Owen Sound Sun Times

A Brockton man has been arrested after a break-in at a business in Brockton early Tuesday morning. Just before 1 a.m., South Bruce OPP received a report of a business alarm in the 1600 block of Bruce County Rd. 4 in the former Brant Township. Police responded and found a man on the premises. He […]

The Friends of Cabot Head now believe there’s hope the lighthouse could reopen to visitors next year, board chair Ron Wheeler said Monday. About 30 people turned out to the volunteer group’s annual membership meeting Saturday, including some new people who bought memberships. Wheeler said that show of support will allow the Friends to work […]

When the Owen Sound Artists’ Co-op opened the members were unsure if it would last the year. Now 25 years later, the co-op is thriving as perennially profitable with 45 members, has plans to expand its workshop and studio programming and has become a landmark and destination in the city. On Sunday afternoon members past […]

The clash of the Pollock Division titans ended in unsatisfying fashion Saturday as the Wingham Ironmen (7-0-1-0) and Mount Forest Patriots (5-1-1-0) played to a 3-3 draw in Mount Forest. The Patriots had a 3-1 lead in the third period before Tyson Koopman scored for the Ironmen. Then with Wingham’s goalie pulled for the extra […]

Minor midgets score 14 in weekend wins The Owen Sound Subaru Junior Attack minor midgets won a pair of Tri County Minor Hockey League games on the weekend. On Sunday at the Julie McArthur Regional Recreation Centre in Owen Sound, the Junior Attack defeated the Burlington Eagles 5-4 with Jaiden Whitlock and Cole Gowan each […]

The Bruce-Grey Catholic District School Board has announced that all of its schools will be open on Monday after a tentative deal was reached between the province and the union representing education workers. “The Province of Ontario, The Trustee Association and CUPE have successfully reached a tentative agreement,” the Bruce-Grey Catholic board posted on its […]

Four people were treated for injuries after a collision in Owen Sound late Sunday afternoon. Just after 4 p.m., Owen Sound police, the Owen Sound Fire Department and Grey County EMS responded to a two-vehicle crash at the intersection of 19th Street West and 4th Avenue West. The investigation found that a 2016 white Kia […]

A Southampton man faces impaired driving and drug possession and trafficking charges after a traffic stop in Southampton on Saturday. Just before 10 p.m. a member of the Saugeen Shores Police Service Criminal Investigations and Drug Unit was on patrol in Southampton when a vehicle was noticed being operated in a suspicious manner, police said […]

Talks were continuing Sunday between the Canadian Union of Public Employees and the province in an attempt to reach a deal and an avert a strike by 55,000 education workers. If a deal cannot be reached, workers represented by CUPE would begin a strike on Monday, that would see the closure of the Bruce-Grey Catholic […]

No need to worry if you missed Saturday night’s game between the Owen Sound Attack and Flint Firebirds. Most of it will be available on the OHL’s highlight reel and pre-game hype videos for years to come. The Attack’s offence exploded in a 7-3 win over the surging Firebirds inside the Harry Lumley Bayshore Community […]

A little bit of teamwork paid off in a very big way for the husband and wife duo of Jane and Phil Hunt at this year’s 33rd annual Port Elgin Pumpkinfest. The Hunts, who hail from Cameron, Ont., north of Lindsay took the crown and the $3,000 grand prize for having the biggest pumpkin, a […]

A Port Elgin man has been charged with impaired driving after he struck a parked vehicle in Port Elgin early Friday evening. At approximately 6:30 p.m., Saugeen Shores police were called to the area of River Street and Wellington Street about a minor vehicle collision. Police arrived on scene and determined that a driver had […]

Jonathan Yantsis and Greg Meireles were Attack killers last year as the Kitchener Rangers won the season series 6-2. On Friday night Riley Damiani wielded the big stick as his hat trick led the Rangers to a 6-4 win over the Owen Sound Attack inside the Kitchener Memorial Auditorium. Meireles added a goal and two […]

Liberal candidate Chrystia Freeland, the foreign affairs minister, said this riding is “really, really winnable” during a campaign stop in Owen Sound Friday. Freeland heaped praise on local Liberal candidate and friend Michael Den Tandt, whom she first worked with at the Globe and Mail, and more recently as part the Liberal government’s trade talks […]

Bruce County has now terminated its chief administrative officer after multiple non-compliance issues were raised at the county’s Brucelea Haven long-term care home earlier this year. The move means that all four senior county employees who were suspended over the matter in early September have now had their employment terminated, including its director of human […]

Owen Sound has closed a portion of the waterfront trail at Kelso Beach Park because of high lake levels. The trail has been closed from the beach washroom to the splash pad due to high lake levels and waves that have caused water and debris to create hazards on the trail at the park, the […]

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 […]