Owen Sound Sun Times

A Brockton man has been charged with arson after a barn fire in Brockton on Wednesday. Just before 7 a.m. South Bruce OPP received a report of a structure fire along Bruce Road 2 in the former Brant Township Police and members of the Walkerton Fire Department arrived to find the building fully engulfed in […]

A Georgian Bluffs woman has won more than $1 million in Lotto 6/49. Anneke Van Den Heuvel, a 63-year-old grandmother, won the guaranteed $1 million prize in the June 22 Lotto 6/49 draw, along with $2 on the main draw. The retiree plans to spread the wealth around to her children and grandchildren, while also […]

An aluminum canoe sculpture that was just recently unveiled in Walkerton is being repaired after someone cut the paddles off it. The canoe, which was officially launched on Sept. 28 with an event in the parkette near the pavilion near the Saugeen River Trail, was damaged just one day later. The canoe had only been […]

The Bruce-Grey Catholic District School Board has decided to close its schools Monday if a strike by the union representing its support staff goes ahead. The board issued a letter from Director of Education Gary O’Donnell Friday morning confirming that its 13 secondary and elementary schools will be closed to students unless a new central […]

Georgian Bluffs is immediately closing a bridge on Side Road 3 that is in danger of collapsing. The bridge, known as Structure D-007, located in the former Derby Township between Concession 11 and the Grey-Bruce Line, has large cracks in its base and disintegrating abutments that could see it fail at any time. CAO and […]

Desirae MacLennan shot the lights out Thursday leading her St. Mary’s Mustangs to a 39-36 overtime victory over the Georgian Bay Thunder in Owen Sound. The point guard’s four made three-point shots helped her finish with a team-leading 15 points. However, the game’s biggest shot came off the hand of Ariana Alexander. With the teams […]

South Bruce Peninsula has been convicted in Provincial Offences court of two counts of damaging endangered piping plover habitat through its beach maintenance work at Sauble Beach in 2017. Justice of the Peace Charles Anderson said in both instances the work, authorized by town council, contravened the municipality’s own bylaw and best practices established by […]

Georgian Bluffs and Chatsworth are exploring all their options to make their municipal biodigester operate more efficiently. On Wednesday at Georgian Bluffs council, CAO and Director of Operations Rick Winters gave an update on the facility after the municipality passed a bylaw to accept source separated organic leachate from the Region of Huronia Environmental Services […]

A man who broke into a westside Owen Sound residence the afternoon of May 1 and struck a pet dog with a hatchet-sized axe multiple times was sentenced to 18 months in jail Thursday. The dog, Gus, was injured so badly he had to be put down, and his owner remains full of fear and […]

Federal election candidates all agreed Wednesday night in Owen Sound at their fourth all-candidates meeting it has been a clean local campaign, with policy differences, not personal attacks, providing something to talk about. The Owen Sound & District Chamber of Commerce was host to all six candidates vying for the Bruce-Grey-Owen Sound seat. There were […]

It wasn’t until after his father died that artist Patrick DeCoste learned of his Mi’kmaq heritage. Today, his Metis identity shines through in his work, including self portraits in traditional clothing, maps painted on animal hides and the use of other traditional Indigenous and Metis items such as a canoe and dried turtle that was […]

Bluewater District School Board schools are expected to be open on Monday, while the Bruce-Grey Catholic District School Board officials are asking parents and guardians to consider alternate child care arrangements while they work toward making a decision about school closures. While the Catholic board’s schools were to remain open for the rest of the […]

A 19-year-old man was pronounced dead at the scene after falling from a work truck in Dundalk at about noon Wednesday. The man, who police are not naming until next of kin are notified, had “fallen from a height,” Grey Bruce OPP said in a news release Thursday morning. Police did not say what the […]

He’s always been the guy. When Aidan Dudas was 16, a first-round pick of the Owen Sound Attack, Al Letang was behind the bench as an assistant coach. “Even then, he’s always been the guy who gets our bench going and gets our room going. In that aspect, he’s always been 100 per cent been […]

Bluewater District School Board schools are expected to be open on Monday after the union representing its custodial and maintenance staff gave strike notice Wednesday afternoon. The situation at the Bruce-Grey Catholic District School Board was still unknown late Wednesday afternoon as Director of Education Gary O’Donnell was on a call with principals to discuss […]

Grey Highlands Mayor Paul McQueen wants the county to apply to nearly double the number of long-term care beds at Grey Gables in Markdale. McQueen, whose municipality is home to the county-owned facility, served notice at a Grey County committee of the whole meeting last week that he will be introducing a motion Oct. 10 […]

