Owen Sound Sun Times

Five people are facing charges after a multi-jurisdictional drug bust in Saugeen Shores, Kincardine and Brampton resulted in the seizure of over $120,000 worth of narcotics and three firearms. On April 26, police executed four search warrants in the three municipalities. Police found illicit drugs with an estimated street value of $126,000, two handguns, one [...]

Should South Bruce become the future home of Canada's spent nuclear waste it will receive $418 million over the project's lifespan. At a special meeting Wednesday evening, South Bruce council authorized signing a hosting agreement between the municipality and Nuclear Waste Management Organization (NWMO) detailing the benefits to and responsibilities of the municipality should it [...]

A small contingent of youth from two area schools descended on the woods near Sauble Beach on Wednesday where their knowledge and skills relating to the local environment were put to the test. The teams from St. Mary's High School and Bruce Peninsula District School were participating in what organizers are hoping is the beginning [...]

Thirty-three households experiencing homelessness in Grey and Bruce counties moved into the local supported housing system during the first two months of 2024. As of February, 170 households experiencing homelessness had been identified in the two counties, with 126 of those experiencing chronic homelessness, meaning they've been without stable housing for more than six months. [...]

Joey Stimac played hero in overtime as the Hanover Barons beat the Clarington Eagles 5-4 inside Hanover's P&H Centre Tuesday night to take a 2-1 series lead in the best-of-seven Schmalz Cup semifinal. The winner of the series pitting the top teams in the North Conference and East Conference will meet the winner of the [...]

Owen Sound saw a reduction of collisions on its streets in 2023, when compared to a year earlier. An annual collision summary presented by director of public works and engineering Lara Widdifield at an April 18 operations committee meeting, noted that Owen Sound police responded to a total of 489 collisions last year. That was [...]

The second phase of a project to overhaul the area along the Sydenham River in Owen Sound is about to begin. Construction on the Downtown River Precinct Phase 2 in the 900 block of 1st Avenue East will begin this week and run until September. The work will include paths that are easier and safer [...]

Owen Sound plans to collect feedback and data on a pilot project that will see tourism visitor services relocated to the Tom Thomson Art Gallery this year. Visitor services have historically been at the historic CN rail station on 1st Avenue West from the May long weekend to Thanksgiving. For the remainder of the year [...]

A group of Durham residents and the Grey Bruce Health Coalition are fighting to save the Durham hospital as they know it. In a move that stunned some residents and county politicians, the South Bruce Grey Health Centre board of directors and CEO Nancy Shaw announced that the 10 inpatient beds at the Durham hospital [...]

Owen Sound council is joining other municipal governments across Ontario in calling for the provincial government to increase social assistance rates to assist individuals and families grappling with the rising cost of living. On Monday, council unanimously supported a motion by Coun. Jon Farmer that asks the government to increase the maximum amounts one can [...]

Owen Sound council gave final approval to the following business licences at its meeting on Monday: CURIO Vintage, a vintage secondhand clothing and home goods retail store at 851 2nd Ave. E. People's Cafe eh!!, a cafe operating in the Julie McArthur Regional Recreation Centre at 700 10th St. E. Stacked Pancake and Breakfast, a [...]

The Scenic City will continue to be home to Major Junior Hockey for the foreseeable future. The City of Owen Sound and the Owen Sound Attack have announced they have a new 10-year lease agreement for the hockey club to operate out of the Harry Lumley Bayshore Community Centre. On Monday, the city passed a [...]

A 26-year-old Cambridge man is facing stunt driving charges after a vehicle was clocked travelling 197 km/h on Highway 6 in South Bruce Peninsula on Saturday, police said. According to the Grey Bruce OPP, officers conducting traffic control Saturday at 2:27 p.m. observed a motor vehicle speeding north on Highway 6 at a rate over [...]

GEORGE AND CANADA CLINCH TOP SPOT Owen Sound Attack goaltender Carter George and his Team Canada teammates clinched first place in Group B at the 2024 IIHF Ice Hockey U18 World Championships in Finland. George started in goal as Canada topped Sweden (6-3), and made a 26-save shutout in a 6-0 win over Czechia. Ryerson [...]

The Owen Sound North Stars opened the 2024 Ontario Junior B Lacrosse League season with a weekend split on the road. On Friday, the N'Stars lost to the Six Nations Rebels by a score of 14-5 inside the Iroquois Lacrosse Arena. Will Rowe netted four goals for the Rebels while Tray Miller netted a hat-trick. [...]

A plaque marking the historical Negro Creek settlement, off Highway 6 in the Williamsford area south of Owen Sound, should be erected this summer. That's the plan, if a place can be found to put it, said Ben Heywood-MacLeod, a member of a committee working to raise the prominence of the mid-19th century Grey County [...]

South Bruce Mayor Mark Goetz said the death of his friend in aworkplace mishap 20 years ago still eats at him. Goetz was one of several local political and labour leaders and others who spoke ata small gathering to mark Canada's National Day of Mourning in Chesley Sunday. His friend Bob King had been [...]

