Owen Sound Sun Times

West Grey announced Friday afternoon that it closed until further notice a bridge to vehicles and pedestrians on Concession 4 NDR, about two concessions south of Crawford. A routine inspection detected damage and the municipality will be considering options for the bridge, located between Mulock Road and 30thSideroad, municipal spokesman Jonathan Zettel said. Municipal staff […]

Owen Sound’s minor soccer and minor baseball associations have decided to cancel their 2020 seasons due to the COVID-19 situation. But both organizations say they’re hoping to offer some form of play or training later in the summer or fall if pandemic restrictions, including limits on social gatherings, lift enough by then to allow for […]

The province is accepting public comments until June 25 on a permit application by South Bruce Peninsula to mechanically rake Sauble Beach, as part of a proposal the province says will impact the endangered piping plover and its habitat. Gary Wheeler, spokesperson for the Ministry of the Environment, Conservation and Parks, said the town’s proposal […]

Owen Sound firefighters put out a fire behind Mellish Appliance Service which destroyed a service van, shed and lean-to but didn’t damage the shop itself. Fire Capt. Jeff Finch said 12 firefighters responded, including those called in on a second alarm, after a report at 9:10 p.m. of a fire and explosion. That was likely […]

Grey-Bruce added three new cases of COVID-19 Thursday as of 3:30 p.m., including a presumptive case involving a person admitted to hospital. “She is in her 80s, an older person with co-morbidities, which by definition has many symptoms,” said Dr. Ian Arra, the medical officer of health in Grey-Bruce. One test was positive, a second […]

For the first time in its 45-year history, the sounds of excited children, rotating rides and the beloved train’s bell will not be emanating from behind the castle entrance at Story Book Park this summer. The management team at the family-owned business south of Owen Sound announced this week that they have made the “heartbreaking […]

A one-take concert recording by Macphail Memorial Elementary School students has been parlayed into $2,500 in donations so far, which has helped patients at Markdale hospital have virtual meetings with people amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The 2016 concert was recorded by Mudtown Records of Owen Sound but never released. It was performed by more than […]

Grey Bruce OPP charged a 38-year-old Georgian Bluffs man with drug possession and insurance and licensing violations after a traffic stop at 1:35 a.m. Thursday. Police stopped the vehicle on Highway 6 near the Springmount industrial park, police said in a news release. They laid charges of possession of methamphetamine, driving without insurance and driving […]

Police charged a 29-year-old Port Elgin woman with dangerous driving and refusing to provide a breath sample after a rear-end collision in Port Elgin at 3 p.m. Tuesday. Her northbound car travelling at a high rate of speed rear-ended another northbound vehicle on Goderich Street, at Tomlinson Drive, the Saugeen Shores Police Service said in […]

When the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown hit Ontario three months ago, life quickly became more isolated for students too. Eventually there were online school assignments but missing were the noisy hallways, chaotic recess schoolyards and just the familiarity of living a shared classroom life with fellow students and teachers. So Macphail Memorial Elementary music teacher Charlie […]

Another new presumptive positive case in a healthcare worker was recorded in Grey Bruce Wednesday, according to the Grey Bruce Health Unit. The new case brings the region’s total COVID-19 case count to 102, including two presumptive cases. A recent initiative to test all staff working at long-term care homes has yielded a false-positive test […]

With the region now in Stage 2 of the province’s COVID-19 reopening plan, Owen Sound and the city’s Downtown Improvement Area board are again welcoming people to shop in the core. “The whole focus is on – things are opening up and we’re encouraging people to shop locally, to get downtown and see some of […]

A pair of temporary foreign workers tested positive for COVID-19 earlier this month in Grey-Bruce, according to Dr. Ian Arra, the region’s medical officer of health. Arra said six other migrant workers at the farm were exposed to the virus, but the infected workers were immediately quarantined and the other six workers isolated for 14 […]

Police chased then charged a 40-year-old man with offences after a report of trespassing in Bruce Peninsula National Park June 15. The park is closed due to COVID-19 emergency orders and park wardens notified Grey Bruce OPP about a trespassing incident. Police spotted the suspect vehicle in line to board the Chi-Cheeman ferry in Tobermory. […]

Ontario’s Special Investigation Unit is looking into an interaction involving South Bruce OPP and a missing man who was injured when a fire started in the car he was in while police were trying to talk with him. About 5:15 p.m. on, the OPP received a call about a 36-year-old man in distress, according to […]

A Eugenia boy about 12 years old appeared to break both of his legs when he fell down a treacherous route to the bottom of Eugenia Falls Tuesday afternoon. The boy apparently slipped about halfway along an unauthorized yet well-used route and tumbled about nine metres to the bottom, Grey Highlands Fire Chief Marty Wellwood […]

