Owen Sound Sun Times

The beach at Southampton has been posted unsafe for swimming, just as the Civic Holiday weekend begins. Grey Bruce Public Health announced Friday that in consultation with Saugeen Shores, the beach had been posted unsafe after water-sampling results showed bacterial levels exceeding Ontario Ministry of Health standards. The water was tested Wednesday and the results [...]

It's two weeks until Summerfolk, the 49th annual music, arts and crafts outdoor festival on the west shore of Owen Sound. Organizers are arranging which performers will stay in which hotel rooms, the lanyards for volunteers are being printed and their assignments are going out, festival artistic director James Keelaghan said by phone Friday. There's [...]

Grey-Bruce hospital administrators welcomed $8.566 million in new permanent base funding, but some said it's not enough. The money will be distributed $5,962,500 to Brightshores Health System, $1,808,100 to South Bruce Grey Health Centre and $795,400 to Hanover & District Hospital. Brightshores will see permanent base funding go up by 3.1 per cent. It's [...]

While the whirlwind of a ride of the past couple of years has taken Owen Riegling across North America, the rising country music star from Mildmay always looks forward to coming back to where it all began. I look forward to shows at home more than anything," Riegling said Friday morning, hours before he was [...]

Two local First Nations communities will hold their annual pow wows in the coming weeks. Saugeen First Nation will hold its pow wow on Aug. 10-11, while the Chippewas of Nawash Unceded First Nation at Neyaashiinigmiing will hold its pow wow on Aug. 16-18. The Saugeen First Nation pow wow will once again take place [...]

Grey County and its nine lower tier municipalities will take part in a joint all councils meeting on Aug. 8. The purpose of the meeting, which will be held electronically, is to discuss shared service delivery and service efficiencies, the City of Owen Sound said in a news release. The meeting begins at 8:30 a.m. [...]

People have answered Salvation Army Major Mary Millar's recent food bank plea but more help is needed. My food bank worker said when saw she the food, like she was in tears because she realized she could give to those families that extra food," Millar said Thursday. She issued a Facebook callout on July 19 [...]

Another opioid alert has been issued in Grey-Bruce after the local health unit was notified of two fatal and two-non-fatal suspected drug poisonings. The suspected drug poisonings occurred in Owen Sound and Meaford over the past seven days, with fentanyl suspected in three of the cases, including one fatality, Grey Bruce Public Health said in [...]

A Meaford man faces several charges in relation to a rash of property crimes in the Municipality of Meaford. Grey Bruce OPP announced on Wednesday that members of the Grey Bruce OPP Community Street Crime Unit executed a search warrant at a residence on Marshall Street in Meaford just before 3:30 p.m. on July 25. [...]

A suspect has been apprehended and roads have reopened in an area southeast of Teeswater. On Thursday afternoon, South Bruce OPP announced that an individual police had been searching for in the area had been located. Just after 9 a.m., police received a report of an individual on a property along Conc. 4 in the [...]

Statistics Canada's annual crime severity index and weighted clearance rates for police services in Ontario include data for Grey-Bruce. The conventional crime rate is a measure of crime volume. It adds up all crimes reported by police and divides that total by the population for the area. This means a murder has the same impact [...]

People who rescued a woman from a car that was accidentally driven into Meaford Harbour were being widely praised for their heroic efforts. Kyle Gilas, a board member and former coach with Sail Georgian Bay, said Wednesday morning that the adrenaline was still high after the rescue that saw the woman pulled from the car [...]

Owen Sound's violent crime severity index soared in 2023 over the year before. Unlike the conventional crime rate, the violent crime severity index is weighted, with more serious but less frequent offences, like first-degree murder, given a CSI rating 280 times greater than property theft, for instance. The city's crime severity index was 123.41 in [...]

From other oil regions, we see that the trick is to own the oil or gas resource, but shed off the liability. When will it come to Ontario?

Enbridge Gas confirmed Tuesday it could take two days for it to relight appliances for all 700 natural gas customers affected by Monday's gas leak. A gas line was damaged at about 11:30 a.m. Monday as worked continued on the Alpha Street reconstruction project. Residents in the area were evacuated from their homes, with help [...]

Fertilizer Canada wants all minerals important to food security to be on the list

Gas service was being restored in areas of Owen Sound Monday night after what city officials called a significant leak in the Alpha Street area that afternoon. At approximately 1 p.m. (Monday) Owen Sound Fire and Emergency Services responded to the area of Alpha Street for a report of a significant natural gas leak," the [...]

