Owen Sound Sun Times

On Saturday, the Owen Sound North Stars are helping raise money for the Grey Bruce Hospice by offering free admission to their game against the Point Edward Pacers. Donations to the Grey Bruce Hospice will be accepted at the doors with 100 per cent of the donated funds going directly to the local organization.

Police have charged two men from Toronto with manslaughter and drug trafficking offences more than two years after Corey Sutherland, 23, was found dead in a Grey Highlands home. On March 28, 2022, emergency services responded to a call after Sutherland's body was found at a West Back Line residence in Grey Highlands. On Wednesday, [...]

Grey County is moving ahead with a land purchase for a new paramedic base in Durham. At its meeting on Thursday, county council directed staff to finalize the agreement to purchase just under an acre of land at the corner of Chester Street and Grey Road 4 from West Grey for the new base. The [...]

A favourite swimming hole in Varney will remain closed this summer while the Saugeen Valley Conservation Authority continues to review public safety concerns and seek environment approvals from several agencies to divert water from Camp Creek. The SCVA closed the swimming pond at the Varney Conservation Area in 2023. The conservation authority said an assessment [...]

Grey County council is requesting an immediate meeting with Ontario Health Minister Sylvia Jones and South Bruce Grey Health Centre officials about decisions to move inpatient beds out of the Durham hospital, but has decided against joining West Grey in a legal challenge. Shortly after Grey County made its decision, West Grey Mayor Kevin Eccles [...]

Hellyer's Foodland in Lion's Head will reopen to the public in June, less than a year after a fire ripped through parts of the old building and forced the fifth-generation community grocery store to close. The store closed after a fire on Aug. 29, 2023, caused by work on the outside of the grocery store, [...]

The provincial government is investing more than $8 million to repair major roads in Grey-Bruce. The province is earmarking $2.7 million for Owen Sound to help in the rehabilitation of 9th Avenue East from Superior Street to 6th Street East and $3 million for South Bruce Peninsula to aid in the reconstruction of Berford Street [...]

Around 300 people marched from the community centre in Durham to the hospital Tuesday night to once again rally support against the South Bruce Grey Health Centre's decision to move all 10 inpatient beds to other sites within the hospital group on June 3. In a move West Grey Mayor Kevin Eccles called a war" [...]

The Tom Thomson Art Gallery is partnering with the Reach Centre Grey Bruce and Georgian Bay School for the Arts on a new exhibition. The gallery is now calling for submissions to the juried exhibition called Creative Pathways: Celebrating the Neurodivergent Community. Local artists who identify as neurodivergent can submit up to five works of [...]

Superior Court Justice Susan Vella has ordered South Bruce Peninsula to pay $1.67 million in legal fees to the Saugeen First Nation. Vella's ruling also calls for the federal government and Ontario to pay $322,000 and $1.28 million respectively to Saugeen First Nation, totalling $3.22 million in costs, disbursements and HST. In addition, South Bruce [...]

A bullmastiff bit a Hanover police officer who was in the process of arresting its owner Monday, police say. According to a Hanover Police media release, a resident reported a suspicious vehicle parked in the southwest part of the town Monday around 7 p.m. Police said it was later determined the black Dodge Caravan described [...]

It was a tough weekend in more ways than one for the Owen Sound North Stars junior B club. The N'Stars honoured the life and legacy of teammate Tyson Downs before their home opener Saturday at the Harry Lumley Bayshore Community Centre by raising a commemorative banner with family and friends in attendance. Downs, 18, [...]

WOLVES LOOK TO REPEAT The Owen Sound District Wolves girls' rugby team will play for a chance to repeat as CWOSSA AAA' champions on Friday in Cambridge. The Wolves shut out Waterloo-Oxford 15-0 and beat Guelph Collegiate Vocational Institute 22-5 Wednesday at Jacob Hespeler in Cambridge to finish atop Pool A at the regional championship [...]

A waterfowl and bird area could be part of Harrison Park's future for the next decade, but how that area may look will require further study. On May 15, the city's community services committee was presented with a revised final draft of the Harrison Park master plan that has taken a slightly different approach to [...]

Austin Staats welcomed the Owen Sound North Stars back to Ontario's senior A lacrosse circuit with a seven-goal performance Monday night inside the Iroquois Lacrosse Arena. The North Stars, playing in their first Major Series Lacrosse game since 1995, fell 15-4 to the defending Mann Cup champion Six Nations Chiefs in the Chiefs' annual Bread [...]