Port Elgin will once again welcome the season’s giant vegetables along with those who grew them. The 33rd annual Pumpkinfest will take over the streets of Port Elgin on Saturday and Sunday featuring a wide range of attractions for the thousands expected to take in the festivities. “All my attractions, the midway and everybody is […]

A third Ontario Court judge based in Owen Sound will preside over criminal and family courts here and in other courts in the region, government officials said. Justice Valerie Leigh Brown will join Justice Julia Morneau, who presides in criminal court, and Justice Steven Harrison, the presiding family court justice, in Owen Sound’s Ontario Court […]

The shelves are definitely starting to look bare at the Salvation Army food bank with the annual Thanksgiving food drive set to begin Friday. People have begun filling paper bags that were received with their flyers, or purchasing filled bags of food at local grocers. Some filled bags are already sitting in the receiving area […]

A reggae artist and actor who lived in Hanover has been identified as the victim of a crash in Dufferin County on Monday. Leonard Ford, 66, also known as Louie Rankin, died in the crash on Highway 89 between County Rd. 12 and the 4th Line in the Township of Amaranth west of Shelburne on […]

Wednesday will be the last day when motorists will be able to use the 10th Street Bridge. On Tuesday there were a few more finishing touches that needed to be done to prepare for the project to replace the 108-year-old structure, but they were expected to be complete by the time the process to close […]

So far nothing related to Lois Hanna’s disappearance 31 years ago has turned up as a result of Saturday’s huge public search in southern Bruce County, search organizer Nick Oldrieve said Tuesday. Cadaver dogs spent Monday nosing around areas flagged by some of the 200 volunteers who searched a large area on Saturday near Holyrood, […]

A weekend of high-scoring blowouts has the Mount Forest Patriots (4-1-0-0) and Wingham Ironmen (6-0-0-0) out front of the pack in the local Provincial Junior Hockey League Pollock Division standings. The Patriots scored often in an 8-2 win over the Goderich Flyers (0-6-0-0) Friday evening in Mount Forest. Jack Birkett, the league’s leading scorer, had […]

Leo Haak was just six years old when his home country of the Netherlands was liberated from Nazi German control at the end of the Second World War. The 80-year-old Owen Sound resident’s daughter, Monica Brown, said those Canadian-led efforts 74 years ago to free the country following a brutal five-year occupation left a lasting […]

The Bluewater District School Board and Bruce-Grey Catholic District School Board are both affected by a work to rule campaign by a union representing school support staff. The job action started Monday by the Canadian Union of Public Employees, which represents about 160 custodial and maintenance staff with the Bluewater board and about 250 educational […]

Three people were taken to hospital and later released after a fire at an apartment on Owen Sound’s west side on Sunday morning. Just before 9 a.m., the Owen Sound Fire Department, Inter Township Fire Department, Owen Sound Police Service and paramedics responded to the building where a third-floor apartment was fully engulfed in flames. […]

Corey Phair says a back injury he suffered in 2013 while serving in the military triggered a chain reaction that led to an opioid addiction that took over his life. “The drugs caused me extreme depression and anxiety. Because of this, I isolated myself and became suicidal at times. I was ashamed of my situation […]

Cadaver dogs scrambled around areas on Monday that had been flagged during a huge search Saturday for Lois Hanna’s remains in southern Bruce County, 31 years after she went missing. About 200 people volunteered to conduct the grid search, orchestrated by the volunteer group Please Bring Me Home. The group, which has an anonymous tips […]

Fry scores four The Owen Sound Leeder & Associates Junior Attack major atom team battled to a weekend split with a loss at home and a win on the road. The squad faced New Hamburg at the Bayshore Saturday and fell 5-2. Avery Yarde scored both Attack goals, with Christian Sinclair, Brayden Power, Josh Rayner […]

Spencer Galbraith says people tend to dig deep when buying a bushel or a peck of his locally grown potatoes. “Growing potatoes, it’s really fun and it’s a lot of hard work, but it really does pay off in the end,” the 15-year-old Desboro 4-H Potato Club member said Sunday during Grey Roots’ annual Pratie […]

Owen Sound’s deputy-mayor says the revamped pedestrian and event space behind city hall is sure to be a “huge drawing card” for the Scenic City. “Personally, I think this is 10 times better than I could have imagined,” Brian O’Leary said of the Downtown River Precinct Plan area, as people gathered for Saturday’s celebratory Riverside […]

New faces and old tricks sent the Bayshore faithful home happy Saturday night. A buzzer-beating 3-2 victory over the Guelph Storm improved the Attack’s record to 2-1-0-1 early in the 2019-20 campaign. Both wins came after deflating defeats, and Saturday night’s win inside the Harry Lumley Bayshore Community Centre was at the tail-end of a […]

