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by Scott Dunn on (#4NV8Z)
Shawn Manarey said his life took an unexpectedly happy turn when he was sent to prison after he robbed a pharmacy in Hanover two years ago. He was 35 and of no fixed address when police charged him with robbery and wearing a disguise to rob a Pharma Plus store, for which he received at […]
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Owen Sound Sun Times
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by Rob Gowan on (#4NV91)
Hundreds of rare and unique vehicles are just weeks away from rolling into the area for the Cobble Beach Concours d’Elegance. This year’s event, being presented by Porsche, will mark its seventh year on Sept. 14 and 15 with 19 classes and a total of 112 classic, vintage and rare vehicles gracing the 18th fairway […]
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by Scott Dunn on (#4NV93)
Bruce Power professional workers’ union members “overwhelmingly†voted in favour of a new collective agreement. A tentative agreement was reached Aug. 12 to avert what would have been the first strike involving the Society of United Professionals at Bruce Power. “We wouldn’t have been able to reach this agreement without our members’ deep involvement in […]
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by Rob Gowan on (#4NV51)
Engine trouble out on the water early Friday morning meant Chris Carr, his daughter Hannah, 6, and Kevin Delano didn’t get nearly as far out on Georgian Bay as they wanted to. But it worked out for the anglers, as Delano is the early leader at the 32nd annual Owen Sound Salmon Spectacular after weighing […]
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by Scott Dunn on (#4NRZV)
A 37-year-old Owen Sound man with a recent conviction for distributing child pornography was sentenced Thursday to 3 ½ years in custody after he pleaded guilty to possessing child pornography and making it available online. Jeffrey Allen Ricketts admitted the charges laid after an OPP child exploitation unit investigation for offences between Aug. 29 and […]
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by Denis Langlois on (#4NRX3)
The province’s decision to freeze Ontario Works program funding at 2018 levels has forced Grey County to postpone the planned launch this year of a pilot project aimed at helping to lift people out of poverty, according to county officials. Warden Selwyn Hicks said the county had hoped to initiate Circles – a poverty alleviation […]
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by Denis Langlois on (#4NRS6)
Owen Sound now has a firmer timeline for the 10th Street bridge replacement project. Dennis Kefalas, director of public works and engineering, said contractor Looby Builders will begin mobilizing equipment and workers for the $8.68-million project in just over two weeks and will be closing the bridge to traffic starting the week of Sept. 23. […]
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by Rob Gowan on (#4NRNN)
A country music duo whose lives have been a whirlwind the past couple of years are looking forward to slowing things down during an intimate and exclusive show in Southampton. Siblings Jenna and Stuart Walker, who make up the award-winning Canadian country music act The Reklaws, will be performing a set on Friday evening for […]
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by The Sun Times on (#4NR9F)
West Grey Police are investigating an incident of arson that damaged a washroom at the Durham Conservation Area. Police were dispatched to the conservation area on Wednesday after the overnight fire caused severe damage to the women’s washroom. The fire was already out when police arrived, but it appears someone lit the paper towel dispenser […]
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by Denis Langlois on (#4NPJ3)
The Attack logo was painted Wednesday at centre ice at the Harry Lumley Bayshore Community Centre, signalling the OHL season is fast approaching.
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by Denis Langlois on (#4NPJ5)
The Grey Bruce Health Unit expects it will lose $1.1 million in provincial funding next year under the Progressive Conservative government’s plan to change the funding formula for public health services, including for those now covered exclusively by the province. But medical officer of health Dr. Ian Arra said the health unit will be able […]
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by Scott Dunn on (#4NPJ6)
A 37-year-old man charged after a standoff near Sauble Beach Tuesday told court Wednesday morning that he wants to take all of his charges to trial. James Robert Scott Walker participated in the court process by speakerphone in an Owen Sound courtroom, while he remained in custody in the Grey Bruce OPP detachment in Wiarton. […]
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by Scott Dunn on (#4NPF7)
A pot shop proposal for Collingwood is the closest to Owen Sound among a batch of 42 new store locations preliminarily selected Wednesday to open by Oct. 1 in Ontario. Richmond Hill business lawyer Louis Laskovski said he has many documents to submit, and must apply to operate a retail premises and receive approval for […]
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by Rob Gowan on (#4NPFB)
The tent is up and now it awaits the thousands of anglers and tens of thousands of others who will make their way down to the water’s edge for the 10 days of the Sydenham Sportsmen’s Association’s 32nd Owen Sound Salmon Spectacular. Approximately 50 volunteers, including a large contingent of about 30 from the Bruce […]
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by Cheryl Heath, For Postmedia News on (#4NNQV)
