Owen Sound Sun Times

MINOR SOCCER Under-13 United spoiled by Spirit The Owen Sound Ken Burrows & Son/Sound Speech & Hearing United under-13 boys soccer team lost on Wednesday night to the visiting Kitchener Spirit by a score of 5-1 at the Kiwanis Soccer Complex in local SWRSL action. Zion Garside had the lone goal for Owen Sound. OWEN […]

The OSDSS Wolves were given a lesson in tournament timing this week. Slotted into a pool with one of the best teams in the circuit and losing early meant the highest they could finish was fifth place. And they did just that. After dropping their first game Thursday morning, and as such failing to qualify […]

An Owen Sound man charged with animal cruelty after a dog was killed with an axe in an Owen Sound home last month was granted bail Thursday. Wyatt Sturgeon, 23, must return to court July 11 in the Ontario Court of Justice in Owen Sound . He is charged with animal cruelty and with breaking […]

The lead lawyer for South Bruce Peninsula agreed “miscommunication” may have led to intensive grooming of Sauble Beach just ahead of the endangered piping plover’s annual arrival in spring 2017 – contrary to natural resources ministry instructions. But the Crown failed to prove the beach maintenance occurred on plover habitat per se, as defined by […]

Work on Owen Sound’s $3 million Downtown River Precinct plan is now mostly out of the ground. Dennis Kefalas, director of public works and engineering, said about 90 per cent of the underground infrastructure – including new and replacement water mains, storm sewers and catch basins – have been installed in the 800 block of […]

Twelve of the top high school lacrosse teams in the province are gathered in Owen Sound for the OFSAA AAA lacrosse festival. The two-day festival started Wednesday and is being held across two fields at the Kiwanis Soccer Complex. The medal games are slated for 3:30 p.m. Thursday afternoon. The host OSDSS Wolves finished Day […]

An expert Crown witness testified Wednesday in an Owen Sound courtroom that aggressive raking and apparent levelling of the beach slope at Sauble Beach damaged piping plover breeding habitat and may have made the endangered birds more vulnerable. South Bruce Peninsula faces two charges under the Endangered Species Act for damaging or destroying piping plover […]

The Grey Highlands Lions won the bronze medal at the OFSAA A/AA girls rugby championship in a “nail-biting” 25-18 win over Courtice Cougars Wednesday afternoon. The sixth-seeded Lions only lost once in the tournament against the eventual silver-medal winning Holy Cross Hurricanes (Peterborough). Trenton won the gold. “The girl’s best quality is they always find […]

No Bluewater District School Board secondary teachers will be laid off this year due to changes in secondary school class sizes, said the board’s director of education. A month ago Alanna Murray said there was the potential to lay off 92 teachers. But with Ministry of Education special attrition funding the board was able to […]

It has had its highs and lows, but the Shallow Lake United Church continues on in the community. On June 16, the congregation will celebrate the church’s ability to keep going with a 125th anniversary worship service beginning at 10:30 a.m. at the church at 75 Cruickshank St. The event will include guest speaker Todd […]

Owen Sound is continuing to gear up to offer a daily bus service between its transit depot and Guelph, with seven stops in between in rural communities along Highway 6. “The best-case scenario is we want to start the Tuesday after Labour Day. And the worst-case scenario is to start Jan. 1 or 2,” Dennis […]

The Liberals will soon choose a candidate for this fall’s federal election in Bruce-Grey-Owen Sound. A nomination meeting for the local riding has been set for June 13 at the Harry Lumley Bayshore Community Centre. Three candidates are seeking the position, including Tobermory hyperbaric medical technician Rod Anderson, former Sun Times managing editor Michael Den […]

A landowner’s plan to buy a chunk of municipal parkland at Leith Beach and build a restaurant/pub is stirring up controversy in the village north of Owen Sound. A group of neighbours is planning to speak against the proposal at a public meeting Monday, with concerns ranging from the loss of public land to pedestrian […]

MINOR LACROSSE Shakes nets four Tuesday night the Owen Sound Krueger Custom Steel and Machining Inc. North Stars intermediate club played host to North Perth and came away with an 11-1 victory. North Stars goals were scored by Oakley Patterson, Keegan McIlmoyle, Kurt Long, Matt Barfoot, Dawson McNabb, Scott Hamelin (2) and Sam Shakes (4). […]

The Saugeen Shores Police Service has set a goal of raising $20,000 for its recently reinstated canine unit. Saugeen Shores Police Service Chief Mike Bellai says the money would pay for the purchase and training of the four-legged recruit, as well as equipment and ongoing costs that would be associated with the unit. “The way […]

A Georgian Bluffs man faces multiple charges after a police pursuit in the Municipality of Kincardine early on the morning of May 28. Just after 4:30 a.m. a member of the South Bruce OPP observed a vehicle travelling northbound on Hwy. 21 at a high rate of speed. The officer attempted to stop the vehicle, […]

New ground is being broken in a Habitat for Humanity Grey Bruce build at Cape Croker. One of the six homes being built at Neyaashiinigmiing this summer will include enhanced energy efficiencies approaching Net Zero consumption based on a design created by students with the University of Waterloo’s Warrior Home Design Team. It is the […]

The provincial government’s announced reinstatement of the provincial inter-library loan service, after it cut nearly half of the Southern Ontario Library Service’s budget, leaves a big question unanswered so far – the cost to local libraries. Most of the savings needed to bring back the program came from discontinuing the SOLS’s private courier service, an […]

Brockton and Hanover have introduced a way to compact polystyrene foam, such a Styrofoam, that will divert it from their shared landfill. The polystyrene densifier is a Danish made machine that is part of a pilot project launched May 31 in Walkerton. The densifier reduces polystyrene foam by about 50 times its volume into bricks […]

FIELD LACROSSE U11 N’Stars split games The Owen Sound Firefighters North Stars under11-A girls were in action for two games in Ontario’s Women’s Field Lacrosse league play Sunday in Brampton. The team was defeated by Halton Hills-1, 11-5 with Adassia Clock starting the scoring with two goals and Bree Wilkins leading the scoring with three […]

Four unanswered goals in the second and third periods sparked an Owen Sound Bug Juice North Stars comeback effort that slashed the Six Nations Rivermen Sunday afternoon in Owen Sound. N’Stars goaltender Garrett Reed settled into a groove after a shaky start and was instrumental in Owen Sound’s third-straight win at home, 6-5 over the […]

The Owen Sound campus of Georgian College will benefit from a new partnership between the college, Honda of Canada Manufacturing and the Honda Canada Foundation. On Thursday, a donation of more than $1.8 million in cash and in-kind goods was announced as part of a five-year agreement between the three partners that will include funding […]