Owen Sound Sun Times

With their highest draft pick in over a decade, the Owen Sound Attack selected a small-bodied tenacious" and speedy winger from the Toronto Marlboros. Dale DeGray welcomed Mississauga's Pierce Mbuyi (pronounced Boo-ee) to the fold with the seventh overall pick in Friday night's 2024 OHL Priority Selection draft. Mbuyi scored 29 goals and added 30 [...]

Grey County will gather public feedback during information sessions next week about its future green" development standards. Green standards concern energy efficiency and use of sustainable building materials, stormwater infiltration and native and drought-resistant plants and inclusion of sidewalks and crosswalks to make a community walkable, the county says. There are two public meetings next [...]

Public health units are shrinking budgets and cutting jobs across the province as government funding increases are outpaced by inflation and COVID-era balance sheet boosts come to an end this year. Grey Bruce Public Health (GBPH) navigated a proposed $1.3 million budget cut in 2024 without laying off any permanent union employees or reducing frontline" [...]

Up to 370 homes in a mountain resort village" are proposed for the former Talisman Mountain Resort property. Grey County planner Scott Taylor noted in hisstaff report about the application Thursday that the draft plan of subdivision application must go through agency assessment and public consultation processes before his department will weigh in with recommendations. [...]

Dale DeGray can't help but chuckle when discussing the Ontario Hockey League prospects he's watched all winter. I'm laughing because it's laughable, it really is. To see what some of these kids can do, it's crazy," the Owen Sound Attack's longtime general manager said. After a disappointing season on the ice in Owen Sound, DeGray [...]

Does putting cola in a composter help it work better? Stella Gowan, 12, of Kincardine wondered that and now, a houseful of fruit flies and unwelcome odours later, she thinks she has the answer. Your backyard composter could be elevated from zero to a hero with the addition of a little Coke, according to [...]

An upcoming fundraiser in Meaford will support a project that introduces new Canadians to paddling in the waters around Grey-Bruce. The Big Canoe Project will hold its fourth annual spring fundraiser at Meaford Hall on April 19, supported by the Meaford Culture Foundation. The event will include an eco fair, a showing of the film [...]

Two Bruce County residents have been charged in relation to a collision in northern Huron County that claimed the life of a Brockton resident in early November. Just after midnight on Nov. 5, Huron County OPP were called, along with Huron County Paramedic Services and the Howick Fire Department, to the collision involving a passenger [...]

A movement to reframe community policing five years in the making is about to hit its stride in northern Grey-Bruce. Earlier this month the province officially enacted the Community Safety and Policing Act (CSPA), which repeals and replaces the Police Services Act (1990). Lower-tier municipalities in Grey-Bruce with previously established police services committees are preparing [...]

South Bruce is asking its residents to share their opinions on the big question expected to be put to a referendum later this year. The municipality is considering passing a bylaw to authorize the submission of the following question to electors: Are you in favour of the Municipality of South Bruce declaring South Bruce to [...]

Jobs in the region's culture and recreation sector nearly doubled in March as the summer tourist season nears. The Four County Labour Market and Planning Board released monthly job stats for March within the Stratford-Bruce Peninsula Economic Region late last week. As is often the case, the region's unemployment rate continues to be lower than [...]

Bruce County council is allocating just over $3 million for repairs to the Durham Street bridge in Walkerton this year. County council voted April 4 to defer a rehabilitation and resurfacing project on Bruce Road 19 south of Chesley and reallocate Canada Community Benefit Fund funding of $1.85 million from that project to the immediate [...]

An estimated 800 army reservists are expected to take part in an exercise throughout Huron and Bruce counties over the first weekend of May. The troops will be taking part in Exercise Trillium Venture from May 3 to 5, which will include operations in a number of Bruce County communities. Maj. Paul Pickering of the [...]

The Arran-Elderslie Ice Dogs under-15 team won a silver medal at the OMHA championships in Halton Hills this past weekend. The Ice Dogs topped the South Huron Sabres, 3-2, to win the Tier II silver medal. Team coaches, family and friends said they are extremely proud of the group for their efforts on and off [...]

A pet cat died after being shot with a pellet gun in Wiarton. police said Monday. The Grey-Bruce OPP are investigating and ask that anyone with information about the incident contact them. The pet's owner noticed the cat was not acting normally on April 1 and found a hole in the animal's leg. The owner [...]

A pair of Owen Sound Attack skaters are getting their first taste of professional hockey now that their major junior season is over. Colby Barlow will soon suit up with the Manitoba Moose while Smith scored a goal in his first game with the San Diego Gulls this past Saturday. With the Attack bounced from [...]

Police charged a 50-year-old man with assault after a property owner was struck with a golf club after confronting a trespasser. According to a media release, the Grey Bruce OPP received a call Saturday about an assault at a property on Highway 6/10 in the Municipality of Meaford. When police arrived, the caller told officers [...]