The Saugeen Memorial Hospital Foundation’s second-annual Gran Fondo, presented by Bruce Power, surpassed expectations. Tracy Murray, the foundation’s executive director, told participants at Southampton’s flagpole Sunday afternoon that the planning committee was hoping for 850 riders to come aboard, instead the event filled up with 1,000 participants. Better yet for the foundation, the fundraising goal […]
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by Rob Gowan on (#4NNDC)
A 37-year-old South Bruce Peninsula man faces charges in connection with a standoff with police between Sauble Beach and Hepworth early Tuesday morning. Charges were expected to be laid against the man at a bail hearing on Wednesday, after he was taken into custody following what police called a “high risk situation involving a weapon.†[…]
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by Denis Langlois on (#4NM5Z)
With classes resuming in less than two weeks, the local United Way says its annual back-to-school campaign is in “desperate need†of larger backpacks for high school-aged boys. “With the way that our backpack order went in, we had a lot of smaller backpacks and we had a lot of feminine-coloured backpacks,†said Sarah Raynsford, […]
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by Denis Langlois on (#4NKZB)
Grey County is asking the province to allow Georgian College to offer an entire bachelor of science in nursing program at its Owen Sound campus. A delegation, which included Grey County Warden Selwyn Hicks and Owen Sound Mayor Ian Boddy, requested support for the plan from both Ross Romano, minister of training, colleges and universities, […]
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by Scott Dunn on (#4NKV3)
Provincial requests to conservation authorities Friday to “wind down†what it called non-core programs won’t save the province any money and its new funding approach risks creating an inferior patchwork system of watershed protection. That’s the assessment of the interim general manager of the Grey Sauble Conservation Authority, Tim Lanthier, who while reluctant to say […]
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by Rob Gowan on (#4NKV5)
Local children and youth are being invited to polish up their skateboards, bicycles and scooters and head out to the Kiwanis Bike and Skate Park on Saturday. The Owen Sound Police Service and The Kiwanis Club of Owen Sound are co-hosting their sixth annual SK8 JAM at the venue at Victoria Park from noon to […]
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by Rob Gowan on (#4NKV7)
The annual Subaru Bayshore Race will mark its 10th year running on Sunday. The event, which includes 5-kilometre, 10-km and half marathon runs, a 5-km fun walk and 10-km power walk and a 1-km kids run is being held at the Owen Sound hospital for the second year in a row, where participants will get […]
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by The Sun Times on (#4NJT2)
Police have identified a man who died after being struck while crossing the street in The Blue Mountains on Friday. Brent Donald Smith, 56, from The Blue Mountains was taken to hospital after the collision where he was later pronounced dead. Just before 10 p.m. on Friday, OPP officers were dispatched to Grey Road 19 […]
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by The Sun Times on (#4NJMW)
A male was taken into custody Tuesday morning after an overnight standoff in South Bruce Peninsula, between Sauble Beach and Hepworth. On Monday, just before midnight, Grey Bruce OPP were called to what they called a high risk situation involving a weapon at an address on Bruce Road 8, which is the main road to […]
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by The Sun Times on (#4NH9J)
Items estimated to be worth more than $10,000 have been reported stolen from a residence in Ayton. West Grey police were dispatched to a property of Sideroad 10 on Sunday after receiving a report of a break and enter. The victim reported leaving the residence in the early morning hours on Saturday and when he […]
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by Scott Dunn on (#4NH9M)
The number of drug overdoses keeps rising in Grey-Bruce. A barbecue at Safe ‘n Sound Friday will acknowledge those who have died by opioid overdose and promote free Naloxone drug nasal kits, which buy opioid overdose victims 20 or 30 minutes in which to get to hospital to save their life. Some who have attended […]
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by The Sun Times on (#4NH9P)
A man sustained life-threatening injuries after falling from the back of a moving golf cart in Point Clark on Monday. The man had been sitting on the back of the golf cart on Victoria Road when he stood up and stepped off the cart while it was still in motion, causing him to strike his […]
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by The Sun Times on (#4NH5G)
The Owen Sound (Bittel) Foodland Hawks bantams won the Western Ontario Baseball Association’s Doc Miller Championship on Sunday. For four of the team members – Jesse Bittel, Jack Diaz, Bennett Lines and Austin Robbins – it was the second consecutive title. And it was once again St. Marys that the city squad defeated in the […]
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by Rob Gowan on (#4NGPX)
The Grey Bruce Health Unit is asking for the public’s help in finding the owner of a dog that bit a person at the beach in Southampton on Aug. 13. At approximately 9 p.m. a woman was bitten by a medium-size brown and black German shepherd. The woman had noticed the dog alone at the […]
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by Denis Langlois on (#4NFCM)
The powwow grounds at Cape Croker Park have been renamed in honour of Arthur “Butch†Elliott, remembered as a defender of First Nations’ rights who reintroduced drumming to his community. With family members and friends of Elliott in attendance, a renaming ceremony took place Saturday during the 35th annual Neyaashiinigmiing Traditional Powwow. Geewadin Elliott said […]
