Owen Sound Sun Times

On the morning of July 13, one person's trash could well be another person's treasure, and all will benefit from the thrifty exchange of goods. That's the idea behind the Owen Sound Waste Watchers fundraising garage sale at 1569 7th Ave. E. from 8 a.m. to noon. The local climate action group intends to raise [...]

There is a letter of intent to sell it to Mississauga, Ontario-based Triple A" Cheese

Bruce County is asking people to weigh in on the state of culture in the region by completing a survey. As part of the county's Cultural Action Plan, the 2024 State of Culture Survey is intended to help examine cultural vitality" and identify how residents and visitors interact with culture. As we continue to honour [...]

The Library in Owen Sound is asking residents to get creative in helping to solve the housing crisis using Lego. The morning Lego housing workshop at the Owen Sound and North Grey Union Public Library is set for Friday from 10 a.m. to noon. There is limited enrollment with pre-registration required. During the workshop people [...]

Choir Camp 2024 is bringing tenor soloist Matt Chittick and friends to Owen Sound this month to perform ahead of its end-of-camp concert. On Wednesday, July 17, at 7:30 p.m., Chittick and friends will give a concert of classical, musical theatre, and popular songs. The show will feature both crowd favourites and lesser-known gems. Originally [...]

The public is invited to an opening ceremony on July 10 celebrating two new exhibits at the Billy Bishop Museum. The ceremony begins at 6 p.m. at the museum in Owen Sound located at 948 3rd Ave. W. Refreshments will be served and admission is free. Earlier this month the Billy Bishop Museum announced the [...]

Two Meaford residents have been charged after a police investigation into a reported theft from a property in Clearview Township that had been rented as an Airbnb. On March 16, members of the Huronia West detachment of the OPP responded to a report of a man and woman who had rented an Airbnb and stole [...]

The United Way of Bruce Grey has opened registration for its Backpack Program for low-income families, and demand is expected to rise again this year. The organization announced June 24 that it had opened registration for the program and has already seen a rush of registrants. Fundraising champion Kristy Andre said Wednesday that many have [...]

Two European hockey players are expected to call Owen Sound home for the next few years after being selected by the Attack in the 2024 Canadian Hockey League Import Draft on Wednesday. Owen Sound selected a defender from Germany and a winger from Russia in the draft, both players were born in 2007, and both [...]

The effort to extend the season and protect the skin has lead to a patented process

A tall ship that sails the Great Lakes teaching youth about life on the water will be making a stop in Owen Sound. The TS Playfair is expected to arrive in Owen Sound Thursday afternoon and depart Monday evening. The visit to the Scenic City is a layover and the current set of youth trainees [...]

Thursday will mark 36 years since the July 4, 1988, disappearance of Lois Hanna

Huron-Bruce MPP Lisa Thompson said she thinks she has come full circle in her new role as the Ontario government's minister of rural affairs. Thompson, who was named to the position when Premier Doug Ford announced a cabinet shuffle on June 6, said that after graduating from the University of Guelph, her very first job [...]

Police in southern Bruce County laid more than 200 traffic-related charges during a recent initiative on local roadways. South Bruce OPP took part in the Canada Road Safety Week campaign from June 21 to July 1 in which officers focused on the big four" factors associated with serious collisions on the roadways - impaired driving, [...]

One person was taken to hospital as a precaution after the OPP responded to a report of swimmers in distress in the waters off Kincardine on Canada Day. Just after 7 p.m. Monday, South Bruce OPP and the South Bruce OPP marine unit responded after receiving a report of swimmers yelling for help from the [...]

MAJOR N'STARS FALL TO SIX NATIONS The Owen Sound North Stars are still looking for their first Major Series Lacrosse league win this season after falling to the Six Nations Chiefs, 11-2, inside the Harry Lumley Bayshore Community Centre Saturday night. Tyler Brown and Jackson Webster scored goals for Owen Sound. Austin Staats (3), Shayne [...]

It's a hire that is sure to raise a few eyebrows. The Windsor Spitfires named Greg Walters head coach on Tuesday just a day after the Ontario Hockey League reinstated him from a more than six-month ban for breach of the league's code of conduct. Knowing Greg's work in the league over the years, his [...]

