Owen Sound Sun Times

Georgian Bluffs officials will look into establishing a natural burial site at its Mount Pleasant Cemetery. Council directed staff to bring back a report on the possibility of designating an area at the cemetery on Grey Road 17A as a site for what are known as green or natural burials following a request from a [...]

After a slow rollout, the Canadian Dental Care Plan is scheduled to pay a portion of dental services for more uninsured Canadians this year. Dental coverage under the program, now entering its second year, was first offered to seniors, then children younger than 18 and adults who receive the disability tax credit. It is scheduled [...]

Owen Sound schools were host to a first-of-its-kind volleyball tournament, featuring teams from the three regional school boards and two private schools. On Jan. 16, students from grades 6 to 8 competed at the tournament at l'ecole catholique Saint-Dominique-Savio and Notre Dame Catholic School. Owen Sound's Timothy Christian School won first place in the tournament [...]

Georgian Bluffs has finalized a 2025 budget with a municipal tax rate increase of 4.11 per cent. Council passed a bylaw Wednesday to adopt the operating and capital budget, which had been reduced by 1.47 per cent from a draft budget presented in early November. For the average single-family dwelling assessed at $300,000, the increase [...]

A new report details how 28 volunteers helped Grey-Bruce locals file nearly 1,000 income tax returns and receive 3.3 million in refunds and benefit entitlements in 2024 thanks to free local tax clinics. The Grey Bruce Community Volunteer Income Tax Program (CVITP) Network provides free tax preparation services to low-income individuals and families across the [...]

A Dundalk-area man is the first person in Canada to receive a new, publicly funded treatment that better targets prostate cancer cells and is shown to prolong life. Doctors at first sent Fred Harrison for conventional radiation in Kitchener, then eight months of chemotherapy in Owen Sound after discovering a growth in November 2023 that [...]

A woman has been charged after a man suffered serious life-altering injuries when attacked by a pack of dogs while jogging in West Grey. The 58-year-old man was attacked by a group of five to 10 dogs while out jogging on the Glenelg-Holland Townline earlier this month, West Grey Police Chief Robert Martin said on [...]

Owen Sound Attack goaltender Carter George spent some time at the REACH Centre in Owen Sound Wednesday afternoon to talk hockey and the World Juniors and to sign autographs for some of the city's biggest Attack fans. The Team Canada goalie fielded questions at the REACH Centre's 8th Street East building, where the organization offers [...]

Despite a rise in the unemployment rate in the region that includes Grey-Bruce, the area had the lowest jobless rate in Ontario last month. The Four County Labour Market Planning Board release a report last week that shows the unemployment rate for the Stratford-Bruce Peninsula region increased by 0.4 percentage points in December to 3.6 [...]

Two people face multiple drug trafficking and weapons charges after a traffic stop in Hanover early Tuesday morning. Just before 3:30 a.m., Hanover police stopped a Honda CRV that had initially refused to stop and attempted to flee before it abruptly pulled over at the intersection of 10th Street and 5th Avenue, police said in [...]

The Owen Sound Attack led all CHL clubs with six players featured on the NHL Central Scouting midterm rankings including defender David Bedkowski at No. 38 on the list. Two of Owen Sound's goaltenders are ranked in the top 15 for North American goalies. Trenten Bennett comes in at No. 9 on the list, while [...]

The Owen Sound North Stars added a prolific junior scorer and champion-pedigree defenceman as part of this week's Major Series Lacrosse draft. Ahead of the draft, teams were able to keep up to four players from an affiliated Junior A club on their protected list. Owen Sound chose to protect four players from their affiliate [...]

City council approved new five-year land-use agreements for the East Side Snowmobile Club and Stoney Keppel Riders. Council also delegated approval authority for such agreements with local snowmobile clubs in future to the director of community services. The agreements cover the city for liability through the user groups' insurance by making the areas an official [...]

Recent wintry weather has generated public complaints at city hall about street and sidewalk plowing. Coun. Carol Merton, who chairs the operations committee which oversees snow-clearing efforts, said she's been getting them and so have city staff. At city council Monday, she invited Lara Widdifield, the city's director of public works and engineering, [...]

When members of the PC Party of Ontario vote for their candidate inthe riding of Bruce-Grey-Owen Sound this weekend they will have four people to choose from. Former West Grey councillor and longtime Grey-Bruce resident Stephen Townsend was recently announced as a fourth and final candidate running for the nomination. The other candidates include Brock [...]

Police shared photos on Tuesday morning of a suspect in an investigation into more than $1,000 worth of stolen alcohol from the Meaford liquor store on Jan. 8. Grey Bruce OPP is asking for help identifying a male wearing red Puma shoes, jeans, a red Buffalo Sabres toque, a grey jacked and black hoodie. He's [...]

