Owen Sound Sun Times

Two drivers were located, arrested and charged with impaired driving in Owen Sound after calls from the public were received on the weekend. The first call came Saturday morning at about 10:30 a.m., when a concerned motorist called about a possible impaired driver entering the city from Georgian Bluffs. The vehicle was found in the […]

Police in Hanover and West Grey have recovered two stolen vehicles, but continue to search for those involved. On Friday at about 3:30 a.m., the West Grey Police Service and Hanover Police Service were notified of the theft of a black GMC pickup truck from a residence on Conc. 14 in the former Normandby Twp. […]

Saugeen Track and Field Club members competed against the best track and field athletes in the country at the Canadian under-20 senior and para track and field championships held in Montreal July 24 to 28. Medal performances were turned in by para-athletes Josh Farrell and Rick Carr and high jumper Emily Branderhorst. Josh Farrell won silver […]

With this year’s piping plover nesting season drawing to a close, only one of the endangered shorebirds is still scurrying along the sand at Sauble Beach. All four of the adult birds have left for their wintering grounds, along with one of the two chicks that hatched this season at Sauble. The other fledgling is […]

This “Yellow Submarine” refuses to be submerged. The yellow-and-black cardboard boat, named after the 1966 hit by The Beatles, was returned for a second straight year to compete in Southampton’s ninth annual Marine Heritage Festival. The vessel, powered this year by the Barrack family of Mississauga, was entered in not one but two cardboard boat […]

For the third-straight year, the Owen Sound Bug Juice North Stars have been elimintated from postseason contention by the Six Nations Rivermen. For the second-straight night, the Rivermen gave up a third-period lead in the dying minutes only to stifle the North Stars in extra time. Six Nations topped the North Stars 9-8 in Game 4 […]

Somehow we’ve ended up in Brantford. This strange lacrosse odyssey started with a brawl in Ohsweken. Nearly a week later the Owen Sound Bug Juice North Stars and Six Nations Rivermen played Game 3 of their Ontario Lacrosse Series best-of-five semifinal Friday night inside the Wayne Gretzky Sports Centre. And it was a stunner. The […]

MINOR SOCCER U13 United hit double digits In SWRSL action, the Owen Sound Ken Burrows & Son/Sound Speech & Hearing United under-13 boys soccer team scored eight unanswered goals in the second half on their way to a 10-1 drubbing of host Hillsburgh-Erin United on Wednesday night. Dominic Morassutti led the way for Owen Sound […]

A blacklegged tick collected in Saugeen Shores has tested positive for the type of bacteria that causes Lyme disease, the Grey Bruce Health Unit said Friday. The test result comes within the same year as three confirmed human cases of Lyme disease in Grey-Bruce. One of those cases was locally acquired. “My concern about this […]

Grey Sauble Conservation’s board of directors is planning to immediately start work to recruit a new chief administrative officer, after current CAO Sonya Skinner announced she will be resigning Aug. 5. Board chair Cathy Little said a recruitment team was created Wednesday and is planning to meet soon to discuss next steps. “We’re going to […]

A sour incident has befallen the Huron-Kinloss Ice Cream Trail. The southern Bruce County township has been forced to remove the popular “Mario Toad” Street Sweets cone from the trail after the piece in Lucknow was vandalized for a third time. In one incident, the foam head, carved and painted by artist Kathleen van den […]

A stretch of 10th Street West is expected to be closed a week longer than originally planned. The area of 10th Street West around 2nd Avenue West was closed on July 17 as part of the city’s horseshoe watermain upgrade project. Originally the intersection and the area around it was expected to be closed until […]

The Grey-Bruce Community Legal Clinic will hold a pop-up legal clinic in downtown Owen Sound to bring attention to provincial cuts to legal aid funding. The clinic will be located in front of Owen Sound city hall on Tuesday, July 30, from noon to 2 p.m. to protest the Ontario government’s cut to Legal Aid […]

This Saturday’s Billy Bishop Heritage Fest will be a chance to honour area veterans, learn more about local heritage groups and enjoy food, games and other activities, organizers say. The event is set to take place from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Billy Bishop Home: Museum, Archives & National Historic Site on 3rd […]

The long-time owner of the train station business at Port Elgin beach is unsure of the fate of the building there following the passing of a July 19 deadline the Town of Saugeen Shores gave to remove any personal belongings from town-owned land. An e-mail on Monday from The Station owner Andy Hess and his […]

