Owen Sound Sun Times

After seeking input from the community in a months-long consultation process, Arran-Elderslie councillors voted to keep the ward-based electoral system. At its regular meeting on Monday, council voted to stick with the ward-based system for the 2026 municipal election. Five ward councillors will remain for Arran, Tara, Chesley, Paisley and Elderslie alongside a duly elected [...]

Brooklin High School won the 2025 OFSAA Boys' AAA Field Lacrosse Festival at OSDSS this past week. Brooklin won gold with a 12-10 win over St. Peter Catholic Secondary School (Peterborough) in the gold medal game Thursday afternoon. Neil McNeil High School (Scarborough) won bronze with an 11-8 win over Malvern Collegiate Institute. Twelve teams [...]

The Owen Sound North Stars fell to 2-3 early in the Major Series Lacrosse (Senior A) season with a 12-5 loss against the Six Nations Chiefs inside the Meaford and St. Vincent Community Centre Saturday night. The back-to-back defending Mann Cup champion Chiefs got hat tricks in the game from Ryan Smith and Tyson Bell [...]

The Owen Sound North Stars have now lost twice in Ontario's senior B loop early this season, and both times to the Six Nations Rivermen. The North Stars (4-2) lost 11-5 to the Rivermen (6-2) Saturday evening inside the Iroquois Lacrosse Arena. Davin Bomberry did most of the damage with four goals on the night. [...]

The Owen Sound North Stars are getting hot at the right time. The North Stars went 3-0 this past week and have climbed into the final playoff spot in the Ontario Junior B Lacrosse League's Western Conference. With three games remaining in the regular season, the North Stars are 8-9 and a game up on [...]

A trio of Bluewater Athletic Association athletes medalled at the OFSAA Track and Field Championship this past weekend in Toronto. Over a dozen BAA students qualified for the provincial track and field championship at York University. To qualify for the provincial high school meet, the athletes first needed to qualify through the BAA, CWOSSA and [...]

The region's unemployment rate remained the second lowest in the province in May. Last month, the Stratford-Bruce Peninsula Economic Region's unemployment rate decreased by 0.3 percentage points to 3.9 per cent. Meanwhile, the provincial unemployment rate increased by 0.3 percentage points to 7.9 per cent. Both figures are unadjusted for seasonality. According to the Four [...]

South Bruce OPP cordoned off an area around 1st Avenue North in Chesley while a man barricaded himself inside a property on Saturday afternoon. The South Bruce OPP, West Region OPP Emergency Response Team (ERT), Crisis Negotiators, and West Region OPP K-9 responded to a disturbance call at approximately 3 p.m. Saturday, according to a [...]

A 21-year-old woman from Mississauga is facing several charges stemming from a single motor vehicle collision in the Blue Mountains. On Sunday just after 7 p.m., members of the Collingwood and Blue Mountains OPP flagged a black Ford Mustang travelling at twice the posted speed limit while driving westbound on Highway 26 near Wards Road [...]

The South Bruce OPP are looking for witnesses and dash-cam footage following a motorcycle collision on Bruce Road 3 between Brant-Elderslie Townline and Concession 2A in Arran-Elderslie Saturday afternoon. Police received a report of a single-vehicle collision at approximately 1:56 p.m. on June 7. Police said in a news release that upon arrival, officers observed [...]

Paisley Bluesfest carried on celebrating the blues Saturday, maintaining a tradition that started in 2014. It was held in the Paisley hockey arena Friday and Saturday night, where the black hockey scoreboard's red digital clock glowed and local hockey championship banners hung from the ceiling. But strung with soft yellow lights and enhanced with acoustic [...]

'I found the whole experience uplifting being with many hundreds of people to worship in a service.' -- Rob Lawrence, of Owen Sound.