Owen Sound Mayor Ian Boddy opened the first council meeting of 2025 on Monday with a tribute to former city mayor Stew Taylor. Taylor, who died of pancreatic cancer on Dec. 20 at 77, served as the city's mayor from 1995 to 2001. He was a city councillor before that, from 1983 to 1994. Tayor [...]

Grey-Bruce and the rest of southern Ontario is expected to be less affected by a changing climate than many other areas, but farmers here will still need to be ready to adapt. Mark Robinson, a meteorologist and storm chaser with The Weather Network, told a packed Elmwood Community Centre during about some of the pros [...]

South Bruce OPP took someone into custody after a heavily armed police presence north of Chepstow Saturday. Police said in a release Saturday that the OPP Emergency Response Team, K-9 and Aviation units responded to and incident" just after 2 p.m. in the area of Schmidt Lake Road, north of Chepstow in Brockton. Officers interacted [...]

Water levels have fallen and stabilized in the Saugeen River through Durham, so the Saugeen Valley Conservation Authority stepped down its flood advisory Monday. Its flood watch" was reduced to a less concerning flood outlook" statement. West Grey's use of high hoes and other construction equipment reduced the flood risk by clearing out ice which [...]

An annual Canada-wide census that collects data that is used to determine the population health of our fine feathered friends has wrapped up for another year. The annual Christmas Bird Count, which is one of the longest-running wildlife censuses in the world, again saw thousands of birders and nature enthusiasts fan out across approximately 475 [...]

Oxenden's Julian Smith has been selected to the Nordiq Canada World Cup Period 3 Team that will compete from Jan. 12 to Feb. 17 with races in France, Italy and Sweden. Athletes selected to the team demonstrated the ability to achieve a top 20 performance in competition. Competing with the team allows the athletes to [...]

Big changes are coming to boys' representative hockey in Grey-Bruce next season. Beginning with the 2025-26 season, the Western Ontario Hockey Association (WOAA) will begin a two-year A-Zone" pilot project aimed at providing local hockey players with more opportunities to develop and compete in A and B-level representative hockey closer to home. This will be [...]

There's a playful glint in Ed Maxwell's blue eyes. He's seated with three other white-beards at a table inside the Wiarton and District Curling Club Saturday. A man who calls himself Parts Unknown" cuts up a dried crystalline cannabis nug with a pair of small pink scissors. The upstairs lounge smells dank" and DeeJay Jackzz [...]

The London Knights looked like they were going to blow the Owen Sound Attack out of the Bayshore Saturday night in front of a sold-out crowd, but in the end, a 6-4 Knights victory almost feels like a win for the Bears. London stormed out of the gate and took a 4-0 lead into the [...]

One person is in custody following a large police response north of Chepstow. According to a police media release, South Bruce Ontario Provincial Police (OPP), West Region OPP Emergency Response Team (ERT), West Region OPP K-9, and OPP Aviation Unit responded to an incident in the Municipality of Brockton in Greenock Township on Schmidt Lake [...]

Landen Hookey's homecoming was much happier for him than for the Sarnia Sting.

Walter Boone Twigger-Swannell is adjusting to newfound fame and the bright lights of the outside world after becoming Grey-Bruce's New Year's Baby at 2:56 a.m. on Jan. 1, 2025, at the Brightshores hospital in Owen Sound. Weighing in at just over seven pounds and born to Devon Twigger and Travis Swannell of Meaford, Walter is [...]

Landen Hookey became the 28th captain in Owen Sound franchise history Friday. The 20-year-old will take his first official ceremonial face-off in his hometown of Sarnia when the Attack take on the Sting Friday night. Being named captain is an honour and a great privilege," said Hookey in a team release. I am excited to [...]

Six high hoes in constant motion removed buckets of slush and packed ice from the rising Saugeen River as the sun went down in Durham Thursday. They worked through the night toremove a building ice jam, along with a dozer that pushed the slush piles away. They're working to prevent a repeat of the 1997 [...]

South Bruce Peninsula officials plan to ask the Supreme Court of Canada for permission to file an appeal related to its boundary dispute with Saugeen First Nation over a section of Sauble Beach. The town announced in a news release on Friday that while a recent Ontario Court of Appeal decision includes some encouraging statements," [...]

Noon on a cold day in Owen Sound and the Ontario Hockey League's trade deadline is in Dale DeGray's rearview mirror. How does it feel? There's a deep chuckle on the other end of the phone line. You can almost picture the 61-year-old reclining in an office chair somewhere. Oh, God . . . just [...]

Bookings are open for what has been billed as a no-fuss way to get hitched on Valentine's Day. The Owen Sound River District, City of Owen Sound and Shannon Deckers Real Estate are teaming up for the third annual Just Say Yes event, in which couples can get married at city hall on Valentine's Day. [...]

The City of Owen Sound has announced that the Good Cheer Rink in Harrison Park will open at noon on Friday. The city made the announcement in the morning that the rink would now be open from dawn until 10 p.m. daily. It is the first time this season the rink has been open to [...]