The driver of a motorcycle was airlifted to hospital with serious injuries after a collision involving a farm tractor on Highway 10 in southern Grey County on Wednesday. Just before 1:30 p.m., Grey Bruce OPP were dispatched to the collision between the blue motorcycle and a tractor at the Artemesia-Southgate Townline south of Flesherton. The […]

Two Owen Sound residents have been charged after the window of a downtown Owen Sound restaurant was damaged Wednesday. The bay window of the closed restaurant in the 700 block of 2nd Ave. E. was damaged by two projectiles at approximately 4:20 p.m. Patrol officers and the Criminal Investigations Branch of the Owen Sound Police […]

While one volunteer group continues in earnest to control invasive dog-strangling vine in Owen Sound, another organization has confirmed a plant found this week on the Bruce Peninsula is not – as previously feared – the destructive weed. Esme Batten of the Nature Conservancy of Canada discovered a plant at Rush Cove near Lion’s Head, […]

Ethan Burroughs made a name for himself in hockey circles last season by filling the net. The Attack’s second-round draft pick – 29th overall – led the South Central Triple-A League in goals with 30 while playing for the Halton Hurricanes minor midget club. He added 14 more goals in 11 postseason games, and three […]

Despite being devised months ago, a Chalk Your Walk with Kindness campaign is taking place at a particularly apt time due to some recent incidents in the area, organizers say. It is only by chance that the Community Living Owen Sound & District initiative, which encourages people to write loving and inclusive messages with chalk […]

Police have arrested a Brockton man in connection with a number of break-ins and thefts from car washes and a laundromat across Grey-Bruce earlier this year. Grey Bruce OPP, South Bruce OPP, Owen Sound Police Service and Saugeen Shores Police Services investigated the break-ins in local communities from February to April. In late March, police […]

Five Owen Sound residents were taken into custody and more than $3,000 worth of highly toxic purple fentanyl was seized in a drug bust in the city on Tuesday. Members of the Owen Sound Police Service Drug Enforcement Unit, Criminal Investigations Branch and uniform patrol concluded their fentanyl trafficking investigation with the execution of the […]

The Selects will soon leave for Saskatoon riding a high note. In their final tune-up tournament before the Softball Canada U23 Canadian Fast Pitch Championship Owen Sound won the First Ward Falcons tournament title in Dunkirk, N.Y. over the weekend. The Selects topped fellow Canadian squad the Toronto Batmen 5-1 in the final of the […]

After more than 20 years of planning and debating, Meaford has officially decided on a new library. Council unanimously voted on Monday in favour of housing the library at the former Foodland grocery property on Meaford’s main street, in the downtown. The lowest bid pushed the total cost of the project to $7.1 million, $1.6 […]

The summer has arrived in Bruce County and with it comes some exciting changes for the team at Dr. MacKay’s dental practices in Port Elgin and Southampton.

A team of Grey County paramedics are about to start a new kind of training — one they hope will make a difference in the lives of their fellow first responders. Next week, they will team up with a psychologist to learn how to identify and deal with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and operational stress, […]

A Grey Highlands farmer found guilty of criminal negligence causing death in a skid steer mishap that killed his four-year-old son is scheduled to be sentenced on Aug. 8. Emanuel Bauman, who was 32 when his son Steven suffered a fatal head injury when he fell out of the bucket of the skid steer Bauman […]

Eleven athletes will represent the Saugeen Track and Field Club at the Canadian Track and Field Championships hosted at the Complexe Sportif Claude-Robillard in Montreal from July 25 to 28. The Canadian Championships also serve as the trials for the 2019 IAAF World Championships and 2019 World Para Athletics Championships. The top Olympic, Paralympic and […]

Wilson signs in Toronto According to Toronto Sun reporter Terry Koshan, former Owen Sound Attack captain and OHL champion Garrett Wilson has signed a one-way deal with the Toronto Maple Leafs worth $700,000 for the 2019-20 season. Wilson appeared in 50 games with the Pittsburgh Penguins last season recording two goals and eight assists. He’s […]

Most of the world got their first taste of Ontario’s senior B lacrosse circuit when a brawl between the Owen Sound Bug Juice North Stars and Six Nations Rivermen sparked online awe over the weekend. With 5:44 left in Game 1 of the Ontario Series Lacrosse league’s semifinal between the N’Stars and Rivermen Wyatt Barfoot […]