Rapid, on-site test kit distributed worldwide helps hunt down rapidly spreading pathogens like ToBRFV

Grey County's long-term care service has been accredited with exemplary standing under a program that shows a commitment to providing safe, high-quality health services. The county recently announced that it had received the highest performance rating achievable under the Omentum Long Term Care accreditation program. I'm thrilled by the results of our accreditation review and [...]

An arrest has been made after a recent string of break-ins in the Municipality of Meaford. Grey Bruce OPP investigated five break and enters on Albert Street, Parker Street and Birchwood Court between June 23 and 24. Thanks to the public an individual was identified, and on June 27, a 36-year-old Meaford man was [...]

The Owen Sound North Stars junior B team's season ended in Hamilton as the Bengals pulled out the brooms and swept the Scenic City squad in three games. The Bengals topped the N'Stars 12-7 inside Hamilton's Lawfield Arena to earn a berth into the second round onJune 27. Reed Allen led the way for Hamilton [...]

A new sponsorship and naming agreement will allow for some much needed upgrades to the theatre at the Grey Roots Museum and Archives. At its meeting on Thursday, county council authorized the signing of an agreement with Wheildon Investments Inc. for sponsorship of the theatre in the amount of $50,000. Under the deal the 75-seat [...]

Carter George was six the first time the Los Angeles Kings won the Stanley Cup. He was eight when they won it again two years later. At 18, he realized a childhood dream when his favourite team picked him with the 57th-overall selection in the NHL Entry Draft Saturday inside the Sphere in Las Vegas. [...]

Canadians at Owen Sound's Canada Day celebration at Kelso Beach at Nawash Park said they felt proud and lucky to live in this country. The park was busy with activity Monday, the country's 157th birthday, under sunny skies and a cooling bay breeze. Many ate barbecued hot dogs and hamburgers, ice cream and enjoyed [...]

It was grey and cool at Owen Sound's Westside Boat Launch as 12 people in life vests prepared to head out in a dragon boat Sunday. They paddled out past the John D. Leitch, the towering, black-hulled lake freighter moored against the east harbour wall, and tooled around the inner harbour. The Sound Waterfront Festival, [...]

City firefighters extinguished a tent fire amid tall reeds near the harbour's edge by the wharf at the grain elevators Sunday afternoon. The call came in at 3:24 p.m., just as firefighters were returning to the fire station from an apartment fire on 3rd Avenue East, which remains under investigation by police and the provincial [...]

South Bruce OPP investigated two reports of intimate partner violence in Chesley over the long weekend. On Sunday police charged a 23-year-old Chesley resident with assault, assault with a weapon and uttering threats. In an unrelated investigation Saturday, police charged a 70-year-old with breaching firearms regulations and unauthorized possession of firearms. Police provided no other [...]

A man was found dead outside an east side Owen Sound apartment where there was a fire Sunday afternoon, city police said in a news release. The circumstances of the death, including the apartment fire, are currently under investigation by the Office of the Coroner, The Ontario Fire (Marshal) and the Criminal Investigations Branch of [...]

Owen Sound's waterfront festival was all about kids on Saturday. They played on the beach and in the bay, built tall wooden Jenga towers, ran race and climbed into a fire truck and a police cruiser. There were dogs running obstacle courses to watch, a roaming, 7' 4'' woman to hug, candy floss [...]

Registration is open for the third Annual Walk for Courage Campaign to raise money for mental health support for those who are struggling and n memory of people who have taken their own lives. The five-kilometre walk is Saturday, July 20 at Owen Sound Fitness and Training. Registration starts at 9 a.m. and the walk [...]

The Women's Centre Grey Bruce s first Charity Golf Classic takes place Thursday, July 4 at Legacy Ridge Golf Club. Planning new events, like the Golf Classic, will help get the word out about our programs and services to support women, childrenand at-risk youthaffected by abuse in Grey and Bruce counties," Women's Centre executive director [...]

City police charged an Owen Sound man with aggravated assault and other offences after police say someone was attacked with a knife in downtown June 22. An Owen Sound man was attacked with a knife in the 300-block of 8th Street East at about 10:15 p.m. June 22, police said. Officers were called about two [...]