Police are asking for the public's help concerning a fatal single-vehicle collision Friday night. Collingwood OPP said in a news release Saturday morning that they were called to a serious single-vehicle collision on Grey Road 19, south of the 6th Line in The Blue Mountains. Emergency responders responded about 10:22 p.m. and found a vehicle [...]

Grey Bruce OPP is investigating the death of an 81-year-old Meaford resident who was unresponsive when pulled from Meaford Harbour Saturday morning. Police were called to the harbour at 11:08 a.m. for a possible drowning. Emergency responders pulled the person out of the water and the individual was pronounced dead. Police did not release the [...]

Gerald Shortt, a long-time former St. Vincent Township reeve and the first Meaford mayorafter amalgamation,has died. Mr. Shortt died April 16 at Meaford Long Term Care home at 87. His funeral took place April 22 at Knox Presbyterian Church in Meaford. He served as a St. Vincent Township councillor from 1973 to 1982, then was [...]

The summer lacrosse season begins Friday night in Six Nations for Owen Sound's junior squad. Owen Sound North Stars junior B GM Ethan Woods was driving the back roads to Iroquois Lacrosse Arena Friday afternoon, always happy to talk lacrosse. However, he noted the time for talking is over. We can talk all we want [...]

South Bruce has set the date for a referendum to decide if the community is a willing host for Canada's growing high-level nuclear waste stockpile. From Oct. 21 to Oct. 28, eligible voters in South Bruce will answer the question: Are you in favour of the Municipality of South Bruce declaring South Bruce to be [...]

The windows will sometimes rattle in people's homes kilometres away when artillery shells blast into the escarpment at the military base in Meaford. For more than 80 years the Canadian Armed Forces has conducted live-fire training at the 4th Canadian Division Training Centre northeast of downtown Meaford. Military personnel are restricted from entering large areas [...]

Construction of a new, bigger Rockwood Terrance long-term care home in Durham should start in mid-June and be completed in January 2027. Grey County councillors picked a general contractor Thursday, Melloul-Blamey Construction Ltd., whose $59,230,000 bid, excluding HST, is about $5.8 million less than the county had budgeted. That 5.8 per cent variance offers a [...]

With assurances from Ontario's health minister that free well water testing will continue, Grey County council took no action on a local source water protection resolution Thursday. Instead, the county received for information a letter signed by Carl Kuhnke, chair of the Saugeen, Grey Sauble, Northern Bruce Peninsula Source Protection Committee, and another letter from [...]

Grey County council conditionally supported TC Energy and Saugeen Ojibway Nation to proceed with their 1,000-megawatt Meaford pumped storage project, subject to getting required approvals, including from SON itself. Six Save Georgian Bay protesters with signs and information cards waited at an entrance to the county building before sitting on one side of the council [...]

Saugeen Ojibway Nation's chiefs said environmental questions must be answered before it makes a decision on Meaford's pumped storage project. Grey County council on Thursday conditionally supported TC Energy and SON proceeding with the proposed project, subject to the approval process, including federal and provincial environmental and impact assessments and SON's approval. Chiefs Greg Nadjiwon [...]

The South Bruce Grey Health Centre is moving all 10 inpatient beds from its Durham hospital to sites in Walkerton and Kincardine in June as the hospital organization aims to stabilize operations amid a worsening staff shortage. The Durham Hospital will continue to operate for urgent and emergent care needs daily from 7 a.m. to [...]

Volunteer search organization Please Bring Me Home found the body of a missing 60-year-old Thornbury man in Georgian Bay Township Sunday. The Southern Georgian Bay OPP confirmed Wednesday the human remains found in a wooded area near the intersection of South Bay Road and Honey Harbour Road are those of missing man Eric Spencer. [...]

Bruce Power has taken all four Bruce B reactors offline to perform scheduled work on the vacuum building CANDU safety system - a roughly once-a-decade requirement. The outage began Tuesday, the start of a20-day maintenance and inspection project, the nuclear operator said in a news release Wednesday. The vacuum building is part of the containment [...]

The leaders of Owen Sound's OPEN Team and Pollinate Owen Sound attended the Canadian Museums Association national conference in Niagara Falls earlier this month. Director and Chief Curator Aidan Ware from the Tom Thomson Art Gallery and Library CEO Tim Nicholls Harrison were joined by artist, poet, and environmental activist Liz Zetlin to co-present their [...]

A Canadian Forces Hercules airplane on a training exercise Wednesday morning conducted a parachute drop in the Owen Sound area, the manager of the Owen Sound airport said. The rumble of the plane's engines could be heard in the city and the plane was spotted flying low and slowly on what was bright but windy [...]

Gael Miller-Jackson will speak about the Negro Creek settlement and the history of the Miller family in the area at the Owen Sound & North Grey Union Public Library at 1 p.m. Saturday. A library news release said the Miller family was important to the establishment of the British Methodist Episcopal Church and of the [...]

