Owen Sound Sun Times

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 [...]

If you had a Konnor Smith hat-trick on your Owen Sound Attack 2024-25 bingo card, well, congratulations. The Big Rig turned into the Big Rip Friday night as the Attack captain netted three goals to help Owen Sound (2-3-1-0) come from behind and hand the Niagara IceDogs (4-1-0-0) their first loss of the season, 6-4, [...]

Bruce Countys draft budget is calling fora 6.81 per cent tax levy increase next year. County staff on Thursday presented the proposed 2025 capital and operating budgets to council. The proposed 6.81 per cent increase, which includes a 1.5 per cent growth assumption would result in an $82 increase in county taxes for the [...]

Former Blue Mountains mayor Alar Soever said he will file a formal closed-meeting complaint against Grey County for conducting a joint meeting with its nine municipal councils behind closed doors. He sent a letter Sept. 19 to the county outlining his concerns about a joint planning services meeting held Aug. 8 and waited to see [...]

Owen Sound's Kirk Gibson and the University of Toronto Varsity Blues baseball team hope to defend their provincial title as they host the OUA Final Four this weekend in Ajax. The Blues shellacked the Queen's Gaels 15-4 in Friday's semifinal to earn a berth into the championship contest where they'll play the winner of Brock [...]

The Harmony Centre in Owen Sound has launched a new program that provides small local organizations with all the benefits that come with being located in a bustling community hub. The volunteer-run charity located in a former church near the city's downtown has launched what is being called the Community Headquarters program. Jeff Elie, chair [...]

Two people were taken to hospital after the motorcycle they were riding was involved in a crash with a passenger vehicle in Chesley on Thursday. The two occupants of the motorcycle were taken to hospital by ambulance after the crash on 1st Avenue North at approximately 4:43 p.m. One was later transported by ORNGE to [...]

The Saugeen Royals air-raid offence carved up the Owen Sound District Wolves Wednesday as the Royals topped OSDSS 30-14 in Bluewater Athletic Association senior boys football action. Henry Clarke threw four touchdown passes to four different receivers on the afternoon as the Royals improved to 1-2 and avenged an opening-day 17-6 loss to the Wolves. [...]

After Grey-Bruce home sales showed signs of picking up over the summer, they surged forward in September. The 257 homes that sold through the MLS System of the Realtors Association of Grey Bruce Owen Sound in September was almost 43 per cent higher than sales during the same month in 2023. The big jump followed [...]

While Grey County growth plans must consider impacts on schools under Ontario legislation, there's no provincial requirement to consider impacts on health care. That should change, West Grey Mayor Kevin Eccles told Grey County council at its regular meeting Thursday, and county staff agreed. Publicly funded health care I think may be even more fundamental [...]

The Owen Sound Salvation Army's Thanksgiving Food Drive received a big boost on Thursday from a group of local retirees. The Silver Cs Caring Canadians made a donation of 7,538 pounds of food and $3,149 in funds that the members gathered after holding collection drives atarea grocery stores in recent weeks. It was the second [...]

Agencies that support local children and youth will be the beneficiaries of an upcoming charity gala at Cobble Beach. The Art of Caring Gala presented by Bruce Power is an inaugural black tie youth charity event set for Nov. 16 in the golf resort community in Georgian Bluffs. The event will support Keystone Child Youth [...]

The band is back together and playing their favourite tune - breaking the hearts of Owen Sound Attack fans. Sam O'Reilly waved goodbye to the 2,174 gathered at the Bayshore in Owen Sound after scoring the overtime winner to give London (2-3-0-0) the 5-4 victory over the Attack (1-3-1-0) That's just adrenaline," O'Reilly said of [...]

Downtown Owen Sound's soup kitchen served as many meals this year by Thursday as it did in all of 2023. We have seen a drastic increase in the number of people that are coming for meals," said Colleen Trask Seaman, the executive director at Owen Sound Hunger and Relief Effort, or OSHaRE, at a news [...]

An Ontario Ministry of Labour, Immigration, Training and Skills Development investigation into an industrial accident that resulted in the death of two workers near Owen Sound on Oct. 3 is ongoing. A ministry spokeperson said via e-mail on Wednesday that inspectors returned to the scene to continue their investigation on Friday (Oct. 4). During the [...]

A documentary that shines a light on the underwater world just off the shores of Grey and Bruce counties is about to premiere for audiences across Canada. All Too Clear: Beneath the Surface of the Great Lakes, directed by the husband-and-wife filmmaking team of Yvonne Drebert and Zach Melnick, will make its premiere as a [...]

A special Thanksgiving weekend edition of The Repair Cafe will be held at the Owen Sound and North Grey Union Public Library on Saturday. The event, where community members come together to fix broken items for free, will run from 1 to 4 p.m. in the auditorium at the library. Among the items volunteers can [...]

A project designed to help Owen Sound address rapid changes is holding a professional development workshop for community stakeholders. Future Owen Sound - Vision 2050 is meant to create a roadmap for the city and each four years council will set priorities focused on delivering the vision. The city and project consultant Jay Pitter Placemaking [...]

An accessibility expert will share some inexpensive ideas to improve access for the disabled community at a meeting in Wiarton next week. There's all sorts of low-hanging fruit that make a big difference when added up that make a space easier for somebody to participate in whatever the activity is that's happening in that space," [...]

In early 2014, sports reporter Sunaya Sapurji, then working for Yahoo, asked a question in an article about the Owen Sound Attack and small-market Canadian Hockey League teams. Are we at the point where the business of junior hockey has become too big for smaller markets?" Ten years later, and for the first time in [...]