Owen Sound Sun Times

Nathan Day made 37 stops for his first-career shutout as the Flint Firebirds handed the Owen Sound Attack their fifth-straight loss, 3-0 inside the Dort Financial Center Saturday night. The Owen Sound Attack (3-7-1-1) are sliding down the Western Conference standings while the Flint Firebirds improved to 6-5-0-1 early in the season. All of the [...]

The director of Owen Sound Little Theatre's opening production of its 2024-25 season hopes everyone who sees the play rethinks what they consider normal. The Prom, which opens at the Roxy Theatre on Nov. 14, is a musical, but Corry Lapointe said the love story being told in the play also has an important message [...]

As a brisk autumn winds lashed the loneoak tree newly planted on the south lawn of the Julie McArthur Regional Recreation Centre, its tawny-coloured leaves rustled and swayed vigorously, but remained attached. It showed why the oak is a symbol of longevity, strength, stability, endurance and justice, and reinforced the decision to plant it in [...]

Georgian College's president has raised concerns about the federal government's plans to reduce the number of temporary residents eligible to enter Canada and the impact that is having on colleges and communities, including those in Grey-Bruce. In an Oct. 4 letter to Grey County Warden Brian Milne, the college's president and CEO, Kevin Weaver, said [...]

A 45-year-old tourism organization is ceasing operations after its municipal partners decided to pull the plug, according to its volunteer board of directors. The South Georgian Bay Tourism Association's board announced Wednesday the cessation of operations for the local not-for-profit organization, formerly the Georgian Triangle Tourist Association. For 45 years, SGBT has played a vital [...]

The first building on the former Chatsworth Arena site will be a pavilion built by the agricultural society, part of what will be a future arena and community hub complex. Chatsworth Agricultural Society raised more than $200,000 since May for the pavilion, which will likely cost more than $260,000 once washrooms and a kitchen are [...]

Bruce County will promote a ride-sharing app as it works to improve transit options and lay the groundwork for a larger transit network. County staff continue to work on short-term transit recommendations outlined in the Bruce County Transit Demand Feasibility Study, completed in December 2023. Claire Dodds, the county's commissioner of community development, presented a [...]

Do you have concerns about what you see in the city but don't think anyone wants to hear about it? A series of seven facilitated consultations Nov. 8 -10 at the Harry Lumley Bayshore Community Centre might be for you. But it's not just a place to crab - people will put their heads together [...]

DGR deal puts NWMO in charge The key message from South Bruce Council for the last several months has been that the decision on whether to host the NWMO DGR would be based on the collective support for details of the proposed hosting agreement. Details are important, council told us. Understanding them critical, we are [...]

Jack Nesbitt is playing with a little extra motivation. For the NHL Draft-eligible centre, that little added spark helped produce his first Ontario Hockey League hat-trick performance on Thursday in a 7-5 win over the Owen Sound Attack before a crowd of 4,788 at the WFCU Centre. I think he knew," Nesbitt said of overage [...]

SENIOR GIRLS BASKETBALL Emma French and Olive Eikins combined for 14 of the Georgian Bay Thunder's 27 points as the Meaford school defended home court with a 27-11 win over the Grey Highlands Lions on Thursday. With the win, the Thunder improved to 3-2 on the year and moved into second place in the Bluewater [...]

Don Day said he got a good feeling after his new group, 100 Good Men Who Give a Damn, voted at its inaugural meeting to give the local Meals on Wheels program $10,500. With the enthusiasm of the men and the variety of them at different ages and stages of life, he said he thinks [...]

Grey County council has decided to keep a per diem in place for alternate members of council who fill in when regular representatives are absent. At its meeting on Thursday, council voted against a notice of motion by Owen Sound Deputy-mayor Scott Greig that called on the county to remove the per diem funding from [...]

Grey County had reached a tentative agreement with unionized workers at two of its long-term care homes. On Thursday, council ratified and approved the recommendations of its bargaining team to bind the new agreement with OPSEU Local 299. The two-year agreement is for 2024 and 2025 and covers workers at Lee Manor in Owen Sound [...]

Summerfolk is facing extreme financial pressure and will consider downsizing as it manages rising costs and its debt, operations manager Jaret Koop said. The future of next year's festival is not in doubt but changes are coming and the community's input at an upcoming town hall meeting will help shape the next festival, he said [...]

Grey Bruce OPP has located a deceased 41-year-old person after looking for a missing person named Eric in Meaford. Police expressed their condolences to the person's family and thanked the public for its help. Police said no further information would be released, in a post on X Thursday morning. Eric had last been seen on [...]