'I think that everybody recognizes that there is a demand for transit in rural areas.' -- Southgate Mayor Brian Milne

The family of Walkerton District student Olivia Rourke is honouring her legacy through a weekend basketball tournament and the launch of a foundation in her name. The Hoops for Hope 3-on-3 youth basketball tournament will go ahead as planned on Saturday at Walkerton District Community School. The basketball tournament was being organized by Rourke before [...]

The Owen Sound and District Chamber of Commerce held its business excellence awards on Thursday, with a sold-out crowd watching as winners were selected in 14 categories. Tiffany James, the chamber's chief executive officer, said the community really got behind this year's event at Best Western Inn on the Bay, which saw a record number [...]

A measles case at a Flesherton school has led local public health officials to take steps to prevent the spread of the disease there. Grey Bruce Public Health confirmed on Friday that it received a report of a person who had contracted measles who attended Macphail Memorial Elementary School on May 20. The local health [...]

The Middlesex Agricultural Hall of Fame announced its inductees recently, and it stirred an old memory when I read that one of the men honoured was Dr. Burt Matthews.

'Just as you wouldn't leave your child alone in a city, don't let them navigate the online world alone.' -- OPP Det. Staff-Sgt. Tim Brown

A teen from South Bruce Peninsula has died as a result of a single-vehicle crash near Hepworth early Friday morning. An 18-year-old who was taken to hospital has died from injuries sustained in the crash, while another individual remains in hospital with serious injuries, Grey Bruce OPP said in a news release late Friday morning. [...]

'It wasn't long ago that this province was making school boards choose which rural schools they would keep open, which ones they would close. Well, I'm proud to say that those days are over.' -- Bruce-Grey-Owen Sound MPP Paul Vickers

As spring turns to summer in Grey-Bruce local health unit is reminding people about ways to prevent tick bites. Blacklegged ticks, which are capable of transmitting bacteria, viruses and parasites that can cause potentially serious diseases in people, are present in the area and are primarily active in the spring and summer. Grey Bruce Public [...]

Walk will begin July 19 at Niagara Falls, NY, and end in Owen Sound on August 2

Some criticized MNRF decision to tranquilize bear so high in tree

A college student who is originally from Owen Sound has walked away with an award from the Skills Canada National Championships held in Regina on May 29-30. Noah Rittenhouse, a first-year CNC Machining student at Mohawk College has won the RBC Best of Region Award for Ontario at the national championships. Rittenhouse, 25, was [...]

Politicians of many colours and levels frequently like to toss an old favourite into the election promise mix. They promise to get tough on crime.

The event will be the culmination of Choir Camp

Spiritual council work could 'go back to the roots,' Rev. Joan Silcox-Smith says

Backyard hens could soon be permitted on residential lots in South Bruce Peninsula. Town council directed staff to place a bylaw on the agenda of an upcoming meeting that would permit up to 10 chickens in any zone where a main residential dwelling is established. The move came after a public meeting was held to [...]

Integrated advanced greenhouse technology with a focus on environmental responsibility produces sweeping, crunchy leafy greens

The Owen Sound Aquatic Club's 2024-25 season is in the home stretch, but before it ends team members will compete in a range of meets, including local, regional, national and international competition. Two OSAC swimmers are making their way to Victoria, BC, June 7-12 to compete in the Bell Canada Swimming Trials, the highest domestic-level [...]

A bid to capture provincial bronze on home soil came up just short for the Owen Sound District Wolves girls field lacrosse club. After falling behind 9-1 to Blessed Trinity of Grimsby early in the second half, the Wolves mounted a mad comeback but fell just short in a 10-9 heartbreaker at the Trillium Cup [...]

The board has $36.097 million in provincial funding for a 1,012-pupil school.

An Oxford County couple has been expanding in an old aircraft hanger since 2023

New use of the Quyon mill will be as a farmers' market, a cafe and terrace with river view, and ice cream truck on site

The Law Enforcement Torch Run in support of Special Olympics Ontario will make its way through Grey and Bruce counties on Tuesday. Members of the Owen Sound Police Service, Saugeen Shores Police Service, Hanover Police Service, West Grey Police Service and the OPP will be walking and running routes in a number of area communities, [...]

