Owen Sound Sun Times

The St. Mary’s Mustangs topped the Saugeen District Royals 9-0 at the Julie McArthur Regional Recreation Centre Wednesday to move to 3-0 in the Bluewater Athletic Association varsity girls hockey standings. Despite the nine-spot on the scoreboard, the Royals goaltender was one of the best players on the ice. Emma Nason was pelleted with pucks […]

Owen Sound has issued a building permit for a proposed new TownePlace Suites by Marriott hotel, further boosting what has become a banner year for construction values in the city. The combined $13-million value of the six-storey, 100-room hotel and adjacent commercial building has put the year-to-date total construction value for projects issued permits by […]

An independent investigator has found Bruce County held improper closed-door meetings, at least some of which concerned a former church rectory that a local heritage group is trying to protect from possible demolition by the county. Amberley Gavel Ltd. investigated five closed-door meetings of the county museum committee between May 2018 and January 2019 and […]

The owner of an average home in Owen Sound will pay about $60 more in property taxes next year if city council gives final approval in January to its revised draft budget for 2020. The proposed spending plan contained a 1.87 per cent levy increase, which will drop to 1.6 per cent after factoring in […]

City council is sending Owen Sound police’s draft 2020 budget back to the service’s board for a second look, after several councillors expressed concern about the spending plan’s proposed increase. Coun. Richard Thomas, who introduced the motion during budget deliberations Wednesday at city hall, said the proposed 2.4 per cent hike – which would increase […]

A transit system throughout Grey County could see routes linking Owen Sound to Wiarton, The Blue Mountains and Orangeville beginning sometime in 2020. Grey County, in partnership with Southgate, is developing the Grey Transit Route, which will also provide student transportation to and from the Launch Pad youth activity and technology centre in Hanover. “In […]

A multi-million-dollar project to reconstruct a portion of Inglis Falls Road will begin in the new year. Georgian Bluffs Mayor Dwight Burley said Wednesday that it is imperative that they immediately get started on the road work due to the environmental sensitivity of the area. “We have got limited time in sense of birds coming […]

Nearly a year removed from slamming into the end boards feet first at the Bayshore and fracturing his ankle Pavel Gogolev returned and carried his team to a 4-3 victory over the Owen Sound Attack Tuesday night. The Russian native spoiled Scott Walker Night as the Attack honoured the former Platers d-man before puck drop. […]

The area’s unemployment rate dropped in November to 2.4 per cent, the lowest level in at least the past 19 years. Gemma Mendez-Smith, executive director of the Four County Labour Market Planning Board, said this is only the third time since January 2001 – the earliest available Statistics Canada data for this region – that […]

While renovations are underway to make room for the Owen Sound hospital’s new MRI machine, the fundraising campaign to purchase and install the state-of-the-art system has now crossed the $3.5 million mark. “I would say we’re in the final stretch,” Amy McKinnon, executive director of the Owen Sound Regional Hospital Foundation, said of the $4.7-million […]

The Saugeen Shores Winterhawks announced plans Tuesday to honour Port Elgin’s junior hockey history during an upcoming game. The Winterhawks will pay tribute to the Port Elgin Bears during their Dec. 28 game against the Elora Rocks by wearing throwback gold-and-black Bears jerseys. The Bears competed in the Central Junior C Hockey League and later […]

Harvest season is over for local outdoor cannabis growers, who will now get to see how their crops fare against each other at the BS Fall Fair. Organizers of the Wiarton Bongspiel cannabis curling event – which returns for a second year on Jan. 18 – are expanding their program to include an outdoor growing […]

A Georgian Bluffs man has been charged after a report of a truck tire hitting the front porch of a residence in Walkerton. Just before 10 p.m. on Monday, south Bruce OPP received the report of a tire hitting the residence in the 700 block of Durham Street East. Police located the pick-up truck and […]

Walk into a hockey rink and take in the banners. From faded championship banners hanging off wooden rafters in community ice chapels to the waves of retired numbers and honoured names that colour the ceilings of multi-million dollar venues. They are an honour bestowed to few and reserved for players and teams with a story […]

The local Mission Zimbabwe Project is now accepting applications to send its 14th team to the southern African country to do volunteer work at the Village of Hope and Vimbainesu Children’s Home. The team is tentatively set to head to Zimbabwe on May 7 and return on May 23. The Mission Zimbabwe Project started in […]

Representatives from TC Energy, which proposes to pump water out of Georgian Bay, store it in a reservoir, then return it via a power generation station to make electricity when it’s needed, will answer questions and gather feedback about the project Wednesday in Meaford. A community information session will take place at the Meaford and […]

This year’s Guardian Angel campaign is raising money for what organizers say is the one piece of equipment that every single patient admitted to the Owen Sound hospital will need. The Owen Sound Regional Hospital Foundation’s annual Christmastime fundraiser has an “ambitious goal” of $400,000, which will be used to purchase 25 new beds – […]

