Owen Sound Sun Times

Former Olympic hopeful hockey goalie turned firefighter Kendra Fisher is using her own experiences with mental health to help other first responders dealing with stress, anxiety and depression. On Sunday, Fisher, who was born and raised in Kincardine, was the keynote speaker at the first ever Grey County Frontline Family Wellness Day, held to educate […]

Cycling 110 kilometres in the extreme cold across ice road and trails in the northern Ontario bush may not seem like an enjoyable experience to some, but for a group of riders from the area it was well worth the trip. A crew from Grey-Bruce were up in the northern Ontario wilderness on the weekend […]

Ironmen, Hawks take commanding lead The Wingham Ironmen and Mitchell Hawks both have strangleholds in their first-round Pollock Division playoff series. The Ironmen won three-straight this past weekend to take a 3-0 lead over the Walkerton Hawks while the Mitchell Hawks have a 3-0 lead over the Hanover Barons. Both teams need just one more […]

A strong second period was enough for the Owen Sound Attack to hold on and win a pivotal Midwest Division tilt 4-3 over the Erie Otters Saturday inside the Erie Insurance Arena. The Attack’s struggles in between the first and third periods have been well documented this season. The team often dominates in the opening […]

The Owen Sound Garb and Gear Source for Sports Junior Attack are moving on to the OMHA minor peewee single-A quarterfinals. The Jr. Attack earned a 6-1 win over the Milton Winterhawks Saturday afternoon inside the Harry Lumley Bayshore Community Centre. Owen Sound won Game 1 of the four-point series 4-3 last weekend in Milton. […]

Guess who is responsible for finding a volleyball when a team full of Ontario Hockey League players forgets to bring one to Sauble Beach? Answer: a rookie. That’s just part of earning your stripes, and this season a gaggle of the fresh-faced greenhorns are sharing the Owen Sound Attack’s “rookie duties.” “We’re at the bottom […]

Grey County has experienced “exceptional assessment growth” over the past year that will more than offset a projected $1 million in provincial funding cuts in 2020. County councillors heard Friday that new construction in 2019 will produce about $1.85 million in new property tax revenue for the upper-tier municipality in 2020, which will help to […]

Walkerton-area farmer Chris Cossitt says that animal rights activism targeting producers hasn’t been a major issue in the Grey-Bruce area as far as he knows, but a proposed new law targeting trespassing and other acts that disrupt production is an important support. “A lot of our commodities we have safety nets in there already where […]

BOYS BASKETBALL There’s been a changing of the guard this season in the senior boys basketball circuit. For years St. Mary’s has controlled the North Division while Walkerton ruled in the South. That’s no longer the case. If nothing changes, it’s going to be the Georgian Bay Thunder who comes out on top of the […]

What goes around comes around in the Ontario Hockey League. It was nearly a year ago that the weakened Owen Sound Attack played the Niagara IceDogs after selling off their top guns and trying to make it work with a melting pot of new and young players. The IceDogs slashed the training wheels of the […]

The Georgian Bay Thunder proved they’re the undisputed team-to-beat coming out of the North Division in the Bluewater Athletic Association’s senior boys basketball circuit with a 45-31 victory over the St. Mary’s Mustangs Thursday in Owen Sound. The two top-ranked teams went head-to-head for bragging rights and playoff seeding with the Thunder outpacing the ‘Stangs […]

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 […]