Owen Sound Sun Times

Owen Sound police charged a 30-year-old woman with cruelty to an animal after police say they determined “she had purposely killed a pet hamster.” Police said in a news release that they arrested and charged the Owen Sound woman about 1 p.m. Sunday and released her on conditions that she not possess any animal. She […]

Owen Sound police responded to three vehicle collisions in two hours Sunday. About 4:16 p.m. a cyclist rode through a red light, collided with a car and suffered minor scrapes but needed no medical attention, police said in a news release. Three cyclists were riding eastbound on 10th Street West. The first went through the […]

JUNIOR ATTACK Peewee Jr. Attack advance to OMHA semifinal The Owen Sound Garb & Gear Junior Attack minor peewee squad shut out the Centre-Wellington Fusion 2-0 Sunday in Fergus to advance to the OMHA Minor Peewee single-A semifinal against the St. Thomas Stars. The Jr. Attack won the series in total points, 6-4, in Game […]

Georgian Bluffs will hold a public open house to discuss its draft recreation and trails master plan. The meeting will take place at the Shallow Lake Community Centre on March 12. A time has yet to be finalized. The purpose of the plan is to provide council and staff with direction for its recreational assets […]

A Southampton woman has been named the victim in a crash between a minivan and a transport truck hauling logs east of Shelburne Feb. 21. Jennifer Poet, 67, was pronounced dead at the scene of the collision on Highway 89 near the 3rd Line at about 7:45 p.m. Dufferin OPP said in a news release […]

We’re right back where we started. The Owen Sound Attack bounced back from Saturday’s horror show with a 4-2 win over the Erie Otters Sunday inside the Harry Lumley Bayshore Community Centre. That means we’ve entered the junior hockey twilight zone where the last 48 hours mean zero in the Ontario Hockey League standings. Not […]

William Strutton says Safe ‘n Sound saved him. “Honestly, if it wasn’t for Safe ‘n Sound, I’d still be out on the street. I would. I just wouldn’t care about life,” the 43-year-old Owen Sound resident said Saturday during the non-profit organization’s second annual Coldest Night of the Year fundraising walk, which raised about $15,000. […]

Chelsea Rydall says she feared she would never see her engagement ring again after it was inadvertently tossed in the trash before being hauled away to a local dump. “I was devastated. I cried so hard,” she recalled in an interview. But thanks to some quick action, helpful people along the way and about 45 […]

It’s not supposed to be that easy to win in Owen Sound. The Harry Lumley Bayshore Community Centre with its low ceilings, tight confines, and dim lighting isn’t supposed to be a welcoming place for visiting Ontario Hockey League teams. The Erie Otters lit it up Saturday. Erie topped the Attack 7-4 in front of […]

For the second Friday in a row, students at all Bluewater District School Board schools are expected to have the day off Feb. 28 as a result of a strike by local members of a provincial teachers’ union. The Ontario Secondary School Teachers’ Federation (OSSTF) says its planned, one-day full withdrawal of services at select […]

Local supporters of Wet’suwet’en hereditary chiefs, who are trying to stop construction of a natural gas pipeline through their unceded traditional territory in northern British Columbia, staged solidarity rallies Friday. A few dozen people participated in a march at Saugeen First Nation, which took place a few hours after a similar protest brought together about […]

An estimated 1,200 teachers and other educational staff marched in downtown Owen Sound in a giant showing of solidarity as they continue their fight with the province. The walkout was one of two in Grey-Bruce held on Friday, along with another held at Walkerton District Community School, and included members from all four of the […]

Bruce County council has deferred a vote on a motion to support the idea of using a deep geological repository to store used nuclear fuel. Saugeen Shores Mayor Luke Charbonneau tabled the motion. He said nuclear power is necessary for energy needs and added the motion supports the Nuclear Waste Management Organization’s process of finding […]

Sometimes we just need a little help from our friends. Lee Stephens couldn’t buy a bucket in the first quarter. The St. Mary’s guard was 0-for-plenty as the Georgian Bay Thunder took a sizeable first-half lead in the Bluewater Athletic Association senior boys basketball championship Thursday evening. But in the second half, a small-but-loud gathering […]

Business is booming at Walker House in Southampton. Manager Caley Doran said the eatery is “very busy” and has become a preferred destination for banquets and events. It’s currently undergoing a million-dollar-plus renovation, he said, to improve its kitchen, banquet area and washrooms. But the restaurant – like many other businesses in Grey-Bruce – is […]

A post mortem examination has determined that a West Grey police officer found dead in a police vehicle near Mount Forest on Tuesday morning died of a self-inflicted injury. Cory Trainor, 28, was found dead in the vehicle on Sideroad 6 in Southgate Township early Tuesday morning. On Thursday, Owen Sound Police Services Insp. David […]

Grey County’s housing director, Anne Marie Shaw, is taking on the role of interim chief administrative officer for Georgian Bluffs. Shaw was appointed to the position at a council meeting on Wednesday, taking over from clerk Wendi Hunter, who had been filling the role on an interim basis since late last year. Hunter took on […]

