Owen Sound Sun Times

A 21-year-old man is dead and two other men injured after a single-vehicle collision in Southgate Township Monday night. Grey Bruce OPP responded to the incident on Southgate Road 26 East of Boothville just after 10:30 p.m., where they found a grey pick-up truck on its roof in a ditch beside the road, police said […]

An Owen Sound resident says that when she had no one else to turn to, staff at the Grey-Bruce Community Legal Clinic were there to help. But now she is concerned that cuts to Legal Aid Ontario will leave those services crippled or non-existent for the next person who needs them. “It’s a frightening thing, […]

The driver of an SUV suffered minor injuries, but nobody else was hurt after the vehicle was involved in two collisions in the area of the Sunset Strip on Tuesday morning. Grey Bruce OPP were dispatched to the two collisions in Georgian Bluffs just west of Owen Sound at about 8:20 a.m. Witnesses reported that […]

Residents, businesses, farmers and developers in three southern Bruce County municipalities are all poised to benefit from a multi-million dollar natural gas project that is now officially underway. Politicians, company representatives, project backers and others gathered for a ground-breaking ceremony for the $80 million Southern Bruce Natural Gas Project on a property stacked high with […]

Recently I preached on Luke 10:38-42, the story of sisters Mary and Martha and their dinner with Jesus. It’s a good story about family relationships and is one of the more interesting texts to preach on. The great American preacher Anna Carter Florence has a wonderful and quite funny exploration of the text in a […]

The long and proud history of Durham Furniture is tied closely to the community’s economic prosperity. The company began as a community initiative in the late 1800s to provide employment for the town’s young people. More than $10,000 in capital was raised from local residents by a group of business people who secured an interest-free […]

8th Street East is a bit cleaner than usual. And it’s thanks to a handful of international students. Thirty-nine Japanese high schoolers picked up trash along a stretch of the road Monday as a way to give back to a community they say has welcomed them. The all-boys class from Nichidai Buzan High School in […]

SOFTBALL Dodgers 5-1 at Canadians The Chatsworth West Grey Dodgers are 5-1 at the Softball Canada U14 Canadian Championships in Saskatoon. The Dodgers started the national tournament with a 17-0 win over the Prince Albert Astros before dropping a close contest, 7-6, to the host Saskatoon Selects. The Dodgers bounced back on Sunday topping the […]

Two people were taken to hospital with injuries that are not considered life threatening after a crash in Owen Sound on Monday morning. Officers with the Owen Sound Police Service responded to the collision at the intersection of 2nd Ave. W. and 14th St. W. at approximately 11:30 a.m. The crash involving a Honda Fit […]

A 23-year-old man is dead after a collision in southern Bruce County on Saturday. West Region OPP tweeted just after 7:30 p.m. that Bruce Road 1 was closed south of Highway 9 for an investigation involving a single-vehicle fatal motor vehicle collision. Just after 9 a.m. on Sunday, police tweeted that the road was open, […]

Two Brockton residents have been charged with numerous drug offences following the seizure of methamphetamine with an estimated street value of over $180,000. South Bruce OPP Staff Sgt. Paul Richardson and Owen Sound Police Service Insp. Jeff Fluney announced Monday afternoon that as a result of a co-ordinated investigation, a warrant was executed at a […]

One man is dead and another has been charged with impaired driving causing death after a collision between an SUV and a bicycle in Meaford early Sunday morning. Just before 1:30 a.m. Grey Bruce OPP were dispatched to the collision involving the black SUV and the bicycle on 7th Line between Highway 26 and Grey […]

Two drivers were located, arrested and charged with impaired driving in Owen Sound after calls from the public were received on the weekend. The first call came Saturday morning at about 10:30 a.m., when a concerned motorist called about a possible impaired driver entering the city from Georgian Bluffs. The vehicle was found in the […]

Police in Hanover and West Grey have recovered two stolen vehicles, but continue to search for those involved. On Friday at about 3:30 a.m., the West Grey Police Service and Hanover Police Service were notified of the theft of a black GMC pickup truck from a residence on Conc. 14 in the former Normandby Twp. […]

Saugeen Track and Field Club members competed against the best track and field athletes in the country at the Canadian under-20 senior and para track and field championships held in Montreal July 24 to 28. Medal performances were turned in by para-athletes Josh Farrell and Rick Carr and high jumper Emily Branderhorst. Josh Farrell won silver […]

