Owen Sound Sun Times

The proponents planning to convert Owen Sound's old courthouse and jail into an entertainment and event venue and business incubator are looking forward to moving ahead with the project after getting zoning bylaw and official plan amendments approved for the property. Owen Sound council on Monday passed bylaws to approve the amendments for the properties [...]

Hanover Police are investigating after being told of a robbery in the town on Oct. 15 in which a firearm was discharged at a pursuing vehicle. On Sunday, Hanover Police Service received the report of a home invasion robbery a week earlier at a residence in the 400 block of 11th Street, near 13th Avenue. [...]

The local virtual urgent care program has gone through a transition, but those who access it can expect to see little change in the service being provided. The program, which targets patients with ailments who are unable to see a family doctor but aren't sick enough to require a trip to the hospital, has transitioned [...]

Operation Christmas Child is back in full swing in Grey-Bruce. The program, which provides shoeboxes full of necessities and other items to children in need around the world, is once again up and running locally, preparing shoe boxes in time for collection week in mid-November. Paula Heatherington, a longtime participant in Operation Christmas Child, said [...]

Eight out of ten teams make the playoffs in the Western Conference and the little kids bombing around during the Sunday afternoon post-game fan skate didn't seem to care their favourite team just dropped three straight games and looked to be in a bit of an existential tailspin. That's the positive note of an otherwise [...]

Saugeen and Nawash members are helping to create a map that shows how Saugeen Ojibway Nation people have used territorial lands and how much their lives are connected to the land and water. The land use and occupancy mapping project has heard from at least 40 SON members so far. Interviews started Oct. 21 at [...]

Penn Kemp goes back to her five-year-old self to stimulate her poet's muse. She encouraged a small group of people at her participatory poetry workshop Saturday in Owen Sound to return to their uninhibited, child-like selves too. Her workshop was part of the Words Aloud Poetry Festival which took place this weekend in Meaford and [...]

The cat show is on this weekend at the Harry Lumley Bayshore Community Centre but no one told the Brantford Bulldogs who came in and marked their territory with a 5-2 win over the Owen Sound Attack Saturday night. The Bulldogs scored four straight goals in the contest and chased Corbin Votary from the net [...]

For cat enthusiasts, it was purrfect. Nearly 100 cats representing about 20 breeds competed in four rings at the Harry Lumley Bayshore Community Centre Saturday in Owen Sound to see which was the best of the best at the No Name Cat Club Show, which continued Sunday. But beyond the three purebred cat categories, judged [...]

Owen Sound police chased, caught and charged a man in Kelso Beach at Nawash Park Friday night. A police news release said officers were contacted by concerned citizens about a suspicious man exiting a residence on 29th Street West in the city. Police located him on a bicycle in the area. Police said he gave [...]

Hanover police charged a 64-year-old Hanover man with public mischief, breach of probation and breach of his conditional sentence for what police say was an erroneous report of a mugging. A news release from Hanover Police Chief Chris Knoll said police received a report of a mugging that took place the evening of Friday, Oct. [...]

Darren Rumble restarted his head coaching career where it all began as a major junior player inside the Kitchener Memorial Auditorium Friday night. The current Rangers gave the former Blueshirt a rude homecoming, sending him and the Owen Sound Attack packing with a 5-3 loss. The Rangers are red hot. Friday's win was their fourth [...]

Human remains found at the Southampton compost site on Thursday originated at Sauble Beach and have been found to be Indigenous. The skeletal remains were found by a citizen at the yard waste compost site on Thursday. Later that evening police revealed that a forensic anthropologist thoroughly examined the remains and determined they were historic [...]

Bruce Power is planning to begin the Impact Assessment for a possible Bruce C nuclear generation station. On Friday, the company that operates Bruce A and B near Tiverton, announced that it had notified the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission and the Impact Assessment Agency of Canada of its intent to launch the IA for the [...]

Bones found at the Southampton yard waste compost site are human and are historic in nature, police say. The skeletal remains discovered at the site Oct. 19 by a citizen were thoroughly examined by a forensic anthropologist, the OPP said in a news release. The remains will not be part of a criminal investigation and [...]

Police are investigating after bones were discovered at the compost site in Saugeen Shores. Members of the Saugeen Shores Police Service and OPP are working together on the investigation after a citizen contacted police on Thursday after noticing the bones at the site on Conc. 14 in Saugeen Shores, it said in a news release. [...]

Student achievement in Grey-Bruce is below the provincial average across the board, according to standardized testing results. The Education Quality and Accountability Office (EQAO) has released the results of the 2022-23 assessments, which include the scores of 580,000 Grade 3, Grade 6 and Grade 9 students across the province, in both English and French language [...]

