Owen Sound Sun Times

South Bruce Peninsula council has given approval to a design concept for its planned new town hall, and will go to the public for feedback on potential uses for the remaining vacant space in the building. At a meeting on Tuesday, council approved the town hall design in principle while acknowledging there may still be [...]

Tiffany James will become the new chief executive officer of the Owen Sound & District Chamber of Commerce effective April 28. James has been responsible for communications and events at the chamber and has been with the chamber since 2018. She's played a pivotal role in strengthening business engagement, fostering community partnerships, and enhancing the [...]

Hundreds of elections workers in Bruce-Grey-Owen Sound are fanning out to dozens of polling stations in the riding as Ontarians head to the polls. Voting locations were set to open at 9 a.m., and the riding's returning officer, Linda van Aalst, said Wednesday that teams were already preparing for when the voters begin to arrive. [...]

Councillors worry about cost, impact on snow contractors

Downtown snow removal resumes Sunday night

City council also clears way for new hotel near the mall

A 30-year-old man faces charges after an assault on 1st Avenue South in Chesley. South Bruce OPP said they received a report of the assault on Feb. 19. On Feb. 21, police arrested an individual with the help of the OPP's West Region Emergency Response Team. The 30-year-old from Arran-Elderslie faces charges of assault, assault [...]

Jr. MUSTANGS WIN CWOSSA CHAMPIONSHIP The Owen Sound Mustangs won the CWOSSA Double-A junior boy's basketball championship 68-49 over Bishop MacDonnell (Guelph) at St. James in Guelph this past weekend. The Mustangs want undefeated in the tournament beating North Park (60-35), St. David (78-69) and Preston (56-46) to earn a berth into the championship. Meanwhile, [...]

Three Brampton-area men face theft charges after more than $1,000 worth of butter was stolen in Owen Sound. A loss prevention officer at an upper-east-side grocery store observed three males stealing several containers of ghee, (clarified butter)from the store on Sunday, city police said in a news release. They drove to another retailer nearby where [...]

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Close to 30 brave souls took the plunge into icy water in Shallow Lake Sunday morning. The Grey Bruce OPP held its first Polar Plunge for Special Olympics outside the community centre, where one by one, participants jumped into the Inter Township Fire Department's portable water tank. After organizers made sure the water was nice [...]

The temperature hovered a couple of degrees below freezing and a light snow fell in Owen Sound's River District on Saturday where an event held to raise awareness about the challenges faced by the community's most vulnerable. For anyone without a toque and mittens it was chilly enough to numb exposed fingers and ears. It [...]

Police are searching for a suspect after an armed robbery at a convenience store on Owen Sound's east side Friday night. Just before 11 p.m., a male dressed all in black, including sunglasses and a black mask, entered the convenience store located at 9th Avenue East and 16th Street East, Owen Sound police said in [...]

Saugeen Shores firefighter plan to undertake a public education initiative this weekend after a house fire in Port Elgin on Thursday in which a woman was rescued from a second-floor bedroom. Saugeen Shores Fire Chief Ed Melanson said via e-mail on Saturday morning that the department's public education team plan to visit the area as [...]

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A woman was helped from a home on fire in Port Elgin on Thursday. Just before 4 p.m., police, fire and paramedics were dispatched to a residential address in the 300 block of Bricker Street, Saugeen Shores police said in a news release. Saugeen Shores Fire Services and paramedics were able to extract a woman [...]

Some Coldest Night of the Year events in Grey-Bruce have been adjusted due to heavy snow in the region, but all organizers are planning to go ahead on Saturday. Safe N Sound has cancelled the walk portion of its event in Owen Sound, with plans to instead hold what it is calling the Coldest Night [...]

Hundreds of job seekers and dozens of employers played the match game in Owen Sound on Thursday. Grey County and its community partners held what has been dubbed the region's largest job fair at the Harry Lumley Bayshore Community Centre throughout the afternoon and evening, providing a one-stop job shop. Grey County's manager of economic [...]

