Owen Sound Sun Times

Grey-Bruce municipal politicians and staff will be in Ottawa for the annual Association of Municipalities of Ontario conference next week, where they plan to highlight and discuss local priorities and concerns including health care and housing. Bruce County Warden Chris Peabody said the conference provides an opportunity to discuss issues affecting the county. We applaud [...]

In the days after Owen Sound business owner Sharif Rahman was assaulted outside his downtown restaurant last summer police released grainy images of two suspects and an early-2000s-model SUV. The caucasian men, both wearing what look to be black athletic shorts with one in a light orange T-shirt and one in a light blue T-shirt, [...]

The Ontario government has announced grant funding of more than $3.7 million for municipal water and wastewaterprojects in Owen Sound and Hanover that will help support growth in those communities. On Wednesday, the province revealed the applications for the two projects had been approved as part of the first round of investments under the Housing-Enabling [...]

The simultaneous expiry of operating crews' contracts at both Canadian Pacific and Canadian National railways presents an unprecedented challenge to our industry," warned APAS president Ian Boxall

Nearly a year to the day after an assault outside The Curry House restaurant led to the death of its owner, police announced they made arrests in the case. Inside the downtown Owen Sound restaurant, a day before the public learned of the arrests, Rahman's widow, Shayela Nasrin tried to put into words the emotions [...]

As word spread in Owen Sound on Thursday that arrests had been made in the death of Sharif Rahman almost one year ago, emotions ranged from relief and comfort, to happiness and elation that progress had been made in the case. But thoughts also turned to his family and all those impacted by the tragic [...]

A 21-year-old from Saugeen First Nation is dead following a single-vehicle collision in Arran-Elderslie. South Bruce OPP said reports of the collision came at 8:26 a.m. Thursday. Police responded to the scene on B Line with members of the Arran-Elderslie Fire Department and paramedic services. The driver was taken to hospital and pronounced dead. The [...]

Police have made arrests in the case of Sharif Rahman, in which the popular Owen Sound restaurant owner died after an altercation with three men at his downtown establishment a year ago. The Owen Sound Police Service and OPP announced Thursday morning the ongoing joint homicide investigation being conducted by the two police services resulted [...]

West Grey Mayor Kevin Eccles received a formal reprimand from council this week for comments an integrity commissioner labelled as threatening and potentially incendiary. In early April, the South Bruce Grey Health Centre announced its plan to relocate all 10 inpatient beds from the Durham hospital to larger centres in Walkerton and Kincardine due to [...]

Volunteer firefighters saved a dog from a 25-foot well near a popular nature trail near Bognor. The Inter Township Fire Department responded to a distress call Monday evening for a dog needing rescue from the well of the Wilson property, a historic homesteading property featuring relics of a massive barn and hand-dug well that can [...]

Recent Ontario Veterinary College graduate Dr. Jacky Normandeau has received this year's $1,000 Grey Bruce Farmers' Week Prize. Despite growing up in a town, she has plenty of farm experience, according to Farmers' Week organizers. In high school, she worked on a hobby farm doing the daily chores and at a local dog kennel. During [...]

Objectors say cornfield destruction makes no sense as Waterloo Region amasses farmlands

A 700-kilometre bicycle ride from Niagara-on-the-Lake to Tobermory will support Owen Sound's Safe N Sound drop-in centre. Tobermory duo Jason Runions and Steph Tkaczuk will travel the path of the Niagara Escarpment later this month, from Aug. 22 to 28. The owners of Level 5 Tiling & Renovations say they're avid cyclists and adventurers who [...]

The 85-year-old passenger of a vehicle involved in a serious collision west of Owen Sound Monday morning has died. The passenger, from Muskoka Lakes, was transported to a trauma centre with life-threatening injuries Monday morning following the single-vehicle collision at the Highway 21 roundabout at Alvanley. Police said Tuesday the passenger died from their injuries. [...]

Bruce Power's bid to expand output by up to 4,800 megawatts at its Tiverton site, in what could be Canada's first nuclear construction project in more than 30 years, reached a new milestone this week. As part of its pre-development work - for which the federal government agreed to fund up to $50 million -Bruce [...]

After dropping for five consecutive months the region's unemployment rate rose 0.4 percentage points in July to 2.8 per cent. According to a report by the Four County Labour Market Planning Board, which covers the area of Bruce, Grey, Huron and Perth counties, the region's overall population grew by 400 in July while the labour [...]

Home sales in Grey-Bruce increased nearly 10 per cent in July but didn't outpace the rise in new stock. According to a monthly report by the REALTORS Association of Grey Bruce Owen Sound (RAGBOS), home sales rose 9.2 per cent year-over-year in July but remained 7.4 per cent below the five-year average and 13.8 per [...]