It's not easy juggling population, general GDP, and farm cash receipts

Peter Ciokan, the long-time owner of the Foto Art camera shop in downtown Owen Sound, died May 8 at the age of 59. Mr. Ciokan had not been in good health for a couple of years. A friend who couldn't reach Mr. Ciokan asked police to check on his well-being. They discovered he died in [...]

A community vigil is planned Tuesday night in support of Durham hospital and to protest a plan to move all inpatient bed there to other sites. Save the Durham Hospital committee is organizing a march starting at Durham arena at 7:30 p.m. and ending at the hospital, where a candlelight vigil will be held, the [...]

Grey Road 10 is closed between Concession 6 and Concession 8, north of Clifford, in South Bruce while police investigate a serious collision. Police said in a news release that they responded to a report of the collision about 2:30 a.m. Monday. Police ask people to avoid the area. Grey Bruce OPP asks anyone with [...]

The Bruce Grey Music Hall of Fame will reopen in its new Owen Sound home on June 23. The formal opening of the hall starts at 3 p.m., in the North Atlantic Room of the Owen Sound branch of the Royal Canadian Legion, where the hall will be established. The Ridge River Ramblers band will [...]

People started appearing at the Big Bay dock amid the red afterglow of sunset, which separated the depths of Georgian Bay from the dark sky above. Steve Ritchie was setting up his black, barrel-shaped Dobsonian telescope and aligning the mirrors, while his wife, AnnMarie Rowland, was already aiming her smaller white scope, which sets up [...]

Sauble Beach was a lot of people's happy place" Saturday, where they relaxed on the sand andtook a break from their routines. Karen Park said she camped with friends at Sauble in her teens, rented a trailer for at least a couple of weeks every summer with her young kids, and now she stays in [...]

A 44-year-old Walkerton man has been charged with drug possession for the purpose of trafficking and illegal possession of drugs. On May 17, the OPP made a traffic stop in South Bruce and arrested the driver for drug-related offences. They found cocaine after searching the driver and vehicle, an OPP news release said. Police then [...]

Due to insufficient staffing, the Durham Hospital's emergency department will be closed Saturday, May 18, reopening Sunday, May 19 at 7 a.m. Anyone requiring immediate medical attention should call 911 to be taken to the nearest open emergency department by ambulance, South Bruce Grey Health Centre news release announced Friday night. For non-urgent health-care, [...]

A 400-megawatt battery storage facility in Arran-Elderslie is among 10 such projects selected by the Independent Electricity System Operator's latest procurement. Shift Solar Inc.'s Grey Owl Storage is one of the largest battery storage projects among the 10. It's also the only successful applicant that doesn't have Indigenous participation. The battery storage site would remain [...]

The Alzheimer Society of Grey-Bruce is gearing up to hold its largest fundraiser of the year. On May 25, the 2024 IG Wealth Management Walk for Alzheimer's will be held in four communities in the two counties - Owen Sound, Hanover, Saugeen Shores and Thornbury. Michelle Fleming, community development and engagement co-ordinator with the local [...]

Already 40 breast cancer survivors have expressed interest in joining a new dragon boat team just for survivors, and more are welcome, organizer Geordie Farrell said. Participants will meet in Owen Sound on Wednesday, May 22 for the first practice. Farrell requests people who are interested to email her at farrell@bmts.com for more information. I'm [...]

With the warmer spring weather comes the start of the road running race season in Grey-Bruce. A couple of races - providing an opportunity to get out and exercise while raising funds for important local causes - are planned over the coming weeks. Next up on the local calendar is the annual Chesley Community Classic, [...]

The Kiwanis Soccer Complex in Owen Sound will look and feel different for visitors after 160 mature ash trees infected with the emerald ash borer were removed there this offseason. While the removal of the trees eliminated a prime source of shade and shelter adjacent to the soccer field house in the middle of the [...]

The Owen Sound Baysox squandered a four-run lead before eking out a 6-6 tie against the Midland Mariners with a clutch sacrifice fly in the final inning. Wayland Wilson got a fly ball far enough into right field to drive in the game-tying run in the seventh and final inning during the Baysox home opener [...]

Despite weeks of intense" backlash, South Bruce Grey Health Centre's president and CEO said she is committed to improving access to healthcare in Durham by stabilizing local hospital operations. On June 3, the 10 in-patient beds at the Durham site will transfer to hospitals in Kincardine and Walkerton leaving only emergency and urgent care available [...]

Abdulhakeem Albakny's wife and two small daughters watched as he received a citizenship certificate andapplause at a celebration for new Canadians in Owen Sound Wednesday night. Albakny sat back down with other recipients, then his little girls ran over and hopped up on his lap and he put his arms around them. Albakny was [...]