The 162nd Emancipation Festival features a speakers' forum Friday, a community celebration Saturday and gospel musicSunday. Cyrus Sundar Singh will speak at Grey Roots Museum Friday night. He's an assistant professor at the University of Toronto, a musician and filmmaker who was born and raised in India. He'll talk about Nova Scotia's Africville, a one-time [...]

It will cost about $100,000 more than budgeted to fix Owen Sound's Sk8and Bike Park's concrete pad, which has been partly fenced off for more than a year because sections were crumbling and considered unsafe to use. Owen Sound council voted Monday morning, during a special meeting to discuss this issue, to withdraw an additional [...]

Police charged a 22-year-old from Brantford with impaired driving after officers responded to a report of a car swerving on Bruce Road 3, leaving the road and ending up in a single-vehicle collision in Arran-Elderslie Saturday. South Bruce OPP responded to the 11:49 p.m. call and found the driver had been drinking alcohol. The driver [...]

South Bruce OPP and a Good Samaritan helped bring a boat to shore Sunday after it began taking on water. Police were called to Kincardine Harbour about 12:50 p.m. for a vessel that had struck a rock just off the coast of Kincardine on Lake Huron, police said in a news release. The vessel was [...]

The Farmer Wellness Initiative offers crisis and ongoing counselling support

Police laid drug charges against four men in a car which was pulling a trailer without lights late at night at Saugeen First Nation. Grey Bruce OPP stopped the car Saturday at 3:45 a.m. on Pashwood Drive. They learned the driver was a prohibited driver and there were drugs in the car. Gregory Martellini, 44, [...]

Well-known for their bird seed mixes, the Braggs not only grow Black Oil Sunflower seeds but also buy from others in order to meet market demand

Athletes from across Grey-Bruce put their stamp on the Owen Sound Subaru Triathlon at Kelso Beach at Nawash Park on Sunday. The local area was well represented at this year's event, which included Olympic- and sprint-distance triathlons, duathlons, swim-bike events and relay races, and many locals were standing on the podium after crossing the finish [...]

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Crysler's Farm is re-enacted in full period dress, with weapons and artillery of the day, and encampments of both soldiers and civilians

Despite a big 20-boat turnout in the Lap for Loot event at the cardboard boat races in Southampton on Saturday, cousins Henry Small and Isla Oyarce showed that they still got it. For the second year in a row, the duo from Toronto paddled to the top cashprize in the headline event at the races, [...]

Joel Wright has set his sights on completing a 100-mile run and bicycle trek from Newmarket to Owen Sound that his father and uncle came up just short ofachieving many years ago. And in attempting the feat, the 27-year-old Ottawa resident plans to raise funds for charity and hopes to inspire others to keep going [...]

Police have re-laid a charge of accessory after the fact to murder against a suspect in the death of Emerson Sprung four years ago. Grey Bruce OPP announced in a news release Friday that Laurel Campbell, 32, of Meaford is charged with being an accessory after the fact to murder. She was held for bail [...]

The Women's Centre Grey Bruce is hosting afternoon tea at Meaford Hall next Thursday, Aug. 1. The fundraiser runs from 2 to 4 p.m. Tickets are $55 per person, which includes tea with scones, sandwiches, mini desserts, with a silent auction and a 50/50 draw. It is part of our strategic plan to build on [...]

The owner of the former Russel Brothers property on Owen Sound's waterfront wants to get going as soon as possible on constructing a massive luxury resort on the site. Bolton-based developer Jagjit Sandhu said he looks forward to welcoming both locals and visitors to what he called his dream project, anda place he himself plans [...]

Police say a driver's condition has improved since he was taken to a London hospital in critical condition after a collision reported at 12:33 a.m. Grey Bruce OPP closed Grey Road 17 to investigate a serious single vehicle crash in which a 55-year-old driver from Georgian Bluffs was injured. The crash happened on Grey Rd. [...]

Brightshores Health System announced two senior leadership appointments Friday. Beth Morris, vice-president Clinical Services & Quality, chief nursing executive, will join Brightshores on Sept. 30, and Tim Pemberton, vice-president, Digital Health & Technology, CIO, CPO, will join the hospital corporation on Sept. 9. A hospital news release said Morris brings a wide range of [...]