With this year’s piping plover nesting season drawing to a close, only one of the endangered shorebirds is still scurrying along the sand at Sauble Beach. All four of the adult birds have left for their wintering grounds, along with one of the two chicks that hatched this season at Sauble. The other fledgling is […]

This “Yellow Submarine” refuses to be submerged. The yellow-and-black cardboard boat, named after the 1966 hit by The Beatles, was returned for a second straight year to compete in Southampton’s ninth annual Marine Heritage Festival. The vessel, powered this year by the Barrack family of Mississauga, was entered in not one but two cardboard boat […]

For the third-straight year, the Owen Sound Bug Juice North Stars have been elimintated from postseason contention by the Six Nations Rivermen. For the second-straight night, the Rivermen gave up a third-period lead in the dying minutes only to stifle the North Stars in extra time. Six Nations topped the North Stars 9-8 in Game 4 […]

Somehow we’ve ended up in Brantford. This strange lacrosse odyssey started with a brawl in Ohsweken. Nearly a week later the Owen Sound Bug Juice North Stars and Six Nations Rivermen played Game 3 of their Ontario Lacrosse Series best-of-five semifinal Friday night inside the Wayne Gretzky Sports Centre. And it was a stunner. The […]

MINOR SOCCER U13 United hit double digits In SWRSL action, the Owen Sound Ken Burrows & Son/Sound Speech & Hearing United under-13 boys soccer team scored eight unanswered goals in the second half on their way to a 10-1 drubbing of host Hillsburgh-Erin United on Wednesday night. Dominic Morassutti led the way for Owen Sound […]

A blacklegged tick collected in Saugeen Shores has tested positive for the type of bacteria that causes Lyme disease, the Grey Bruce Health Unit said Friday. The test result comes within the same year as three confirmed human cases of Lyme disease in Grey-Bruce. One of those cases was locally acquired. “My concern about this […]

Grey Sauble Conservation’s board of directors is planning to immediately start work to recruit a new chief administrative officer, after current CAO Sonya Skinner announced she will be resigning Aug. 5. Board chair Cathy Little said a recruitment team was created Wednesday and is planning to meet soon to discuss next steps. “We’re going to […]

A sour incident has befallen the Huron-Kinloss Ice Cream Trail. The southern Bruce County township has been forced to remove the popular “Mario Toad” Street Sweets cone from the trail after the piece in Lucknow was vandalized for a third time. In one incident, the foam head, carved and painted by artist Kathleen van den […]

A stretch of 10th Street West is expected to be closed a week longer than originally planned. The area of 10th Street West around 2nd Avenue West was closed on July 17 as part of the city’s horseshoe watermain upgrade project. Originally the intersection and the area around it was expected to be closed until […]

The Grey-Bruce Community Legal Clinic will hold a pop-up legal clinic in downtown Owen Sound to bring attention to provincial cuts to legal aid funding. The clinic will be located in front of Owen Sound city hall on Tuesday, July 30, from noon to 2 p.m. to protest the Ontario government’s cut to Legal Aid […]

This Saturday’s Billy Bishop Heritage Fest will be a chance to honour area veterans, learn more about local heritage groups and enjoy food, games and other activities, organizers say. The event is set to take place from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Billy Bishop Home: Museum, Archives & National Historic Site on 3rd […]

The long-time owner of the train station business at Port Elgin beach is unsure of the fate of the building there following the passing of a July 19 deadline the Town of Saugeen Shores gave to remove any personal belongings from town-owned land. An e-mail on Monday from The Station owner Andy Hess and his […]

The driver of a motorcycle was airlifted to hospital with serious injuries after a collision involving a farm tractor on Highway 10 in southern Grey County on Wednesday. Just before 1:30 p.m., Grey Bruce OPP were dispatched to the collision between the blue motorcycle and a tractor at the Artemesia-Southgate Townline south of Flesherton. The […]

Two Owen Sound residents have been charged after the window of a downtown Owen Sound restaurant was damaged Wednesday. The bay window of the closed restaurant in the 700 block of 2nd Ave. E. was damaged by two projectiles at approximately 4:20 p.m. Patrol officers and the Criminal Investigations Branch of the Owen Sound Police […]

While one volunteer group continues in earnest to control invasive dog-strangling vine in Owen Sound, another organization has confirmed a plant found this week on the Bruce Peninsula is not – as previously feared – the destructive weed. Esme Batten of the Nature Conservancy of Canada discovered a plant at Rush Cove near Lion’s Head, […]

