Owen Sound Sun Times

This week’s heatwave has prompted the city to open up the Owen Sound Farmers’ Market pavilion as an “open-air” cooling centre while its facilities remain closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Chairs will be set up in the sheltered space from noon to 4:30 p.m. throughout the week until temperatures cool down, according to a […]

Excessive speed is again “rearing its ugly head” in Grey-Bruce and police are asking drivers to slow down when travelling on area highways. “There has been a noticeable increase of stunt drives that are going on again,” Grey Bruce OPP Const. Adam Belanger said Tuesday. “We are definitely trying to get out in front of […]

It was “already over” by the time firefighters arrived at a blaze that completely destroyed a Dorena Crescent home in Sauble Beach Sunday afternoon, according to South Bruce Peninsula Fire Chief Normand Beauchamp. Beauchamp said the home’s “lightweight construction” and the aggressive nature of the fire made the structure “impossible” to save. There were no […]

Five people were charged with stunt driving on Highway 6 in South Bruce Peninsula over the weekend. All five of the drivers, who were travelling at 50 kilometres per hour or more over the posted speed limit, were issued a provincial summons to attend court, received a seven-day licence suspension and had their vehicles towed […]

Owen Sound has decided to cancel this year’s Canada Day and Harbourfest events due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but is still planning to light up the night sky with fireworks sometime in August or September. Council unanimously approved Monday night a motion by Coun. Brock Hamley to shelve the two July celebrations – the most […]

Owen Sound’s COVID-19 assessment centre may have to ramp back up its hours and staffing after 47 people showed up to be tested Monday on the heels of Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s weekend call for asymptomatic people to get a test. Gary Sims, the president and CEO of Grey Bruce Health Services, said he expects […]

A 35-year-old man of no fixed address has been arrested and charged with attempted murder after an apparent stabbing in Durham early Sunday morning. West Grey Police started an investigation at 12:30 a.m. after a 33-year-old male was injured during an altercation behind a Garafraxa Street South building. The victim was taken to hospital with […]

A 35-year-old man of no fixed address has been arrested and charged with attempted murder after an apparent stabbing in Durham early Sunday morning. West Grey Police started an investigation at 12:30 a.m. after a 33-year-old male was injured during an altercation behind a Garafraxa Street South building. The victim was taken to hospital with […]

Firefighters had to battle a fire as well as the heat after a shed caught fire north of Annan on Sunday afternoon. The Inter Township Fire Department responded to the fire on Sydenham Lakeshore Drive at 2:50 p.m., where a shed had caught fire before spreading to the grass, some debris and a mobile home […]

There’s still time for people to get their income taxes prepared for free though the YMCA – without having to bring tax slips and identification in person amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. The Canada Revenue Agency has enabled community groups to help students and people with low and fixed incomes via the internet or by […]

The Grey Bruce Health Unit reported one new case of COVID-19 over two days this weekend. The new case, confirmed on Saturday, was reported in a resident of Southgate, bringing the total number of cases confirmed in Grey-Bruce to 91. It was the first case reported locally in almost a week, after two cases were […]

Carol Law of McCullough Lake has combined something she loves with helping others as she waits out the COVID-19 pandemic. Law, who like so many others has been holed up at home while riding out the pandemic, has turned her attention to creating laundry bags for first responders and frontline workers such as nurses, firefighters […]

As Ontario’s retailers reopen after being closed the past couple of months due to the COVID-19 pandemic, downtown Owen Sound is slowly following suit. While some businesses in the city’s core have started to reopen their doors to customers with added health sand safety measures in place, others are continuing to only fulfil orders online […]

The Grey Bruce Health Unit reported one new case of COVID-19 on Saturday. The new case, confirmed in the 24 hours leading up to 3:30 p.m. on Saturday, was reported in a resident of Southgate, bringing the total number of cases confirmed in Grey-Bruce to 91. It was the first case reported locally in almost […]

There were no new lab-test confirmed cases of COVID-19 reported in Grey-Bruce Friday according to the Grey Bruce Health Unit’s daily situation report. None of the active cases have been hospitalized because of the disease, and no deaths have occurred in the region as a direct result of COVID-19. Eighty-one cases have now recovered, leaving […]

A 28-year-old resident of Brockton has been arrested and charged after a reported break-in at a property in South Bruce on Thursday. South Bruce OPP received the report of the break-in at 10:14 a.m. at a property along Bruce Rd. 6 in the former Culross Township. Officers found that someone wearing a backpack had run […]

A Northern Bruce Peninsula man faces numerous weapons charges after an incident in Northern Bruce Peninsula on Thursday. Grey Bruce OPP responded to Corey Crescent at 10:18 a.m. about a weapons complaint, where there was an argument involving several people and one person displayed a firearm in a threatening way, it said in a news […]

