Owen Sound Sun Times

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 […]

The provincial government’s announced reinstatement of the provincial inter-library loan service, after it cut nearly half of the Southern Ontario Library Service’s budget, leaves a big question unanswered so far – the cost to local libraries. Most of the savings needed to bring back the program came from discontinuing the SOLS’s private courier service, an […]

Brockton and Hanover have introduced a way to compact polystyrene foam, such a Styrofoam, that will divert it from their shared landfill. The polystyrene densifier is a Danish made machine that is part of a pilot project launched May 31 in Walkerton. The densifier reduces polystyrene foam by about 50 times its volume into bricks […]

FIELD LACROSSE U11 N’Stars split games The Owen Sound Firefighters North Stars under11-A girls were in action for two games in Ontario’s Women’s Field Lacrosse league play Sunday in Brampton. The team was defeated by Halton Hills-1, 11-5 with Adassia Clock starting the scoring with two goals and Bree Wilkins leading the scoring with three […]

Four unanswered goals in the second and third periods sparked an Owen Sound Bug Juice North Stars comeback effort that slashed the Six Nations Rivermen Sunday afternoon in Owen Sound. N’Stars goaltender Garrett Reed settled into a groove after a shaky start and was instrumental in Owen Sound’s third-straight win at home, 6-5 over the […]

The Owen Sound campus of Georgian College will benefit from a new partnership between the college, Honda of Canada Manufacturing and the Honda Canada Foundation. On Thursday, a donation of more than $1.8 million in cash and in-kind goods was announced as part of a five-year agreement between the three partners that will include funding […]