Owen Sound's Susan Ward won more than $200,000 in the July 13 Lotto 6/49 draw. Ward, a great-grandmother, won the draw's second prize of $207,214.20. She said she's been playing the lottery for as long as it's been around. I even remember playing WINTARIO," she shared, while at the OLG Prize Centre in Toronto to [...]

A 92-year-old driver from Muskoka Lakes died in a single-vehicle collision near Owen Sound Monday morning. An 85-year-old passenger from Muskoka Lakes was transported to a trauma centre with life-threatening injuries. Emergency services closed the entire roundabout at Highway 21 and the Grey Bruce Line/Bruce Road 10 to traffic in all directions following a serious [...]

Both the okra and cowpeas seed I planted this year were supplied by Ken and Martha Laing through the seed exchange that was part of the Ecological Farmers Association of Ontario conference last December

The Tara Twins under-15 boys' won the Ontario Select Softball Tournament Association's provincial championship in Cambridge this past weekend. The Twins went undefeated in the tournament and beat Drayton-Moorefield in the final to take the OSSTA under-15 title. Family and friends said they are proud of how well the boys played, and how much they [...]

The Owen Sound Baysox are bound for the second round. The Baysox earned victories in both games of a doubleheader over the Barrie Angels Sunday and punched their ticket into the semifinals of the North Dufferin Baseball League's eight-team playoff bracket. The Baysox finished the first round of the series with a record of 3-0-1. [...]

It was so windy at Sauble Beach Sandfest on Saturday that at times the blowing sand stung. The wind pushed the lake up the beach, close enough to make a visitor wonder how much closer the water might get to the sand sculptures at the centre of the annual event. But it was still an [...]

When you like your adventure sports challenging and brutal, but not too brutal, there was the new Subaru Sprint Course to try Saturday in Wiarton. It involved a particularly challenging two-kilometre paddle against strong winds, 12-km bike and 3.4-km run with some steep and rough terrain, in all about 15 kms starting and finishing [...]

For Martin Kewageeshig, dancing with his daughter Alicia at the Chippewas of Saugeen First Nation's powwow Saturday was about being with family and sharing their culture. The Stoney Point residents, each dressed in their special powwow regalia, were among the dozens of dancers, who celebrated their culture and competed for money prizes. Hundreds watched them [...]

A group of volunteers who strove to create an innovative, dynamic and new-age food co-op face closure for the second time in less than two years. No one from Eat Local Grey Bruce wanted to speak Friday, but the shelves at the group's expansive Meaford warehouse were nearly empty and board member Jen Harrop confirmed [...]

Grey Bruce Public Health has lifted a swim advisory at Southampton Beach now that new water samples show bacterial levels have returned to within Ministry of Health guidelines for safe swimming and bathing. We'd like to extend our thanks and appreciation to Saugeen Shores residents and visitors who adhered to the no-swim advisory at Southampton [...]

A developer is seeking official plan amendments from Meaford and Grey County for a new 135-hectare residential and commercial waterfront village proposed for the Christie Beach area. Parkbridge Lifestyles Communities Inc., headquartered in Collingwood, is seeking the amendment to construct as many as 1,250 dwellings west of Christie Beach Road between Highway 26 and Georgian [...]

A rider was taken to hospital with serious injuries after their horse collided with a vehicle on King Street in Kincardine Thursday morning. South Bruce OPP say two people were riding their horses north on King Street when one horse was spooked by nearby construction and ran into traffic. The horse was struck by a [...]

A fifth local suspected fatal drug poisoning this summer has prompted public health to issue an opioid alert to community partners this week. Grey Bruce Public Health said in a media release the most recent suspected fatal overdose, along with three non-fatal drug poisonings, took place between Aug. 3 and Aug. 6. Two of the [...]

Three more people have been charged following a search warrant and concerning a rash of recent property crimes in Meaford. The Grey Bruce OPP and members of the Grey Bruce Community Street Crime Unit executed a search warrant on July 28 at a residence on Marshall Street. During the search, officers discovered two firearms, a [...]

Grey County staff plan to secure suitable land in the Feversham area for a new ambulance base. The Feversham base will join a new larger base in Durham and new bases proposed for Ayton (2026), Thornbury (2027), and Cobble Beach (2028) all in an effort to keep up with increasing call volumes. However, at county [...]

The Owen Sound Baysox looked a little rusty in celebrating their 6-5 walk-off win over the Barrie Angels under the lights in Owen Sound Thursday night. Kirk Gibson admitted he doused the wrong player with his water while the Baysox bench cleared to celebrate Ryan Bartley's seventh-inning game-ending hit to right field. Catcher Greg Slater [...]

Owen Sound Salmon Spectacular co-chair Chris Geberdt has a good feeling that the derby could see a bigger fish this year thanthe one that won the recent Chantry Chinook Salmon Derby That's becausethe nearly 26-pound salmon was caught in Georgian Bay waters off Lion's Head, part of the Owen Sound-based derby's waters too. The 25.62 [...]