Georgian Bluffs is launching a 24-hour hotline about short-term accommodations in the community. The service, which was to begin Friday in advance of the Victoria Day long weekend, will allow community members to report any disturbances or complaints directly 24 hours a day, seven days a week. The hotline at 226-909-2060 will serve as the [...]

The Owen Sound Agricultural Society board has a fundraising dance and live music planned as it figures out what it will do about fire damage to about one-third of the Victoria Park grandstand and a building underneath early May 7. The volunteer board of directors met this week and later issued a statement which said [...]

Ontario Premier Doug Ford will open the new Brightshores Wellness and Recovery Centre in Owen Sound on June 7. Brightshores Health System takes possession of the repurposed former Bayview Public School next week. Renovations began in fall of 2022 to create the centre, which will combine Brightshores' in-patient and outpatient addiction and mental health services. [...]

A Georgian Bluffs councillor will have her pay suspended for 30 days and has been ordered to undergo training after an integrity commissioner's investigation into allegations of harassment by two ratepayers. Georgian Bluffs council voted 4-2 Wednesday to reprimand Coun. Cathy Moore Coburn for overstepping her role as a councillor in relation to accusations brought [...]

Due to construction, migrating sand is no longer being deposited in sufficient quantities onto the narrow band of land to protect the marsh from Lake Erie erosion

A bus loaded with people hoping to keep the Durham hospital's inpatient beds where they are travelled to Queen's Park Wednesday. In April, the South Bruce Grey Health Centre board of directors and CEO Nancy Shaw announced that the 10 inpatient beds at the Durham hospital site will shift to hospital sites in Kincardine and [...]

The Lures N Lines Spring Trout Derby has wrapped up another successful year for both the anglers on the water and for the preservation of the local fishery. The fourth annual event saw approximately 650 anglers hit the water over 10 days, which raised a total of $8,250 for the Bruce Peninsula Sportsmen's Association for [...]

Ontario's appeal court will hear South Bruce Peninsula's appeal of a decision recognizing Saugeen First Nation owns most of the north beach at Sauble Beach. The Appeal Court for Ontario hearing will start May 27 and is scheduled for the full week. The town's appeal says the judge's decision raises questions that need clarification. But [...]

Exports of greenhouse tomatoes and peppers to the U.S. lead the way

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A former chief operating officer with The Loomex Group will take over as Meaford's chief administrative officer. The municipality announced the appointment of Kymm Buckham as the new CAO, effective Wednesday. We are thrilled to welcome Kymm Buckham," said Meaford Mayor Ross Kentner in a media release. With her exceptional qualifications, we are confident Ms. [...]

When South Bruce council raised its hand in 2012 and formally expressed interest in possibly storing Canada's nuclear waste deep underground, Bill Goetz sat in the mayor's chair. Twelve years later, Bill's son Mark, now mayor, signed a $418 million hosting agreement with the Nuclear Waste Management Organization, which lays out the organization's commitment to [...]

Bruce Power's president and chief executive officer, Mike Rencheck, is retiring June 30 but will remain a senior advisor there and to the nuclear industry, the company announced Monday. Rencheck will also remain chair of the Atlanta Centre governors of the World Association of Nuclear Operators. Eric Chassard will succeed him as Bruce Power's president [...]

Wiarton's beloved albino groundhog is in the news again, months after predicting an early spring, after someone vandalized his enclosure. outh Bruce Peninsula said it was disappointed to share someone sprayed foam insulation inside the cherished community mascot's enclosure near Bluewater Park and the local library. In a post to Facebook, the town said the [...]

Goods Exchange Day returns to Owen Sound Saturday from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m., and this year plants are included. City residents mayplace unwanted but still usable items at the curb in front of their homes for someone else to use. Popular Goods Exchange Day items include sporting goods, furniture, small appliances, books, art, [...]

Two monitors which can detect if a hill may be about to collapse will be installed onthe Alpha Street hill during reconstruction of the road. The monitors were recommended by an engineering firm, givena history of slope failure in this area," a city report said. The city has had to repair a failed upper [...]

Owen Sound Attack goaltender Carter George is the 2023-24 recipient of the Bobby Smith Trophy, awarded annually to the OHL's Scholastic Player of the Year. Attack captain Colby Barlow won the award last season. The 17-year-old netminder is also this year's recipient of the Ivan Tennant Memorial Award presented to the league's top academic high-school [...]

The regional unemployment rate fell to its lowest point since November 2022 and continues to pace well below the provincial average. According to the latest report from the Four County Labour Market Planning Board for the Stratford-Bruce Peninsula Economic Region, the unemployment rate fell to 3.6 per cent in April, down from 4.2 per cent. [...]