Owen Sound Sun Times

Owen Sound is moving to form a task force to look at the city’s police force. On Monday night during its committee of the whole meeting, council unanimously passed a motion brought forward by Mayor Ian Boddy that called on city manager Tim Simmonds to prepare terms of reference to create a transformational task force. […]

Nine local politicians are facing online backlash for taking part in a Beards for Bucks fundraiser Saturday in Owen Sound at the Georgian Bay Centre for the Arts. Grey-Bruce-Owen Sound MP Alex Ruff, MPP Bill Walker, Owen Sound Mayor Ian Boddy, Southgate Mayor John Woodbury, Grey Highlands Deputy -mayor Aakash Desai, Hanover Deputy-mayor Selwyn Hicks […]

Most of Ontario including Grey-Bruce will enter Stage 3 of the province’s reopening plan Friday and people will be be able to return to bars, restaurants and movie theatres with additional health measures put in place. Most public spaces will reopen gradually to the public in the regions entering Stage 3. Dr. Ian Arra, Grey […]

Saugeen Shores police will launch Operation Road Rules on Friday, targeting traffic infractions at intersections throughout their municipality. Police officers will be looking for those who are disobeying stop signs and red and amber lights and blocking intersections, it said in a news release from police. When motorists rush to “beat the red” or roll […]

A Hanover man faces charges after police responded to reports of a shirtless man on a bicycle in possession of a handgun and a knife, and threatening people in a residential neighbourhood on Saturday evening. Hanover police officers went to the area just after 8 p.m., but the man had fled. West Grey Police Service […]

Perplexing as it has been, U.S. farm policy under President Donald Trump maintains a certain consistency: it responds with public spending to rural blocks of the population that have unusual influence in America. Whether Trump’s farm spending has actually helped solve the designated problems it was allocated to address, whether the money even gets to […]

A Southgate man has been charged after he was found by police while he slept in the driveway of a residence with a stolen guitar in his hand. On Friday at 2:30 p.m., Grey-Bruce OPP were dispatched to a break and enter at a residence on Ida Street in Dundalk. The homeowners returned to their […]

Police continue to charge motorists with stunt driving on the Bruce Peninsula. Last week, Grey-Bruce OPP said that more than 70 drivers had been charged with driving at 50 kilometres per hour or more above the posted speed limit on the Bruce Peninsula so far this year. More have been charged in recent days, including […]

A Chatsworth man faces a number of charges after the car he was driving crashed and flipped onto a lawn on Sunday evening. Just before 9 p.m., Grey Bruce OPP were dispatched to the single-vehicle collision on Lundolder Drive in the Township of Chatsworth, where the driver of a grey car went off the roadway […]

A Sarnia man faces impaired driving and stunt driving charges after being stopped on the Bruce Peninsula over the weekend. At 8:30 p.m. on Saturday evening, Grey-Bruce OPP stopped a southbound blue car for excessive speeding on Highway 6 near Limberlost Road in South Bruce Peninsula. The vehicle was travelling over 175 kilometres per hour […]

A 16-year-old from Allenford was charged with driving while impaired and operating a motor vehicle with a blood-alcohol concentration over 80 after being stopped at a RIDE checkpoint near Allenford Road in South Bruce Peninsula Saturday. Grey Bruce OPP were conducting a Reduce Impaired Driving Everywhere (RIDE) checkpoint on Fieldside Road in the Town of […]

Just one reported active case of COVID-19 remains in Grey-Bruce. No new cases were reported over the weekend by the Grey Bruce Health Unit’s daily situation report, as of 3:30 p.m. Sunday. Total reported cases to date, 115, include 108 recovered cases, six referred to other health units, in addition to the active case. No […]

Findings of the Aird & Berlis report into closed-door meetings of Bruce County’s executive committee: – The Aird & Berlis report concluded the June 9, 2016 executive committee meeting was properly closed. Staff gave a report on a candidate for a shared economic development position with Bruce Power. – The April 14, 2016 meeting wasn’t closed […]

Bruce County’s all-councillors executive committee held improper closed-door meetings seven times concerning Bruce Power and the Nuclear Innovation Institute — once in 2016 and the rest in 2018, an independent investigation has found. This is the second time Bruce County’s closed meeting investigator found county councillors improperly closed meetings. The museum committee met five times […]

A 27-year-old man with roots at Saugeen First Nation has so far paddled Lake Huron’s shore from south Grand Bend to Saugeen Shores, on his way up the Bruce Peninsula and around into Georgian Bay then on to Collingwood. The Picking Up the Bundles Canoe Journey around Saugeen Ojibway Nation’s traditional territory is part of […]

There was facial hair to spare in downtown Owen Sound Saturday morning, when nine local political leaders showed up for a shearing. There was also controversy in the event’s wake, as people on social media pointed out personal grooming services involving the face were not allowed under Phase 2 of the province’s approach to reopening […]