Owen Sound officials are looking to make major upgrades to the ball diamonds at Duncan McLellan Park over the next three years. On Wednesday, the city's community services committee received an information report on planned work at the east-side facility, which sees an estimated $690,000 invested over the next three years. The proposed timeline would [...]

Bruce Power has started to remove and replace key components of its Unit 3, the second reactor unit undergoing refurbishment through its six-unit Major Component Replacement project. On Wednesday, the operator of the nuclear generating station near Tiverton announced that workers had successfully installed protective shielding and 16 bulkheads to isolate the unit from the [...]

Demolition began Thursday on a two-storey building downtown, north of the St. Francis' Place apartments, to clear the site for a 40-unit, six-storey apartment building. When siding and yellow spray-foam insulation was removed from the north wall of 1043 3rd Ave. E., an old advertisement for Old Chum smoking tobacco was revealed. The building was [...]

Christine MacDonald will take over Chief Administrative Officer of Bruce County upon the retirement of Derrick Thomson. On Thursday, the county announced the appointment of MacDonald to the CAO's position. The current Deputy CAO who has served as the county's interim CAO and director of human services in the past, first joined the county in [...]

A new study has revealed that more than 330 people were able to access more than $1 million thanks to free income tax programs being offered in five Grey-Bruce municipalities. On Tuesday, the Bruce Grey Poverty Task Force, along with the United Way of Bruce Grey and the Grey Bruce Community Foundation, released its Grey [...]

Darren Rumble will call the shots behind the bench for the Owen Sound Attack while the Scenic City skaters reverberate from the shockwave of Greg Walters' firing earlier this week. The team named Rumble interim head coach Wednesday morning. Sean Teakle will remain in his current role of assistant coach. The Attack announced Walter's firing [...]

The Silver C's, Caring Canadians, have collected more than 7,100 pounds of food in their first Thanksgiving food drive. The fellowship group for retired men in the Owen Sound area is calling the drive an overwhelming success" after it was held at area grocery stores leading up to Thanksgiving. Along with the 7,103 lbs. of [...]

Words Aloud Poetry Festival returns to local stages this weekend. It's been four years since the weekend of poetry was held. It will take place at several locations in Owen Sound and Meaford, from Friday through Sunday. Everyone who loves the written and spoken word is invited to be moved by top-flight poets who don't [...]

After business people raised concerns about downtown safety at a city chamber of commerce event last month, the chamber has organized a public meeting Oct. 30 to help bring forward information and answers. The meeting will take place from 8:30 to 10 a.m. at the Harry Lumley Bayshore Community Centre in Owen Sound. While it's [...]

The Walk for OSHaRE has raised $430,000 for the Owen Sound-based charity that provides hundreds of meals a day to those in need. More than 100 people came out to the walk on Sept. 22, which marked the Owen Sound Hunger and Relief Effort's 10th anniversary in the community. On Tuesday, the charity announced the [...]

The Sauble Beach and Wiarton MD Quest team is optimistic that their efforts are paying off as they try to attract more family physicians to the area. The recruitment team was at South Bruce Peninsula council on Tuesday where they provided an update on their efforts over the past few months, and reported that they [...]

Nominations for induction into the Owen Sound Sports Hall of Fame in 2024 will be accepted until Dec. 31. Forms and criteria are downloadable from the city's website, under Sports Hall of Fame. Nominations will be accepted in the following categories: athletes, builders, teams and merit. Induction ceremonies will take place Friday, May 3 at [...]

MacKAY STICKS WITH BANDITS Port Elgin's Ian MacKay is staying in Buffalo and signed a three-year contract with the NLL's Bandits earlier this month. MacKay finished the 2022-23 season with new career highs in goals (19), points (38) and loose-ball recoveries (121) while also tying his previous career high in games played (18). In his [...]

After a summer of periodic emergency room closures in South Bruce Grey Health Centre hospitals and elsewhere, the province has given SBGHC some money to hire agency nurses. Chesley hospital's emergency department closed again all day Tuesday but hospital president and CEO Nancy Shaw said there's reason for optimism that those closures will diminish and [...]

A 56-year-old Hanover man is facing charges after being accused of sexually assaulting a female youth. According to a Hanover Police media release, it's alleged the man sexually assaulted a female youth and that the offender and victim are known to each other. Police received a complaint of the sexual assault on Oct. 10. During [...]

The newly formed Southwestern Ontario Isotope Coalition hopes to plant its flag in what is expected to be a rapidly growing industry within the next decade. Industry analysts suggest the global demand for medical isotopes, many of which are produced at Bruce Power's plant in Tiverton, will double by 2021 with the international market swelling [...]

Northern Bruce Peninsula council voted on Oct. 10 to hire Kitchener-based Ball Construction to act on behalf of the municipality by dealing with the architects, engineers and other consultants, at a cost of $1,121,220, plus tax. Construction is to start in April and finish May 29, 2025. Council has limited the total cost of the [...]