Nico Daws popped the Owen Sound Attack’s offensive balloon Friday night with a 28-save shutout. Just 24-hours after stunning the Barrie Colts with a 10-goal onslaught, the Attack fell 4-0 inside the Sleeman Centre at the hands of the defending league champions. Compared to Thursday night’s track meet in Barrie the Storm and Attack looked […]

No point in waiting Or hesitating We must get wise, take no more lies And do it now, now, now We need to build a better future And we need to start right now The closing verse of Sing for the Climate – Do it Now!, sung Friday at Owen Sound’s climate strike. * […]

Ontario Education Minister Stephen Lecce says he’s “open to innovative solutions” at the bargaining table that would reduce proposed class size increases, while still allowing the province to realize the savings it’s seeking in the education system. “The overall issue on classroom size, to be quite frank, is being litigated and negotiated at the table,” […]

Ontario Education Minister Stephen Lecce says he believes schools and child care spaces are “so fundamental” to the sustainability of rural communities. “In the absence of schools and affordable child care, small towns and villages will never be able to exist in this province,” he said Friday during a ceremonial groundbreaking event for the proposed […]

West Grey plans to enter a partnership agreement with a developer to replace an aging steel bridge with a wooden structure. The bridge, B-51, is on Concession 18 in the former Normanby Township. The proposed wooden structure is expected to cost $1.365 million. The municipality applied for a federal grant of $365,000 but it doesn’t […]

BASKETBALL Nadia Souksauh led the way as the Peninsula Shores Phoenix topped Bruce Peninsula 22-14 this week in BAA senior girls basketball season-opening action. In the only South Division contest, the defending champion Walkerton Riverhawks got off to a strong start with a 60-38 victory over John Diefenbaker. The Georgian Bay Thunder split games with […]

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Port Elgin’s Patricia Hyde won $1 million in the Sept. 21 LOTTO 6/49 draw, the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Commission announced Friday. Hyde, a retired 63-year-old mother of two and grandmother of three, plans to help her family and do some travelling with the money, the OLG release said. “I yelled ‘woo hoo’ and I […]

Fretz’s valu-mart in Sauble Beach will see no changes other than a new landlord as part of Choice Property Real Estate Investment Trust’s $426-million sale of 30 properties announced Sept. 20, franchise owner David Fretz said Friday. The Sauble Beach store is one of 27 stores and three distribution centres that will be sold to […]

West Grey police investigated incidents involving illegal tobacco, stolen booze and adult toys this week, a police said in news release round-up Friday. On Monday police stopped a vehicle and found 800 unmarked cigarettes inside. Police seized the cigarettes and charged the owner under the Tobacco Tax Act with possession of unmarked cigarettes. According to […]

Traditional Irish music will be filling Moreston Heritage Village at Grey Roots Sunday while people snack on Irish potato oatcakes in the log cabin and costumed interpreters share tales of the county’s early settler days. Those are among the things planned for the Rockford-area museum’s Pratie Oaten Irish Festival, which is set to run from […]

The Attack scored six-straight power-play goals en route to a 10-0 shellacking of the Barrie Colts Thursday night. Mack Guzda earned a 22-save shutout as all but five members of the Attack hit the scoresheet. Sergey Popov popped off for a goal and five assists. “I mean six points is kind of crazy,” Popov said. […]

Huron–Bruce MPP Lisa Thompson recently announced provincial government funding for more child-care spaces at St. Terea of Calcutta Elementary School in Walkerton. Thompson said the government has approved up to $1 million to build two new child-care rooms that will create 39 new child-care spaces — 15 toddler and 24 preschool spaces. The school now […]

Grey County has set the ambitious target of cutting chronic homelessness within its boundaries in half by 2024. It will also work to add more than 100 new affordable housing units over that same five-year period. Both are key objectives in Grey County’s updated Housing and Homelessness Plan, which councillors voted to endorse Thursday at […]

Like the ominous storm clouds that hung over the 166th Sydenham Fall Fair on Thursday morning, there is a dark cloud hanging over the future of the event, as it very well could be the final year for what is believed to be the last remaining school-run agricultural fair in Canada. But as the sun […]

A hydro pole was sheared off following a two-vehicle collision in Owen Sound on Wednesday afternoon. At about 2:30 p.m., Owen Sound police attended the crash at the corner of 4th Avenue West and 11th Street West where one of the vehicles involved had struck the pole, which was sheared off but didn’t fall because […]

The St. Mary’s Mustangs have a flair for the dramatic early in the 2019 Bluewater Athletic Association football season. Twice now the Mustangs have waited until the dying minutes of the game to punch the go-ahead score. Last week against the Saugeen Royals, Jackson Baker scored a touchdown as the seconds wound down to steal […]