The St. Mary's Mustangs beat the Owen Sound District Wolves 58-54 to remain undefeated in the Bluewater Athletic Association's North Division Thursday at St. Mary's. Playing inside the St. Mary's gym with a standing-room-only crowd and the Mustangs and Wolves junior teams waiting to take the court, Wyatt Garren stepped to the stripe for a [...]

A cyclist has died after being struck by a vehicle on Highway 26 at Thornbury. Collingwood and Blue Mountains OPP responded along with Grey County Paramedics to the crash on the highway between the 11th Line and 10th Line at the western end of the village just after 7 p.m. Thursday. A 59-year-old was confirmed [...]

The elephant in the room made an appearance about 25 minutes into Mark Hamel's Dairy Farmers of Ontario update Thursday afternoon during Dairy Day at Grey Bruce Farmers' Week. What are you doing to prepare for the challenges that we all think are coming south of the border on January 20?" asked someone from the [...]

Grey Bruce OPP said officers resolved a disturbance call Thursday in which someone at trailer park southwest of Rockford initially refused to come out. The call came in about 5:50 a.m. at a residence on Sussex Squarein the Stonewyck Estates subdivision along Derby Road 3 in in Georgian Bluff. Police in helmets, green fatigues and [...]

An annual celebration of winter in a community better known for sand than for snow will mark its 45th year. Sauble Beach Winterfest 2025 will be held in the South Bruce Peninsula lakeside community Jan. 17 and 18 with numerous activities planned for residents and visitors to have some mid-winter fun. It is our winter [...]

Police are asking people to avoidthe Sussex Square trailer park southwest of Rockford while they're at the scene of an ongoing incident." Residents can expect to see an increased police presence in Sussex Square for an ongoing police investigation.Please avoid the area," the news release Grey Bruce OPP issued this morning says. Police said further [...]

They'll be the underdog most nights for the rest of the season, but that doesn't mean the Owen Sound Attack can't win a few. We just want to keep building," head coach Scott Wray said after his club beat Eastern Conference heavyweights Barrie, 5-2, just hours after dealing away former Attack captain Konnor Smith and [...]

Strong cattle market prices and lower feed costs last year has left most beef producers happy, but it is what 2025 may bring that was on the minds of many during the opening day of Grey Bruce Farmers Week on Wednesday. Farmers, agribusiness professionals, and others interested in beef gathered at the Elmwood Community Centre [...]

The Owen Sound Attack acquired blue-chip rookie Cole Zurawski from the Flint Firebirds Wednesday afternoon in exchange for Sam McCue and picks. Along with McCue, the Attack are sending a 2027 second-round pick (OSH), a 2026 third-round pick (OSH), a 2028 third-round pick and a conditional 2028 15th-round pick. Flint is sending Owen Sound a [...]

Two new family doctors are accepting patients in South Bruce Peninsula and Georgian Bluffs and one of them also will be working in Wiarton hospital. Dr. Mylash Mylvaganam is joining the Sauble Family Health Team and will be accepting patients without a primary care physician who live in South Bruce Peninsula and the surrounding area. [...]

Oxenden's Julian Smith sprinted at both finals of the Nordiq Canada Selection Trials in Thunder Bay earlier this month. Some of the best Canadian skiers attended the trials at the Lappe Nordic Center in Thunder Bay from January 2 to 6. Smith skied in both sprint races. On Thursday, Jan. 2, 120 men raced a [...]

Police charged two people with criminal negligence causing death after the death of an infant almost two years ago. A child was reported unresponsive at a Saugeen First Nations residence on March 26, 2023 and was later pronounced dead at hospital. A 33-year-old from Saugeen Shores and 28-year-old from Saugeen First Nation were each charged [...]

The Owen Sound Attack announced the trade of team captain Konnor Smith to the Brampton Steelheads on Wednesday morning. In return, Owen Sound will receive seven draft picks from the Eastern Conference Club. A 2025 second-round pick (WSR), a 2028 second-round pick (LDN), a 2026 third-round pick (OTT), a 2027 fifth-round pick, a 2026 sixth-round [...]

Friends described the victim in a Durham murder investigation as a charismatic, passionate angler who was generous with his expertise, while the man charged in the case appears to have been a partner in his bait shop business. Police confirmed Tuesday the victim was Travis Hopkins, 35, who was taken to hospital where he was [...]

Saugeen Valley Conservation Authority says frazil ice and slush are building in the Saugeen River's lower channel, causing waters to rise. The situation is expected to continue for the next several days, the advisory says. This could further contribute to blockage of the Main Saugeen River downstream of the Durham Lower Dam," the conservation's flood [...]

Liberals in Bruce-Grey-Owen Sound are expressing their gratitude to Justin Trudeau for leading the party and the country after the Prime Minister announced Monday that he would be stepping down after his replacement is chosen. Bruce-Grey-Owen Sound Federal Liberal Association president Anne Marie Watson issued a statement Monday, which she called a first response to [...]