If Saugeen Ojibway Nation supports a controversial vault to be built deep in the rock beside Lake Huron to store low- and mid-level nuclear waste at the Bruce nuclear site, it would receive $150 million in return. On Jan. 31, a community vote will be held in which SON’s members will be asked if they […]

Police in Hanover have made an arrest in connection with a mugging that took place in the town’s downtown on Sept. 25. A member of the Hanover Police Service located a suspicious man who was wearing a bandana that concealed his face in the town’s industrial park at approximately 8:30 p.m. Sunday. The investigation determined […]

An Allenford woman was injured after she was struck crossing the street in downtown Owen Sound early Sunday morning. Just before 2:30 a.m., the 28-year-old woman was struck when she walked into the path of a northbound Chevrolet Equinox in the 900 block of 2nd Avenue East, Owen Sound police said in a news release. […]

Police have identified the two people killed in a crash near Chesley on Thursday. Mark Gatt of Clifford and Sarah Irvine of Hanover, both age 46, were pronounced dead at the scene of the two-vehicle collision on Bruce Road 10 in the former Elderslie Township. South Bruce OPP received a report of the collision at […]

Woodhouse headed to Pan Am X-Country Cup Heathcote’s Hannah Woodhouse has been named to the Athletics Canada’s 2020 Pan Am Cross Country Cup team that will compete at the 2020 Pan American Cross Country Cup in the Langford and Victoria, BC area this February. The Pan Am Cross Country Cup is an Association of Pan […]

At most parades this time of year, the jolly old elf has the honour of bringing up the rear. But at the 18th annual Kemble and District Lions Club Non-Motorized Christmas Parade longtime club members Don and Dave Dailey were at the back of the pack. Calling themselves the clean-up crew, they brought along their […]

The light will shine through the beautiful stained glass windows and onto the worshippers at Trinity Anglican Church for the final time later this month. A dwindling membership and costly upkeep for a 130-year-old building has forced the Wiarton congregation to make the difficult decision to close their doors. The stone church that has sat […]

Gail Gallant’s first two back published back in 2013 and 2014 were both fictional ghost stories she wanted to tell. With her third book, released earlier this year, Gallant has found the strength to lay bare a story she simply had to tell. The Changeling is very different than Gallant’s first two books – 2013’s […]

A man was uninjured after he was carried off on the hood of a vehicle after confronting someone who was damaging his mailbox in West Grey. On Thursday, homeowners confronted a 19-year-old West Grey woman on Baseline Road after they caught her damaging their mailbox, West Grey Police Service said in a news release. When […]

Jacob Ingham made 47 stops in regulation, four stops in overtime, and three stops in the shootout as the Kitchener Rangers won their sixth-straight game Saturday 3-2 over the Owen Sound Attack at the Bayshore. The win snapped Owen Sound’s three-game mini win-streak and drew the teams closer in the Midwest Division. Only a point […]

Owen Sound took their revival on the road Friday night and spoiled the London Knights party on national television with a 6-3 win inside the Budweiser Gardens. Brady Lyle and Matthew Struthers stayed piping hot as the Attack’s power play went 3-5 on the night en route to a third-straight win. The win over the […]

A jury in Owen Sound found Ralph Rudowski guilty Friday of murdering Janice West, his 61-year-old friend and neighbour in her Wiarton home. Second-degree murder brings an automatic life sentence but formal sentencing and the time he must serve before parole eligibility remains to be determined at a sentencing hearing March 23. A presentence report […]

A Hanover woman has been charged after identification and chequebooks that were stolen from vehicles across central and southwestern Ontario over the summer. On Nov. 9, West Grey Police Services arrested the 29-year-old woman on an unrelated matter, but upon searching her they located the stolen property. The ID and chequebooks had been taken in […]

Saturday December 7, 2019

Georgian College marine engineering and power engineering instructor Andrea Lucano still remembers watching the news after the Montreal massacre on Dec. 6, 1989. She was not yet in high school when 14 women were gunned down at l’Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal engineering school, but she remembers in the months and years afterwards that the message […]

A Sauble Beach man is dead after what Huron County OPP called a devastating multi-vehicle crash northeast of Brussels, Ont., Thursday night. Dead is Jamie Hill, 62, a South Bruce Peninsula firefighter and business owner. Another Sauble Beach man, Liam Fletcher, 21, remained in hospital Friday with what police called life-threatening injuries. The OPP, Huron […]

It was the luck of the draw that produced the 2020 warden of Bruce County, who was chosen after three tie votes failed to produce a winner. It was a tightly contested race between Kincardine Mayor Anne Eadie,and incumbent Warden Mitch Twolan, Mayor of Huron-Kinloss. Three secret ballots were held, each resulting in a tie […]

