario Hockey League. He’s been with the Attack since the […]

Plenty of prized and pampered pooches and their owners will gather at Harrison Park next week for the Grey Bruce Kennel & Obedience Club’s 2019 dog show. Club president Maura Reilly said the event, set for Tuesday to Thursday at the east-side Owen Sound park, is always popular with both competitors and spectators. “I know […]

Grey Bruce Health Services has appointed an interim president and CEO to replace Maureen Solecki, whose contract is ending. The hospital corporation appointed Joanne Flewwelling to the position at a special meeting of its board of directors on Tuesday as it continues a search for the person who will fill the position permanently. Solecki, whose […]

Rookie goaltender Kaleb Martin won most the valuable player and rookie of the year awards at the Owen Sound North Stars junior B club’s wrap-up party this past Saturday. Martin played in 15 of the N’Stars’ 20 games in 2019 and backstopped the team as they returned to the Ontario Junior B Lacrosse League postseason […]

As the Owen Sound Emancipation Festival marks its 157th year, organizers are hoping to continue to broaden the appeal of the event, which was traditionally a homecoming of sorts for descendants of those who escaped to the area through the Underground Railroad. “We have become more diverse this year,” Jeffrey Smith, chair of the Owen […]

Police have recovered two tractors that were reported stolen from a West Grey property and a Glenelg man has been charged. On Monday, just before 9 a.m., West Grey police received a report that a John Deere 710 tractor had been stolen from a property on Concession 2 at Grey Road 25 sometime between July […]

Bruce County has hired a new director of corporate services following the retirement of Bettyann Cobean. Edward Henley will begin his new role with the county on Sept. 16, joining the county after spending the past nine years as director of finance and treasurer of Clearview Township. Henley has an extensive career working in various […]

A resident of Brockton is out $1,500 after falling victim to a phone scam in July. Just after 8 a.m. on July 16, South Bruce OPP responded to a report of a fraud in Brockton. The victim received a phone call from a scammer who identified himself as a police officer. The victim was advised […]

Owen Sound’s bylaw department has concluded its probe into complaints that used cooking oil was dumped into a catch basin next to Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen after finding no evidence the product entered the city’s storm water collection system. “We’ve searched the storm systems on both 16th Street and 16th Avenue East and we couldn’t find […]

A 21-year-old man is dead and two other men injured after a single-vehicle collision in Southgate Township Monday night. Grey Bruce OPP responded to the incident on Southgate Road 26 East of Boothville just after 10:30 p.m., where they found a grey pick-up truck on its roof in a ditch beside the road, police said […]

An Owen Sound resident says that when she had no one else to turn to, staff at the Grey-Bruce Community Legal Clinic were there to help. But now she is concerned that cuts to Legal Aid Ontario will leave those services crippled or non-existent for the next person who needs them. “It’s a frightening thing, […]

The driver of an SUV suffered minor injuries, but nobody else was hurt after the vehicle was involved in two collisions in the area of the Sunset Strip on Tuesday morning. Grey Bruce OPP were dispatched to the two collisions in Georgian Bluffs just west of Owen Sound at about 8:20 a.m. Witnesses reported that […]

Residents, businesses, farmers and developers in three southern Bruce County municipalities are all poised to benefit from a multi-million dollar natural gas project that is now officially underway. Politicians, company representatives, project backers and others gathered for a ground-breaking ceremony for the $80 million Southern Bruce Natural Gas Project on a property stacked high with […]

Recently I preached on Luke 10:38-42, the story of sisters Mary and Martha and their dinner with Jesus. It’s a good story about family relationships and is one of the more interesting texts to preach on. The great American preacher Anna Carter Florence has a wonderful and quite funny exploration of the text in a […]

The long and proud history of Durham Furniture is tied closely to the community’s economic prosperity. The company began as a community initiative in the late 1800s to provide employment for the town’s young people. More than $10,000 in capital was raised from local residents by a group of business people who secured an interest-free […]

8th Street East is a bit cleaner than usual. And it’s thanks to a handful of international students. Thirty-nine Japanese high schoolers picked up trash along a stretch of the road Monday as a way to give back to a community they say has welcomed them. The all-boys class from Nichidai Buzan High School in […]

SOFTBALL Dodgers 5-1 at Canadians The Chatsworth West Grey Dodgers are 5-1 at the Softball Canada U14 Canadian Championships in Saskatoon. The Dodgers started the national tournament with a 17-0 win over the Prince Albert Astros before dropping a close contest, 7-6, to the host Saskatoon Selects. The Dodgers bounced back on Sunday topping the […]

Two people were taken to hospital with injuries that are not considered life threatening after a crash in Owen Sound on Monday morning. Officers with the Owen Sound Police Service responded to the collision at the intersection of 2nd Ave. W. and 14th St. W. at approximately 11:30 a.m. The crash involving a Honda Fit […]

A 23-year-old man is dead after a collision in southern Bruce County on Saturday. West Region OPP tweeted just after 7:30 p.m. that Bruce Road 1 was closed south of Highway 9 for an investigation involving a single-vehicle fatal motor vehicle collision. Just after 9 a.m. on Sunday, police tweeted that the road was open, […]

Two Brockton residents have been charged with numerous drug offences following the seizure of methamphetamine with an estimated street value of over $180,000. South Bruce OPP Staff Sgt. Paul Richardson and Owen Sound Police Service Insp. Jeff Fluney announced Monday afternoon that as a result of a co-ordinated investigation, a warrant was executed at a […]

