Owen Sound Sun Times

A report on surveillance cameras in the downtown is expected to come before Owen Sound council early next year. City manager Tim Simmonds said during Monday's council meeting that he has been in discussion with the Owen Sound Police Services and Police Chief Craig Ambrose about surveillance cameras in the downtown. He said staff will [...]

Owen Sound council gave final approval to the following business licences at its meeting on Monday: Shayela Nasrin is the new owner of The Curry House restaurant at 984 2nd E. Parth Patel is the new owner of Vince's Kwik Mart convenience store at 601 2nd E. The Rumpus Room, a community bar at 237 [...]

Owen Sound will cap the number of nights short-term rental operators will be able to rent out their principal residence in a year at 180 days. At its meeting on Monday, Owen Sound council voted 5-3 in favour of raising the annual nightly rental from the 90 days that was proposed in the draft bylaw. [...]

When Sharif Rahman and Shayela Nasrin opened The Curry House in downtown Owen Sound eight years ago they did it all together. The married couple was still fairly new to Canada and spent most of their time building the business and putting down roots in the city. On Aug. 17, Rahman, 44, suffered devastating injuries [...]

Sometimes a hockey team just needs some time away . . . apparently. The Owen Sound Attack completed a three-in-three sweep through southwestern Ontario and mid-Michigan Saturday at the Dort Financial Center with a 4-2 win over the Firebirds. The F-Birds entered the contest as winners of two straight as well and looked to be [...]

Six different plyers scored for the York University Lions as the de facto road team spoiled an away-from-homecoming for the Waterloo Warriors Saturday with a 6-3 win at the Harry Lumley Bayshore Community Centre. The Ontario University Athletics women's hockey game highlighted this weekend's Hockeyfest in Owen Sound. The celebration of Canada's national winter sport [...]

Owen Sound may have to change its nickname from the Scenic City to the Santa City after the holiday spirit shown Saturday night. Hundreds of onlookers gathered downtown as the 78th annual Kiwanis Owen Sound Santa Claus Parade circled through the River District from the Metro grocery store to the former Sun Times building. What [...]

Head coach Alan Letang wanted to see passion and urgency and emotion from the Sarnia Sting. He got all that Friday. What he didn't get was a win. The Sting's skid hit a season-high four games with a 4-0 loss to the Owen Sound Attack before a crowd of 3,768 at Progressive Auto Sales Arena. [...]

Members of Owen Sound Glassworks Co-operative have voted to delay selling the group's 46-acre property in Owen Sound's industrial park, where the group first proposed three years ago to create affordable housing within a net-zero eco-village." The project faces challenges on that property, which isn't zoned for housing, but rather for employment and industrial uses. [...]

Long-time OwenSound criminal defence lawyer Brian Barrie has written a book about a murder case 35 years ago that lit a fire in him that never went out. Four Bullets, Four Witnesses, Four Liars, published by Irwin Law Inc. under the trade name Delve Books, introduces the world of Mae McEachern, a woman he defended [...]

The Scenic City is once again declaring its love for Canada's national winter sport with Hockeyfest - - two days dedicated to the game. The new event began Friday in Owen Sound and is a partnership between Owen Sound Girls Hockey, elementary and high schools and the city, with the support of the University of [...]

There's no question the Windsor Spitfires have some issues with the defensive side of the game. However, there was also a mental part to the game that no doubt played a part in Thursday's humbling 12-3 loss to the Owen Sound Attack before 4,811 at the WFCU Centre. The team hit the ice just hours [...]

There's no question the Windsor Spitfires have some issues with the defensive side of the game. However, there was also a mental part to the game that no doubt played a part in Thursday's humbling 12-3 loss to the Owen Sound Attack before 4,811 at the WFCU Centre. The team hit the ice just hours [...]

NORTH STAR COMMITS TO CANISIUS Owen Sound's Laine Nissen has verbally committed to play NCAA Div. 1 lacrosse with the Canisius College Griffins beginning in 2025. Nissen's lacrosse career began with the under-11 North Stars. Since then she's progressed through the ranks, competing this year with Owen Sound's JEWL team and winning a silver medal [...]

Northern Bruce Peninsula has three new drones on its wishlist this year. Municipal councillors on Tuesday approved a fire department's request to support its Community Emergency Preparedness Grant (CEPG) application. If successful, the fire department intends to purchase one large drone and two smaller drones while training six to seven operators at an estimated cost [...]

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas. This week marks the unofficial kickoff to the holiday season in Owen Sound, with a full slate of Santa-themed events set for Saturday. This time there is a a slap shot of a twist. The 78th annual Kiwanis Owen Sound Santa Claus Parade is set for 5 [...]

The Harmony Centre in Owen Sound is holding a community appreciation reception on Thursday to mark its 10th anniversary as a social enterprise. Dedicated to the celebration of the arts, culture, and a healthy community, the Harmony Centre continues to build on past successes while looking forward to ways it can meet stakeholders' needs during [...]

