Owen Sound Sun Times

The Owen Sound Police Service and Brightshores Health System conducted a mock shooter exercise near the Owen Sound hospital. The collaborative training happened at an eight-unit building adjacent to the hospital this past Thursday and included volunteers participating in the shooting scenario. Police and hospital staff wore identifiable vests while overseeing the drill. The scenario [...]

Owen Sound Police arrested a 34-year-old male with no fixed address following a string of break-and-enters over the weekend. Officers investigated multiple break-and-enter reports at a westside business on May 10, police said in a news release. Video surveillance showed a male using the cover of darkness to enter a locked outbuilding where merchandise was [...]

After reeling off three-straight wins the Owen Sound North Stars ran into a pair of juggernaut squads in the Ontario Junior B Lacrosse League loop this past week. Owen Sound dropped games to the Elora Mohawks (7-1-1) and St. Catharines Athletics (6-1-1) before bouncing back to beat the London Blue Devils (5-5). After seven regular-season [...]

Jordan Caskenette led the way as the Owen Sound North Stars improved to 2-0 in the Ontario Series Lacrosse circuit with a 14-9 victory over the Clearview Crushers inside the Meaford and St. Vincent Community Centre Saturday night. Officially a road game for Owen Sound, the Highway 26 Showdown pitted the two senior B lacrosse [...]

Energy efficiency and green technology were top of mind for many who came through the doors of the Home and Cottage Expo in Owen Sound on the weekend. Whether it was solar panels, heat pumps, electric vehicles and charging infrastructure, or green building materials and construction methods, there were opportunities aplenty at the Harry Lumley [...]

Local people concerned about the erosion of rural healthcare and the privatization of services put their thoughts on display at a rally in Owen Sound on Saturday. About 50 people came out to the event on the steps of city hall, where some called for action and shared stories about the effect health-care decisions are [...]

A Saugeen First Nation resident is facing multiple charges after a robbery at a Kincardine jewelry store the morning of May 11. Just before 6 a.m., South Bruce OPP received a report of a robbery. Officers arrived to find that the business owner had been injured and a suspect was arrested at the scene, police [...]

One person has died following a collision between a pickup truck and a moped north of Flesherton on Wednesday morning. Grey Bruce OPP, Grey County paramedics and the Grey Highlands Fire Department responded to the collision at the intersection of Hwy. 10 and Grey Rd. 32 at 11:40 a.m. As a result of the crash [...]

Grey County Warden Brian Milne said Grey County council's approval of another 391 homes in Dundalk can't happen fast enough. The phased development includes approval for 292 single detached homes, 24 semis and 75 townhouses, plus land for a new elementary school, which a study found must accommodate 735 pupils. Milne is also Southgate's mayor [...]

Georgian Bluffs council will undertake a community engagement process on the potential of establishing an off-leash dog park in the township. At its committee of the whole meeting on Wednesday, council directed staff to move forward with the community engagement. Chief administrative officer Niall Lobley told council the process stems from this year's budget deliberations, [...]

Georgian Bluffs is moving closer to allowing chickens on more properties in the municipality. During its committee of the whole meeting on Wednesday, council received a staff report on a backyard poultry zoning bylaw and authorized an amendment to the township's zoning bylaw to permit backyard poultry on certain residential properties. But on Wednesday, councillors [...]

A team of students from Owen Sound District Secondary School has received a crash course into the inner workings of the United Nations. The team of eight Grade 10-13 students from the Owen Sound school joined hundreds of their peers at the three-day Southern Ontario Model United Nations Assembly at the University of Toronto recently, [...]

A retired local financial advisor told Grey County council Thursday that the Meaford pumped storage project makes no financial sense without huge government subsidies and so it should be shelved." Two weeks ago, Grey County council supported the Ontario Pumped Storage project, subject to impact assessments. The project is proposed by TC Energy in potential [...]

A 61-year-old moped driver with serious injuries was airlifted to a Toronto trauma centre after being in a collision with a pickup truck in Grey Highlands Wednesday. Grey Bruce OPP investigated a collision reported at 11:40 a.m. on Highway 10 at Grey Road 32/Road 140, northwest of Flesherton. Firefighters and paramedics also responded. Police didn't [...]

With longtime Owen Sound District Secondary School track and field day convener Ted Carr set to retire at the end of the school year, a backup plan was put in place with the students taking on a more active role in putting on this year's event. Between 150 and 200 students competed on the track [...]

West Grey Mayor Kevin Eccles told Grey County council Thursday that he has apologized for telling the CEO and president of South Bruce Grey Health Centre to keep her hands off the Durham hospital and I'll promise to keep my hands off of your throat." Hospital board chair Jim Bagshaw sent a letter addressed to [...]

An Owen Sound woman faces impaired driving charges after a hit and run in Owen Sound on Wednesday afternoon that left a teen injured. At 3:40 p.m., Owen Sound police responded to a collision near 4th Avenue West and 16th Street West where it was reported that a pedestrian had been struck by a vehicle [...]