Local street drug users will be offered rapid response drug-testing kits starting this month to see if the kits encourage safer drug use. The take-home drug test kits contain strips that test for fentanyl, benzodiazepines (sedatives) and xylazine (a sedative or tranquilizer). The idea is to inform drug users and encourage them to take precautions, [...]

The first rule of writing when you don't know where to start is to start anyway. So advises Diane Ferguson, one of several Wordshop writing seminar leaders Sunday at the Owen Sound & North Grey Union Public Library. She provided guidelines and tools for writers to help them on their writing journeys. Ferguson is a [...]

Hanover police charged two people after a violent struggle" with officers Saturday morning. At 8:37 a.m. police responded to a report of two people asleep in a car in the 100-block of 11th Avenue in Hanover, police said in a news release. Officers recognized the suspects from a theft in Hanover the day before. The [...]

The aroma of maple steam greeted visitors to the Gray family's Kemble Mountain sugar shack Saturday. Neil Gray remembers as a boygetting off the school bus, walking up the lane and smelling that softly sweet scent coming from the wooden shack behind their old brick farmhouse. Now a grown man, he greeted visitors to the [...]

South Bruce Peninsula's appeal of adecision recognizing Saugeen First Nation's ownership of more beach at Sauble Beach might not go to trial May 27. Two days of negotiations are planned involving federal and provincial representatives, the town and Saugeen in the next two weeks. Saugeen Chief Conrad Ritchie and South Bruce Peninsula Mayor Jay Kirkland [...]

As Grey-Bruce home sales dipped in March, the options for buyers continued to climb higher with a surge in new listings. A total of 197 units were sold through the MLS System of the Realtors Association of Grey Bruce Owen Sound last month, which was down more than 12 per cent when compared to March [...]

Every year before the playoffs begin the Owen Sound Attack order new team swag and develop a postseason slogan. This year's mantra affixed to the team's new playoff shirts was no regrets". ... Dale DeGray is driving home to the Oshawa area Friday in somewhat uncharted territory. It's been over a decade since the Owen [...]

A custodian from Owen Sound is half a million dollars richer after a lottery win earlier this year. Bill Croft won big on a Maxmillions prize on the Jan. 16 Lotto Max draw. The Scenic City resident, who regularly plays Lotto Max and Lotto 6/49, said he usually plays his own numbers, but won the [...]

The 27th Roots of Bruce interactive agriculture education fair is set for April 18 and 19 at the Walkerton Agriculture buildings. Over two full days, 600 Grade 5 students from 12 Bruce County schools will participate in 24 learning stations organized by various community groups and organizations to help students connect with the county's agricultural [...]

It could be called a match made in musical theatre heaven. When Kathleen Cassidy first heard the song, A Musical, on the radio she instantly wanted to find out more about it and the musical farce it came from, Something Rotten! As a person who loves musicals and having spent my entire life listening to, [...]

Georgian Bluffs is planning to use Owen Sound staff for some building services. Georgian Bluffs council directed staff Wednesday to enter into a building services shared service model with the city, to run until no later than December 2024. To formalize the move, township staff were directed to prepare an amended bylaw to designate city [...]

Efforts to designate the Bruce Peninsulaand the entire Georgian Bay area as a UNESCO geopark will be among the topics discussed at the annual Sources of the Knowledge Forum May 3-5 in Tobermory. A geopark is an area of international geological significance. Its geological, natural and cultural heritage could be promoted with the designation, while [...]

Less beach to patrol and an onus put on education rather than enforcement significantly reduced revenue and ticketed offences at Sauble Beach this year. South Bruce Peninsula bylaw officers issued just three provincial offences notices in 2023, compared to 740 in 2022. According to the 2023 beach bylaw and paid parking year-end staff report presented [...]

Georgian Bluffs council is supporting a group of residents from Bass Lake in their bid to get the approvals required to install steps and a dock on township property to allow them access to the lake. At its committee of the whole meeting on Wednesday, council approved a recommendation to support the Bass Lake Access [...]

The YMCA of Owen Sound Grey Bruce announced its Strong Communities Campaign raised $98,000, a bit shy of its $100,000 goal. This achievement is nothing short of amazing, and it's all thanks to the generosity and support of our donors," said CEO Sarah Cowley in a statement uploaded to the Y's website. The fundraising campaign [...]

Six Bluewater Regional Science and Technology Fair senior students have been selected to attend the 2024 Canada-Wide Science Fair. Team Bluewater was chosen by judges during Wednesday's annual regional competition at the Harry Lumley Bayshore Community Centre in Owen Sound, among students in Grades 7 to 12 attending Grey-Bruce schools. There were 112 projects by [...]

We can take a run at this thing. All the pieces are there." Former Owen Sound Attack head coach Greg Walters spoke those words this past August about his team on the eve of another regular season in the Scenic City. Walters' run ended midway through the first month of the season, fired by the [...]