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Newly hatched piping plover chicks would normally be scurrying around the sand at Sauble Beach around this time of year under the careful watch of their protective parents. But this year, plover watchers discovered a much different scene after the South Bruce Peninsula beach reopened for restricted use last week following a few months of […]

There were no new cases of COVID-19 reported by the Grey Bruce Health Unit Tuesday, and a previously listed case has been declared a false-positive result. The false positive, reported in The Blue Mountains, has now been removed from the region’s data, leaving a total regional case count of 101. Twenty-five healthcare workers have contracted […]

Owen Sound is streamlining the process for restaurants, cafes and other establishments to seek and receive city approval to open up sidewalk patios. Instead of requiring those businesses to receive council’s blessing for the patios, council voted Monday to delegate to the city manager the authority to approve the design, layout and placement of the […]

Ralph Rudowski was sentenced in Owen Sound Tuesday to life in prison with no possibility of parole for 12 years for murdering his Wiarton neighbour and friend more than two years ago. Superior Court Justice John Sproat ordered copies of his reasons be forwarded to the municipality of South Bruce Peninsula and to the local […]

An emergency at the doorstep of millions of Canadians has created measurable positive change for the environment and has politicians taking from the coffers. Now, local climate activists are hoping the quick, exhaustive and sweeping government action enacted to fight COVID-19 will one day soon be aimed at helping remedy another global emergency. The Climate […]

With calls to “defund the police” growing in North America, a city councillor is planning to present a proposal to adopt the measure in Owen Sound. Coun. John Tamming notified council Monday that he will introduce a motion June 29 that, if approved, would “effectively defund police services by 30 per cent” and redirect that […]

Port Elgin Pumpkinfest officials have stripped Brad Scott, charged with child luring, of his position as president of the board of directors following an emergency Pumpkinfest meeting June 16. “The actions Mr. Scott has been charged with are inexcusable and the Board of Directors strongly condemn child exploitation of any kind,” Dave Mensher, the new […]

Owen Sound’s plea Monday for federal and provincial emergency funding to help municipalities recover in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic will likely be this council’s most important request, says Deputy-mayor Brian O’Leary. Without the assistance, he said municipalities will be forced to address pandemic-related revenue shortfalls and cost increases with their only available tools […]

Searching resumes Tuesday near the Davidson Centre in Kincardine for clues to Joe Moore’s disappearance, now nearly eight years ago. The Owen Sound-based Please Bring Me Home team of volunteers, with dogs trained to sniff out human remains, searched the bush and trail system Friday and was to return to finish searching that area. Moore […]

A single new case of COVID-19 was reported in Grey-Bruce Monday by the Grey Bruce Health Unit. It’s the first new COVID-19 case in the region since Friday when a pair of new cases were reported. The region’s total number of COVID-19 cases now stands at 102 with 92 recovered cases, five active cases, and […]

South Bruce OPP charged two Kincardine men after responding to a report at 2:30 p.m. June 12 of a break-and-enter in progress. When police arrived at the location along Highway 9 in Kincardine, they took two people into custody without incident. A 56-year-old man and a 25-year-old man are each charged with break and enter, […]

Police charged six people with drugs and weapons offences after seizing cocaine, crack cocaine, methamphetamine and fentanyl worth $3,000 after searching two properties in the former Bruce Township Friday. Police also seized offence-related property including a pellet gun and some Canadian cash in the searches of property along Albert Road and along Maplewood Drive, a […]

Ontario’s independent police oversight agency is investigating involvement between two West Grey police officers and a man who suffered serious injuries. West Grey police were dispatched in the early morning June 6 to a dispute on Concession 14 NDR in West Grey, a West Grey Police Service news release said. “An altercation occurred between police […]

There were no new cases of COVID-19 reported Sunday according to the Grey Bruce Health Unit’s situation report. The region has now gone two straight days without a newly reported case of the disease after two new cases were listed Friday. The region’s total still stands at 101 including one presumptive case pending confirmation in […]

Places of worship could officially open their doors for in-person services Sunday, but it seems like most local congregations are taking a cautious approach. Some church communities may never go back to how things were before the COVID-19 pandemic. The provincial government began allowing all places of worship to open June 12, with modifications made […]

No new COVID-19 cases were reported in the Grey-Bruce region in the past 24 hours according to Saturday’s edition of the Grey Bruce Health Unit’s daily situation report. A correction was made in Saturday’s report pertaining to a previous case said to be in Huron-Kinloss that was actually reported in Arran Elderslie. There have been […]