Former superintendent of education Karyn Bruneel is taking over as the director of education for the Bruce-Grey Catholic District School Board. Bruneel will prepare for the position as the board's new director, effective early August, while the board readies to announce its new 2024-2027 strategic plan next month. We are thrilled to welcome Karyn to [...]

Owen Sound Little Theatre's production ofSomething Rotten! has 14 nominations in the annual Western Ontario Drama League Awards, while Kincardine Theatre Guild's Beauty and the Beast has four. The local community theatre groups are among 28 groups in Western Ontario eligible to submit productions to be nominated. The awards will be announced at the annual [...]

Prospects look dim for restoring the exotic birds to the bird sanctuary in Harrison Park after an outbreak of avian flu led to a mass cull in September 2022, but the city's swans could remain. Owen Sound's draft master plan for Harrison Park recommends against keeping exotic bird or swans and waterfowl, but instead suggests [...]

The city's tourism and visitor services are moving to a new home beginning the May long weekend. A pilot project by the city will shift its tourism office, including summer visitor services, to the Tom Thomson Art Gallery. Visitor Services have historically been offered from shared space at the Community Waterfront Heritage Centre each year [...]

More than 100 municipal and First Nations firefighters recently trained together at Sauble Speedway as part of the 31st Bruce County Fire School. Over two weekends, the firefighters got together to train and achieve the latest certifications at the speedway. Northern Bruce Peninsula Fire Chief Jack Burt said the speedway provided the perfect setting for [...]

No injuries were reported in a crash involving a horse-drawn buggy in the Township of Chatsworth on Sunday morning. Just after 9 a.m., Grey Bruce OPP, Grey County Paramedic Services and Chatsworth Fire Services responded to the report of a collision at grey Rd. 3 and Sideroad 6. There were 11 people in the buggy [...]

The Wiarton Propeller Club celebrated its storied past and looked toward the future as a cornerstone of the Georgian Bay shoreline community. Hundreds came out to The Meeting Place Saturday for the club's 75th anniversary gala, which included a dinner, dance and stories about the club's history in Wiarton. This is almost like a homecoming [...]

Nearly 8,000 Hydro One customers in the Owen Sound and Georgian Bluffs area are without power, according to the company. An outage map made available by Hydro One shows customers in an area encompassing Owen Sound, Springmount, Balmy Beach, Copper Kettle and Cruickshank are experiencing outages due to equipment repairs. Hydro One said the power [...]

The Hanover Barons are eight wins away from a second Clarence Schmalz Cup in franchise history. The North Conference champion Barons are set to meet the Clarington Eagles, winners of the East Conference, in the PJHL's league semifinals. The winner of the best-of-seven series will face the victor of the New Hamburg Firebirds (South Conference [...]

BLYTH - Preparations are underway for a military exercise that will involve 800 army reservists in training scenarios throughout Huron and Bruce counties May 3-5. Dubbed Trillium Venture, the military exercise conducted by 31 Brigade Group will simulate an extreme heat scenario and see reservists perform a variety of tasks. The exercise will be headquartered [...]

The National Day of Mourning will be marked in events across Grey-Bruce on April 28 to remember those who died while working. The Grey Bruce Labour Council is organizing events at the Chesley Community Centre, Heritage Square in Hanover, and Bruce Power. Canada experiences over one thousand workplace-related deaths every year. Ontario accounts for almost [...]

The Nature Conservancy of Canada announced two new nature preserves, including one near Wiarton. To mark Earth Day on Monday, the national land conservation organization revealed that it has protected a 65-hectare (160-acre) parcel of land known as the Sturgeon Bay Forest north of Wiarton on the Saugeen Bruce Peninsula. It has also added a [...]

The Sydenham Sportsmen Association's work for conservation and the environment is year-round, but this weekend was an especially busy one for the organization. On Saturday, club members were back along the shores of the Sydenham River and Owen Sound Harbour for thier annual Earth Day cleanup, while on Sunday they gathered at Montessori School with [...]

Whether it was through song, dance, poetry, artwork, or action, the message was loud and clear at Earth Day Grey Bruce 2024 - everyone can play their part in helping the planet. And some of the loudest and most influential voices at the festivities in Owen Sound on Saturday were the youth, who were everywhere [...]

Four men had to be rescued from the Saugeen River in Hanover on Saturday after they underestimated the dangers of the fast-flowing river. Two of the men had to be rescued from the shore after their kayaks overturned, while two others were retrieved by firefighters downstream after they were carried away by the heavy current. [...]

Saugeen Valley Conservation Authority will have development control over an additional 15 metres inland from existing dynamic beach" development control areas alongthe Lake Huron shoreline, starting April 1. Dynamic beach hazards exist where shifting sand and sediment and variable water levels can present potential safety hazards, including flooding and erosion. They're common in cottage areas [...]

Saugeen Municipal Airport's municipal owners are considering the airport's future. It could be sold or carry on under a new funding agreement between its three municipal partners, Brockton Mayor Chris Peabody said Thursday, who presented three options to councils of Brockton, Hanover and West Grey at a joint meeting Wednesday. Each mayor presented an opening [...]