Owen Sound Sun Times

The successful renovation of Denny’s Dam, which controls invasive sea lamprey populations, was marked with a ribbon-cutting ceremony in Southampton. The project was a partnership between the Saugeen Ojibway Nation, the Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry, the Great Lakes Fishery Commission, and Fisheries and Oceans Canada, all of whom were represented at the ceremony. […]

Much like life, in professional wrestling it helps to have someone in your corner. And if that someone is wrestling legend Tito Santana, as it was for Canadian champion Cody Deaner in Hanover Saturday night, well, just consider yourself lucky. Santana, famous for his raucous appearances in the world’s biggest wrestling promotion – the World […]

Police were continuing to investigate on Monday an incident on Colpoys Bay on Friday night that left one male dead and a man charged with impaired operation of a vessel causing death. Grey Bruce OPP Const. Adam Belanger said Tuesday afternoon there are “a lot of moving parts” in the investigation and he was hopeful […]

The Owen Sound Attack open up their 2019-20 campaign inside the Harry Lumley Bayshore Community Centre Sept. 21 against the Eastern Conference champion Ottawa 67’s. The Ontario Hockey League released the regular season schedule for all teams on Tuesday. The Attack’s calendar features 21 Saturday home games, nine games at the Bayshore on Wednesday night, […]

Meaford has received a deluge of comments about a landowner’s proposal to buy an adjacent piece of municipally owned Leith Beach and then build a new restaurant/pub with parking area on the site. About 75 letters, most of which include concerns about John Liddell’s land transfer and zoning bylaw amendment requests, had been received by […]

N’Stars host first OWBLL “league day” The Owen Sound Brand Realty North Stars hosted their first Ontario Senior Women’s Box Lacrosse “league day” at the Julie McArthur Regional Recreation Centre Saturday. The North Stars welcomed the Hamilton Lady Bengals, Toronto Stars, Arthur Aces, Clarington Gaels, and the defending champion Grand River Attack for a total […]

Local junior pool players headed to St. Louis Seventeen Simcoe, Grey, and Muskoka County kids will join pool players from all over North America to compete in the 2019 American Poolplayers Association (APA) Junior Championships in St Louis, MO June 27 -30. Several local billiard establishments play host to the Canadian Poolplayers Association (CPA) Junior […]

Owen Sound’s 2019 senior of the year has been “brightening the lives of many through his music and sense of humour” for more than three decades, the city says. Don McMillan, a musician with the Merry Music Makers for 32 years, received the annual award at Monday night’s city council meeting. “Mr. McMillan is a […]

“It’s nice to watch basketball with other people for once.” Kerri Kula and 11-year-old Evelyn had some of the best seats in the house for the Owen Sound Attack’s Jurassic Park viewing party inside the Harry Lumley Bayshore Community Centre Monday. The pair had previously attended similar events in Brampton and Port Elgin. Kerri has […]

Owen Sound is hoping the third time’s the charm in its attempt to secure provincial funding to rehabilitate a significant stretch of 16th Street East. Council voted Monday to apply for $933,000 from the Ministry of Transportation’s Connecting Links program for the $1.15-million project, which includes the section of street from 50 metres east of […]

One man has been arrested and another has a warrant out for his arrest after an assault and robbery in Port Elgin early Friday morning. At approximately 3:30 a.m., Saugeen Shore Police Services officers were called to investigate a disturbance. Officers arrived and found a man in distress suffering from minor injuries. The victim reported […]

Items including a crossbow, throwing axes and knives have been stolen from a property in Huron-Kinloss. Between May 20 and May 31, someone kicked in two doors to gain access to a seasonal property on Bruce Road 6 in the Township of Huron-Kinloss, police said in a news release. The items taken from the property […]

June 11,2019

One person has died and another is facing charges after a boat sank on Colpoys Bay near Wiarton on Friday evening. It’s the third marine fatality in Ontario this year, according to the OPP, as the official start of summer approaches. The Grey Bruce OPP were called just after 10:30 p.m. after people reported hearing […]

The Bears came out of hibernation for their annual awards and barbecue Sunday. The Owen Sound Attack welcomed back Kevin Hancock, Nick Suzuki, and Sean Durzi during the celebration while sending off aged-out players Trent Bourque and Zach Poirier. The day started with the annual softball tournament pitting player-against-player with a host of prospects filling […]