PERE-RENE WIN SENIOR VOLLEYBALL TITLE Cambridge's Ecole Secondaire Catholique Pere-Rene-De-Galinee topped Delhi District Secondary School in straight sets to win the CWOSSA Single-A senior girls' volleyball championship in Walkerton Thursday. Les Chevalieres went undefeated in the six-team tournament. Walkerton District fell in the semifinals to Delhi. LOCAL SCHOOLS OUT AT CWOSSA The St. Mary's Mustangs [...]

Unit 3 should be back in service in 2026

Advance voting started Thursday in Ontario. Voters can cast their ballots at any advance voting location in their electoral district from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. on Feb. 20, 21, and 22. In Bruce-Grey-Owen Sound, advance voting is available at the following locations: Bethel Missionary Church, 18 Ferndale Rd., Lion's Head. Chesley and Area Fire [...]

The Owen Sound Attack played one of their best games of the season Thursday night in Barrie resulting in a 5-1 victory over the Colts inside the Sadlon Arena. Owen Sound scored five unanswered goals after going down 1-0 midway through the first period to hand the Colts their fourth-straight loss. Tristan Delisle matched a [...]

Bruce County wants to know how U.S. tariffs might impact local businesses. The Western Ontario Wardens Caucus (WOWC) drafted a survey to gauge how local business owners are affected as threats of U.S. tariffs continue to mount. The county is also looking for business owners to tell them what support they need and how the [...]

Doug Ford's Progressive Conservative Party and local candidate Paul Vickers were on everyone else's radar during a Bruce-Grey-Owen Sound all-candidates meeting in Keady on Wednesday night. Seven of the eight candidates registered in the riding took part in the event put on by the Grey and Bruce County federations of agriculture in front of about [...]

Beyond any necessary retaliatory tariffs, Canada must resist its own version of Trumpian protectionism

Jake Crawford is pretty easy to spot on the ice. He's the six-foot-three centre whose legs are churning a mile a minute. It hasn't always translated to offence for the 17-year-old Owen Sound Attack sophomore, but the work rate doesn't go unnoticed. It's one of the reasons the Attack's new coaching staff made him an [...]

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It's easy to overstate the importance of sixty minutes on a sheet of ice as the shadow of the Ontario Hockey League's postseason crowds into view. Wins count just as much in late February as they did in October. But for the Owen Sound Attack, this three-game northern Ontario road swing seems like a good [...]

Health care and Trump tariffs topped questions at an all-candidates meeting, via Zoom, in Huron Bruce Feb. 17 .

Some candidates enter elections with little thought of winning. While mainstream parties like the PCs, Liberals, NDP and Greens may be best known among voters in Bruce-Grey-Owen Sound, there are as many candidates for lesser-known parties running in the riding. For Ann Gillies, a candidate for the Stop the New Sex Ed Agenda, winning isn't [...]

Efforts to clear snow from Grey-Bruce roads after days of squalls and drifting appeared to be paying off Wednesday morning as roads listed as closed began to reopen. All school buses in Grey Bruce were cancelled again and many Bluewater District School Board schools, listed below, were closed. Grey Bruce OPP, which covers most of [...]

Save Georgian Bay's fourth annual polar dip is going virtual. The dip planned by thegroup opposed to the TC Energy pumped storage project in Meaford is being held virtually because of unsafe dipping conditions in Georgian Bay. The non-profit organization committed to stopping the pumped storage project announced on Monday that it would be holding [...]

Intense snow squalls continued to result in road closures in Grey-Bruce on Tuesday, while students across the two counties were home from school. Grey-Bruce OPP said they responded to close to 40 collisions on Monday alone, along with numerous other traffic hazard calls, including vehicles stuck in drifts and snowbanks. They were asking people to [...]

