Owen Sound Sun Times

Shamar Moses scored the eventual winning goal and added an assist as the North Bay Battalion defeated the Owen Sound Attack 4-2 Monday in the Troops' traditional Thanksgiving Day game. Jacob Therrien and Ethan Procyszyn also had one goal and one assist apiece, while rookie Ryder Carey scored. Goaltender Mike McIvor provided 25 saves for [...]

The Ontario Hockey League named Owen Sound Attack rookie Pierce Mbuyi its Rookie of the Week after recording two goals and an assist over three contests. Mbuyi helped the Attack earn five out of a possible six points this past week with a pair of wins following an overtime loss. He pitched in with an [...]

Owen Sound District Secondary School students are again teaming up with local potters to help those in need in the Owen Sound area. The OSDSS leadership class will hold its second annual Empty Bowls fundraiser on Nov. 7, where each attendee will be able to enjoy soup and ice cream served up by students in [...]

A couple from Owen Sound has been revealed as the winners of half of the record $80 million Lotto Max draw from Sept. 17. The OLG announced on Tuesday that Scenic City residents Stephanie and Bryan Cantwell won $40 million from the draw just under a month ago, when the jackpot hit $80 million for [...]

Becky Bosma owns and operates four properties near Blyth

Grey County will hold a meeting in the spring to encourage affordable, near-market rental and attainable housing development. It owns lands in Markdale and Durham that could be used for affordable housing. County staff are looking at potential incentives to get such housing built, a report to council Oct. 10 says. Among those to be [...]

Three days of hockey is in store at HockeyFest 2024, which returns to Owen Sound Nov. 14-16. This will be the city's second HockeyFest event, inspired by Scotiabank Hockey Day in Canada which was held in January 2023 to celebrate the game of hockey and its history and impact in Owen Sound and the surrounding [...]

One person died and two more overdosed as a result of suspected drug poisoning, Grey Bruce Public Health announced Friday. The fatality took place in The Blue Mountains, while the two non-fatal poisonings occurred in Owen Sound in the three days prior to the health unit alert. Fentanyl is suspected in the two non-fatal overdoses. [...]

Thorsten Arnoldwarned Grey County council Thursday that it must act to avoid widespread drinking water contamination due to a combination of local factors. The karst geology found in parts of the county is well known, with its shallow soil layer over permeable bedrock in places, which reduces aquifer protection. The geology includes sinkholes and fissures [...]

Paul Vanar bent over his workbench and tinkered with a broken wind-up toy horse, perhaps 75 years old. Lorraine Rutherford brought him the toy to fix. It's been broken for a long time, but its sentimental value was too great for her to part with it. It belonged to her late husband Jim [...]

Even a lunchbox" team can dine out from time to time, and on Saturday night the Owen Sound Attack made a meal of the Peterborough Petes in the third period. Landen Hookey netted a hat-trick and rookie Pierce Mbuyi scored a pair as the Attack (3-3-1-0) earned their second-straight win 7-2 over the Petes (0-7-0-0) [...]

Six people worked briskly filling orders from people who lined up at the OSHaRE counter on Saturday afternoon of Thanksgiving weekend. Colleen Trask Seaman greeted each guest with a smile, usually by name, and asked them what they wanted. Do you like cranberries?" she must have asked 150 times through a plastic divider in the [...]

A Grey County task force proposes to transfer more than 50 kilometres of its urban county roads, bridges and sewers to municipalities and assume and make safer certain increasingly busy rural municipal roads roads in exchange for other county rural roads. County council decided Thursday to receive a report that provided lists of affected roads [...]

If you had a Konnor Smith hat-trick on your Owen Sound Attack 2024-25 bingo card, well, congratulations. The Big Rig turned into the Big Rip Friday night as the Attack captain netted three goals to help Owen Sound (2-3-1-0) come from behind and hand the Niagara IceDogs (4-1-0-0) their first loss of the season, 6-4, [...]

Bruce Countys draft budget is calling fora 6.81 per cent tax levy increase next year. County staff on Thursday presented the proposed 2025 capital and operating budgets to council. The proposed 6.81 per cent increase, which includes a 1.5 per cent growth assumption would result in an $82 increase in county taxes for the [...]

Former Blue Mountains mayor Alar Soever said he will file a formal closed-meeting complaint against Grey County for conducting a joint meeting with its nine municipal councils behind closed doors. He sent a letter Sept. 19 to the county outlining his concerns about a joint planning services meeting held Aug. 8 and waited to see [...]