The Owen Sound Attack signed first-round section Deni Goure to a standard OHL player agreement and education package Sunday. Team GM Dale DeGray made it official Sunday during the team’s awards and barbecue. “He’s a quick player, very sound positionally, we had the pleasure of watching him play 36 times this past season and he was […]

Owen Sound’s second annual Pride parade expressed personal and universal messages Saturday. For organizer and Grade 12 OSDSS student Ryan Brown, it represented an outreach to those who may know they’re not straight but haven’t come out or may be questioning themselves. Others said they thoguht it was important that children be there to learn acceptance […]

Emily Bryce has won back-to-back gold medals in the 3000-metre race at the OFSAA track and field championships. The Saugeen District Royals runner finished first in the junior girls race with a time of 10:09.43 Saturday at Alumni Stadium in Guelph. She won the 3000-metre race in OFSAA’s midget circuit last year in 10:29.15. It’s […]

The North Stars are headed to the playoffs. “From the goalie out we all have to work together as a team. We’ve been here before, we’ve been in this situation, and we’ve learned from our past,” N’Stars coach Alex Muzzell said. A 14-1 shellacking of the winless Welland Generals Saturday afternoon in Owen Sound improved […]

There were some sleek and modern aircraft costing as much as several new cars at the Air & Auto Extravaganza Saturday at the Wiarton airport. And then there was Mike Thede’s beloved 1953 Piper Pacer. “This is worth less than a car,” he said as the annual showcase event of the Wiarton Keppel International Airport, […]

An ambulance sped from Bluewater Park dock late Friday night after emergency responders conducted a water rescue. By late Sunday afternoon, police had not put out a statement but a number of people gathered at the dock and neighbours witnessed the rescue efforts. Deanna Millman lives on Taylor Street by the arena and can see […]

A four-year-old passenger and the driver of one car in a “chain reaction” crash in Owen Sound went to hospital as a precaution and were later released, city police said Friday. Police were called to a collision which occurred about 9 a.m. on 8th Street East at 8th Avenue East, a police news release said. […]

Welcome back Riley Thompson. The Bug Juice North Stars’ spark plug scored two goals in his return to the squad as Owen Sound topped the Kitchener-Waterloo Velocity 11-5 Friday night in Owen Sound. “You never know how long it’s going to take to get back into it, but it’s good to get it going in […]

GREY BRUCE MINOR SOFTBALL ASSOCIATION On the first truly beautiful ball night of the season, the Tara Greig Precision Reno’s Twins continued their winning streak with another close victory against a solid Wiarton squad, 9-6. Waylon Greig spun three innings for the Twins and gave way to Zak Hamilton for the save. Zak had the […]

The teenager who organized Owen Sound’s first LGBTQ Pride Parade has been named the city’s 2019 youth volunteer of the year. Ryan Brown was presented with the award by Mayor Ian Boddy Friday, following a Pride flag-raising ceremony at city hall. “It’s an amazing honour, but it’s really an honour for the community because they’re […]

Anika Dixon, a wildlife interpreter with Little Ray’s Nature Centres, holds a veiled chameleon named Pascal Friday at Grey Roots Museum & Archives south of Owen Sound. Pascal and other reptiles, birds, mammals and other critters are part of a new exhibit at Grey Roots called Under the Canopy: Animals of the Rainforest, which opens […]

About 150 people, including Owen Sound’s mayor, police chief and top city staffers, watched Friday as an LGBTQ Pride flag was raised at downtown city hall for the first time in 14 years. “I think the turnout is fantastic. Last year, we had about 75, so 150 would mean we doubled our amount, which is […]

Job gains drove the regional unemployment rate down by 1.2 percentage points to 4.7 per cent in May, the Four County Labour Market Planning Board’s monthly report said Friday. The provincial unemployment rate dropped by 0.1 percentage point to 5.9 per cent. The region from Stratford north to the Bruce Peninsula saw employment increase by […]

Owen Sound police charged a suspect Thursday after what police called a “crime spree” in the city. A 38-year-old Owen Sound man was identified as a suspect in multiple thefts, including thefts at car washes, at a laundromat and apartment building common area, police said in a news release. He’s charged with possession of break-in […]

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 […]