Owen Sound Sun Times

Meaford council is a step closer to regulating short-term accommodations. Council on Monday unanimously accepted staff's recommendations and directed them to bring back a licensing bylaw and licensing and enforcement plans. They're likely to get the report by the end of February or March, said Robert Voigt, the development services director, by email later. The [...]

PUFFER HOCKEY LEAGUE RESULTS Gary Byers Sound and Lighting beat Hometown Sports, 3-1. Brent Brohman, Rocky Neelands and Sean Savage scored for Sound and Lighting. Luke Hillyer notched the goal for Hometown. Smith-Tel shut out M&M Food Market 5-0. Robert Cline with two goals including the game-winner. Meanwhile, Hobart and Thom Construction played to a [...]

Proposed battery storage projects in the region have Grey County councillors concerned. On Thursday, council requested a report from staff with more information about battery energy storage systems (BESS), for which there have been at least four proposals in or near the county. Among the concerns raised at the municipal level are incomplete information, a [...]

Beginning next summer, a first-of-its-kind wave, rip current and rough surf warning system may help better protect Station Beach users in Kincardine. A three-year pilot project spearheaded by the Municipal Innovation Council, an association of eight Bruce County municipalities, aims to develop a real-time beach warning system using an integrated sensor network and machine-learning models [...]

High school diploma equivalency testing will be discontinued across Canada next spring, which concerns local Adult Learning Centre staff. Getting a GED or General Education Development high school equivalency certification demonstrates students have the knowledge they would have learned in high school. It covers social studies, science, writing, reading and math.It's for people who didn't [...]

It has taken longer than expected, but Owen Sound native Evan Rissi is finally seeing his first feature film being distributed for audiences nationwide. The film Going In, which Rissi wrote, directed and starred in, has been picked up by distributor Vortex Media and will be available on Amazon, Apple TV, Tubi and other streaming [...]

A rather light crowd at the Bayshore Wednesday night enjoyed another nailbiter between Highway 6 rivals Guelph and Owen Sound featuring two of the best young goaltenders in the league. Less than a week after Carter George made 34 saves in a 3-2 overtime win at the Sleeman Centre, Brayden Gillespie answered back with a [...]

Wednesday was the final day of business for Wiarton's last remaining gas station. The Petro-Canada gas station at 490 Berford St. was slated to close its doors on Wednesday, meaning residents would need to drive to Hepworth or Ferndale to fuel their vehicles. When reached on Wednesday morning, an employee at the station said they [...]

The Ontario Hockey League has barred former Owen Sound Attack head coach Greg Walters from participating in the league until next season following an investigation into what league officials called an inappropriate verbal altercation in his last game behind the team's bench. On Tuesday, OHL Commissioner David Branch announced Walters has been suspended from coaching [...]

The Bruce Trail Conservancy has added three nature reserves in northern Grey County. The land trust that preserves the ribbon of wilderness" along the Niagara Escarpment recently secured the Mossy Gorge Nature Reserve southwest of Walters Falls, Woodford Karst Nature Reserve at Woodford and Cattail Marsh Nature Reserve south of the Bayview Escarpment Nature Reserve. [...]

Northern Bruce Peninsula council is looking at expanding areas where short-term accommodations are allowed, while not driving housing prices beyond the reach of local people, which at least some on council think could happen. Currently, properties in rural and commercial areas are generally excluded from offering vacation rentals under the municipality's short-term accommodation licensing bylaw, [...]

Seven-year-old Coen Rier was handed a dollar as part of a class project in which students were instructed to use it to make someone's day. What has transpired over the past week-and-a-half has left the Arran-Tara Elementary School Grade 2 student feeling nauseous," but in a good way. Coen chose to use that loonie to [...]

Police updated a charge of attempted murder to first-degree murder against a Grey Highlands woman after a 10-month-old child succumbed to her injuries. Grey Bruce OPP announced the updated charge against Nancy Brubacher Tuesday. She remained in custody awaiting a bail hearing. Police began the investigation on Dec. 7, after members of the Grey Bruce [...]

Owen Sound has joined the Canadian Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Association to spearhead clean energy initiatives. The strategic partnership is part of Owen Sound's broader initiative to champion clean energy technologies and practices, the city announced in a news release. This collaboration is expected to open new avenues for economic development, job creation, and enhanced [...]

A 100-megawatt battery storage project is proposed for the southern doorstep of Owen Sound, one of three battery storage projects proposed in the area which all could be operational in 2027. All three projects are to be submitted to the Independent Electricity System Operator by tomorrow's deadline, Dec. 12, Shift Solar director Bogdon Dinu said [...]