Owen Sound's Kirk Gibson and the University of Toronto Varsity Blues baseball team hope to defend their provincial title as they host the OUA Final Four this weekend in Ajax. The Blues shellacked the Queen's Gaels 15-4 in Friday's semifinal to earn a berth into the championship contest where they'll play the winner of Brock [...]

The Harmony Centre in Owen Sound has launched a new program that provides small local organizations with all the benefits that come with being located in a bustling community hub. The volunteer-run charity located in a former church near the city's downtown has launched what is being called the Community Headquarters program. Jeff Elie, chair [...]

Two people were taken to hospital after the motorcycle they were riding was involved in a crash with a passenger vehicle in Chesley on Thursday. The two occupants of the motorcycle were taken to hospital by ambulance after the crash on 1st Avenue North at approximately 4:43 p.m. One was later transported by ORNGE to [...]

The Saugeen Royals air-raid offence carved up the Owen Sound District Wolves Wednesday as the Royals topped OSDSS 30-14 in Bluewater Athletic Association senior boys football action. Henry Clarke threw four touchdown passes to four different receivers on the afternoon as the Royals improved to 1-2 and avenged an opening-day 17-6 loss to the Wolves. [...]

After Grey-Bruce home sales showed signs of picking up over the summer, they surged forward in September. The 257 homes that sold through the MLS System of the Realtors Association of Grey Bruce Owen Sound in September was almost 43 per cent higher than sales during the same month in 2023. The big jump followed [...]

While Grey County growth plans must consider impacts on schools under Ontario legislation, there's no provincial requirement to consider impacts on health care. That should change, West Grey Mayor Kevin Eccles told Grey County council at its regular meeting Thursday, and county staff agreed. Publicly funded health care I think may be even more fundamental [...]

The Owen Sound Salvation Army's Thanksgiving Food Drive received a big boost on Thursday from a group of local retirees. The Silver Cs Caring Canadians made a donation of 7,538 pounds of food and $3,149 in funds that the members gathered after holding collection drives atarea grocery stores in recent weeks. It was the second [...]

Agencies that support local children and youth will be the beneficiaries of an upcoming charity gala at Cobble Beach. The Art of Caring Gala presented by Bruce Power is an inaugural black tie youth charity event set for Nov. 16 in the golf resort community in Georgian Bluffs. The event will support Keystone Child Youth [...]

The band is back together and playing their favourite tune - breaking the hearts of Owen Sound Attack fans. Sam O'Reilly waved goodbye to the 2,174 gathered at the Bayshore in Owen Sound after scoring the overtime winner to give London (2-3-0-0) the 5-4 victory over the Attack (1-3-1-0) That's just adrenaline," O'Reilly said of [...]

Downtown Owen Sound's soup kitchen served as many meals this year by Thursday as it did in all of 2023. We have seen a drastic increase in the number of people that are coming for meals," said Colleen Trask Seaman, the executive director at Owen Sound Hunger and Relief Effort, or OSHaRE, at a news [...]

An Ontario Ministry of Labour, Immigration, Training and Skills Development investigation into an industrial accident that resulted in the death of two workers near Owen Sound on Oct. 3 is ongoing. A ministry spokeperson said via e-mail on Wednesday that inspectors returned to the scene to continue their investigation on Friday (Oct. 4). During the [...]

A documentary that shines a light on the underwater world just off the shores of Grey and Bruce counties is about to premiere for audiences across Canada. All Too Clear: Beneath the Surface of the Great Lakes, directed by the husband-and-wife filmmaking team of Yvonne Drebert and Zach Melnick, will make its premiere as a [...]

A special Thanksgiving weekend edition of The Repair Cafe will be held at the Owen Sound and North Grey Union Public Library on Saturday. The event, where community members come together to fix broken items for free, will run from 1 to 4 p.m. in the auditorium at the library. Among the items volunteers can [...]

A project designed to help Owen Sound address rapid changes is holding a professional development workshop for community stakeholders. Future Owen Sound - Vision 2050 is meant to create a roadmap for the city and each four years council will set priorities focused on delivering the vision. The city and project consultant Jay Pitter Placemaking [...]

An accessibility expert will share some inexpensive ideas to improve access for the disabled community at a meeting in Wiarton next week. There's all sorts of low-hanging fruit that make a big difference when added up that make a space easier for somebody to participate in whatever the activity is that's happening in that space," [...]

In early 2014, sports reporter Sunaya Sapurji, then working for Yahoo, asked a question in an article about the Owen Sound Attack and small-market Canadian Hockey League teams. Are we at the point where the business of junior hockey has become too big for smaller markets?" Ten years later, and for the first time in [...]

