Owen Sound Sun Times

The Owen Sound Baysox are one series away from a championship. On Labour Day Monday, the Sox won a winner-take-all Game 6 in New Lowell with a late offensive explosion, beating the Knights 12-0. After a scoreless first four innings, Owen Sound's bats came alive. Kirk Gibson sparked the onslaught with a three-run home run [...]

Union solidarity was expressed by the marching feet of an estimated 1,500 people at the annual Labour Day parade in Port Elgin Monday. People watchedfrom the sidewalks on main street under sunny skies on a cool, fall-like morning. Many were family of the estimated two-thirds of parade participants who were local. They always have our [...]

The 164th Desboro Agricultural Fall Fair parade Saturday was a celebration of country life. In a village of about 100, it attracted likely hundreds of people, many of whom took in the cattle show, tractor pull, carnival tent with kids' games, a frog jumping contest on the ball diamond, outhouse hauling races and traditional country [...]

Ray Hynes won the 36th McDonalds Owen Sound Salmon Spectacular Sunday with a 24.8-pound chinook salmon he caught on the third-last day of the derby. I'm still in shock. It's like I'm pretty excited but I'm in shock," he said Sunday before the awards ceremony. Everything is just a blur right now." He'd tried not [...]

Chippewas of Saugeen First Nation members re-elected Conrad Ritchie as chief for a second consecutive term. Ritchie faced seven others, including former chief Lester Anoquot, who declined to run for chief in the last election. Anoquot was elected as councillor last time and again this election. Forty people ran for councillor. Six ran for both [...]

The words clean slate" and fresh start" were bandied about the Harry Lumley Bayshore Community Centre like a mantra this week. It's likely the same at 19 other Ontario Hockey League rinks where training camps are underway, but few of those teams will have gone through as much an off-season upheaval as the Scenic City [...]

Police continue to investigate a serious two-vehicle crash in Grey Highlands which sent three people to hospital Thursday. Police responded to a report of a sedan-pickup truck crash on Grey Road 40 about 2:27 p.m. Three people in the sedan were sent to hospital; two in serious condition went to a London hospital and the [...]

The bell at the McDonald's Owen Sound Salmon Spectacular weigh station was put to good use on the morning of Day 8 at the big fishing derby. Donated by longtime derby volunteer and photographer and Sydenham Sportsmen Association member Rob Cameron, the bell reverberates through the big tent at the Georgian Shores Marina each time [...]

Fruit and Vegetable Growers of Canada says temporary foreign workers vital to fruit and vegetable sector.

Grey Bruce Public Health has posted Southampton Beach unsafe for swimming this long weekend. Water samples showed bacterial levels exceeding Ontario Ministry of Health standards. The beach posting will remain in effect until further samples show levels have returned to within the acceptable range for swimming/bathing, the health unit said in a release. Unfortunately, this [...]

The South Bruce Ontario Provincial Police has confirmed a missing Huron-Kinloss couple is all right. Police issued a plea for help to find the couple, identified only as Brian and Janis, who left their home Aug. 29. They were driving a 2017 Ford Escape with Ontario licence CVBM 187. Police also released a photo of [...]

Owen Sound police announced Saturday they've arrested a third suspect in an incident on Aug. 18 involving robbery and assault which left someone in critical but stable condition. Police had asked for help finding David Ward, 31, of no fixed address and released a blurry picture of him. Police said in a news release that [...]

The Owen Sound Baysox and New Lowell Knights will go the distance in their North Dufferin Baseball League semifinal series. Down 3-2 in the last-chance-bottom-of-the-seventh-inning, Owen Sound speedster Robert Doyle stood on third base and broke for home as soon as he saw Nick Hodgson's breaking ball bounce in front of home plate. Doyle called [...]

The Sauble Beach Cross Country Ski and Snowshoe Club decided Wednesday at an emergency meeting to carry on after nearly all of its equipment was stolen. Insurance will partially cover the stolen snowmobile but not any of the other equipment, which leaves about a $20,000 to $30,000 shortfall, said Jo-Ann Sheridan, a long-time club member [...]

It was a lazy day at the salmon derby Wednesday, when a brisk north wind chased fishermen off the bay in the morning and afternoon. Fewer fish were weighed in than usual and by early afternoonthere had been no change on the leaderboard over the past 24 hours, organizers said. It was overcast and cool [...]

An Owen Sound student heading to Lakehead University to study forestry is the winner of this year's Malcolm Kirk Environmental Award from the Grey Sauble Conservation Foundation. Hayden Wardell, a former Owen Sound District Secondary School student, will start a bachelor of science degree program in forestry at Lakehead University this fall. Each year the [...]

