Owen Sound Sun Times

For one apple-growing family in Ayton, money from a government program to help farmers grow more popular and resilient fruit varieties will help a lot. Filsinger's Organic Ltd. in Ayton is getting up to $50,000 to help pull out three or four acres of less productive and higher maintenance standard-sized McIntosh apple trees for more [...]

The man in charge of curbing chirping in the Ontario Hockey League said the league is dealing with the growing pains of adjudicating the language of teenagers in an evolving game. We have certain language we're attempting to eradicate from the sport," said Rico Phillips, the league's director of culture and community. Hired in 2020, [...]

The sights and sounds of the holiday season are about to descend on Owen Sound. A full lineup of festive events are planned on Saturday, including the 79th annual Kiwanis Santa Claus Parade, the Festival of Northern Lights kick-off, and the River District's Holiday Magic. The 79th annual Santa Claus Parade starts the fun [...]

The AAA estimated that animal activist groups will earn about $800 million in the U.S. in 2024 from charitable donations by its members.

People supported by the Canadian Mental Health Association will have an opportunity to go Christmas shopping at a unique holiday store on Dec. 4. It's not really a store and items displayed on tables will have no price tags, but shoppers are invited to select items they'd like to give to loved ones. Someone will [...]

A lithium-ion battery in a pet collar which caught fire while charging caused a $550,000 house fire in Lion's Head, Northern Bruce Peninsula's fire chief said. The fire was reported Tuesday, when an occupant outside heard a smoke alarm inside, opened the door and discovered thick black smoke. She closed the door and called 911, [...]

The Ontario government has announced it will build a dozen new electric vehicle charging stations in areas of Grey and Bruce counties. On Tuesday, Bruce-Grey-Owen Sound MPP Rick Byers issued a news release announcing the 12 new EV charging stations in his riding. The new chargers, part of the government's $63-million EV ChargeON Program Community [...]

The new owner of Wiarton's marina is planning an expansion. According to Town of South Bruce Peninsula staff, Robert Caissie purchased the marina in May and aims to expand capacity from 240 to 268 boats. As part of the planned expansion, Caissie and the town have entered into a lease agreement to store boats in [...]

South Bruce council has adopted the community's narrow referendum decision in favour of hosting an underground vault for used nuclear fuel, thereby unlocking a $4 million milestone payment," whether the facility is built there or not. In a unanimous recorded vote on Tuesday, council members adopted the Oct. 28 vote and directed that the Nuclear [...]

Kiwanis Club of Owen Sound volunteers will start selling Christmas trees Friday in Owen Sound. The annual sale raises money for Kiwanis causes, from the Santa Claus parade to the Gitche Namewikwedong Reconciliation Garden. It's the 74th year the service club has sold trees for Christmas and 2024-25 is the local club's 100th anniversary. Club [...]

More than $22,000 in cash and prizes was distributed to local business owners who pitched their dreams to Meaford's Dragons at Meaford Hall last week. Modelled after the popular CBC show Dragon's Den, the Meaford Chamber of Commerce adaptation - Meaford Dragons -puts local small business owners up against local business leaders for a chance [...]

United Way Bruce Grey will collect donations of warm socks at Santa Claus parades in the region for homeless people. Last year, people donated 648 pairs of socks during these events, which police, paramedics and homeless outreach initiatives distributed throughout the region, a United Way news release said. Socks are one of the most requested [...]

Lightly used Christmas decorations and garden club Christmas urns and swags will be featured at a Christmas sale to support the Community Waterfront Heritage Centre on Saturday, Nov. 16 in Owen Sound. The Christmas decorations will be displayed for sale in the 1953 railway car, Coach 4884, while the Georgian Bay Garden Club's urns and [...]

A Country Christmas Dance Party at the legion featuring the Ridge River Ramblers will take place in Owen Sound on Sunday, Nov. 17 from 2 to 5 p.m. Dance tickets cost $20 and can be purchased at Bayshore Country Feeds at 1304 2nd Ave. E. and at the dance. Proceeds will support the Community Waterfront [...]

The Owen Sound and District Junior Optimists are teaming up with local legions to spread kindness to local seniors and those serving in the military. The youth are inviting the public to write to a member of the Canadian military in gratitude of their service or send a positive message to a local resident in [...]

Gwen Lamont says she buried the memories of a chaotic and abusive childhood until she felt ready to reconcile her past with her present. For 14 years, the co-owner of Coffin Ridge Winery near Owen Sound travelled to the places from which she had spent so long turning away, and wrote her smothered memories onto [...]

City police say a driver was texting, driving with an open beer and a bag of pot before they charged him Friday. Then Saturday, a woman who drew attention by driving around the same block repeatedly and failed to obey stop signs, also attracted police attention. Owen Sound police said in a news release Monday [...]