What does being part of the community mean to neurodivergent people? An exhibition that just opened at the Tom Thomson Art Gallery features four people who used their art to answer that question. They are so very expressive," said Aidan Ware, the gallery's chief curator. They really do evoke . . . the sense of [...]

Thanks but no thanks. Planning staff for the City of Owen Sound laid out several reasons in a 40-page report presented at Monday evening's council meeting why the city should bow out of a centralized planning and shared-service model recently proposed by Grey County. Council members, on the other hand, agreed they need more information [...]

Coun. Marion Koepke asked staff at Monday night's council meeting to explain why she's heard from the community that council has decided not to pursue the Scenic City Order of Good Cheer's east side splash pad plans. Director of community services Pam Coulter said discussions between Good Cheer president Bill Jackson and city staff about [...]

It seems a seesaw battle between a wholistic approach of preserving habitat, and a species-by-species, individual-by-individual plan

More than 40 local authors are expected at a book fair Oct. 18 and 19 at the Owen Sound library. The library is billing the event as the first Owen Sound and North Grey Union Public Libary Local Author Book Fair. The free family event will take place on all levels of the library. All [...]

A lightning strike led the Saugeen Valley Conservation Authority's to temporarily close its administrative office in Formosa. No one was in the building at 1078 Bruce Rd. at the time of the strike Sunday, and there was no fire, according to a news release. The SVCA said the building sustained electrical damage and was being [...]

A two-pass fungicide program using multiple active ingredients is recommended

The Sydenham Bruce Trail Club has launched a new program designed to get local children and teens out enjoying and exploring nature just steps from their doors. Local club members were at Harrison Park on Sunday for Bruce Trail Day, where they introduced their new Youth Hiking Program, offering hikes and resources for youth up [...]

Saugeen Shores Police had a busy start to the Port Elgin Pumpkinfest weekend, with 87 police reports generated over a 48-hour period. The incidents included thefts of items, a stolen vehicle, missing persons, a collision, and a suspicious fire at a vendor tent. Just before 2 a.m. on Sunday, police were dispatched along with the [...]

Their eyes bulged but the net didn't, not enough anyway. I believe, honestly, we as a group looked and saw one of their rookie goalies in the net and expected it to be an easy night. There are no easy nights in the Ontario Hockey League - and that's what happened," said Owen Sound Attack [...]

While the 2,000-pound barrier remained elusiveat Port Elgin Pumpkinfest on Saturday, winning grower Jeff Warner still had a lot to celebrate. Not only did his 1,966.5-lb. gargantuan gourd set a new site record at the 39th annual event, but he smashed his own personal best by over 150 lbs., plushe finally got to celebrate a [...]

A program in Saugeen Shores to connect budding musicians with the instruments they require to perform is hitting all the right notes. The Rotary Club of Southampton's used musical instrument drive will see instruments refurbished and used by students in the music programs at the various schools in the community. Organizer Jim Wade said Thursday [...]

Two workers died at an agricultural elevator facility southwest of Owen Sound on Thursday and the Ontario Ministry of Labour is investigating. A ministry spokesperson confirmed just before 1 p.m. on Friday that two workers had succumbed to their injuries after a scaffold collapsed inside a silo at the Sharedon Farms facility on Grey Road [...]

Manitoba crop insurance declines to cover the crop infested with white cockle

Police were called to the Owen Sound courthouse Thursday after an angry outburst at a conditional sentence imposed for dangerous driving causing death. Luciano Da Silva, 64, of Utopia, Ont., was granted house arrest as part of a conditional sentence of two years less a day and must not drive for four years starting immediately. [...]

South Bruce Peninsula officials are warning other lower-tier municipalities in Bruce County about what they call a restrictive draft of the county's official plan. South Bruce Peninsula CAO Bill Jones said at a meeting earlier this month that planning hurdles introduced in the new draft plan would make it an uphill battle" to develop additional [...]

Dale DeGray said he needed to hear it from Colby Barlow. I had heard from everyone else, the only person I hadn't heard from was Colby, and I needed to hear from him what he wanted," DeGray said. The Owen Sound Attack general manager knew all along he'd likely have to trade away his captain [...]

One of the best goal scorers to ever play in Owen Sound finishes his career with the Attack just 17 tallies shy of Bobby Ryan's all-time franchise mark. He would have smashed that," Owen Sound Attack general manager Dale DeGray said Thursday after trading away his team's captain. Colby Barlow asked for a trade, and [...]