Owen Sound council has approved closing streets for a pair of events in the River District. Council on Monday approved closing the 900 block of 1st Avenue East for the Downtown River Precinct Phase 2 Opening Celebration on Friday, and the use of 9th Street East between 2nd and 3rd Avenue East for the Pride [...]

'It started in the hockey arena in downtown Toronto," Rev. Marsha Roberts said of the origins of the United Church of Canada.

Owen Sound council has voted to remove an artifact display area and training space from a planned firehall renovation and expansion in order to lower the project's cost. Council approved a staff recommendation Monday morning at a special meeting to remove the two features from the space needs, conceptual floor plan and cost estimate identified [...]

The season had kicked off with High Point Farms dispersing March 21 where 75 lots brought $390,250 for a $5,200 average

In front of a packed crowd inside the Durham Community Centre, the Owen Sound North Stars couldn't climb all the way back in an emotionally charged game against the Guelph Regals. In the North Stars' first home game since the passing of their assistant coach Mat Eckert, the team paid tribute with a pre-game ceremony. [...]

If those who come out to see the Owen Sound Little Theatre's production of 7 Stories walk out the door agruing about it, the production will be considered a success in the mind of director Gerrard Morrison. That is because the past-paced, dark comedy is what Morrison calls a thinking piece," and each viewer is [...]

A man has died in a crash involving an all-terrain vehicle in Elmwood. West Grey Police Service, Elmwood Fire Services and Bruce County paramedics responded to the single-vehicle crash near the intersection of John Street East and George Street in Elmwood on Sunday. When police arrived, community members were already providing first aid and CPR [...]

The Ontario Provincial Police are again asking for support in locating a missing Flesherton teen just days after she was reported found. Jillianne Dixon, 15, is five-foot-three and 130 pounds. According to police, she was last seen Saturday, May 31, at midnight on Princes Street in Kincardine, wearing white sneakers, black pyjama bottoms and a [...]

A teacher and four students died while returning home from a softball tournament. As their communities lay them to rest, plans to honour their legacies are taking shape.

Five different goal scorers hit paydirt Friday night as the Owen Sound North Stars downed the Collingwood Cruise, 5-3, at the Eddie Bush in Collingwood. With the win, the N'Stars improved to 4-1-0 in the Ontario Series Lacrosse league, behind only the Brooklin Merchants and Six Nations Rivermen in the six-team circuit. Owen Sound has [...]

A bunch of Bluewater Athletic Association track and field athletes punched their ticket to the 2025 OFSAA Track and Field Championship in Toronto with big performances this past week. The OFSAA West Region championship was held at London's Western University, with the top four finishers in each event qualifying for the big show in the [...]

The Rotary Huron Shore Run is growing in popularity and, in turn, raising more money for life-saving equipment in local hospitals. Most people don't realize the government does not buy the equipment for hospitals. They pay, really, less than 10 per cent for that. They pay for the staff, the building, the operating expenses, but [...]

An Ontario Superior Court has confirmed the Grey Sauble Conservation Authority's ownership of the Hibou Conservation Area Lands, five years after for sale" signs were erected on a portion of the property. The GSCA announced Friday that a recent court decision has confirmed its ownership of lands at the Hibou Conservation Area, ensuring continued public [...]

Monday is gearing up to be a big day for the birds and the bees in Owen Sound. The Owen Sound Field Naturalists and Birds Canada are hosts for a SwiftWatch at the Old Grey County Courthouse on Monday night to celebrate the refurbishment of the structure's old chimney - the last communal chimney roost [...]

The Owen Sound and District Chamber of Commerce is gearing up to celebrate the local business community at its annual awards night. The chamber is holding the 2025 Business Excellence Awards at the Best Western Inn on the Bay, 1800 2nd Ave. E., on June 5. The awards night is the chamber's largest event of [...]