Ethan Burroughs made a name for himself in hockey circles last season by filling the net. The Attack’s second-round draft pick – 29th overall – led the South Central Triple-A League in goals with 30 while playing for the Halton Hurricanes minor midget club. He added 14 more goals in 11 postseason games, and three […]

Despite being devised months ago, a Chalk Your Walk with Kindness campaign is taking place at a particularly apt time due to some recent incidents in the area, organizers say. It is only by chance that the Community Living Owen Sound & District initiative, which encourages people to write loving and inclusive messages with chalk […]

Police have arrested a Brockton man in connection with a number of break-ins and thefts from car washes and a laundromat across Grey-Bruce earlier this year. Grey Bruce OPP, South Bruce OPP, Owen Sound Police Service and Saugeen Shores Police Services investigated the break-ins in local communities from February to April. In late March, police […]

Five Owen Sound residents were taken into custody and more than $3,000 worth of highly toxic purple fentanyl was seized in a drug bust in the city on Tuesday. Members of the Owen Sound Police Service Drug Enforcement Unit, Criminal Investigations Branch and uniform patrol concluded their fentanyl trafficking investigation with the execution of the […]

The Selects will soon leave for Saskatoon riding a high note. In their final tune-up tournament before the Softball Canada U23 Canadian Fast Pitch Championship Owen Sound won the First Ward Falcons tournament title in Dunkirk, N.Y. over the weekend. The Selects topped fellow Canadian squad the Toronto Batmen 5-1 in the final of the […]

After more than 20 years of planning and debating, Meaford has officially decided on a new library. Council unanimously voted on Monday in favour of housing the library at the former Foodland grocery property on Meaford’s main street, in the downtown. The lowest bid pushed the total cost of the project to $7.1 million, $1.6 […]

The summer has arrived in Bruce County and with it comes some exciting changes for the team at Dr. MacKay’s dental practices in Port Elgin and Southampton.

A team of Grey County paramedics are about to start a new kind of training — one they hope will make a difference in the lives of their fellow first responders. Next week, they will team up with a psychologist to learn how to identify and deal with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and operational stress, […]

A Grey Highlands farmer found guilty of criminal negligence causing death in a skid steer mishap that killed his four-year-old son is scheduled to be sentenced on Aug. 8. Emanuel Bauman, who was 32 when his son Steven suffered a fatal head injury when he fell out of the bucket of the skid steer Bauman […]

Eleven athletes will represent the Saugeen Track and Field Club at the Canadian Track and Field Championships hosted at the Complexe Sportif Claude-Robillard in Montreal from July 25 to 28. The Canadian Championships also serve as the trials for the 2019 IAAF World Championships and 2019 World Para Athletics Championships. The top Olympic, Paralympic and […]

Wilson signs in Toronto According to Toronto Sun reporter Terry Koshan, former Owen Sound Attack captain and OHL champion Garrett Wilson has signed a one-way deal with the Toronto Maple Leafs worth $700,000 for the 2019-20 season. Wilson appeared in 50 games with the Pittsburgh Penguins last season recording two goals and eight assists. He’s […]

Most of the world got their first taste of Ontario’s senior B lacrosse circuit when a brawl between the Owen Sound Bug Juice North Stars and Six Nations Rivermen sparked online awe over the weekend. With 5:44 left in Game 1 of the Ontario Series Lacrosse league’s semifinal between the N’Stars and Rivermen Wyatt Barfoot […]

MINOR LACROSSE Tyke N’Stars win ‘B’ Division title The Owen Sound McCartney Property Maintenance North Stars-1 tyke team went 5-0 at the WOAA Zone 8 ‘B’ division playoff tournament to win the league championship. They kicked off the tournament with a 4-0 record in round-robin play sending the club straight to the final against Arthur. The North […]

Six Owen Sound North Stars girls field lacrosse teams travelled to the Ontario Women’s Field Lacrosse provincials at RIM Park in Waterloo over the weekend. Four of those clubs made their way to medal games. Under-11 The Owen Sound Firefighters North Stars-1 under-11 girls fell short in the bronze medal game of the U11 ‘A’ […]

A Port Elgin man has been charged with operating a vehicle while impaired by drugs after he lost consciousness in a Tim Hortons drive thru. Police were called to the area of the Canadian Tire gas bar in Port Elgin just after 8 a.m. on Sunday about a collision. The man fell unconscious, causing him […]