GOLDIE, CANADA EARN SILVER Owen Sound's Jillian Goldie and the Canadian under-20 women's lacrosse team won silver medals at the 2024 World Lacrosse Women's U20 Championship in Hong Kong. The Americans won back-to-back gold with a 23-6 win over its rival Canada at Mong Kok Stadium this past Saturday evening. The USA completed a dominant [...]

A 36-year-old woman faces weapons and assault charges after a stabbing in Hanover Tuesday night. According to a media release from the Hanover Police, officers responded to a disturbance at a residence in the 500 Block of 10th Avenue in Hanover shortly after 9 p.m. Upon arrival, police officers located a male suffering from wounds [...]

The Owen Sound Baysox face elimination after a 14-6 blowout at the diamond Tuesday night. The New Lowell Knights came to town fresh off a second-place finish at the Ontario AA' provincial championship and batted the Baysox into submission. With the win, the Knights take a 2-1 series lead back to New Lowell where Game [...]

A resident of West Grey has been charged with human trafficking following an investigation in the Brockton area. In June, the South Bruce OPP Crime Unit began an investigation involving a victim from the Brockton area. As a result of the investigation a 27-year old resident of West Grey has been charged with six counts [...]

Ontario-based Clean Works moving into commercialization, and additional crops

A South Bruce Peninsula man faces arson, assault and weapons charges after a fire at a home nearWiarton over the weekend. Just after 6 a.m., Grey Bruce OPP and the South Bruce Peninsula Fire Department responded to a report of a structure fire at a residence on Beford Street in the Township of Georgian Bluffs. [...]

Police are seeking witnesses after a crash in Sauble Beach last week left a person with serious injuries. Police, fire and ambulance were called to the crash between a motor vehicle and a motorcycle on Bruce Rd. 8 in South Bruce Peninsula just before 7 p.m. on Thursday (Aug. 22), Grey Bruce OPP said in [...]

A London resident has been charged following a sexual assault at a business in Paisley. On Monday, South Bruce OPP received a report of a sexual assault at a business on Queen Street in the village in the Municipality of Arran-Elderslie. The individual responsible was arrested on Wednesday by the South Bruce OPP Crime Unit, [...]

The captain isn't coming - at least not yet. Owen Sound Attack GM Dale DeGray said Colby Barlow informed the team a few days before training camp that he's decided to stay and prepare in the Toronto area before the Winnipeg Jets meet for camp next month. The Jets selected Barlow in the first round [...]

A 22-year-old Mississauga resident drowned at Sauble Beach on Tuesday. Just before 4 p.m., Grey Bruce OPP, Bruce County paramedics and the South Bruce Peninsula Fire Department responded to a report of two people in distress in Lake Huron. One of the individuals was brought safely to shore. The second person was brought to shore [...]

The Owen Sound Fall Fair returns Sept. 6 and 7 with truck andtractor pulls, a horse show and demolition derby - all on the Victoria Park track in front of the grandstand -which was partly damaged by fire in May and won't be repaired in time for the fair. But the 172nd Owen Sound Fall [...]

For the eighth time this summer Grey Bruce Public Health is sounding the alarm over the local street drug supply following reports of one fatal and four non-fatal drug poisonings over three days last week. Each of the most recent overdoses took place between August 23 and 25. Three of the reported overdoses occurred in [...]

"It's not developing weed control resistance by being here, it's already bringing Group 9, Group 2, and Group 14 resistance with it," says one agronomist

Police charged someone with domestic mischief at the annual Lucknow Music in the Fields festival Friday. Police investigated a report of intimate partner violence on Aug. 23 at a campsite at the weekend concert in Huron-Kinloss, and charged a 48-year-old Owen Sound resident with domestic mischief, a South Bruce OPP news release said. Const. Melissa [...]

Three people wearing life-jackets were rescued after their canoe capsized on Lake Huron south of Kincardine Friday night. One person was taken to hospital for observation but otherwise no injuries were reported, a South Bruce OPP news release said. About 8:35 p.m., three people were reported overdue by family. South Bruce OPP wascontacted aboutthe incident, [...]

A woman will speak Thursday about her experience of addiction in Owen Sound and her recovery. Andrea Donaldson, who grew up in Owen Sound and spent 20 years here in active addiction, said July 30, 2015 was either going to be my recovery date or the date on my tombstone," a news release announcing her [...]