More than $900,000 in donations to the Caring for Tomorrow Endowment Fund were distributed recently to improve health care at Owen Sound hospital, Brightshores Health System Owen Sound Foundation announced. The endowment contributed $919,640, which helps pay for an ultrasound unit for Interventional Radiology, a radioactive material storage cabinet for Nuclear Medicine, a cautery machine [...]

Charlotte Woodhouse noticed some of the Holsteins on her family's dairy farm at Heathcote had trouble getting pregnant. Maybe it's obvious but only lactating animals can be milked, which is how the farm makes money. But there were 10 or 15 of the animals out of a 132-animal herd which took on average about three [...]

The U.S. Nationals and SuperTour Finals were held March 21 to 26 in Duluth, Minnesota, and Oxenden's Julian Smith earned great race results in the premier Nordic skiing competition. As the final SuperTour of the racing season, some of the very best skiers in Canada and the U.S. who just came back from World Cup [...]

GEORGE TOP SHOOTOUT GOALIE The Ontario Hockey League released the results of its coaches' poll Tuesday and the Owen Sound Attack's rookie goaltender topped the list in the Western Conference in two categories. Twenty-six coaches polled said Carter George was the best goaltender in the shootout. He also got the nod from the coaches for [...]

Charges were stayed against the third person with local ties police alleged was involved in a Brampton nightclub kidnapping. Ontario Court of Justice staff in Brampton confirmed Darren McCann, 46, of Owen Sound had his kidnapping charge stayed on March 21. Charges of kidnapping and forcible confinement from the same police investigation were stayed [...]

A community-led campaign to save a beloved forest next to Macphail Memorial Elementary School in Flesherton has succeeded. Bluewater District School Board staff have decided not to cut down the Kindy Forest" to make room for portables. Instead, they've adopted a community group's alternative with small changes and say no trees will be removed now. [...]

Ten years ago, seven-year-old Carter George watched his favourite team, the Los Angeles Kings, come all the way back from being down 3-0 in a first-round playoff series to the San Jose Sharks. The Kings went on to win the Stanley Cup. It's possible," he offered Monday night after the Saginaw Spirt took a 3-0 [...]

An array of writing seminars will be offered at the Owen Sound & North Grey Union Public Library Sunday, April 7 from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Wordshop" will feature local speakers who will lead sessions throughout the library, which is closed to the public Sundays. The event aims to help registrantslearn, connect, and inspire [...]

Grey-Bruce should see a near total eclipse of the sun Monday, an astronomical rarity not experienced in the region since 1925. The eclipse will be visible starting in southern Mexico, then it will cross the United States and will finish its course in Eastern Canada. The Bluewater Astronomical Society says the last time a total [...]

The Hanover Barons have battled back to take a 2-1 lead over the Mount Forest Patriots in the PJHL's best-of-seven Pollock Division final after the first weekend of competition. In Thursday's Game 1 inside Hanover's P&H Centre, Mount Forest drew first blood after netting three unanswered third-period goals in a 4-3 victory. Brody Leblanc, Will [...]

Bruce County has created a new government relations department with a mandate to support council and staff with intergovernmental initiatives. The county said in a news release the new department will provide secretarial support for achieving the goals of the county's strategic plan, lead government and external relations management, lead strategic communications and issues management, [...]

The number of public sector workers in Ontario who earned over six figures surpassed 300,000 in 2023, and included at least 1,700 employed in Grey-Bruce. The annual public salary disclosure document known as the Sunshine List has been released by the Ontario government, shining a light on the province's highest earners among workers paid with [...]

A motorcyclist was airlifted to hospital with serious injuries following a collision in Hanover on Saturday afternoon. The Hanover Police Service and Hanover Fire Department responded to the collision involving a motorcycle and an SUV on 10th Street near 22nd Avenue, Hanover Police Chief Chris Knoll said in a post on X. A 34-year-old Hanover [...]

Special teams and goaltending. That's always the talking point as the weather warms up and the hockey games start to feel weighty and of greater importance. The Saginaw Spirit had both in spades Saturday night as the Memorial Cup hosts skated to a 5-2 win over Owen Sound to take a 2-0 series lead in [...]

Roadwork planned for later this year will remove a hill and install lighting to improve safety at an intersection on Grey Road 16 between Chatsworth and Keady. Grey County council awarded a tender of just over $1 million to Harold Sutherland Construction Ltd., operating as Walker Construction Grey-Bruce, for a reconstruction project along 4.3 kilometres [...]

A presentation on Grey County's new four-year strategic plan turned into a discussion about restructuring around the county council table on Thursday. The completed plan for 2024 to 2027, called Working Together for Success, was presented to council by chief administrative officer Kim Wingrove. It outlines the county's priorities and goals for the next four [...]