He’s sitting on a mountain of bragging rights, but he makes a point to share the view. Perhaps that’s one of the reasons Dale DeGray and the Owen Sound Attack brass were so high on the Rockland native they made the 10th-overall pick in the Ontario Hockey League draft in April. The team has preached […]

Softball Canada’s board of directors have made the decision to cancel all of the Canadian fast-pitch and slow-pitch national championships for the 2020 season amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. The move nixes a total of 10 Canadian championships scheduled to be held in six different provinces this summer, including the 2020 U23 Men’s Canadian Fast […]

There were no new lab-test confirmed cases of COVID-19 reported in Grey Bruce according to the Grey Bruce Health Unit’s daily situation report Thursday. Eighty-one of the region’s 90 total cases have recovered to date, and 24 cases of the disease have been reported in healthcare workers. No long-term care homes are currently under a […]

Four people were treated for minor injuries after a farm tractor towing an implement and an SUV were involved in a collision on Highway 21 near Jackson. Grey Bruce OPP were dispatched to the collision involving a red tractor towing a farm implement and a grey SUV east of Jackson in Georgian Bluffs at 8:18 […]

A Grey Highlands man faces stunt driving charges after a pick-up truck was stopped going over 150 kilometres per hour in an 80 km/h zone. Just before 4 a.m. on Thursday, Grey Bruce OPP stopped a brown pick-up truck that was northbound on Highway 10 near Road 170 south of Flesherton. The 30-year-old man who […]

A Northern Bruce Peninsula man has been charged after an assault at a campground near Tobermory on Wednesday. At about 8:45 p.m. Grey Bruce OPP were dispatched to a campground at Highway 6 in Northern Bruce Peninsula, where they located a person who had sustained an injury to the face. The victim was treated at […]

The number of movements and sales of fuel continued to fall at the Wiarton-Keppel International Airport in April due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Georgian Bluffs council received a report from airport manager Zachery Premate during its online meeting on Wednesday, when it heard that aircraft movements were down almost 137 per cent in April compared […]

Work is progressing well on the reconstruction of Inglis Falls Road since it closed to traffic more than two months ago. The road was closed down to through traffic in mid-March for the multi-million-dollar project that will see the complete reconstruction of about 640 metres of roadway. Mayor Dwight Burley said he recently had a […]

The Retooling and Economic Recovery Council formed by Bruce Power less than a month ago announced several initiatives undertaken recently to help in the fight against COVID-19 during a Facebook Live event Thursday. The council, introduced formally on April 30, includes all of Bruce Power’s supply chain partners in the nuclear industry and in partnership […]

Three Owen Sound men have been arrested in relation to a fentanyl trafficking investigation in Owen Sound. On Tuesday just before 5 p.m. members of the Owen Sound Police Service Drug Enforcement Unit and Criminal Investigation Branch arrested the men as they arrived in a vehicle at an east side motel. Police located highly toxic […]

A Northern Bruce Peninsula man has been arrested and charged after a robbery at the gas station in Ferndale on Saturday morning. At 5:45 a.m., Grey Bruce OPP were dispatched to the robbery at the gas station on Highway 6 in Northern Bruce Peninsula. As the business was being opened for the day, a man […]

There were no new lab-test confirmed cases of COVID-19 reported in the Grey Bruce Health Unit’s daily situation report Wednesday. A false-positive test result that sparked a declared outbreak at Golden Dawn long-term care home in Northern Bruce Peninsula was removed from the region’s cumulative case total, which is now back down to 90. The […]

South Bruce Peninsula officials have found ways to offset almost all of a more than $700,000 projected revenue loss due to COVID-19. At its last meeting on May 5, council heard from director of financial services Michael Humble that the town was expecting a revenue shortfall of approximately $720,000 by the end of August due […]

Wiarton’s big dig is going to be a little smaller. On Tuesday South Bruce Peninsula council gave the green light on a scaled-down version of its Berford Street reconstruction projects after bids for the work came in at about twice the estimate. “Basically what we did is we decided to pare the project down to […]

The Owen Sound Minor Soccer Association has cancelled all games, practices and events until the end of June. The OSMSA made the move to postpone soccer activities in accordance with the decision made by Ontario Soccer. “We are still planning on having a great soccer season this summer, but we know there are a lot […]

The Ontario Series Lacrosse league announced the cancellation of the 2020 season late Tuesday night. The Owen Sound Bug Juice North Stars senior B club won’t take the floor this year, as the COVID-19 pandemic has turned community centres into field hospitals and made a return to organized lacrosse impossible for the five-team league. The […]