Delivery of today's Owen Sound Sun Times newspaper is being delayed due to poor weather conditions. In some areas, delivery may only be made the following day. The e-Edition, a digital replica of the print edition, is being made available to all online. Click hereto read it. If you need to reach the circulation department, [...]

Susanne von Torne has been helping resettle Ukrainians who fled the Russian war in their country for three years. Mostly she settled them in Owen Sound, including in a house she and her husband purchased for some of these displaced people, many of whom left Ukraine to protect their children, while leaving partners and parents [...]

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With U.S. President Donald Trump threatening to annex Canada and impose tariffs on Canadian goods, the American national anthem has become a point of protest at some sporting events. On Saturday night, as fans at the Bell Centre let their displeasure be known with the current political landscape before Team USA and Team Canada faced [...]

Bruce Peninsula Sportsmen's Association Family Day events Monday are postponed due to weather. Heavy snow has reduced parking at the sportsmen's clubhouse northwest of Wiarton and forced the planned events and open house to be postponed, a news release from the club said. No new date has been announced yet. Last year's open house drew [...]

A Bruce-Grey-Owen Sound provincial all-candidates meeting will take place Friday, Feb. 21 in Markdale. South Grey Bruce Chamber of Commerce is host for the meeting at Annesley United Church. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. and the meeting will start at 7 p.m. ,the chamber said in a news release. The debate will offer a structured [...]

On Friday night the Owen Sound Attack scored enough to keep the Erie Otters at bay, but on Saturday the scrappy team from Pennsylvania wouldn't be denied. Sam Alfano scored his 34th goal of the season to tie the game in the third period and Malcom Spence played overtime hero as the Otters came from [...]

A few snowflakes and sub-freezing temperatures? That's perfect weather for Saturday's Polar Plunge for Special Olympics in Durham. The annual fundraiser held by West Grey Police Service witnessed people jump, step or roll into a big, collapsable orange fire department pool full of water, which took place behind the Durham arena. The total raised wasn't [...]

Police charged a 35-year-old from Arran-Elderslie with assault police and obstruct a peace officer in Chesley Feb. 13. South Bruce OPP officers were called about a disturbance at an address on 1st Avenue South. Police arrived and an individual became assaultive with officers," a police news release said. There were no injuries to police or [...]

When the Owen Sound Attack drafted Pierce Mbuyi in the first round of the 2024 OHL Priority Selection this past April the silent M' in his last name tripped some people up. On Friday night, as the 16-year-old rookie recorded another hat trick, over 2,700 fans chanted his name from the stands in a call-and-response [...]

Grey County will apply for grant funding for reconstruction projects on Grey Road 1 north of Owen Sound and Grey Road 17B through Nicol's Gully just west of the city. At its meeting on Thursday, county council gave approval to a staff recommendation to apply for federal funding through the Active Transportation Fund for [...]

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Grey County is puttinga draft forest management bylaw out for public consultation that proposes to increase fines of up to 400 per cent for someone convicted of breaking the rules. The draft bylaw, presented to council on Thursday, proposes increasing the fines for a first conviction from the current maximum of $10,000 for individuals or [...]

Grey County has been cleared of any wrongdoing after a complaint was made about a closed meeting held in August to discuss sharing planning services with its lower-tier municipalities. County council received an investigation report from its appointed closed meeting investigator, Aird and Berlis LLP, that determined the county did not break any rules when [...]

A 43-year-old man faces charges and the John Deere tractor he was driving was impounded for at least 45 days after colliding with a vehicle while clearing snow in the city Thursday morning. The Georgian Bluffs resident operating the tractor with a snow blower fixed to the rear hit a 2009 Honda Civic near the [...]

Pain and hockey go hand-in-hand but nothing could prepare Landen Hookey for the news he received in November 2023. It's then that Hookey's uncle Brent VandenBroek died by suicide. VandenBroek was living and working as an artist in British Columbia. It's crazy. I FaceTimed him the day before he passed. You just never know what [...]

Polar plungers will be 'freezin for a reason' at events for Special Olympics this month