Nearly 10 years after Grey County began exploring redevelopment options, shovels hit the dirt Friday morning in Durham to officially kick off the new 128-bed Rockwood Terrace construction. Once completed, sometime in 2026 if all goes to plan, the new long-term care home and the county's largest capital project to date will offer 28 additional [...]

The Canada Day weekend began in Owen Sound on Friday with a solemn and reflective ceremony dedicated to remembering and honouring those who have called the area home for thousands of years. About 80 people gathered as the Saugeen Ojibway Nation flag was raised up the flagpole to fly permanently above the Gichi-Name Wiikwedong Reconciliation [...]

Ontario Association of Agricultural Societies after young volunteers to keep fairs viable

The door hasn't yet been fully opened, but Grey County council has at least agreed to take a peek at Owen Sound's calls to have court security costs funded regionally. At its meeting on Thursday, Grey County councillors agreed to receive a staff report summarizing the issue of court security and prisoner transportation costs for [...]

When Jana White and a few dozen other people disappointed in their local hospital organization arrived at the Best Western Plus parking lot to protest Wednesday night in Walkerton, a police officer greeted them and asked them to vacate the area. White said the Save the Durham Hospital committee protestors made it a few steps [...]

World exports are expected to surpass 3 million metric tonnes by 2025

An Owen Sound woman has been charged with careless driving after a rollover on the city's east side on Wednesday. Owen Sound police said a vehicle was travelling north on 7th Avenue East from 16th Street East when it struck a parked vehicle and rolled over onto its passenger side. The driver was taken by [...]

Police have identified an individual they described as a person of interest in relation to multiple break-ins reported in the Municipality of Meaford. Grey Bruce OPP said in a news release issued on Thursday morning that an individual they had asked for the public's help in identifying earlier in the week had now been identified. [...]

Canada Day events are talking place in the Owen Sound area over the coming days, while Meaford will be celebratingCanada's 157th birthday and its own 150th together. The four-day, free Sound Waterfront Festival this weekend in Owen Sound will be capped with Canada Day celebrations on Monday, July 1. Canada Day window flags for [...]

GEORGE WAITS FOR NAME TO BE CALLED Attack goaltender Carter George is expected to be one of the first goalies taken in the 2024 NHL Entry Draft this weekend. The draft at the Sphere in Las Vegas begins Friday night with the first round of selections and continues Saturday with rounds two through seven. NHL [...]

The Owen Sound Attack rounded out its coaching staff Tuesday hiring former OHL defender Reagan O'Grady to an assistant coach position with the club. O'Grady completes an entirely new Attack coaching trio headed by Scott Wray and alongside assistant Brandon Shaw, who the Attack hired from the Niagara IceDogs last week. O'Grady, 25, played 285 [...]

The Owen Sound Baysox are rolling in the North Dufferin Baseball League. On Saturday, the Baysox earned their seventh win in a row with a 3-2 victory over the New Lowell Knights at Tom Williams Park in Owen Sound. The win improved the ball club's record to 9-2-1, which is good enough for second place [...]

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Police are asking for the public's assistance in identifying a person of interest in relation to multiple break-ins in the Municipality of Meaford. Police have received video footage of the person of interest in relation to the break and enters that were reported to police on Sunday and Monday. On Sunday, just after 8:30 p.m., [...]

A Grey Highlands man is facing multiple charges following a multijurisdictional property crime investigation that led to the recovery of about $600,000 worth of stolen property. On June 17 one person was arrested following an ongoing investigation, and search warrants were executed on June 18 at a storage location in West Perth and on June [...]

A Collingwood man pleaded guilty to second-degree murder of his wife, which he staged to look like a fiery car crash in January 2023 in the Town of the Blue Mountains. James William Schwalm, now 40, pleaded guilty in the Ontario Court of Justice in Barrie on June 20. He had been charged with first-degree [...]

Georgian Bluffs will look at taking steps to address speeding concerns on Inglis Falls Road. At its committee of the whole meeting on Wednesday (June 19), council heard from a concerned resident about increased speeding along the road since it was reconstructed in 2020. Cathy Walsh who appeared before council as a delegation, said she [...]

Chickens could soon be clucking around in some residential areas of Georgian Bluffs. At its committee of the whole meeting on Wednesday (June 19), staff was directed by council to present an amendment to the township's zoning bylaw that would permit backyard poultry as a permitted use on certain residential properties within the township. Council [...]