Ralph Rudowski admits he killed Janice West, but he never intended to, his lawyer said in her summation to the jury in his second-degree murder trial Thursday in Owen Sound. Superior Court Justice John R. Sproat began his charge to the jury after the lawyers summed up their arguments and he was to finish instructing […]

Family fun will be taking over Harrison Park this weekend. The Festival of Northern Lights hold the Festival in the Park throughout the park on Saturday from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., featuring a variety of activities for the whole family. This is the third year the festival will run the event, in partnership with […]

Saugeen Ojibway Nation’s members will vote Jan. 31 on whether to allow a vault to be built deep in the rock beside Lake Huron to store low- and mid-level nuclear waste at the Bruce nuclear site. Chief Greg Nadjiwon, at Neyaashiinigmiing on the Bruce Peninsula, said SON’s vote will decide whether to allow Ontario Power […]

Two people were pronounced dead at the scene of a crash near Chesley early Thursday afternoon. South Bruce OPP said in a news release they received a report of a two-vehicle collision along Bruce County Road 10 in Elderslie Township at about 1:30 p.m. Bruce County paramedics, the Chesley Fire Department and a member of […]

A Walkerton man has won $500,000 playing the lottery. Lynval Baylis, a 50-year-old poultry barn worker, won the MAXMILLIONS prize in the Nov. 26 LottoMAX draw. “When I scanned my ticket, I couldn’t believe it,” Baylis said in a news release from the OLG. He called winning the prize “a life changing experience” and plans […]

South Bruce OPP continue to look for a man who was last seen in Brockton on Sunday morning. Ian Cooke, 24, who was last seen in Brant Township, is described as five feet, 10 inches tall, weighing 135 pounds with shoulder length dirty blond hair. He has blue/green eyes and drives a green Ford Explorer […]

Georgian Bluffs will reduce the speed limit on Concession 21 near Wiarton from 80 km/h to 60 km/h. On Wednesday, Georgian Bluffs council passed a motion to reduce the speed limit on the concession road between Zion Church Road and Elm Street on the southeast side of Wiarton. The change comes after council received a […]

Georgian Bluffs is remaining tight-lipped about why two senior staff members are on paid leaves. Rick Winters, the municipality’s chief administrative officer, and Dan Wood, its roads supervisor, have both been on paid leaves of absence since Nov. 22. Mayor Dwight Burley said Thursday that he couldn’t give specifics about the situation. “All I can […]

Six people face drug charges after a search warrant was executed at a property in Hanover. On Monday, members of the OPP Community Street Crimes Unit, South Bruce OPP, Hanover Police Service and West Grey Police Service executed the search warrant at a property along 12th Street. As a result, police seized methamphetamine and fentanyl […]

Saugeen Shores police have found surveillance video of a suspect vehicle in a suspicious person investigation from early November. On Nov. 2 the Saugeen Shores Police Services Criminal Investigations and Drug Unit commenced an investigation about a suspicious vehicle and driver. At approximately 3 p.m. on Nov. 2 the male driver of a vehicle asked […]

For most people, Christmas preparations these days run the gamut from stringing up lights on doorframes and hanging wreaths at the door to creating nativity scenes for the mantle and selecting just the right candles to set the holiday mood. However, for many of us, the Christmas preparations of our youth centered around one activity […]

Matthew Struthers – who else – scored the overtime winner in his first game back with the Owen Sound Attack to top the Niagara IceDogs 6-5 Wednesday night at the Bayshore. Sure, Owen Sound gave up a two-goal lead with less than 10 minutes remaining in the game. And sure, they gave up a two-goal […]

Hundreds of teachers and other educational workers in Grey-Bruce walked off the job on Wednesday for a one-day strike they say is a necessary measure to fight cuts they say will have a direct negative impact on the education of students. Ontario Secondary School Teachers’ Association members who work for the Bluewater District School Board […]

City council has decided to increase Owen Sound’s development fees, while exempting purpose-built rental units from the charge as a way to encourage more affordable housing. Council voted 5-3 to adopt Coun. Richard Thomas’ motion to cap the rates at $8,000 for new single-family homes, which is about $1,000 more than the current charge. Thomas […]

The race for Grey County’s warden for 2020 was atypical from start to finish. It began with a councillor challenging an incumbent who was seeking a second, one-year term – something that hasn’t happened since 2007 – and ended with the winner being decided by random draw after a tied council vote. That winner was […]

Eight students were taken to hospital where they were treated for minor injuries and released after a collision involving a school bus in Owen Sound on Tuesday morning. Just before 9 a.m., the two-vehicle collision occurred at the intersection of 8th Avenue East and 16th Street East. The school bus was travelling north along 8th […]