Mandatory face covering to help guard against the spread of COVID-19 will be implemented when Grey-Bruce enters Stage 3 of Ontario’s reopening plan, Dr. Ian Arra, the region’s medical officer of health, announced Friday. He doesn’t know when that will be. But since most of Ontario entered Stage 2 on June 12, it’s likely the […]

Grey-Bruce house sales and prices were up substantially in June compared to a year ago. A total of 369 homes sold in the region last month, up almost 38 per cent from June 2020. Meanwhile, the price of the homes that sold in June averaged more than $472,000, which was more than 21 per cent […]

A new hospital in Markdale is another step closer to reality, with the possibility of ground being broken on the nearly $70 million build later this year. On Thursday, Grey County council passed a bylaw authorizing the lands next to the Grey Gables long-term care home at the south end of the town in Grey […]

Georgian Bluffs is continuing with an attempt to have Wiarton’s urban boundary extended to include a portion of the Wiarton-Keppel International Airport in order to open it up for more potential development. And at the same time council plans to work toward developing plans about what type of development could be done at the facility […]

The Grey Bruce Health Unit reported one new case of COVID-19 on Thursday, but it has been referred to another health unit as the person who tested positive now lives outside Grey-Bruce. With the new case, there have now been 115 cases of the virus confirmed in Grey-Bruce, of which only two remain active, according […]

Grey Bruce OPP charged a 23-year-old man of no fixed address after someone was hit on the head Wednesday in what police called an attack. Police said they were called at 11:33 p.m. to a disturbance at an apartment complex at Highway 6/10 in Meaford. The victim was struck on the back of the head […]

New local bridges, roads, culverts and a roundabout at Grey County’s most accident-prone intersection now have federal and provincial infrastructure funding. These projects, announced a year ago when provincial money was committed, are among the 144 projects nominated to the federal government. The federal contributions are just now being announced. Bruce-Grey-Owen Sound MPP Bill Walker […]

Since people obeyed the rules, Sauble Beach will remain fully open this week, South Bruce Peninsula council decided Tuesday. But the status quo will be revisited by council every Tuesday to assess compliance with public health direction and the town beach bylaw, Mayor Janice Jackson said in an interview after the council meeting. “From all […]

People in Grey-Bruce will soon be required to wear masks in indoor settings where there is public interaction. Dr. Ian Arra, the medical officer of health, said details remain to be finalized, including how enforcement would work. But there will be exemptions based on the honour system for people with conditions that prevent mask-wearing, he […]

Rehabilitation was paramount Tuesday in sentencing a Neyaashiinigmiing youth to two years of probation after she pleaded guilty in January to aggravated assault. Ontario Court Justice Julia Morneau imposed the maximum probation allowed under the Youth Criminal Justice Act, as recommended by Crown and defence. The teen stabbed a man in the neck at the […]

After a weekend in which one new COVID-19 case was reported by the Grey Bruce Health Unit, there were no new cases reported in Grey-Bruce on Monday. A case announced on Saturday is one of just two cases reported by the health unit in the past 11 days after one case was also confirmed on […]

Sauble Beach takeout restaurant owner David Dobson understands lawyers on July 17 will discuss Saugeen First Nation’s application for summary judgment to quickly end its 30-year-old claim to part of Sauble Beach. It’s a three-hour case conference before a judge, Superior Court of Justice staff in Toronto confirmed Monday. Saugeen’s 30-year-old lawsuit seeks to extend […]

The Township of Chatsworth hopes to soon learn if it has secured federal and provincial funding for its proposed multimillion dollar community hub project. Mayor Scott Mackey said Sunday that the township hopes to learn by the end of July if the $15 million project in the village of Chatsworth, including an ice surface, walking […]

After one new case of COVID-19 was reported by the Grey Bruce Health Unit on Saturday afternoon, there were again no cases reported on Sunday. The case reported on Saturday was just the second case reported by the health unit in the past 10 days after one case was also confirmed on July 2. Saturday’s […]

Georgian Bluffs and Chatsworth are looking into the possibility of mothballing the anaerobic biodigester they own together. The BioGRID Joint Board of Management, made up of the mayors and deputy-mayors of the two townships, plan to issue a request for proposals to study temporarily shuttering the facility, which has been losing money since it was […]

One new case of COVID-19 was reported by the Grey Bruce Health Unit on Saturday afternoon, bringing the total cumulative cases in the two counties to 114. The one new case reported on Saturday was in a resident of West Grey, according to the Grey Bruce Health Unit’s daily situation report. There are a total […]

In-person, public criminal trials and preliminary inquires will resume in Owen Sound Monday in the Ontario Court of Justice after months of audio appearances and adjournments due to COVID-19. There will Plexiglas barriers, more cleaning and signs to help avoid spreading the coronavirus, which forced the closure of most workplaces and public buildings, including the […]