Nick Oldrieve thinks someone must know what happened to Shawn and Leslie Jones, two Neyaashiinigmiing teens who got into some trouble and, it's thought, fled the Bruce Peninsula almost 31 years ago. That's why Oldrieve is helping to organize a 31-kilometre community walk like one held in November for them. It's hoped this public display [...]

Sixty to seventy per cent of vet calls can be done remotely," says Colin Yates, CEO of VETSon

Police laid five charges against a 54-year-old driver after someone made a driving complaint. Police were told at 1:07 p.m. on Aug. 3 that a pickup truck was unable to maintain its lane" on Highway 26 in Meaford, Grey Bruce OPP said in a news release. Police released a photo of the truck bed, which [...]

South Bruce Grey Health Centre's president said she appreciates the Ontario government's recently announced 4.5 per cent base funding increase to her budget. But like other local hospital administrators, she said it still leaves a budget gap created by inflation over the past few years. This year's base funding for SBGHC increased by $1,808,100, [...]

Bruce-Grey-Owen Sound MP Alex Ruff is warning constituents to remain vigilant after a wave of energy rebate calls came to his attention. In recent weeks, my office has been made aware that there are unsolicited calls being made to residents of Bruce-Grey-Owen Sound trying to sell energy rebates claiming an affiliation with my office," Ruff [...]

People will gather to Walk for Wenjack on Thursday, Aug. 15, at Cape Croker Park in Neyaashiinigmiing, Bruce County and its community partners are host for the fundraising and awareness-raising event named in memory of Chanie Wenjack who, in 1966, ran away from Cecilia Jeffrey Residential School in Kenora, Ont. He walked for 36 hours [...]

Georgian College is expanding its partnership with an online platform helping to connect students to shared living spaces in an effort to house its growing population in Owen Sound. The college asked for the community's help to support students who will become the region's future workforce" in a media release issued Wednesday. With 300 new [...]

Dogs of all kinds have returned to Harrison Park for the annual three-day show, which ends Thursday. The Grey Bruce Kennel and Obedience Club's show offers the chance for a close-up look at the widest variety of dogs most people would ever see in one place. There are morning shows starting at 8 a.m. and [...]

A former first-round pick and COVID-era franchise cornerstone won't return to the Owen Sound Attack this season. On Tuesday, the Attack announced they've traded Cedrick Guindon and a 2028 10th-round pick to the Kingston Frontenacs for five future draft picks. In the deal, the Attack get a 2027 second-round pick (Flint), a 2026 third-round pick [...]

Playoff baseball returns to Owen Sound this week. The Owen Sound Baysox finished second in the North Dufferin Baseball League and will take on the seventh-place Barrie Angels in the first round of the postseason. The first round is a best-of-five, or first to six points series, beginning Thursday night in Owen Sound at Tom [...]

Three Owen Sound North Stars girls' field lacrosse players and one coach won gold medals at the Ontario Summer Games in London this past weekend. Team Blue, featuring Camryn Stauffer, Hannah Davies, Willow Smith-Spinney and coach Reese Wilkins, defeated Team Pink by a score of 13-5 to win gold. Goalie Mykah Harris, and team manager [...]

A thunderstorm that bubbled up threw a curveball at organizers of the Rotary Club of Wiarton's Shore to Shore Race, but it couldn't stop the Civic Holiday weekend tradition from going ahead. The start time of the annual road race across the Bruce Peninsula was pushed back to let the storm pass on Monday morning, [...]

Sisters Jeanette Mallard and Margaret Adams-Williams were enjoying the chance to catch up with family and friends at the inaugural Wiarton Homecoming Weekend. The pair said they had spent almost the entire day at the event on Saturday and were met with a near-constant parade of familiar faces to reminisce with. We have been able [...]

As Jesse Walker made his way along his fundraising run through the Georgian Bluffs countryside on Saturday morning, his thoughts often turned to his friend Tyson Downs, who passed away suddenly a year ago. I did start thinking about Tyson while I was running," the 19-year-old brain cancer survivor from Balmy Beach said once he [...]

As the Emancipation Festival and Picnic marked its 162nd year in Owen Sound over the weekend, participants celebrated the event's roots as a close-knit family reunion, along with its transformation more recently into a welcoming community celebration. Festival chair Linda Johnson said Saturday at Harrison Park, that she has been coming to the Emancipation Day [...]

Adventure sport racers will be descending on Wiarton again as the Bruce Peninsula Multisport Race returns for its 14th year. The event, which combines paddling, bicycling and running into a test of strength, stamina and power will hit the waters, back roads and trails of the peninsula on Aug. 10. Starting and finishing at Bluewater [...]