Owen Sound is moving its biennial Arts & Cultural Awards reception and ceremony from the Harry Lumley Bayshore Community Centre to the downtown Georgian Bay Centre for the Arts. Events assistant Heather Gillis said city officials think the new centre, which opened late last year, is a more fitting venue for the event, which this […]

Three people escaped a fire at a west-side Owen Sound apartment, but a cat died in the blaze on Wednesday evening. Just before 11 p.m., Owen Sound police attended the blaze at the request of the Owen Sound Fire Department. The fire in the third-floor apartment was caused by a candle that had been knocked […]

Farm protests that began in Ireland last summer over low cattle prices have since added momentum through developments in The Netherlands, Germany and France over the impact on agriculture of what one protester has called “climate hysteria.” Dutch farmers turned out on tractors on three separate occasions in October to create historic traffic jams on […]

If someone was dying of thirst in the desert, and you had water, would you share your water with them? It’s a yes or no question. That question and the answer is at the centre of two U.S. court cases which have pitted the U.S. government and the U.S. Border Patrol against the Unitarian-Universalist Church, […]

So the other day I’m out for a walk in the south of France in a baseball cap and a sweatshirt. This is how I always look everywhere and I don’t think about it much usually because I’m trying to exercise and I’m thinking of all the good food I’m going to eat when I’m […]

The Walkerton District Riverhawks are peaking at the right time. The Riverhawks won the Bluewater Athletic Association senior girls volleyball title Wednesday in Owen Sound by downing the previously undefeated OSDSS Wolves and one-loss Sacred Heart Crusaders. The Riverhawks entered championship day with a record of 5-3, but they looked unstoppable when it mattered most. […]

After more than 35 years in professional theatre that has taken him across Canada, Robert More is coming home to Owen Sound. The veteran actor, director, artistic director, general manager and playwright began his new role as executive director of the Roxy and Owen Sound Little Theatre on Feb. 10 and is looking forward to […]

A Teeswater man has died following a head-on collision between a transport truck and compact car. It happened at about 4 p.m. Tuesday on Highway 9 just south of Concession Road 12 East, north of Mildmay. An investigation determined the compact vehicle was northbound on the highway when, for unknown reasons, it crossed the centre […]

A funeral service is scheduled for Thursday and a celebration of life will take place in June for Ruth Gorbet, the affable founding member of Owen Sound Little Theatre and award-winning actor, director and volunteer. Mrs. Gorbet died Tuesday at age 89 at the Residential Hospice of Grey Bruce’s Chapman House in Owen Sound. While […]

Owen Sound police have released the name of a West Grey officer found dead near Mount Forest early Tuesday morning. “Constable Cory Trainor, a 28-year-old member of the West Grey Police Service was located deceased in a police vehicle on Sideroad 6 in Southgate Township,” Owen Sound Police Services Insp. David Bishop wrote in a […]

Catholic schools in Grey-Bruce are expected to be closed Feb. 27 after the Ontario English Catholic Teachers Association announced rotating strikes for next week. The union, which represents approximately 500 elementary and secondary permanent and occasional teachers employed by the Bruce-Grey Catholic District School Board, said in a news release that it plans to hold […]

Grey-Bruce home sales in January were just one sale off the record for the month. A total of 141 homes were sold in the region covered by the Realtors Association of Grey Bruce Owen Sound last month, a 23.7 per cent jump from January 2019 and just one sale below the record for the month […]

The Supreme Cannabis Co., which owns the 7ACRES growing facility in Tiverton, is reducing its workforce across the company by 15 per cent. The move comes following the implementation of a new operating structure for the company that is aimed at driving efficiencies and supporting long-term profitable growth, according to a news release. “As interim […]

About 100 employers will be together in one spot for local job seekers in Owen Sound on Thursday. The County of Grey will hold its 2020 Regional Job Fair at the Harry Lumley Bayshore Community Centre from 2 to 7 p.m. “We have about 100 employers registered for the job fair and the positions they […]

Police are hoping to speak with anyone who may have witnessed a collision Dec. 21 between a car and pedestrian near Blue Mountain. The pedestrian was struck by a westbound Subaru Outback while walking on Gord Canning Drive near the Westin Hotel at about 8 p.m., according to a news release from the Collingwood-Blue Mountains […]

The Owen Sound & District Chamber of Commerce is undertaking a restructuring process that has resulted in the contract of its top staffer not being renewed. The organization, which has close to 500 member businesses, announced the departure of former chief executive officer Peter Reesor in a message sent to members late last week. “The […]

The Oshawa Generals erased two different Attack leads to win Monday’s game in overtime, 4-3, and hand Owen Sound their third-straight loss inside the Tribute Communities Centre. The Family Day matinee was strangely the second Monday contest between the two clubs as the only other game of the season had to be rescheduled to Jan. […]

