Owen Sound Sun Times

Changes are coming to how business is conducted around council and committee tables in Owen Sound, including what items are tabled for discussion and how the public engages members. On Monday evening, after a lengthy debate, Owen Sound council approved several recommendations from the city's corporate services committee from a review of the city's procedural [...]

Owen Sound Little Theatre is preparing for its 64th season, with a full slate of shows and events planned for the Roxy stage. The 2024-25 season will feature a playbill that includes four feature OSLT productions, along with its Roxy Presents Series of comedy, film, music and more, and the return of the popular Roxy [...]

U19 NORTH STARS SURGE TO SILVER The Owen Sound Krueger Steel North Stars under-19 girls' field lacrosse team had an excellent showing in Waterloo this past weekend during the OWFL U19 Provincials, bringing home silver in the under-19 B pool. Things got started on Friday with two round-robin games to determine who would move on [...]

- During a bi-annual review of the city's multi-year capital plan, councillor Carol Merton wondered when the city will face the reality that an annual one per cent levy increase directed to capital reserves in the face of $48.4 million in unfunded projects is severely lacking. One per cent isn't cutting it. It's not even [...]

The City of Owen Sound is extending recycling convenience depot funding at the Miller Waste transfer until Sept. 30. The extension will allow time for public notification and transition arrangements. At that time, city residents will instead be encouraged to use curbside recycling services and to seek alternative recycling options for items not eligible to [...]

One person was sent to hospital and a driver was charged after a collision between a vehicle and a horse-drawn buggy in Southgate. On July 14 just before 8 a.m., Grey Bruce OPP, Grey County Paramedic Services and the Southgate Fire Department responded to the collision on Grey Rd. 9. Police learned that a vehicle [...]

Bruce-Grey-Owen Sound MP Alex Ruff is accepting nominations for deserving residents of his riding to receive a King Charles III Coronation Medal. Each member of parliament has been allocated 20 medals to recognize individuals who have made a significant contribution to Canada or a particular province, territory, region or community in the country, or attained [...]

A Blue Mountains man has been arrested and charged after he allegedly stabbed a co-worker with a knife while they were conducting repair work at a cemetery near Collingwood. On Friday afternoon, several individuals were conducting repair work at the Collingwood Presbyterian Cemetery on Poplar Sideroad in Clearview Township. At some point during the work, [...]

The Owen Sound North Stars senior B club is in a do-or-die situation after going down 2-0 in their best-of-five Ontario Series Lacrosse semifinal with the league-leading Six Nations Rivermen. On Sunday afternoon in Owen Sound, the Rivermen scored four unanswered goals in the latter part of the third period to come from behind and [...]

Banditfest 2024 in downtown Owen Sound Sunday wasa big break, a first gig for some of the many teenaged musicians. Fifteen performers brought what promised to be an eclectic, 11-hour musical mix between 11 a.m. and 10 p.m., with arts and food vendors. It was organized by teens and led by Olive Borowski and Zoe [...]

Almost 300 women competed in the Lakeshore Women's Triathlon in Port Elgin Saturday morning. This event appeals to the beginner triathlete and for many, this was their first competition, race director Sarah Foster said in an interview Sunday. Everybody seemed to have a really great time. It being accessible to all women is one [...]

Owen Sound is on the brink of elimination

Meaford Pet Expo was the place to be Saturday if you have a pet, wanted a pet or needed something for a pet. Dogs could take a dip in two kiddie pools under a tent to escape the hot July sun. A smiling woman circulated about, offering a tray of dog treats like a maitre [...]

Jeff Courage's parents said they felt comforted and encouraged at the third annual Walk of Courage Saturday morning. Tawnia and Greg Courage's 21-year-old son Jeff died by suicide in 2019 while attending Western University in London. The former West Hill student struggled with anxiety in London and couldn't get help there sometimes, both parents said. [...]

Kelso Beach at Nawash Park in Owen Sound is unsafe for swimming, say Grey Bruce Public Health and the city Grey Bruce Public Health said in a news release water-sampling results received Friday afternoon showed bacterial levels exceeded Ontario Ministry of Health standards. The beach will remain posted as unsafe until samples return with levels [...]

The Subaru Triathlon Series returns to the Scenic City on Sunday, July 28, with Olympic and Sprint distance options for racers at Kelso Beach at Nawash Park. This year's race will be the fourth stop in the Subaru Series, operated by Trisport Events Canada. The Subaru Triathlon Series picked up Owen Sound as a tour [...]

Police and paramedics are expressing concerns about a South Bruce Grey Health Centre proposal to stop bringing people experiencing a mental health crisis to the Durham hospital after 3 p.m. For now, it's business as usual until agreements are put in place, said Kevin McNab, Grey County's director of paramedic services. There has been discussions [...]

Police charged a 15-year-old after nude photos of someone younger than18 years were posted on social media. South Bruce OPP charged the youth from the former Huron Township, part of Huron-Kinloss Township, with publication of child pornography, publication of an intimate image without consent, and assault. The teen, who cannot be identified under the Youth [...]