There is a movement afoot in Grey-Bruce to make Christmas a little brighter for thousands of children in developing and war-torn countries around the world. Operation Christmas Child shoebox collection season is underway in the region, with individuals and groups now packing shoeboxes, boot boxes and other similar-sized containers with toys, school supplies, hygiene items [...]

City council has asked for a report about whether to outlaw future drive-thrus with an interim control bylaw. Deputy Mayor Scott Greig proposed the report, preliminary to a future zoning bylaw update, which also could address drive-thrus. His motion at council's meeting Monday proposed that the move be looked at to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, [...]

Bruce County and Grey Bruce Public Health are launching a social media campaign to help inform seniors of government-funded dental care programs available to them. The campaign, which will include posters and other educational material in area communities, is being put on to educate residents about the Canadian Dental Care Plan (CDCP) and the Ontario [...]

Police have arrested a third suspect in a home invasion and gunpoint robbery that occurred in Hanover more than a year ago. On Sunday, a man who was wanted in the relation to the robbery on Oct. 15, 2023 was arrested without incident by the Nottawasaga OPP, Hanover police said in a news release. Dan [...]

A Georgian Bluffs resident faces several charges, including assault with a weapon against a spouse, following an intimate partner violence investigation. Just after 9 a.m. Sunday, Grey Bruce OPP responded to an address in Georgian Bluffs.Police learned the suspect had allegedly committed a criminal act against a partner, Grey Bruce OPP said in a news [...]

When a new concrete slab and new piping beneath the floor are installed at the Harry Lumley Bayshore Community Centre ice rink next spring, it will correct an ice quality issue since the facility opened in 1983. A thinner slab, combined with new pipes will allow faster heat transfer to make ice faster, and allow [...]

A South Bruce Peninsula resident has been charged with impaired driving after a vehicle crashed into a police cruiser on the weekend, policed said. Just before 10 p.m. on Saturday, Grey Bruce OPP received a traffic complaint about an impaired driver on Howdenvale Road in South Bruce Peninsula. Police located the vehicle and attempted to [...]

The occupants of a home in Varney escaped a fire in the middle of the night last week, but the residence was deemed a complete loss. Just after midnight on Friday, a passerby on Highway 6 reported a vehicle fire in the carport of the home. Due to the location of the vehicle fire, it [...]

A luxury hotel in Sauble Beach has opened to guests. It was announced on Monday that the four-storey, 21-room Sands Hotel at 119 Lakeshore Blvd. N. had opened in time for the Thanksgiving weekend on Oct. 12-14. The hotel's restaurant is scheduled to open in late November. We had a delightfully busy Thanksgiving Weekend, and [...]

The Owen Sound Attack added recently waived overage defenceman Alec Leonard from the London Knights for a conditional 14th-round pick in 2027. Leonard became one of the odd-man out in London after the Knights acquired overage goaltender Austin Elliott from the Saskatoon Blades of the Western Hockey League. Leonard has played in 197 Ontario Hockey [...]

An unfinished apartment building described as an eyesore" near the Harry Lumley-Bayshore Community Centre in Owen Sound has a new owner who plans to finish the project, with changes. Sound Lifestyles Ltd.purchased the Georgian Landing project, at 297 18th St. E. in Owen Sound, and will be the developer. Now it's called Bayshore Terrace and [...]

The city's need for purpose-built rental housing on the former Black Clawson Kennedy site trumped concerns over offering a million-dollar incentive to a slow-moving developer Monday night at Owen Sound city council. A majority of council voted to extend its expired offer to waive about $1 million worth of development charges for another six months [...]

A plan by volunteers to transplant a patch of trees at the Owen Sound hospital has been put on hold. NeighbourWoods North, the volunteer-run organization that has been working to naturalize the hospital grounds in recent years, have postponed their Operation Save Our Forest that was in the works for this Sunday. The initiative included [...]

A Toronto resident has been charged after a teen was struck while crossing Hwy. 10 at a school bus that had its lights activated and stop sign extended. Just before 8:30 a.m. on Oct. 11, Grey Bruce OPP received a report that a pedestrian was struck on the highway north of Markdale, it said in [...]

The Municipality of Arran-Elderslie has closed a bridge west of Chesley for emergency repairs. The municipality announced it has closed the Priebe Bridge located on SR 25, Elderslie between Conc. 2 and Bruce Rd. 19. The bridge requires immediate rehabilitation to repair the floor beams and concrete deck in order to maintain its 10-tonne load [...]

Voting has opened in the Municipality of South Bruce on a referendum that will help determine if the municipality is willing to be the site of an underground storage vault for Canada's spent nuclear fuel. Voters were eligible to cast their ballotseither online or via telephone on the referendum question beginning at 10 a.m. on [...]

