Owen Sound Sun Times

Grey County had reached a tentative agreement with unionized workers at two of its long-term care homes. On Thursday, council ratified and approved the recommendations of its bargaining team to bind the new agreement with OPSEU Local 299. The two-year agreement is for 2024 and 2025 and covers workers at Lee Manor in Owen Sound [...]

Summerfolk is facing extreme financial pressure and will consider downsizing as it manages rising costs and its debt, operations manager Jaret Koop said. The future of next year's festival is not in doubt but changes are coming and the community's input at an upcoming town hall meeting will help shape the next festival, he said [...]

Grey Bruce OPP has located a deceased 41-year-old person after looking for a missing person named Eric in Meaford. Police expressed their condolences to the person's family and thanked the public for its help. Police said no further information would be released, in a post on X Thursday morning. Eric had last been seen on [...]

There is a movement afoot in Grey-Bruce to make Christmas a little brighter for thousands of children in developing and war-torn countries around the world. Operation Christmas Child shoebox collection season is underway in the region, with individuals and groups now packing shoeboxes, boot boxes and other similar-sized containers with toys, school supplies, hygiene items [...]

City council has asked for a report about whether to outlaw future drive-thrus with an interim control bylaw. Deputy Mayor Scott Greig proposed the report, preliminary to a future zoning bylaw update, which also could address drive-thrus. His motion at council's meeting Monday proposed that the move be looked at to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, [...]

Bruce County and Grey Bruce Public Health are launching a social media campaign to help inform seniors of government-funded dental care programs available to them. The campaign, which will include posters and other educational material in area communities, is being put on to educate residents about the Canadian Dental Care Plan (CDCP) and the Ontario [...]

Police have arrested a third suspect in a home invasion and gunpoint robbery that occurred in Hanover more than a year ago. On Sunday, a man who was wanted in the relation to the robbery on Oct. 15, 2023 was arrested without incident by the Nottawasaga OPP, Hanover police said in a news release. Dan [...]

A Georgian Bluffs resident faces several charges, including assault with a weapon against a spouse, following an intimate partner violence investigation. Just after 9 a.m. Sunday, Grey Bruce OPP responded to an address in Georgian Bluffs.Police learned the suspect had allegedly committed a criminal act against a partner, Grey Bruce OPP said in a news [...]

When a new concrete slab and new piping beneath the floor are installed at the Harry Lumley Bayshore Community Centre ice rink next spring, it will correct an ice quality issue since the facility opened in 1983. A thinner slab, combined with new pipes will allow faster heat transfer to make ice faster, and allow [...]

A South Bruce Peninsula resident has been charged with impaired driving after a vehicle crashed into a police cruiser on the weekend, policed said. Just before 10 p.m. on Saturday, Grey Bruce OPP received a traffic complaint about an impaired driver on Howdenvale Road in South Bruce Peninsula. Police located the vehicle and attempted to [...]

The occupants of a home in Varney escaped a fire in the middle of the night last week, but the residence was deemed a complete loss. Just after midnight on Friday, a passerby on Highway 6 reported a vehicle fire in the carport of the home. Due to the location of the vehicle fire, it [...]

A luxury hotel in Sauble Beach has opened to guests. It was announced on Monday that the four-storey, 21-room Sands Hotel at 119 Lakeshore Blvd. N. had opened in time for the Thanksgiving weekend on Oct. 12-14. The hotel's restaurant is scheduled to open in late November. We had a delightfully busy Thanksgiving Weekend, and [...]

The Owen Sound Attack added recently waived overage defenceman Alec Leonard from the London Knights for a conditional 14th-round pick in 2027. Leonard became one of the odd-man out in London after the Knights acquired overage goaltender Austin Elliott from the Saskatoon Blades of the Western Hockey League. Leonard has played in 197 Ontario Hockey [...]

An unfinished apartment building described as an eyesore" near the Harry Lumley-Bayshore Community Centre in Owen Sound has a new owner who plans to finish the project, with changes. Sound Lifestyles Ltd.purchased the Georgian Landing project, at 297 18th St. E. in Owen Sound, and will be the developer. Now it's called Bayshore Terrace and [...]

The city's need for purpose-built rental housing on the former Black Clawson Kennedy site trumped concerns over offering a million-dollar incentive to a slow-moving developer Monday night at Owen Sound city council. A majority of council voted to extend its expired offer to waive about $1 million worth of development charges for another six months [...]

A plan by volunteers to transplant a patch of trees at the Owen Sound hospital has been put on hold. NeighbourWoods North, the volunteer-run organization that has been working to naturalize the hospital grounds in recent years, have postponed their Operation Save Our Forest that was in the works for this Sunday. The initiative included [...]