There's new and then there is brand-spanking-new, and for most of those at the Harry Lumley Bayshore Community Centre on Monday, it was the latter. Three new coaches, two new imports (one currently in Owen Sound and the other dealing with paperwork), and a boatload of rookies trying to make the team were in town [...]

A young man found guilty of criminal negligence causing deathfor setting a tree house on fire while the victim slept with her boyfriend inside, was sentenced to 18 months in jail, followed by 18 months of probation. After a trial, Superior Court Justice Roger Chown found an intoxicated and disgruntled Taran Hibma, then 18, of [...]

There was a new leader to start the week at the 36th McDonald's Owen Sound Salmon Spectacular. As of noon on Monday the biggest catch so far was a 24.06-pounder caught by Brandon Strain of Sauble Beach on Sunday. He unseated Nick Mandeno of Owen Sound at the top after Mandeno weighed in a 21.82-lb. [...]

A clothes dryer malfunction is being blamed for a fire at a home on Owen Sound's west side on Sunday. The Owen Sound fire department responded at approximately 12:30 p.m. to a report of a structure fire with heavy smoke coming from a second-floor window of a home in the 1000 block of 6th Avenue [...]

Owen Sound fighters put out a fire and kept it to the area of a clothes dryer in the basement of a two-storey home in Owen Sound Sunday. The home sustained about $10,000, including minor smoke damage, in the fire which was reported about 12:30 p.m., a city fire department news release said. Owen [...]

An Owen Sound man has been charged with impaired driving after a collision on Owen Sound's east side on Saturday. Just before 6 p.m., two vehicles were involved in a collision near the intersection of 9th Avenue East and 10th Street East, Owen Sound police said in a news release. A Dodge Caravan was waiting [...]

As Clara Smith said a prayer for those taking part in a more than 30-kilometre walk from Ferndale to Wiarton early Sunday morning, she became so emotional that at times it became hard to say the words. For Smith, it has now been almost 31 years since she last saw her grandson Leslie Jones, who [...]

To say the fishing has been good to start off the 36th McDonald's Owen Sound Salmon Spectacular would be an understatement. The 482 fish weighed in on opening day at this year's derby was the most in one day since 1993. Another 428 were weighed in on Saturday, and 438 were weighed in Sunday, bringing [...]

Public health is warning the public about a blue-green algae bloom in Lake Eugenia that could make people and pets sick. The algae bloom in the southern portion of the lake in Grey Highlands has tested positive for the presence of naturally occurring toxins called microcystins that are harmful to human and animal health, Grey [...]

Two men have been charged and police are continuing to investigate after an assault and robbery on Owen Sound's east side on Aug. 17 that left another person critically injured. Owen Sound Police Service officers responded to an apartment building at approximately 5 p.m. in response to a male being assaulted in the parking lot [...]

The near-perfect conditions on Georgian Bay Friday morning meant that when the weigh station opened for the first time at the 2024 Owen Sound Salmon Spectacular only a handful of anglers had gathered in line. But it didn't take long for the line to grow as a steady stream of fishing derby entrants hauled their [...]

The United Way Bruce Grey's backpack program has already surpassed its initial estimate by handing out more than 2,500 fully-stocked backpacks to kids heading back to school in September. The 2,513 students served to date are the most in the program's history, and the United Way expects that tally to keep ticking upwards. Last year, [...]

Local politicians and staff discussed a wide range of priorities and issues affecting Grey-Bruce at the Association of Municipalities on Ontario conference in Ottawa this week. Everything from homelessness and addictions, to healthcare and long-term care, to energy, transportation and infrastructure were on the minds of area representatives when they met with provincial ministers and [...]

A University of Waterloo student completing a degree in mechanical engineering is the first recipient of the Sharifur Rahman Memorial Scholarship. Shaan Banday said he's honoured to receive the first scholarship in memory of Sharif Rahman, an Owen Sound restauranteur and community leader who was assaulted outside his downtown Owen Sound restaurant and later died [...]

For all the experience that we may have, maybe we don't even recognize the worth of things on our own farms.

Owen Sound teacher Mike Foulds has been elected president of the Ontario Teachers' Federation for a second time. The OTF board of governors elected Foulds as the organization's 81st president at its annual meeting on Tuesday. Foulds, who has been on OTF board of governors since 2009, also served as its president in 2016. OTF [...]

Grey County and its nine member municipalities are discussing a potential shared service model for planning services. County and lower-tier municipal leaders met on Aug. 8 and discussed the model, which would see local planning staff join a reorganized planning department. Local municipal decision-making authority would be unchanged and operational efficiencies would be expected at [...]