MINOR LACROSSE Tyke N’Stars win ‘B’ Division title The Owen Sound McCartney Property Maintenance North Stars-1 tyke team went 5-0 at the WOAA Zone 8 ‘B’ division playoff tournament to win the league championship. They kicked off the tournament with a 4-0 record in round-robin play sending the club straight to the final against Arthur. The North […]

Six Owen Sound North Stars girls field lacrosse teams travelled to the Ontario Women’s Field Lacrosse provincials at RIM Park in Waterloo over the weekend. Four of those clubs made their way to medal games. Under-11 The Owen Sound Firefighters North Stars-1 under-11 girls fell short in the bronze medal game of the U11 ‘A’ […]

A Port Elgin man has been charged with operating a vehicle while impaired by drugs after he lost consciousness in a Tim Hortons drive thru. Police were called to the area of the Canadian Tire gas bar in Port Elgin just after 8 a.m. on Sunday about a collision. The man fell unconscious, causing him […]

A fun ride for a serious reason drew more than 70 motorcycle riders to the “Bomb the Bruce!” tour of the Bruce Peninsula Saturday. Mike Terry retired last year after 23 years in the Canadian Forces. He was diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder in 2001-02, after serving in Africa. He found transitioning to civilian life […]

There were at least 20 girls in Brenda Bamford’s Brownie pack when she was a youngster in Wiarton. So far this year, there are one Spark and two Brownies registered for the program this fall. Unless something is done, Bamford said she feels sure the generations-old Girl Guide tradition will fade away completely around Wiarton. […]

Retired Owen Sound lawyer Brian Barrie’s fourth children’s book, The L.I.E., can be read as an extension of what he practised in the courtroom. It’s a story of a young woman’s connection to the world stunted by isolation and bullying and the emotional toll that takes. But it’s also a story which follows the defence […]

A Saugeen Shores police officer who “very likely” broke a 46-year-old suspect’s ribs and pelvis while arresting him acted within the law, the interim director of Ontario’s police watchdog agency concluded in a report released Friday. Ontario’s Special Investigations Unit got involved when Saugeen Shores police informed it that the injured man reported to the […]

Both Tyler and Linsey Beckett say being nominated for the same national award hasn’t unearthed a sibling rivalry. The brother-and-sister musicians, who have received separate nods for the Canadian Country Music Association Award for Fiddle Player of the Year, said they would be happy to see their sibling take home the CCMA trophy. “I’m totally […]

Brucelea Haven has suspended all resident admissions following a 2019 Ministry of Health and Long Term Care inspection report to be released next week, which details concerns about non-compliance issues including insufficient staffing and management to ensure “care and safety needs” are met. County progress was too slow to remedy problems identified in three inspection […]

Bruce Power and Saugeen Ojibway Nation have signed “an historic partnership” they say will involve jointly marketing new life-saving medical isotopes produced at the local nuclear site. The collaboration agreement, inked Thursday in Southampton, will also see the nuclear generator and SON working together to create new economic opportunities within the SON territory by establishing […]

After it was recently confirmed that two Hanover men died in separate carfentanil overdoses this spring, a Health Unit official says the appearance of the toxic opioid is concerning, but steps can be taken to prevent more deaths. “It’s a serious problem,” said Ian Reich, manager of the harm reduction program at the Grey Bruce […]

The Owen Sound Police Service has a new inspector. David Bishop, a 33-year veteran of the Waterloo Regional Police Service, will take over the role on Aug. 19. “I’m looking forward to getting involved with the community,” Bishop said in an interview Thursday. “Chief Ambrose and I believe the fundamental part of policing is getting […]

Chippewas of Nawash Unceded First Nation Chief Greg Nadjiwon indicated his band council might be going to court over concerns about a company’s attempt to establish a commercial marijuana plantation at Neyaashiinigmiing. “Because we might be going down the road of litigation, I really don’t want to say too much,” Nadjiwon said in a brief […]

Orchestra students of all ages and abilities have descended on Owen Sound this week. Approximately 65 students ranging in age from six to 60 are taking part in the fifth annual Orchestra North music camp at the Harmony Centre this week. The camp will culminate on Saturday with an admission by donation finale concert at […]

On Friday the Marie Mills Classic lawn bowling tournament will be held at Owen Sound Roselawn Greens. The starting time is set for 10:00 a.m. The tournament is in honour of Roselawn member Marie Mills who has been an active lawn bowler in Owen Sound for 56 years. She is bowling with her son Barry Mills […]