Members of the public are being invited to attend a rally to save healthcare in front of Owen Sound city hall. The Grey Bruce Health Coalition will be holding the peaceful rally at city hall at the corner of 2nd Avenue East and 8th Street East from 9 a.m. until noon in an effort to [...]

The Grey Bruce Labour Council is seeking submissions for its 2024 Social Justice Scholarship award in memory of Robert White. The award is named after White, a past president of the Canadian Auto Workers (CAW) and Canadian Labour Congress. It's available annually to graduating secondary school students in the Grey Bruce area, the Grey Bruce [...]

The Harry Lumley Bayshore Community Centre will be a one-stop shop for home repair, renovation and landscaping needs this weekend. More than 150 vendors will be at the 2024 Home and Cottage Expo, which will run Saturday and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. both days. The show will feature 140 indoor and 12 [...]

New residential real estate listings for April were up 24.8 per cent over the same month in 2023, 28.2 per cent above the five-year average and 12.2 per cent above the 10-year average for the month. That's one highlight of the monthly the Realtors Association of Grey-Bruce-Owen Sound market survey. There were 549 new [...]

A European-style circus is making a four-day stop in Owen Sound. Cirque de Paris presented by Anouchka Buglione will be at the Heritage Place Shopping Centre for a series of 90-minute shows from Thursday to Sunday. The shows feature an international all-star cast," that includes aerialists, a juggler, roller skating duo, elastic rope acrobat, hula [...]

Two Southampton brothers are among eight Kilian Academy athletes representing Grey and Bruce counties to earn medals at the Canadian Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Circuit open event in Oshawa this past weekend. Eleven-year-old Auron Ward from Southampton took bronze at the open in the 14-athlete boy's ten to eleven-year-old white belt 85-pound division. Another exceptional young athlete, [...]

People who jammed into the Durham Community Centre hall Tuesday night for a rally to save the Durham hospital said they hope their actions are more of a battle cry than a death rattle. Several hundred people joined a standing room only crowd and listened as speakers organized by the Save the Durham Hospital committee [...]

One person has died after a collision involving a pedestrian and a vehicle on Highway 21 west of Owen Sound. Grey Bruce OPP, Grey County paramedics and the Inter Township Fire Department responded to a report of a serious collision on Highway 21 in Georgian Bluffs just before 10 p.m. Tuesday. The pedestrian was pronounced [...]

Fire destroyed about one-third of the Victoria Park grandstand early Tuesday morning and caused up to $1 million damage to the stands, a storage building beneath and to boats and cars stored there, Owen Sound Fire Chief Phil Eagleson said Tuesday. A passing motorist reported the grandstand was on fire about 12:31 a.m. When firefighters [...]

A motorcyclist was airlifted to hospital with serious injuries following a collision in downtown Owen Sound on Monday morning. At about 9:45 a.m., police were called along with the Owen Sound Fire Department and Grey County Paramedic Services to the scene of the collision at the intersection of 9th Street West and 2nd Avenue West, [...]

A piping plover sighting Sunday at Sauble Beach is a hopeful sign. Don Kennedy photographed the male bird on the beach - until recently a favourite nesting area for the small, endangered shorebird after a long absence - but Monday the bird appeared to have left. Every spring, dedicated locals keep watch for the return [...]

BLYTH - More than 800 reservists with the Canadian military were deployed in an early May training exercise that stretched over a 250-kilometre area from Hensall to Lion's Head. Conducted by 31 Canadian Brigade Group, Trillium Venture had soldiers participate in a number of exercises in communities across Huron and Bruce counties in response to [...]

Meaford recently announced the nine community members selected to participate in the hotly contested and often talked about Pumped Storage Advisory Committee. A total of 24 people were interviewed for positions on the committee. The PSAC also includes two non-voting members of council. The group's inaugural meeting is set for Thursday and will include a [...]

Owen Sound's Brody Caskenette helped his Mercy University men's lacrosse team win a fifth straight East Coast Conference lacrosse championship Saturday afternoon at Mercy Field in Dobbs Ferry, New York. Caskenette scored four goals and added a helper in the contest as the Mavericks topped Frostburg State University 18-5. Caskenette, a senior at Mercy studying [...]

An 18-year-old Owen Sound man is facing criminal charges after numerous locations around the harbour, including the Gichi-name-wiikwedong Bridge, were tagged with spray paint. At approximately 2 a.m. on Saturday, Owen Sound police were notified by a concerned citizen that a person was spray painting graffiti in the area of the inner harbour in the [...]

Carter Moran netted his 100th-career Ontario Junior B Lacrosse League goal while scoring a hat-trick and leading the Owen Sound North Stars to a third-straight win Sunday. Not a bad weekend. After two weeks of play, the Scenic City club is now 3-1 in the Midwest Division. On Saturday, Moran netted four goals and added [...]