The night before jumping into Port Elgin harbour Family Day morning, Eithan Alpaugh had been thinking. He thought about the arresting February cold: “Oh God, I’m going to have jump into this freezing cold lake. What am I doing and why am I doing this?” The morning of the plunge – a fundraiser for the […]

Mudtown Station restaurant and brewery won the 3rdannual Owen Sound Soup Market competition Monday, proving they know how to make a fine borscht. The tasty beet-based hot soup was served to customers at the Owen Sound Legion. Eleven local restaurants offered a soup in the friendly fundraising competition in support of Safe ‘n Sound in […]

JUNIOR ATTACK Minor peewees still streaking The Owen Sound Garb & Gear Source for Sports Junior Attack minor peewee club are buzzing in OMHA playdown action. The Jr. Attack doubled-up the Centre-Wellington Fusion this weekend by topping the Fusion 4-1 Saturday in Fergus and then shutting out the Fusion 6-0 in Owen Sound Sunday. The […]

Give them half a chance and the Petes are going to put the puck in the net. Peterborough had a 20-minute head start en route to a 5-3 win Saturday night in front of 3,075 spectators at the Harry Lumley Bayshore Community Centre. If anything has been consistent in Owen Sound this season, it’s been […]

Local protestors who support Wet’suwet’en hereditary chiefs against the Coastal GasLink natural gas pipeline in northern British Columbia gathered near Bruce-Grey-Owen Sound MP Alex Ruff’s Owen Sound constituency office Saturday. A couple of dozen people, several holding signs and one with an Iroquois Confederacy flag, then carried their message through the downtown , ending up […]

Owen Sound police found the driver of a white sport utility vehicle which left the scene of a collision with another car about 3:15 a.m. Saturday in the city. Police said the vehicle left the collision scene at 9th Street West and 2nd Avenue West with significant damage to the passenger and driver sides. Police […]

Police charged a 49-year-old from Owen Sound with drug-related offences after seizing $93,000 worth of drugs at location along Highway 21 in South Bruce Peninsula Friday, a joint police forces news release said. Owen Sound Police Service and OPP officers seized cocaine, heroin, LSD and oxycodone pills, plus offence-related property including more than $31,000 in […]

The top-ranked North American goaltender headed into this summer’s National Hockey League draft showed why he’s deserving of the praise Friday night as he snatched a victory for his Guelph Storm. Nico Daws made 40 saves in a shut out effort as the Storm snapped the Owen Sound Attack’s four-game winning streak, 2-0, inside the […]

Significant, rapid growth in The Blue Mountains has contributed to serious traffic problems in the town, say representatives of a ratepayers’ group, which is urging Grey County to spend more money to upgrade the county’s roads in the municipality. “What we’re saying is, we need investment from the county so that our growth is sustainable,” […]

Mark Woolley looks back and laughs now at the strange premonition he had sitting in the plastic seats at the Harry Lumley Bayshore Community Centre just weeks before he was traded to the Owen Sound Attack alongside his teammate and friend Barret Kirwin. Woolley was hurt and Kirwin was suspended as the Guelph Storm arrived […]

Grey Roots will add First and Second World War military artifacts related to late Grey County veterans to its permanent collection. County council voted at Thursday’s committee of the whole meeting to allow the museum to withdraw $3,827 from a reserve fund to buy the items from a local historian and collector, who has decided […]

The Blue Mountains will have roughly $1 million in additional, unbudgeted property tax revenue to address its “critical” affordable housing shortage following a tight Grey County vote that even divided members of the same municipalities. In a weighted 48-42 recorded vote, council agreed to let the town keep a significant portion of the county’s share […]

The OSDSS Wolves and Kincardine District Knights played to a 1-1 draw Thursday inside the Julie McArthur Regional Recreation Centre to wrap up the Bluewater Athletic Association varsity girls hockey regular season. The result was a bit of an upset for the 3-1-0 Knights who came into the contest having outscored teams 16-5 on the […]

The $7 million to $10 million private Cedar Crescent Village (CCV) proposal on town-owned land at Port Elgin Main Beach has been approved. In a 7-1 vote, with one abstention, Town of Saugeen Shores councillors supported a 50-year-lease with CCV proponents – six local businessmen led by Queen’s Bar & Grill owner Pier Donnini. While […]

A small contingent of French-language Catholic teachers hit the picket lines in Owen Sound on Thursday, as the province’s teachers’ unions continue their battle with the province. Approximately 20 members of the Association des enseignantes et des enseignants franco-ontariens (AEFO) were protesting outside Bruce-Grey-Owen Sound MPP Bill Walker’s office on Thursday morning. They were joined […]

Both the novel coronavirus – which has not yet been confirmed in Grey-Bruce – and the seasonal flu are of concern to the region’s medical officer of health. “Influenza is a disease that is responsible for the deaths of about 3,000 to 4,000 Canadians every year,” Dr. Ian Arra said in an interview. “The coronavirus […]