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by Denis Langlois on (#4NFCP)
Summerfolk is all about “embracing new acts and welcoming back old friends,†says artistic director James Keelaghan. It’s an important combination, he said Sunday during the 44th annual music and crafts festival at Kelso Beach Park in Owen Sound. “In order for the festival to remain fresh, there needs to be new blood,†he said, […]
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by Frances Learment on (#4NF35)
A 33-year-old Saugeen First Nation man has been charged in connection with the apparent opioid overdose death of a 24-year-old Saugeen First Nation woman Aug. 10. Grey Bruce OPP answers a vital signs absent call at 4:15 a.m., said before paramedics reached the French Bay Rd. address someone gave the woman Naloxone. She was taken […]
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by Denis Langlois on (#4NDW2)
A 61-year-old Town of the Blue Mountains man has died after police say he was struck by an SUV while crossing Grey Road 19 southeast of Craigleith. While the collision is still being investigated, alcohol is not considered to be a factor, according to a Collingwood-Blue Mountains OPP news release. A post-mortem examination is to […]
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by Denis Langlois on (#4NDW3)
Community advocacy played a key role in prompting Owen Sound to launch a pilot project aimed at snuffing out cigarette-butt litter in its downtown. “A lot of residents in the city have been concerned with seeing all the butts laying around,†said environmental services supervisor Cassandra Cesco. The city has installed 10 cigarette waste receptacles […]
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by Denis Langlois on (#4NDW5)
High water levels at Owen Sound’s Kelso Beach Park have forced Summerfolk organizers to make some adjustments to the site plan for the three-day music and crafts festival. “We’ve got an extremely limited backstage area for the performers this year,†artistic director James Keelaghan said Friday afternoon, a few hours before the event opened for […]
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by Scott Dunn on (#4NDW7)
A local panel discussion about climate change will take place Thursday, Aug. 22, at Harmony Centre in Owen Sound. Panellists include Danielle Valiquette, the local Green Party candidate in the upcoming federal election and a Grey Highlands councillor, Grey County planners Scott Taylor and Hiba Hussain, and Dyan Jones, who recently – and successfully – […]
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by Scott Dunn on (#4NDW9)
Firefighters put out a small fire in a garbage chute at the 14th Street apartments Thursday night. The call came in between 8:30 p.m. and 9 p.m. after someone smelled smoke on the fifth floor at 305 14th St. W. A number of residents left the building on their own, but the building was not […]
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by Scott Dunn on (#4NDWB)
The company behind controversial efforts to establish an outdoor marijuana grow site at Neyaashiinigmiing issued a brief statement Thursday touting the economic opportunity lost this year by missing the current growing season. Wiisag co-founder and chief executive officer Joel Strickland emailed the statement to The Sun Times after the paper requested comment the day before […]
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by James Keelaghan on (#4NDWD)
When I became the artistic director of Summerfolk eight years ago, it was all very new to me. I’d been a performing songwriter for most of my life. I played hundreds of folk festivals around the world though and I thought I might have some insight I could bring to the table. Still, on the […]
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by The Sun Times on (#4NDWF)
The Owen Sound Police Service is reminding the public to lock their vehicles and remove their valuables from them after thieves hit two areas of the city on consecutive nights. On Wednesday, vehicles on the northeast section of the city were hit, while on Thursday night thieves hit the southwest area of the city. For […]
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by Greg Cowan on (#4NCMD)
Ryan Jacklin had just set the Canadian under-18 record for the five-kilogram hammer throw, and he had to take a walk. He knew he could throw it farther, but not if he was “keyed up.†“At first I couldn’t calm down,†he said. “I took a walk to clear my head. I tried to have […]
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by Scott Dunn on (#4NCHK)
The youngest of three teens killed Monday morning when a pickup truck smashed into a tree at the bottom of an embankment near Brussels in Huron County will have his funeral in Owen Sound Saturday. Owen Markus Bakker, 14, of Elmwood was a thoughtful, selfless person, his mother, Sherry Millman-Bakker, said Thursday in an interview. […]
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by Denis Langlois on (#4NCE1)
Greenwood Cemetery is home to some of Owen Sound’s most significant heritage buildings, including a limestone-clad mausoleum, historic red-brick chapel and what is believed to be the city’s oldest stone house. And while the 160-year-old cemetery’s buildings are part of Owen Sound’s heritage registry, they are not currently protected by Ontario Heritage Act legislation. That’s […]
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by Rob Gowan on (#4NC4T)
The Chatsworth Fall Fair is marking a new beginning. This year’s 157th annual Chatsworth Fall Fair is moving to the Williamsford Community Centre after it was cancelled the past two years following the closure and subsequent demolition of the community centre in the village of Chatsworth. Sharrie Brick, president of the Chatsworth Agricultural Society, said […]
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