Hundreds attended the annual Remembrance Day service in Owen Sound Monday. Citizens stood silently and politely clapped as a parade led by the legion's flag-bearing colour party approached the large stone memorial to the city's war dead. The familiar bugler's Last Post, the boom and flash of gunfire, recitation of In Flanders Fields, two [...]

It's getting to the point that if Carter George doesn't start for Team Canada at the World Juniors it will be the biggest travesty to happen in this country since Tim Hortons discontinued the bread bowl. The Thunder Bay tendy made 45 saves Sunday afternoon in a 3-1 loss to the Sudbury Wolves. The game's [...]

Sam McCue's knucklepuck snapped the Kitchener Rangers' winning streak at 10 games and sent a shockwave through the nearly 3,000 fans inside the Harry Lumley Bayshore Community Centre for Hockey Fights Cancer night. The Toronto Maple Leafs prospect didn't get all of the one-timer, but he got enough to net his first career game-winning goal [...]

A 15-foot Trojan Horse meant to symbolize concerns about the direction of healthcare in the province will be hauled throughout Grey-Bruce later this month. The Ontario Council of Hospital Unions' Trojan Horse has been touring the province to decry what the organization calls the defunding and underfunding of local hospital services as a prelude to [...]

The region's unemployment rate fell 0.5 percentage points to 3.8 per cent in October and remains the second lowest in the province. Provincially, unemployment was at 7.2 per cent last month - both figures are unadjusted for seasonality. In October, the region's overall population increased by 400 but the labour force size decreased by 2,500 [...]

A 32-year-old Dundalk man has been charged by police after search warrants executed at two addresses turned up nearly two kilograms of cocaine. The OPP West Region Community Street Crime Unit executed the search warrants in Dundalk and Clifford on Nov. 6, while the accused was taken into custody outside of Walkerton without incident. As [...]

Ontario's minister of energy and electrification visited Bruce Power on Friday to help announce the expansion of the nuclear power operator's medical isotope production capabilities. Bruce Power and its partners have committed to building a hot cell facility in Bruce County, expediting their ability to process short-lived lutetium-177 to ensure it reaches cancer patients around [...]

Farmers are feeling uncertain and concerned about the incoming Trump administration in the United States, farm groups say. President-elect Donald Trump has proposed a 10 per cent universal tariff on all imports into the U.S., or even 20 per cent. He wants to reopen the free trade agreement between Canada, Mexico and the U.S. too. [...]

Changes to NCAA player eligibility rules are already paying dividends for the Owen Sound Attack. On Friday, the Owen Sound Attack signed second-round pick Mason Roy to a standard player contract. Roy is committed to play NCAA Division 1 hockey at Providence College. The move comes one day after the NCAA Division I Council voted [...]

The Bluewater District School Board has voted to censure Trustee Derrick Long and bar him from sitting on all committees of the board for 90 days after an integrity commissioner's report found he contravened numerous sections of the board's code of conduct. Long's suspension is scheduled to start on Jan. 6, after the board decided [...]

After almost two days, a precautionary boil water advisory has been lifted in Hanover. The town announced just before 2 p.m. on Friday that the advisory for the town's municipal water system had been lifted effective immediately, and the test that led to the measure was inaccurate. The town said accredited lab sampling test results [...]

The St. Mary's Mustangs won the Bluewater Athletic Association senior boys' volleyball championship in five sets over the Owen Sound District Wolves Wednesday at OSDSS. James Dafe led the Mustangs' attack on the day while Ben Clark was busy at the net for the Wolves. The Stangs won the closely contested final 25-20, 23-25, 25-19, [...]

David McLeish said he's disappointed the city denied his request to present hisanalysis of council compensation and composition to city council on Oct. 24 because it was unduly repetitious." It's left him and members of his committee to wonder if the city welcomes public input, he said. He looked at council pay and the costs [...]

It's a unique local Christmastime tradition and its returning to the Harry Lumley Bayshore Community Centre on Saturday. The Bells of Christmas is a holiday gift-giving campaign that aims to ensure lonely seniors at local long-term-care homes will open a present on Christmas morning. Volunteers will hang approximately 150 crocheted bells on the tree at [...]

Nobody was injured but some animals died in a barn fire south of Mildmay on Thursday. Just before 8:30 a.m., South Bruce OPP received a report of a large barn fire at an address on Concession 2 in South Bruce and attended along with firefighters and paramedic services, police said in a news release. The [...]