Carter George continues to impress. Play lights out. Make a highlight reel save. Come up big when it matters most. Win gold. Come home. Rinse and repeat. That's been the pattern for the young goaltender the past two summers. The Owen Sound Attack goalie backstopped Canada to a gold medal at the 2024 IIHF Under-18 [...]

The third annual Race for REACH continued to grow with participants, volunteers and staff embracing the harsh conditions to raise needed funds for their home away from home Saturday in Owen Sound. Without government funding to buoy the charitable organization's balance sheet, the REACH Centre Grey Bruce raises money for everything from cheese sticks to [...]

Owen Sound's main drag transformed into Shinny Street as the first Brightshores Ball Hockey Cellybration took over the River District Saturday. Brightshores Owen Sound Foundation, the City of Owen Sound and a touring ball hockey tournament company called HockeyFest - Game On put on the all-day event. More than 200 participants, spread across 35 teams, [...]

There was a physical altercation Thursday after several people confronted a man who, Hanover Police say, had given a female acquaintance fentanyl. The female overdosed and recovered with the aid of her friends, police said in a news release. Hanover Police officers became involved when they responded to reports of a disturbance involving several people [...]

Hanover police arrested a man who they say kicked in the door of a female acquaintance while armed with an axe. Hanover Police officers responded to a residential break-and-enter in progress mid-morning Thursday in the 600 block of 8th Avenue in Hanover. Police say they located a male suspect at the scene and he was [...]

The Sydenham Sportsmen's Association released as many as 33,000 rainbow trout fingerlings in the Sydenham River at Harrison Park Saturday. It's part of the conservation group's effort to support a sustainable local fishery. They'll release salmon fingerlings growing at the club's hatchery near the park later in June. It's not a bad start for a [...]

Those inducted into the Owen Sound Sports Hall of Fame Friday night shared similar insights into their Hall-of-Fame-worthy athletic careers. Common threads among those now enshrined at the Bayshore included a deep appreciation of the small but competitive city, their dedicated parents, and the many selfless volunteer coaches and organizers who helped along the way. [...]

A large section of Alpha Street will close on Monday at 6 a.m. and remain closed until major reconstruction work is complete, scheduled for December. On Friday, the City of Owen Sound announced that the street on Owen Sound's west side will be closed from 6th Avenue West to 9th Avenue West (Grey Rd. 17B) [...]

One person suffered minor injuries and three suspects are facing numerous drugs, weapons and other charges following an alleged assault in Chatsworth on Thursday morning. Just before 9 a.m., Grey Bruce OPP received a report of an assault at a residence on John Street. Officers attended and learned that three suspects had left the address [...]

A community-driven effort to tackle physician recruitment and retention across Grey-Bruce has received a funding commitment that will help launch the regional initiative. The Grey Bruce Owen Sound Physician Recruitment and Retention Task Force held a community stakeholder meeting at Georgian College's Owen Sound campus on Wednesday. They came away with a commitment from Bruce [...]

A recently-launched program of Habitat for Humanity Grey Bruce is helping maintain and repair homes at the area's First Nations communities. The local Habitat's Critical Repair Program has now completed about 100 repairs of various scope and size at Saugeen Frist Nation and the Chippewas of Nawash Unceded First Nation at Neyaashiinigmiing. On Wednesday, Bruce-Grey-Owen [...]

The Owen Sound Bayhawks won Ontario Cup gold this past weekend in their under-14 division. The representative basketball team from the Scenic City topped the Knights 46-34 in the gold-medal game to win the OBA Ontario Cup U14 Division 20 championship. Owen Sound Minor Basketball tripled in registration this past season with over 200 youth [...]

Dale DeGray wants his club to start playing Owen Sound AttackTM hockey again. I want to get back to our team identity, and I sit here and I say our team identity, but I want to get back to our community identity. That is basic blue-collar, hardworking, shift-in, shift-out play. That should be a given [...]

A high school agricultural program's move to Grey Roots Museum and Archives is being hailed as the start of an exciting new chapter" for both Grey County and the Bluewater District School Board. An open house was held at Grey Roots, west of Rockford, on Thursday. Students, current and former staff, trustees, dignitaries, community partners, [...]

The $418 million hosting agreement signed Wednesday by the Nuclear Waste Management Organization and South Bruce is a complex 50-plus page document. Perhaps it is fittingly dense for a first-of-its-kind project in Canada with a 100-plus year lifespan that will transform whichever municipality is chosen to host Canada's high-level nuclear waste deep underground. Some of [...]

Owen Sound council has endorsed a pilot project that will see the city share its building services with Georgian Bluffs. At its meeting on Monday, Owen Sound council accepted a report on the pilot, which will see the city building department provide support to Georgian Bluffs two days per week until the end of 2024. [...]

The inaugural Brightshores Ball Hockey Cellybration" in downtown Owen Sound on Saturday will close roads in the city's core for most of the weekend. Beginning Friday at noon, 2nd Avenue East from 8th Street East to 10th Street East and 9th Street East from 1st Avenue East to 3rd Avenue East will be closed until [...]