Grey-Bruce OPP are seeking the public's assistance after a trailer loaded with farm equipment worth more than $150,000 was stolen from a business in Grey Highlands. Grey-Bruce OPP responded to a report of the theft from a business on Highway 10 early Friday morning, according to a news release from the detachment. Video surveillance shows [...]

Employees at the last remaining gas station in the town of Wiarton will be out of a job before Christmas. An employee at the Petro-Canada gas station at 490 Berford St. in Wiarton posted a notice of termination to Facebook Friday morning in which the site operator, Faheem Tahir, explained Petro-Canada is divesting the site [...]

Tracy Marsh seeks out messy situations and tries to put them right. She's a professional organizer and her business, House n Order, just won more than $10,000 in cash and prizes at the annual Meaford Dragons' Den competition Thursday at Meaford Hall. People pay her to declutter their homes. She helps adults get rid of [...]

By the second period of the Attack hockey game Saturday night, people had claimed all the special Bells of Christmas ornaments on the tree in the Harry Lumley Bayshore Community Centre lobby. The tree was placed there Saturday morning, decorated with lights, colourful bell ornaments and special, white crocheted bells, each with a different local [...]

MUSTANGS FALL TO RESURRECTION Kitchener's Resurrection Catholic Secondary School shut out the St. Mary's Mustangs 38-0 this past Friday at Victoria Park in Owen Sound. Three days after winning a ninth-straight Bluewater Athletic Association championship, the Mustangs couldn't keep pace in the Central Western Ontario Secondary Schools Association (CWOSSA) quarterfinal. Resurrection advances to face Waterloo's [...]

Grey-Bruce OPP closed a section of Highway 6 between Stoneman Drive and Joynt Street in Shallow Lake following a serious motor vehicle collision Sunday evening. Police said in a news release injuries were classified as non-life-threatening, and that no further details will be provided due to privacy concerns for the victim. Police reopened the stretch [...]

The great, great, great nephew of Victoria Cross recipient Thomas William Holmes placed a wreath in Holmes' honour at Owen Sound's annual Remembrance Day service Saturday. Hundreds turned out to see the parade to the cenotaph, hear the bagpipes and drums, the lone bugle, the minute gun's boom, the chaplains' words, and to stand silently [...]

Justin Bieber's hit song Sorry provided the soundtrack as 2,935 fans filed out of the Harry Lumley Bayshore Community Centre following the Owen Sound Attack's 5-2 loss to the Mississauga Steelheads Saturday night. It's the Scenic City Skaters' fourth-straight defeat. The squad hasn't won at home since Oct. 28. You should be fired up to [...]

If you're an Owen Sound hockey fan, you must be already pretty sick of Sam O'Reilly and Owen Willmore. O'Reilly scored his second clutch goal in a week against the Attack and Willmore matched his career-high 38 saves from last Saturday at the Bayshore in the London Knights' 5-4 overtime victory before 9,036 Friday at [...]

Harmony Centre's move to electric heat pumps and energy-efficient windows, mostly paid with government grants, has made the charitable organization warmer, healthier and more financially sustainable." Retrofits on the 150-year-old former Knox United Church, which had used a natural gas boiler and radiators, should cut greenhouse gas emissions by 50 metric tonnes, a release from [...]

Grey County agricultural innovator Ray Robertson has entered the Canadian Agricultural Hall of Fame. Robertson, president and executive director of Grey Agricultural Services, was one of seven people from across the country inducted into the hall at a ceremony in Charlottetown, P.E.I., on Saturday. It certainly came as a surprise and wasn't expected, but it [...]

In what was described as difficult and tough budget deliberations, Grey County got its proposed net tax levy increase below double digits - but barely. After another day of budget talks that included lists of cost-cutting options, failed motions and closed-door discussions, county council managed on Thursday to whittle down the proposed net levy increase [...]

A second MRI machine in Owen Sound has been scanning patients for about two weeks now, accommodating urgent patients more easily, while shrinking wait times and enabling more kinds of diagnoses locally. Those benefits were described to donors invited to a gathering Thursday just outside the room containing the new MRI machine at Brighshores Health [...]

The Owen Sound Attack have an attitude problem. At least that's the story from the locker room after a 5-0 shutout loss to the Kitchener Rangers at home in front of a sparse crowd of 2,179 at the Harry Lumley Bayshore Community Centre Wednesday night. We didn't execute. Didn't compete. We didn't show enough character [...]

People will gather at cenotaphs across Grey-Bruce Saturday for annual Remembrance Day services. Owen Sound's parade will assemble at the Royal Bank on 2nd Avenue at 9th Street East. About 10:50 a.m. it will march up 2nd Avenue to city hall, turn west on 8th Street East and north to the cenotaph on 1st Street [...]