A Toronto resident has been charged after a teen was struck while crossing Hwy. 10 at a school bus that had its lights activated and stop sign extended. Just before 8:30 a.m. on Oct. 11, Grey Bruce OPP received a report that a pedestrian was struck on the highway north of Markdale, it said in [...]

The Municipality of Arran-Elderslie has closed a bridge west of Chesley for emergency repairs. The municipality announced it has closed the Priebe Bridge located on SR 25, Elderslie between Conc. 2 and Bruce Rd. 19. The bridge requires immediate rehabilitation to repair the floor beams and concrete deck in order to maintain its 10-tonne load [...]

Voting has opened in the Municipality of South Bruce on a referendum that will help determine if the municipality is willing to be the site of an underground storage vault for Canada's spent nuclear fuel. Voters were eligible to cast their ballotseither online or via telephone on the referendum question beginning at 10 a.m. on [...]

A 1,785-pound pumpkin makes a sickening thud when dropped from a crane four storeys high into a field of furniture- and you would know that if you visited the Saugeen Shores Community Church's annual pumpkin drop Sunday in Port Elgin. Two weeks ago, growers from all over the province hauled some of the largest vegetables [...]

Dressed in all black like Johnny Cash and leading the first-place Windsor Spitfires (8-1-1-0) into his old stomping grounds, Greg Walters' swagger should have been off the charts Saturday night. Even more so when his Spitfires took over the close-checking contest in the second period en route to a 4-1 win, eventually outshooting Owen Sound [...]

Brightshores Health System and its five supporting hospital foundations participated in National Disability Employment Awareness Month through Light It Up! For NDEAM on Oct. 17. Brightshores is the first health system to participate in Light It Up! For NDEAM in Canada. All Brightshores locations were illuminated with purple and blue lights to spread awareness of [...]

A new Grey Bruce Public Health report is highlighting local food insecurity. The report - The Cost of Eating Well & The Urgent Issue of Food Insecurity - is based on local food cost data collected by public health in 2024. According to the data, almost one in five Grey-Bruce households struggle to purchase the [...]

Dundalk is growing and its two elementary schools are already overcrowded so the Bluewater District School Board is making moves to make room. There's a new junior kindergarten to Grade 8 school and $28 million of funding on the way, but not until enrolment at the town's two schools - Dundalk and Proton Community School [...]

An Arran-Elderslie man has been charged after he allegedly fled police on foot following a traffic stop in Chesley this past weekend. At about 3:20 a.m. on Oct. 12, a member of the South Bruce OPP was on patrol along 1st Avenue South when an attempt was made to stop a vehicle. The driver of [...]

With the fall respiratory illness season just around the corner, Grey Bruce Public Health is encouraging residents to get their flu and COVID-19 vaccinations. The local health unit began receiving the vaccinations earlier this month, and they are being distributed to local hospitals, long-term care and retirement homes and other congregate living settings. This season's [...]

Celebrity chef Roger Mooking and Grey County are sharing the story of the region's culinary heritage, diverse agriculture and hardworking families with the Gather Campaign. This is his world. He knows culinary, he knows culture, he knows art, he knows all of those things and he knows our area now," said Savanna Myers, Grey County's [...]

Carter George is the type of goalie who can steal a win. He didn't do it Thursday, but he's a big part of the reason Owen Sound eked out a point in Barrie despite giving up nearly 50 shots against. George made 46 saves in a 4-3 shootout loss as the Owen Sound Attack (3-4-1-1) [...]

The Royal Canadian Legion Branch 586 will celebrate the grand opening of its new building on Nov. 2, nearly three years after a fire destroyed the legion's former home in Hepworth. The old legion building burned to the ground on Jan. 21, 2022. Much of the local legion's memorabilia and the former home of the [...]

Solidarity Sundays will return to the Harmony Centre beginning this weekend. Nominated for an Owen Sound Cultural Award for most promising new event, the intergenerational weekly social began as an experiment this past winter before becoming so successful its volunteer organizers kept it rolling throughout the spring. Solidarity Sundays started with a simple conversation at [...]

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Owen Sound Police have charged a man who they say rear-ended a vehicle on 10th Street East before fleeing the scene and ditching his car in a cornfield. According to an Owen Sound Police Service media release, a man driving a Pontiac Vibe rear-ended another westbound vehicle at 8:20 a.m. on Oct. 8, before immediately [...]