One man is dead and another has been charged with impaired driving causing death after a collision between an SUV and a bicycle in Meaford early Sunday morning. Just before 1:30 a.m. Grey Bruce OPP were dispatched to the collision involving the black SUV and the bicycle on 7th Line between Highway 26 and Grey […]

Two drivers were located, arrested and charged with impaired driving in Owen Sound after calls from the public were received on the weekend. The first call came Saturday morning at about 10:30 a.m., when a concerned motorist called about a possible impaired driver entering the city from Georgian Bluffs. The vehicle was found in the […]

Police in Hanover and West Grey have recovered two stolen vehicles, but continue to search for those involved. On Friday at about 3:30 a.m., the West Grey Police Service and Hanover Police Service were notified of the theft of a black GMC pickup truck from a residence on Conc. 14 in the former Normandby Twp. […]

Saugeen Track and Field Club members competed against the best track and field athletes in the country at the Canadian under-20 senior and para track and field championships held in Montreal July 24 to 28. Medal performances were turned in by para-athletes Josh Farrell and Rick Carr and high jumper Emily Branderhorst. Josh Farrell won silver […]

With this year’s piping plover nesting season drawing to a close, only one of the endangered shorebirds is still scurrying along the sand at Sauble Beach. All four of the adult birds have left for their wintering grounds, along with one of the two chicks that hatched this season at Sauble. The other fledgling is […]

This “Yellow Submarine” refuses to be submerged. The yellow-and-black cardboard boat, named after the 1966 hit by The Beatles, was returned for a second straight year to compete in Southampton’s ninth annual Marine Heritage Festival. The vessel, powered this year by the Barrack family of Mississauga, was entered in not one but two cardboard boat […]

For the third-straight year, the Owen Sound Bug Juice North Stars have been elimintated from postseason contention by the Six Nations Rivermen. For the second-straight night, the Rivermen gave up a third-period lead in the dying minutes only to stifle the North Stars in extra time. Six Nations topped the North Stars 9-8 in Game 4 […]

Somehow we’ve ended up in Brantford. This strange lacrosse odyssey started with a brawl in Ohsweken. Nearly a week later the Owen Sound Bug Juice North Stars and Six Nations Rivermen played Game 3 of their Ontario Lacrosse Series best-of-five semifinal Friday night inside the Wayne Gretzky Sports Centre. And it was a stunner. The […]

MINOR SOCCER U13 United hit double digits In SWRSL action, the Owen Sound Ken Burrows & Son/Sound Speech & Hearing United under-13 boys soccer team scored eight unanswered goals in the second half on their way to a 10-1 drubbing of host Hillsburgh-Erin United on Wednesday night. Dominic Morassutti led the way for Owen Sound […]

A blacklegged tick collected in Saugeen Shores has tested positive for the type of bacteria that causes Lyme disease, the Grey Bruce Health Unit said Friday. The test result comes within the same year as three confirmed human cases of Lyme disease in Grey-Bruce. One of those cases was locally acquired. “My concern about this […]

Grey Sauble Conservation’s board of directors is planning to immediately start work to recruit a new chief administrative officer, after current CAO Sonya Skinner announced she will be resigning Aug. 5. Board chair Cathy Little said a recruitment team was created Wednesday and is planning to meet soon to discuss next steps. “We’re going to […]

A sour incident has befallen the Huron-Kinloss Ice Cream Trail. The southern Bruce County township has been forced to remove the popular “Mario Toad” Street Sweets cone from the trail after the piece in Lucknow was vandalized for a third time. In one incident, the foam head, carved and painted by artist Kathleen van den […]

A stretch of 10th Street West is expected to be closed a week longer than originally planned. The area of 10th Street West around 2nd Avenue West was closed on July 17 as part of the city’s horseshoe watermain upgrade project. Originally the intersection and the area around it was expected to be closed until […]

The Grey-Bruce Community Legal Clinic will hold a pop-up legal clinic in downtown Owen Sound to bring attention to provincial cuts to legal aid funding. The clinic will be located in front of Owen Sound city hall on Tuesday, July 30, from noon to 2 p.m. to protest the Ontario government’s cut to Legal Aid […]

This Saturday’s Billy Bishop Heritage Fest will be a chance to honour area veterans, learn more about local heritage groups and enjoy food, games and other activities, organizers say. The event is set to take place from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Billy Bishop Home: Museum, Archives & National Historic Site on 3rd […]

The long-time owner of the train station business at Port Elgin beach is unsure of the fate of the building there following the passing of a July 19 deadline the Town of Saugeen Shores gave to remove any personal belongings from town-owned land. An e-mail on Monday from The Station owner Andy Hess and his […]

The driver of a motorcycle was airlifted to hospital with serious injuries after a collision involving a farm tractor on Highway 10 in southern Grey County on Wednesday. Just before 1:30 p.m., Grey Bruce OPP were dispatched to the collision between the blue motorcycle and a tractor at the Artemesia-Southgate Townline south of Flesherton. The […]

Two Owen Sound residents have been charged after the window of a downtown Owen Sound restaurant was damaged Wednesday. The bay window of the closed restaurant in the 700 block of 2nd Ave. E. was damaged by two projectiles at approximately 4:20 p.m. Patrol officers and the Criminal Investigations Branch of the Owen Sound Police […]