Owen Sound Attack general manager Dale DeGray said there is no good time to fire a coach, but there are surprising times, and Monday afternoon after a 4-2-1-0 start is definitely puzzling. The Owen Sound Attack announced the firing of head coach Greg Walters a day after the team returned from its three-game northern Ontario [...]

NORTH STARS AT BROGDEN CUP The Team Ontario under-17 team finished with a record of 2-2 at the two-day USA Brogden Cup in Maryland this past weekend. Featuring Owen Sound's Laine Nissen, Taryn Lee, Bree Wilkins and head coach Lyndsay Brooks - Team Ontario beat the Haudenosaunee Nationals 13-3 and 16-2. Wilkins had two goals [...]

Cedric Guindon had a goal and three assists as the Owen Sound Attack earned a 4-0 victory over the Soo Greyhounds in OHL action at the GFL Memorial Gardens on Saturday night. Attack head coach Greg Walters says it was just a matter of time until Guindon found the scoresheet, saying the centreman has run [...]

A man who displayed a gun and demanded money from a convenience store clerk in Shallow Lake Sunday night left empty-handed when the woman behind the counter wouldn't give it to him. The manager of Allan's Mercantile, Jodie Rutledge, recounted in an interview Monday morning what her employee told her she saw and did and [...]

When Jeannette Scobie's dream of establishing a French-language Catholic school in Owen Sound came to fruition in 1998, there were just seven students. On Saturday, Scobie returned to celebrate how far Ecole catholique Saint-Dominique-Savio has come as the now almost 200-student school marked its 25th anniversary in the community. I was so happy that they [...]

Local electric vehicle owners gathered at Cobble Beach on Saturday where they tooted the horns of their plug-in rides. About 15 vehicles graced the grass of the golf resort community in Georgian Bluffs as part of the first rEVolution fair, put on by the local Community Climate Action Working Group as a way to educate [...]

When Mary Lynn Houston-Leask thinks of what the M'Wikwedong Indigenous Friendship Centre has become today, she is overcome with a sense of accomplishment. Houston-Leask, the perinatal nurse at the centre for 22 years now, first stepped into what was then the M'Wikwedong Native Cultural Resource Centre in 2000. She was the wife of a survivor [...]

The driver of a pick-up truck was arrested and charged with impaired driving after the vehicle drove through the front wall of a home on Owen Sound's east side early Sunday morning. The homeowners were in the residence asleep at the time of the crash, but fortunately no one was hurt as a result, Owen [...]

Higher interest rates and an increase in the number of properties on the market have home sales softening in Grey-Bruce. The Realtors Association of Grey Bruce Owen Sound reported that sales were down by 2.1 per cent in September when compared to September 2022. The 183 units sold were four less than they were in [...]

It's unlikely the Sudbury Wolves could have scripted a better return to action for their most recently signed NHL prospects than the one that played out during a 3-2 overtime win against the Owen Sound Attack on Thursday night. They may have raised a reader's eyebrow by selecting defenceman Djibril Toure to score two goals [...]

Bruce Power is supporting a study that will explore the potential to produce hydrogen using electricity generated by nuclear power. The feasibility study by Kinectrics and FuelCell Energy was one of a number that the Independent Electricity System Operator announced on Thursday that it would fund through its Hydrogen Innovation Fund. The studies will all [...]

Grey County is pitching the province in an effort to turn the former Georgian Bay Community School track property in Meaford into affordable housing and green space. The 8.4-acre parcel of land at 87 Aiken St. in Meaford will soon be offered to the public for sale, but Meaford and Grey County are hoping the [...]

The West Grey and Owen Sound police services are receiving funding to enhance supports for mental health crisis response in those communities. On Tuesday, the Ontario government announced just over $113,000 in funding for the Owen Sound police and $93,000 for the West Grey police through the Mobile Crisis Response Team Enhancement Grant program. In [...]

The Georgian Bay Symphony will kick off its 52nd season on a sinister and spooky note. On Oct. 28, the local symphony will hold its Halloween Fright Night featuring some of the spookiest classical music ever written. It will include selections from Lloyd Webber's Phantom of the Opera, Saint-Saens' Danse Macabre, Mussorgsky's Night on Bald [...]

Long-time Meaford resident Ruby Ferguson will have a lasting impact in the community after her estate made a more than $1.15 million contribution to Brightshores Health Systems. Ferguson's estate recently made a donation totaling $1,153,836 to the hospital corporation through the Owen Sound and Meaford foundations. Her will directed that the funds be directed toward [...]

Three public access points on Bass Lake will remain open and in control of Georgian Bluffs, but the township has no plans to make any improvements or upgrades for public use. But the township says it will be receptive to reviewing and considering a future proposal if one is made for a resident group-owned and [...]