Saugeen Shores police charged a man with attempted murder and arson as the result of a residential fire in Southampton last month. According to a Saugeen Shores Police Service media release, police and the Saugeen Shores Fire Department responded to a residential fire at 2:15 a.m. on Sept. 26. Investigators determined the cause of the [...]

The head of a green hydrogen system developer based in Owen Sound said the company has already grown into a local success story, but the work is continuing to turn it into a global one as well. Denis Krude, president and CEO of Hydrogen Optimized, was at the company's eastside development and manufacturing facility on [...]

As the first step of budget deliberations, South Bruce Peninsula councillors reviewed the 2025 draft budget Tuesday with a proposed 3.9 per cent tax levy increase on the table before the addition of school and county levies. Director of financial services and treasurer Tracey Neifer took councillors through the presentation as part of its regular [...]

Staff provided South Bruce Peninsula council with an overview of the municipality's paid-parking program for 2024 and suggested minor changes for 2025 at its regular meeting on Tuesday. South Bruce Peninsula budgeted $749,930 in revenue from the paid parking program in 2024 with a projected parking pass revenue of $574,180, resident and student season pass [...]

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Shamar Moses scored the eventual winning goal and added an assist as the North Bay Battalion defeated the Owen Sound Attack 4-2 Monday in the Troops' traditional Thanksgiving Day game. Jacob Therrien and Ethan Procyszyn also had one goal and one assist apiece, while rookie Ryder Carey scored. Goaltender Mike McIvor provided 25 saves for [...]

The Ontario Hockey League named Owen Sound Attack rookie Pierce Mbuyi its Rookie of the Week after recording two goals and an assist over three contests. Mbuyi helped the Attack earn five out of a possible six points this past week with a pair of wins following an overtime loss. He pitched in with an [...]

Owen Sound District Secondary School students are again teaming up with local potters to help those in need in the Owen Sound area. The OSDSS leadership class will hold its second annual Empty Bowls fundraiser on Nov. 7, where each attendee will be able to enjoy soup and ice cream served up by students in [...]

A couple from Owen Sound has been revealed as the winners of half of the record $80 million Lotto Max draw from Sept. 17. The OLG announced on Tuesday that Scenic City residents Stephanie and Bryan Cantwell won $40 million from the draw just under a month ago, when the jackpot hit $80 million for [...]

Becky Bosma owns and operates four properties near Blyth

Grey County will hold a meeting in the spring to encourage affordable, near-market rental and attainable housing development. It owns lands in Markdale and Durham that could be used for affordable housing. County staff are looking at potential incentives to get such housing built, a report to council Oct. 10 says. Among those to be [...]

Three days of hockey is in store at HockeyFest 2024, which returns to Owen Sound Nov. 14-16. This will be the city's second HockeyFest event, inspired by Scotiabank Hockey Day in Canada which was held in January 2023 to celebrate the game of hockey and its history and impact in Owen Sound and the surrounding [...]

One person died and two more overdosed as a result of suspected drug poisoning, Grey Bruce Public Health announced Friday. The fatality took place in The Blue Mountains, while the two non-fatal poisonings occurred in Owen Sound in the three days prior to the health unit alert. Fentanyl is suspected in the two non-fatal overdoses. [...]

Thorsten Arnoldwarned Grey County council Thursday that it must act to avoid widespread drinking water contamination due to a combination of local factors. The karst geology found in parts of the county is well known, with its shallow soil layer over permeable bedrock in places, which reduces aquifer protection. The geology includes sinkholes and fissures [...]

Paul Vanar bent over his workbench and tinkered with a broken wind-up toy horse, perhaps 75 years old. Lorraine Rutherford brought him the toy to fix. It's been broken for a long time, but its sentimental value was too great for her to part with it. It belonged to her late husband Jim [...]

Even a lunchbox" team can dine out from time to time, and on Saturday night the Owen Sound Attack made a meal of the Peterborough Petes in the third period. Landen Hookey netted a hat-trick and rookie Pierce Mbuyi scored a pair as the Attack (3-3-1-0) earned their second-straight win 7-2 over the Petes (0-7-0-0) [...]

Six people worked briskly filling orders from people who lined up at the OSHaRE counter on Saturday afternoon of Thanksgiving weekend. Colleen Trask Seaman greeted each guest with a smile, usually by name, and asked them what they wanted. Do you like cranberries?" she must have asked 150 times through a plastic divider in the [...]

A Grey County task force proposes to transfer more than 50 kilometres of its urban county roads, bridges and sewers to municipalities and assume and make safer certain increasingly busy rural municipal roads roads in exchange for other county rural roads. County council decided Thursday to receive a report that provided lists of affected roads [...]