Grey Bruce Farmers' Week will mark its 58th year with another jam-packed lineup of presenters and panels covering the various agricultural commodities. For the second year in a row, the annual conference and tradeshow will be held both in-person and livestreamed from the Elmwood Community Centre between Jan. 3 and 9. We are very pleased. [...]

Just as the Kemble and District Lions Club members turned out of the arena parking lot and onto Kemble Rock Road the sun punched through rain clouds and cleared up a steady drizzle, making way for the club's annual non-motorized Christmas parade. For over two decades now the townsfolk of the picturesque hamlet near the [...]

Sometimes you have to be good. Sometimes you have to be lucky. And sometimes you just have to hold on for dear life. The Owen Sound Attack almost watched a 5-1 lead evaporate in the final 20 minutes and change of Saturday's contest against the Sarnia Sting, but thanks in large part to another stellar [...]

A fundraiser put on by the Owen Sound District Secondary School's leadership class will help provide community members with more than 2,200 meals. OSHaRE executive director Colleen Trask Seaman said the OSDSS leadership class and OSDSS food program came together in November with local potters and businesses to hold the fundraiser. Guests who purchased tickets [...]

When Tara Shannon sketched a drawing of a rabbit and a bear and wrote about being afraid and needing comfort she was just trying to cope. She was thinking about the death of her parents. She was reckoning with cancer treatments, the loss of her job, and feeling emotions of anxiety, depression, and grief. She [...]

When Tara Shannon sketched a drawing of a rabbit and a bear and wrote about being afraid and needing comfort she was just trying to cope. She was thinking about the death of her parents. She was reckoning with cancer treatments, the loss of her job, and feeling emotions of anxiety, depression, and grief. She [...]

Guests of the Tom Thomson Art Gallery in downtown Owen Sound can now view a photographic history of the city, works by one of Canada's most renowned and mysterious artists, and a thought-provoking collection of photographic overlays depicting Lake Huron - all in about 200 steps. The art gallery officially opened its three newest exhibits [...]

Last year, goaltenders Brayden Gillespie and Carter George began the season in the Greater Ontario Junior Hockey League. On Friday night in Guelph, both goaltenders put on major league performances as the Owen Sound Attack won 3-2 in overtime over the Storm inside the Sleeman Centre. Gillespie, 18, and George, 17, went toe-to-toe between the [...]

Earlier this month, the Markham Pan Am Centre welcomed the 2023 Ontario Provincial Jiu-Jitsu Championship, the last major Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu tournament for 2023, with twelve athletes representing Grey-Bruce County and Kilian Academy. Thirty-two-year-old Firefighter Troy Adair from Owen Sound made his debut by securing silver in the Masters 1 white belt light division. Troy is [...]

The Owen Sound Attack will pay homage to the history of hockey in Owen Sound with a commemorative third jersey to be worn a total of nine times in the second half of the 2023-24 season. The special third jersey honours the 100th anniversary of the Memorial Cup champion 1924 Owen Sound Greys and was [...]

Chris Peabody has been elected warden for Bruce County for 2024. The Brockton mayor was chosen for the position for the second consecutive year at the county's inaugural meeting on Thursday. Peabody was the lone candidate nominated for the position. Peabody's nomination was moved by Huron-Kinloss Mayor Don Murray and seconded by South Bruce Mayor [...]

A local author and the first-ever captain of the Owen Sound Ice Hawks girls' hockey team is spreading her love of the game to the next generation of female athletes. Jenna Prestidge recently released the first three books of what will be a six-part series entitled Rosie The Hockey Player. The children's book series follows [...]

Georgian Bluffs is looking to expand an indoor organic waste processor pilot program it started this year. On Wednesday, council directed staff to include as part of its 2024 budget an extended and expanded FoodCycler pilot program to a further 200 households. The municipality launched the program this year, partnering with Food Cycle Science to [...]

Conservative Huron-Bruce MP Ben Lobb said his private member's bill to exempt farmers from paying carbon tax on propane and natural gas could end up dead in parliamentary limbo. Until Tuesday, his bill called for amending the Greenhouse Gas Pollution Pricing Act to allow carbon tax exemptions on propane and natural gas used to heat [...]

Georgian Bluffs council has retreated from a scary" 30 per cent hike to the base fee for Shallow Lake water system users in 2024, instead electing for a 10 per cent increase. At its meeting on Wednesday, council chose to adopt a recommendation to increase the base fee for users on the Shallow Lake system [...]

Georgian Bluffs is taking a proactive" approach and will begin regulating short-term accommodations across the municipality beginning in the spring, despite extensive research that found they are currently not causing major problems there. On Wednesday, council directed staff to develop a bylaw to begin regulating STAs in April, and subject to budget approval, identify staff [...]