A man was rescued from a sailboat Thursday after his boat got hung up on a shoal, about one kilometre north of the Southampton Yacht Club. South Bruce OPP and the Saugeen Shores Fire Department responded to a call for help. Southampton Fire Department retrieved the boater, who was a member of the yacht club. [...]

When Jenna McCoubrey Prestidge was a little girl there were two things she loved most in the world: being a farm kid and playing hockey.

Peterborough's attack proved too potent for the upstart Owen Sound North Stars. The Lakers swept the N'Stars in three games with a 15-6 win inside the Peterborough Memorial Centre Thursday night. With a Mann Cup in their sights, the Lakers will move on, while the North Stars will return home to lick their wounds and [...]

Twenty EV chargers are to be installed at Grey County facilities over this year and next, subject to funding approval from the federal Zero Emission Vehicle Infrastructure Program. That's one of the details shared with county council by Rebecca Danard, the county manager of climate change initiatives, during a review of climate change initiatives over [...]

A swim advisory at Kelso Beach at Nawash Park in Owen Sound has been lifted. Grey Bruce Public Health announced on Thursday that the advisory had been lifted after water samples taken at the beach earlier in the week showed bacterial levels had returned to within Ontario Ministry of Health guidelines for swimming/bathing. Grey Bruce [...]

Southampton's Marine Heritage Festival is back, being celebrated as three days of fun, food and music. Presented by the Marine Heritage Society, the 13th annual festival kicks off Friday and runs to Sunday. It will offer up a variety of events and activities, from a children's gold hunt and games in the park, to museum [...]

A bat from Grey-Bruce has tested positive for rabies and a person who was potentially exposed to the virus is receiving post-exposure treatment. The little brown bat, which is the first animal rabies case in Grey-Bruce in 2024, was submitted for testing earlier this week as part of Grey Bruce Public Health's investigation into a [...]

Grey County council voted Thursday to start paying court security and transportation expenses not covered by the province that for years have been borne solely by Owen Sound taxpayers. This year, those costs will be about $230,000. Once the actual amount is known, it will be included in the 2025 county budget, once the agreement [...]

Certain Chrysler Pacifica Plug-In Hybrid models are no longer permitted on Owen Sound Transportation Company ferries, including the Chi-Cheemaun until recall service is completed to mitigate fire risks. The Owen Sound Transportation Company posted a notice on its website earlier this week announcing the decision. Some Chrysler Pacifica Plug-In Hybrid (PHEVs) models from 2017 to [...]

Balmy Beach brain cancer survivor Jesse Walker is running to raise money this summer in memory of his friend Tyson Downs and support of research into devastating genetic heart conditions. Downs died unexpectedly a year ago at age 18. The gifted athlete with plans to study civil engineering at Conestoga College played with the Owen [...]

Two residents of Grey-Bruce are accused of uttering death threats following separate intimate partner violence investigations recently. On Monday afternoon at 1:15 p.m., Grey Bruce OPP responded to a South Bruce Peninsula address and initiated an intimate partner violence investigation. Police determined that a suspect had threatened to kill the partner of an ex-partner. The [...]

West Grey's declaration of a health care emergency remains in place, the municipality announced Tuesday. It declared a state of emergency May 28 due to concerns about public safety after South Bruce Grey Health Centre announced April 25 it would shift all 10 in-patient beds out of Durham hospital and add them in Walkerton and [...]

Grey County is cutting stops in Shelburne to ensure riders from the county can make it to Orangeville. The Grey Transit Route (GTR) is a Grey County-operated rural transit service. Operated under contract with Driverseat Owen Sound, the GRT's Route 2 is a popular run from Dundalk to the Orangeville GO station, which connects riders [...]

Construction of a new larger Beavercrest Community School in Markdale for 374 students is well underway and is targeted to open in December, the Bluewater District School Board says. Recently, the province announced additional funding and two more classrooms for the junior kindergarten to Grade 8 school, which has been under construction since July 2023. [...]

Owen Sound police charged two people after a woman reportedly was poked in the eye and punched repeatedly by someone wearing brass knuckles on July 16 in Owen Sound. All were passengers in the same car and all were associated with each other when the assaults took place in the area of 16th Street East [...]

A new event is planned for Wiarton on the Civic Holiday weekend this year. The first annual Wiarton Homecoming Weekend will take over the South Bruce Peninsula town, building on the annual Wiarton Rotary Village Rotary Fair, which was discontinued in 2023 after more than 82 years. Joe Vanderzand of the organizing committee said Tuesday [...]