An Owen Sound woman chased a man who attempted to steal her vehicle while she unloaded groceries at her west-side home Tuesday afternoon. While carrying groceries from her vehicle to her residence a man entered the car and sat in the driver’s seat. Upon her return, she encountered the man who then fled on foot. […]

When the Ontario government announced on Tuesday afternoon that students would not be returning to schools to finish off their year it didn’t come as a surprise to school board officials in Grey-Bruce. But the news provided some clarity as they continue to work with parents, students and teachers to complete the 2019-20 school year […]

There were no new lab-test confirmed COVID-19 cases in Grey-Bruce once again Tuesday according to the Grey Bruce Health Unit’s daily situation report. A false-positive test from Grey Gables in Markdale was removed from the data Tuesday leaving 91 confirmed cases in the region to date. Of those, 78 have now recovered and 24 have […]

Birds Canada staff will be ready to put protections around any piping plover nests at Sauble Beach as soon as the sandy shoreline is reopened to public access. Andrea Gress, the organization’s Ontario piping plover program co-ordinator, said exclosures – which are placed over nests to shield them from predators like gulls – and perimeter […]

Officials at the library in Owen Sound are gearing up to make books and other materials available for pickup, but say it will be several weeks yet before that chapter in the library’s reopening plan can begin. “Our board meeting is at the end of the month and we’ll be taking all the plans to […]

As local conservation authorities prepare to open some properties this weekend, some of the more popular ones in the region will remain closed. The Saugeen Valley Conservation Authority has announced it is reopening some parks on Friday. The Grey Sauble Conservation Authority plans to open many of its properties on Saturday. But well-known Grey Sauble […]

The 2020 season opener is going to look a little different at the Varney International Speedway Saturday. Stage 1 of the Ontario government’s reopening plan allows racetracks to start their engines, but spectators must remain at home. Varney Speedway owner Gord Bennett said the track will open for a “Stage 1 test run” with additional […]

Walkerton Inquiry commissioner Dennis O’Connor remains a beloved figure in the pretty Bruce County town that was made famous for a deadly water contamination crisis 20 years ago. He immersed himself in the community from the start, and even moved into a rented house with his wife amid a boil water order, during the nine-month […]

Minor injuries were reported after a two-vehicle crash in Kincardine on Saturday. Just after 2 p.m., South Bruce OPP received a report of the crash at the intersection of Highway 21 and Concession 5. Officers arrived to find one of the vehicles in the ditch. After police investigated, a 69-year-old Scarborough resident was charged with […]

Two people have been charged with stunt driving and had their licences suspended after being stopped in Georgian Bluffs on Sunday evening. Just after 8 p.m., Grey Bruce OPP were patrolling Highway 6 when two cars were observed travelling together at a high rate of speed. Both cars were stopped by the OPP, it said […]

I fully admit to being deeply troubled by the painful rhetoric between cottagers and permanent residents across Ontario. This is one part of COVID-19 which was somewhat unexpected and from my personal perspective, challenging. You probably know of this discussion and the passion it has produced. Many rural residents and politicians across cottage country have […]

Do you know what really hurts my feelings? When my debit card won’t work. It hurts my feelings like when I am walking confidently down the street and I trip but not enough to hurt myself. I trip in the way where it just jars me a little. It is like this when I try […]

It looks very much this year as if the Lake Huron/Lake Michigan basin will break the annual high water record set in 1986. The Detroit office of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) published an updated water level outlook late last week that warns of high water, but that shouldn’t come as a surprise. […]

Heading into the Victoria Day long weekend, South Bruce Peninsula’s mayor used yellow pavement tape from public works to create arrows on Sauble Beach’s Main Street sidewalks to encourage physical distancing over what has historically been the busy “unofficial start” to summer. “We needed to prepare for the worst,” Mayor Janice Jackson said in an […]

Walkerton continues to wear the stigma of its deadly water crisis, now 20 years old – or does it? Google searches still list information about the town’s E. coli tragedy at or near the top of results. For some, Walkerton will always be synonymous with bad water. But many local people point out there is […]

There were no active declared COVID-19 outbreaks at care facilities in Grey-Bruce by late Monday afternoon, although the Grey Bruce Health Unit was waiting for the results of follow-up testing for a staff member at Grey Gables in Markdale who had tested positive. The cumulative total of positive tests for the twin counties stood at […]

With its commercial fishing industry “devastated” by COVID-19 and unemployment on the rise, the Chippewas of Nawash Unceded First Nation has come up with a way to assist both its fishermen and community members during the pandemic. The First Nation on the Bruce Peninsula is purchasing whitefish and salmon from its fishermen and donating vacuum-sealed […]