Over a hundred participants, young and old, Black and Indigenous but mostly white, joined in a march through downtown Wiarton Saturday morning in support of the Black Lives Matter movement. Some played instruments. Most carried signs. They all wore masks. Organizers ensured those who did not bring their own face covering were given a donated […]

Owen Sound council is set to vote Monday night on a staff proposal that would make it easier and faster for restaurants, cafes and other establishments to receive city approval to create and open up sidewalk patios at their businesses. A report from city manager Tim Simmonds, which recommends the city streamline the application and […]

While most of the Bruce Trail is again open, there are still some sections closed in Grey-Bruce, including some lengthy stretches on the Bruce Peninsula. The Bruce Trail Conservancy has announced the gradual reopening of the trail in recent weeks after it closed down in April as public health measures took effect to help slow […]

The COVID-19 case number in Grey-Bruce remains at 99 as no new cases of the disease were reported in Tuesday’s daily situation report released by the Grey Bruce Health Unit. Eighty-eight cases have now recovered leaving 11 active cases reported in the region, none of which are currently hospitalized. No deaths have been attributed to […]

Prior to COVID-19, hair salon owner Megan Gillespie didn’t realize how essential the service she provides is, but she certainly knows now. Since the province announced Monday that it was moving ahead with Stage 2 of reopening beginning Friday, Gillespie’s phone at Creative Hairstyling in downtown Owen Sound has been ringing almost non-stop. “I have […]

Sentencing submissions Tuesday in Owen Sound in the Ralph Rudowski murder case called for life imprisonment with no chance of parole for 15 years at the Crown’s request, while the defence is asking for 10 years before the chance of parole. Rudowski, 62, admitted at trial in the Superior Court of Justice he beat and […]

Grey County is looking for information about a large spill of a tar-like substance that stretched more than 60 kilometres along county roads. Sometime early Saturday morning the substance was spilled on stretches of Grey Road 40 and Grey Road 3 from Chatsworth, along County Road 40, south on Grey Road 3, through Ayton and […]

A march in solidarity of the Black Lives Matter movement will lap downtown Owen Sound before arriving at the Black History Cairn in Harrison Park Wednesday. The march will start at 4 p.m. in front of the Owen Sound Farmers’ Market and circle downtown before passing city hall on 2nd Avenue East en route to […]

There were no new cases of COVID-19 reported by the Grey Bruce Health Unit on Monday, the second day none were added to the cumulative total for the region. Only one new case of COVID-19 was reported over the weekend to the Grey Bruce Health Unit, bringing the total number of local cases to date […]

The unemployment rate for the region including Grey-Bruce reached 9.3 per cent in May – the highest since comparable data were kept back to 2001 for the economic region. The last time Grey, Bruce, Huron and Perth counties came the closest to that unemployment rate was in May 2009, when it was 9.1 per cent, […]

Grey and Bruce counties are asking residents and businesses across the region to celebrate the class of 2020 later this month. The two counties are joining together to invite residents and graduates to “make history” with a collective at-home graduation celebration on June 24 at 7 p.m. The regional celebration is being held to compliment […]

Sauble Beach will open on Tuesday for people to walk through on a restricted, trial basis. South Bruce Peninsula announced early Monday afternoon that its beaches and parks would be reopening, but pools, splash pads, playgrounds and fitness equipment would remain closed. Those who access the beach will not be permitted to sit, stand, lie […]

A Brockton teenager has been charged with numerous offences after a pay loader was taken in southern Bruce County and driven on roadways, private property and across farmers fields on Friday. The 19-year-old suspect has been charged with dangerous driving, two counts of operation while prohibited, two counts of assaulting a peace officer, theft over […]

Norma Jean’s has taken a final bow. The cozy downtown Owen Sound bistro, which first opened in 1984, has closed its doors for good. Owner Julia Gendron said she had been considering an exit strategy from the restaurant industry for the past few years, but those plans were accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic. “I would […]

Only one new case of COVID-19 was reported over the weekend to the Grey Bruce Health Unit, bringing the total number of local cases to date to 99. The case was reported Saturday, while Sunday saw no new cases reported to public health, according to the agency’s most recent situation reports. Eighty-eight of the 99 […]

Dr. Brooke Edwards says the Owen Sound area is an incredible place to train to become a well-rounded physician. “The hospital is big enough that there is a lot going on and a lot of really good learning opportunities, but there’s not a lot of other residents around so you get to work one-on-one with […]

The local United Way has kicked off its annual backpack program earlier this year as the agency prepares for an expected surge in demand due to the COVID-19 pandemic. “We’re anticipating almost double the number of kids needing to access the program this year,” Francesca Dobbyn, executive director of the United Way of Bruce Grey, […]