Local authors will sign copies of their books at the 38th annual open house at The Ginger Press bookstore in downtown Owen Sound Saturday. The authors will be there from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. to feature their children's books, poetry, history, fiction, photography and more. The store's hours Saturday are 10 a.m. to 4 [...]

Police ended their search for a 38-year-old man to check on his well-being when they found him dead Thursday. No foul play is suspected, Grey Bruce OPP said in an update. Grey Bruce OPP had asked residents to avoid the Bognor Marsh area of Meaford while they searched, and had requested information from the public [...]

Owen Sound Deputy-mayor Scott Greig wants council to reopen the garbage bag tag discussion. He introduced a notice of motion at Monday's city council meeting to do so and said in an interview more discussion is needed because council didn't consider all relevant information. He was at a trade show event for work and couldn't [...]

Lit candles stood beside photos of Ecole Polytechnique's 14 victims, all killed 34 years ago because they were women, in what's known as the Montreal Massacre. The annual vigil in Owen Sound's market building remembered them, and 62 women whom Krystal Stukas, a Women's Centre Grey Bruce spokeswoman, said all died due to femicide - [...]

The Community Foundation Grey Bruce has announced a scholarship fund has been created in memory of Sharif Rahman, who died from injuries sustained in a serious assault outside his restaurant in downtown Owen Sound on Aug. 17. The new endowment, initiated by an anonymous donor, is named the Sharifur Rahman Memorial Scholarship Fund and will [...]

South Bruce Peninsula will take applications from eligible electors to fill its vacant council seat. At its meeting on Tuesday, council chose to fill the vacant council seat by appointing an individual rather than holding a by-election, which would cost the municipality an estimated $40,000 and staff time. Mayor Jay Kirkland said Tuesday that the [...]

Brian Milne is back as Grey County warden for 2024. The Southgate Mayor was acclaimed to the position for the second year in a row at the inaugural meeting in the county council chambers in Owen Sound late Tuesday afternoon. I love the job. I really do," Milne said following Tuesday's meeting, which was attended [...]

Owen Sound city council is approving a six-month extension to the construction timeline proposed for the historic courthouse and jail on 3rd Avenue East. Developers are planning to convert the building into an entertainment and event venue as well as a business incubator. In a report submitted to the committee of the whole Monday, staff [...]

Wednesday marks National Day of Remembrance Joachim Ostertag, representing Violence Prevention Grey Bruce, gave a deputation at Monday's council meeting as he has annually for several years in advance of the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women on December 6. Canadian parliament established the national day of remembrance in the wake [...]

The Mastermind Toys store in Owen Sound will close its doors. The Owen Sound location, at 1969 16th St. E., is one of 18 stores in Canada where liquidation sales are being held by the specialty children's toy and book retailer. The company obtained court approval on Nov. 30 to conduct the liquidation sales at [...]

Owen Sound officials are a continuing to dot the I's and cross the T's ahead of licensing short-term rentals and levying a municipal accommodation tax early next year. City council, sitting as committee of the whole, held a public meeting Monday about an amendment to a zoning bylaw to refine the definition of a bed [...]

Blue Mountain Resort is opening for the ski and snowboard season on Thursday. The hills at the resort will open beginning at 9 a.m. The Silver Bullet high-speed six-pack chairlift serving the Tranquility ski run and the Easy Rider beginner carpet will both be running until 4:30 p.m. that day, it announced in a news [...]

Three suspects were arrested after an armed robbery of a jewelry store in Collingwood Monday afternoon. Collingwood and The Blue Mountains OPP responded at approximately 3:20 p.m. to the robbery downtown, where three suspects were observed going into the store discharging a firearm in the process, police said in a news release. A short time [...]

A 22-year-old man has been arrested after a rollover crash involving a stolen vehicle near Owen Sound's eastside harbour late Monday afternoon. Just before 6 p.m., Owen Sound Police, Owen Sound Fire and Grey County Paramedics responded to the single-vehicle crash in the 1000 block of 1st Avenue East. The vehicle involved, which had been [...]

A film about the drug overdose crisis and the efforts being made to save lives and give hope to the marginalized community impacted by it is set to screen at the Roxy in Owen Sound on Thursday. Love in the Time of Fentanyl, a film set in Vancouver's Downtown East Side, often referred to as [...]

Police are investigating the theft of a trailer and tools valued at approximately $40,000 from a property in Grey Highlands. Just after 10 a.m. on Friday, Grey Bruce OPP investigated the theft of the trailer and other various tools from at the property on Grey Rd. 14. It was determined that sometime between 7 p.m. [...]

A South Bruce Peninsula man has been charged after a police officer was assaulted after responding to a disturbance in Wiarton on Saturday. Police attended a property on Boyd Street, where two individuals had engaged in a heated verbal dispute that escalated into a physical altercation, leading to a victim being assaulted, it said in [...]