Efforts continue to modify the existing Commercial Vehicle Operator Registration rules for larger trucks

With a protectionist-sounding president returning to the White House, the cost of doing business for Canadian exporters to the U.S. could be going up. President-elect Donald Trump has promised a universal 10 per cent tariff on all American imports. The Canadian Chamber of Commerce estimates that would shrink the Canadian economy by around $30 billion [...]

The Town of Hanover has issued a precautionary boil water advisory due to an adverse water test at its treatment plant. The town issued the advisory at 6 p.m. on Wednesday to those on the Hanover water supply system. Update provided just after 11 a.m. and again just after 4:30 p.m. on Thursday said the [...]

David Bedkowski, a self-described city kid about as tall as a skyscraper said he feels right at home inside the tight confines of Owen Sound's Harry Lumley Bayshore Community Centre. That's because he grew up inside Toronto's Ted Reeve Community Arena, a hockey rink of similar ilk, with a low-slung ceiling and plenty of history. [...]

Grey-Bruce home sales continue to show strength in line with recent interest rate cuts by the Bank of Canada. For the second straight month, home sales in the region were up sharply compared to the same month a year ago. According to the area's real estate association, sales totalled 238 units in October, which was [...]

The Owen Sound Attack are back in the win column. Sam McCue netted a pair of goals while Tristan Delisle and Landen Hookey each recorded a couple of points as the Attack (4-8-2-2) snapped an eight-game losing streak by beating the Sarnia Sting (7-7-1-3), 5-2 inside the Harry Lumley Bayshore Community Centre Wednesday night. I [...]

The City of Owen Sound is gearing up to hold its first community open house on Thursday. Everyone is invited to attend the event, which runs from 4:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. at the Harry Lumley Bayshore Community Centre. City Manager Tim Simmonds said all of the city's different departments and divisions will have tables [...]

Owen Sound is planning to make some amendments to its traffic bylaw, including speed limit reductions to some city streets in the downtown area. On Monday, city council approved an operations committee recommendation to direct staff to bring forward a bylaw to amend its traffic bylaw. The amendments being proposed include reducing the speed limit [...]

Decorative lighting will be installed in two alleyways in Owen Sound's River District. On Monday, Owen Sound council passed bylaws to enter agreements with property owners along Carney's Lane and Artists' Alley to allow for the installation of catenary lighting in the two areas. The lights suspended on cables will be purchased and installed [...]

Former Owen Sound emergency room doctor Rochagne Kilian said she will turn over COVID-19 vaccine exemption and other patient records after a recent Supreme Court of Canada decision. Kilian became the subject of a College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario investigation three years ago over COVID-19 vaccine exemptions. She said she will turn over [...]

The Grey Sauble Conservation Authority is considering a draft budget with a proposed levy increase ranging from about 3.8 to 6.5 per cent for its eight member municipalities, but that is before a major project to overhaul its headquarters is factored in. GSCA chief administrative officer Tim Lanthier was at Owen Sound council on Monday [...]

Ontario Plants was founded in St. Thomas in 2002 where it has a 36-acre greenhouse and 25 acres of outdoor propagation fields

The owner of a 76-unit building south of Owen Sound says there are no immediate plans for redevelopment after a Niagara Escarpment development permit application for the property came before Owen Sound council on Monday. Max Taylor, who owns the property just to the north of the Stone Tree Golf Course, said Tuesday he was [...]

The Supreme Court of Canada has denied the Saugeen Ojibway Nation's request to appeal parts of lower court decisions against its multi-billion-dollar Bruce Peninsula land claim and Aboriginal title to territorial waters around the peninsula. But with the appeal denied, SON now plans to move ahead with seeking remedies after the lower courts did agree [...]

It will be a little more expensive to ride a bus in Owen Sound come 2025. On Monday, Owen Sound council approved an operations committee recommendation to increase city transit fares by 25 cents and monthly passes by $2.50. The city will also addday pass, 10-pass and semester pass options, and continue the affordability pass [...]

Police now say an incident in downtown Walkerton has been quickly resolved.' In a news release issued at 10:50 a.m., police said the active incident had been resolved and there was no threat to public safety. Just after 10:30 a.m. on Tuesday, South Bruce OPP posted to social media about a increased police presence in [...]

The Hanover Police Service reminding parents to thoroughly check their childrens' Halloween candy after receiving a report of a sewing needle found embedded in a chocolate bar. Police are investigating after receiving a report at about 6 p.m. on Monday that a child had attempted to consume a KitKat chocolate bar that evening when the [...]

He wore mismatched flip-flops for two years. He graduated high school at 16. He's a first-round pick of the Calgary Flames. He's interested in the stock market. And he's a two-time Ontario Hockey League draft pick. That's right. If you want to stump even the most ardent junior hockey trivia buff ask them what team [...]