A 1,785-pound pumpkin makes a sickening thud when dropped from a crane four storeys high into a field of furniture- and you would know that if you visited the Saugeen Shores Community Church's annual pumpkin drop Sunday in Port Elgin. Two weeks ago, growers from all over the province hauled some of the largest vegetables [...]

Dressed in all black like Johnny Cash and leading the first-place Windsor Spitfires (8-1-1-0) into his old stomping grounds, Greg Walters' swagger should have been off the charts Saturday night. Even more so when his Spitfires took over the close-checking contest in the second period en route to a 4-1 win, eventually outshooting Owen Sound [...]

Brightshores Health System and its five supporting hospital foundations participated in National Disability Employment Awareness Month through Light It Up! For NDEAM on Oct. 17. Brightshores is the first health system to participate in Light It Up! For NDEAM in Canada. All Brightshores locations were illuminated with purple and blue lights to spread awareness of [...]

A new Grey Bruce Public Health report is highlighting local food insecurity. The report - The Cost of Eating Well & The Urgent Issue of Food Insecurity - is based on local food cost data collected by public health in 2024. According to the data, almost one in five Grey-Bruce households struggle to purchase the [...]

Dundalk is growing and its two elementary schools are already overcrowded so the Bluewater District School Board is making moves to make room. There's a new junior kindergarten to Grade 8 school and $28 million of funding on the way, but not until enrolment at the town's two schools - Dundalk and Proton Community School [...]

An Arran-Elderslie man has been charged after he allegedly fled police on foot following a traffic stop in Chesley this past weekend. At about 3:20 a.m. on Oct. 12, a member of the South Bruce OPP was on patrol along 1st Avenue South when an attempt was made to stop a vehicle. The driver of [...]

With the fall respiratory illness season just around the corner, Grey Bruce Public Health is encouraging residents to get their flu and COVID-19 vaccinations. The local health unit began receiving the vaccinations earlier this month, and they are being distributed to local hospitals, long-term care and retirement homes and other congregate living settings. This season's [...]

Celebrity chef Roger Mooking and Grey County are sharing the story of the region's culinary heritage, diverse agriculture and hardworking families with the Gather Campaign. This is his world. He knows culinary, he knows culture, he knows art, he knows all of those things and he knows our area now," said Savanna Myers, Grey County's [...]

Carter George is the type of goalie who can steal a win. He didn't do it Thursday, but he's a big part of the reason Owen Sound eked out a point in Barrie despite giving up nearly 50 shots against. George made 46 saves in a 4-3 shootout loss as the Owen Sound Attack (3-4-1-1) [...]

The Royal Canadian Legion Branch 586 will celebrate the grand opening of its new building on Nov. 2, nearly three years after a fire destroyed the legion's former home in Hepworth. The old legion building burned to the ground on Jan. 21, 2022. Much of the local legion's memorabilia and the former home of the [...]

Solidarity Sundays will return to the Harmony Centre beginning this weekend. Nominated for an Owen Sound Cultural Award for most promising new event, the intergenerational weekly social began as an experiment this past winter before becoming so successful its volunteer organizers kept it rolling throughout the spring. Solidarity Sundays started with a simple conversation at [...]

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Owen Sound Police have charged a man who they say rear-ended a vehicle on 10th Street East before fleeing the scene and ditching his car in a cornfield. According to an Owen Sound Police Service media release, a man driving a Pontiac Vibe rear-ended another westbound vehicle at 8:20 a.m. on Oct. 8, before immediately [...]

Saugeen Shores police charged a man with attempted murder and arson as the result of a residential fire in Southampton last month. According to a Saugeen Shores Police Service media release, police and the Saugeen Shores Fire Department responded to a residential fire at 2:15 a.m. on Sept. 26. Investigators determined the cause of the [...]

The head of a green hydrogen system developer based in Owen Sound said the company has already grown into a local success story, but the work is continuing to turn it into a global one as well. Denis Krude, president and CEO of Hydrogen Optimized, was at the company's eastside development and manufacturing facility on [...]

As the first step of budget deliberations, South Bruce Peninsula councillors reviewed the 2025 draft budget Tuesday with a proposed 3.9 per cent tax levy increase on the table before the addition of school and county levies. Director of financial services and treasurer Tracey Neifer took councillors through the presentation as part of its regular [...]

Staff provided South Bruce Peninsula council with an overview of the municipality's paid-parking program for 2024 and suggested minor changes for 2025 at its regular meeting on Tuesday. South Bruce Peninsula budgeted $749,930 in revenue from the paid parking program in 2024 with a projected parking pass revenue of $574,180, resident and student season pass [...]

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