There were no new cases of COVID-19 reported in Grey-Bruce on Friday, but two more people have recovered from the virus. The number of active cases of the coronavirus dropped from eight to six, according to the Grey Bruce Health Unit’s daily situation report released Friday afternoon. The cumulative case count for the local health […]

A former Owen Sound mayor, Richard “Rick” Wayne Beaney, has died at 66. He was diagnosed two years ago with dementia, which progressed quickly, and then he developed pneumonia, his wife Kerry Ann Beaney and daughter Michele Wunsche said Friday. Mr. Beaney died June 30 in Owen Sound hospital. Rick Beaney joined city council in […]

Georgian Bluffs has recruited a new chief administrative officer. The municipality announced on Thursday that John Norton will become CAO in mid-summer. Norton, a licensed lawyer, has been a senior administrator with Chatham-Kent since 2011. “In the peer review committee we are all of the same feeling that he was the best candidate for us […]

Six stunt driving charges were laid on Canada Day for speeding along a 75-kilometre stretch of road from Wiarton to Tobermory on the Bruce Peninsula, a Grey Bruce OPP news release said Thursday. Stunt driving charges under the Highway Traffic Act concern speeding 50 kilometres per hour or more over the posted speed limit. Three […]

The Bluewater District School Board is seeking parents’ input in a survey as board staff focus on a hybrid return-to-school model that would combine face-to-face and online learning for the month of September. Such a hybrid system would involve a modified school day with smaller classes and alternating days or weeks, says a note to […]

Owen Sound police charged a 63-year-old Hepworth man with theft, breach of trust and theft by power of attorney. A police news release said the charges resulted from an investigation into allegations social assistance income was diverted from a family member’s bank account. “Bank records and witness statements confirmed that the accused, who was designated […]

Grey Bruce OPP charged a 31-year-old Owen Sound man with stunt driving for driving more than 130 kilometres per hour in an 80 km/h zone west of Springmount on Tuesday. Police said they stopped a black vehicle at 8:04 a.m. after finding it speeding eastbound on Highway 21. This stunt driving charge under the Highway […]

Grey Bruce OPP seized fentanyl and arrested two Kitchener teens after officers in vehicles forced a driver to stop by boxing him in along Highway 21, just west of Owen Sound Thursday morning. Grey Bruce OPP said in a news release that it was notified at 7:11 a.m. a suspicious vehicle was travelling from Saugeen […]

Sauble Beach will again reopen to the public on Friday. But South Bruce Peninsula council plans to monitor the situation closely to ensure physical distancing measures are being adhered to leading up to the Civic Holiday weekend a little over four weeks away. “Council has always been in favour of trying to find a safe […]

There were no new COVID-19 cases reported in Grey-Bruce according to the Grey Bruce Health Unit’s daily situation report Wednesday. The region’s total case count remains at 112 with eight active cases. Ninety-nine people have recovered from the disease and five were referred to other healthcare units. None of the region’s hospitals are currently treating […]

Emergency services assisted a man who fell into the water by the east harbour wall in Owen Sound Wednesday. Owen Sound Police were joined by Grey County paramedics and the Owen Sound Fire Department in responding to a call for a man who had fallen into the water and was in distress. The man was […]

For the fifth straight day there were no new COVID-19 cases reported in Grey-Bruce, according to the Grey Bruce Health Unit’s daily situation report. The region’s total case count remains at 112 with eight active cases. Ninety-nine people have recovered from the disease and five were referred to other public health units. None of the […]

City officials now anticipate Owen Sound’s 2020 operating budget will take a roughly $560,000 hit from the COVID-19 pandemic, but warn that number could double if organized team sports can’t take place as planned this fall. “Estimated shortfalls in facility booking revenues continue to be the greatest risk area for lost revenues. Currently, my estimate […]

The Community Waterfront Heritage Centre isn’t letting the COVID-19 pandemic stop it from celebrating a major milestone for Owen Sound. On Thursday the centre launched its 2020 exhibit, Celebrating a Century, honouring the city’s incorporation just over 100 years ago. But with the centre closed for this season, the CWHC board of directors has gone […]

There will be dramatically fewer child-care spaces in Grey-Bruce and tighter controls over entry into centres and what kids can do there under new provincial child-care reopening rules. There may not be enough spaces to go around but it’s too early to know, child-care officials said in interviews. There were waiting lists prior to the […]

Readers Choice 2020

The Owen Sound Attack selected Swiss defenceman Noah Delémont with their first and only pick in the 2020 CHL Import Draft Tuesday. Delémont has a year of CHL experience under his belt. He played last season with the Acadie-Bathurst Titan after being selected by the Titan with the third-overall pick of the 2019 CHL Import […]