South Bruce Peninsula will have waste collected at the curb hauled away and disposed of at a landfill site outside the municipality beginning in the new year. At its meeting on Tuesday, council authorized awarding the contract for curbside garbage collection and disposal for the next two years to Waste Management of Canada Corporation at [...]

Burnout and staffing challenges are making it so pet owners in Grey-Bruce will have to drive over an hour to an emergency vet clinic to get potentially life-saving care for their animals. I've never had an emergency happen between the hours of 9 to 5, Monday to Friday," said Candice Christian, who operates Just Woof [...]

Work continues on Grey Sauble Conservation Authority plans to renovate and expand its administration building in Georgian Bluffs near Inglis Falls. The octagonal building's updates will bring it up current office standards, make offices for future needs, and add a ground-level accessible main entrance, lobby and elevator and meeting space. The lobby and meeting space [...]

Is it possible to be a heavyweight in today's OHL? Jackson Stewart thinks so, but he's paying the price for acting like one Saturday night against London.

By the middle of the month, local pet owners faced with an after-hours emergency may have no other option than a long drive to the nearest open clinic after a phone call with a third-party telemedicine worker. A group of eight local veterinarian clinics recently informed clients they will no longer provide on-call emergency care [...]

The word dynasty doesn't seem to do it justice anymore. The St. Mary's Mustangs won a ninth-straight Bluewater Athletic Association championship Tuesday afternoon at Victoria Park with a 19-0 win over the Owen Sound District Wolves. Their championship streak is almost old enough to play on the team. Mustangs offensive coordinator, Callin Bethune, was in [...]

Owen Sound council passed a motion Monday in support of Midland council's call for meaningful improvements to the current state of catch and release justice in the Ontario legal system." Coun. Suneet Kukreja's motion was to support what she said was Midland's call for tighter bail rules, particularly for repeat offenders. Police spend so much [...]

An Owen Sound couple who run an Airbnb short-term rental in their home told city council Monday the city's proposed 90-day rental cap would severely limit income they rely on. Christopher Johannsen and Cheslea Miller appeared during public question period. Johannsen said theirs is a small, city Airbnb for a maximum of five guests. They've [...]

Owen Sound & North Grey Union Public library books and DVDs will be available from vending machines in the Keady and Shallow Lake community centres early next year. The project will extend access to library materials - paperback, hardcover books and DVDs - beyond the walls of the Owen Sound & North Grey Union Public [...]

In October, the unemployment rate for the Stratford-Bruce Peninsula Economic Region decreased by 0.6 percentage points to 3.6 per cent, but there are several employment vacancies in the region. Those who want to work are working," said Dana Soucie, executive director of the Four Country Labour Market Planning Board. The provincial unemployment rate increased slightly [...]

The cost of living simply doesn't add up for large swaths of the population in Grey-Bruce. according to new figures from the Ontario Living Wage Network. The living wage in Grey-Bruce climbed to $22.75 per hour over a 40-hour workweek in 2023. That's up 9.6 per cent from the previous year, which represents the biggest [...]

The St. Mary's Mustangs road to a ninth-straight Bluewater Athletic Association senior football championship will go through its crosstown rival. The Owen Sound District Wolves (1-4) upset the Saugeen Royals (4-1) Thursday in Port Elgin to earn a berth into Tuesday's championship game. The Wolves have struggled all year but managed to top the Royals [...]

The Harry Lumley Bayshore Community Centre and Julie McArthur Regional Recreation Centre played host to the Owen Sound Regional Silver Stick Championships this past weekend. Thirty single-A representative teams from southwestern Ontario spread out over the under-10, under-12, under-14 and under-16 divisions played in the three-day tournament. The winners of each bracket advance to the [...]

Emmett Leary from Meaford medalled at the Ontario Federation of School Athletic Association (OFSAA) cross-country championships on Saturday at Centennial Park in Oakville. The Georgian Bay Community School student finished third in the novice four-kilometre race at 12:53.6. The novice men's race featured 265 competitors. Leary got swallowed up in a bit of a pack [...]

Kids and the kids at heart packed into the Bay Room at the Harry Lumley Bayshore Community Centre for the Owen Sound Card and Collectible Show and Sale on Sunday. About 30 vendors filled more than 50 tables with a variety of collectibles, such as classic and current toys, games, books, sports cards, artwork, jewelry [...]

As trail director of the Sydenham Bruce Trail Club for more than two decades, Ron Savage has spent countless hours exploring the Niagara Escarpment and surrounding countryside, staking out and working with others to build new paths through the wilderness for all to enjoy. Now, his new book, Exploring Sydenham, launched at the Ginger Press [...]

A small team of high school students was helping preserve Canada's military history this weekend so that future generations can learn from it. The students gathered at Branch 6 of the Royal Canadian Legion in Owen Sound on Saturday compiling and researching old photographs, letters and logs brought in by families of veterans of the [...]