Police closed a section of 10th Street East Thursday afternoon after a transport truck collided with a cyclist. According to a media release, the 35-year-old female cyclist suffered non-life-threatening injuries and was transported to hospital. The bicycle was significantly damaged. Owen Sound Police closed 10th Street East between 2nd Avenue East and 3rd Avenue East [...]

The Peterborough Lakers showed why they're the heavy favourites in a quarterfinal series against Owen Sound in the second period of Game 1. The Lakers smothered the North Stars and chased starting goalie Kaleb Martin from Owen Sound's net with a 7-0 frame en route to a 12-5 victory and 1-0 lead in the best-of-five [...]

A beloved Wiarton doctor is calling it a career and hanging up the stethoscope after 40 years. Dr. John Van Dorp hopped in the car with his wife Geneva Thursday morning and headed to Blythe to take in some theatre. I went to a seminar a number of years ago about preparing for retirement, and [...]

Danuta Valleau is this year's Ontario Senior of the Year Award winner in Georgian Bluffs. The Georgian Bluffs resident was nominated by the township for volunteering in many ways but particularly concerning climate action. Last year she won the township's Lifetime Volunteer Award. Thank you, Danuta, for your tireless efforts in promoting environmental stewardship, youth [...]

As in 2012, some importers have been purposely mislabeling broiler chicken meat as spent fowl in order to circumvent import controls

Police say no one was injured when an impaired driver crashed into a Shallow Lake home on Sir Johns Crescent just before midnight Wednesday. The homeowners were sitting in the room that the vehicle hit, Grey Bruce OPP said in a release. A photograph of the aftermath shows a heavily damaged car on the front [...]

A local program that temporarily houses and prepares homeless people to live independently is now provincially funded. It's a huge commitment from Ontario Health for Grey-Bruce," said Stephen Musehl, CEO of Canadian Mental Health Association Grey Bruce. The Ontario government agency has committed $853,600 annualized funding for the program. We've all seen the opioid crisis, [...]

Brockton council has appointed Kym Hutcheon to the deputy-mayor's chair after James Lang resigned in the wake of an integrity commissioner's report of a complaint from staff at Walkerton's arena. Hutcheon's council seat will be declared vacant at the Aug. 13 council meeting. Council accepted Lang's official resignation after the integrity commissioner report was presented [...]

The YMCA of Owen Sound and Grey Bruce is kicking off Drowning Prevention Week with a free family-friendly event on Sunday. From 10 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., at the YMCA Health, Fitness and Aquatics 10th Street facility, several organizations will gather to raise awareness and educate the community on the importance of water safety, all [...]

It will be a homecoming of sorts when Adam Jones walks into the Peterborough Memorial Centre Thursday night alongside his North Stars to take on the Lakers in Owen Sound's return to Major Series Lacrosse postseason action. Jones played in three Mann Cup tournaments with the Lakers and helped the storied Senior A lacrosse franchise [...]

A rainbow crosswalk at Ecole Saint-Dominique-Savio was damaged last Friday and city police are looking for help finding those responsible. Someone defaced the walkway, a welcoming symbol of LGBTQ2S+ rights, with white spray paint. Police say two suspects entered the school property Friday, July 12 just before 4:30 a.m. Both wore dark hoodies and dark [...]

A group of business people, property owners and community members with an artistic sensibility have banded together to help inject some colour and life into Meaford's downtown. Meaford Downtown is a new non-profit organization dedicated to rejuvenating Meaford's downtown core and harbourfront. Funded wholly by donations, and independent of the municipal government, chamber of commerce [...]

The cleaner is first walked through the various rooms and pens in a pig barn with a joystick to program the computer system

Colby Barlow, Carter George and a pair of Attack prospects will soon wear the red-and-white of Team Canada at summer selection camps. Barlow and George are among the 42 players Hockey Canada invited to its under-20 summer evaluation camp in Windsor, from July 28 to 31. The players hope to earn a spot on the [...]

A 64-year-old man has pleaded guilty to dangerous driving causing death for turning his pickup truck in front of Bailey Durocher's motorcycle just north of Durham two years ago. Luciano Da Silva, of Utopia, Ont., just west of Barrie, pleaded guilty on June 18 in the Superior Court of Justice in Owen Sound. Sentencing is [...]

Owen Sound police charged a woman with theft after a Pride banner was taken from Georgian Shores United Church Saturday. Police said Tuesday in a news release that a 41-year-old, of no fixed address, was charged after a citizen photographed the suspect trying to conceal" the banner in her bag on Saturday, July 13. [...]

Banditfest, a teen-run outdoor youth music festival, will take place at the Owen Sound Farmers' Market building all day Sunday. Eleven hours of music by 15 bands will kick off at 11 a.m. and end at 10 p.m., rain or shine, said Olive Borowski, one of the event organizers. Grey-Bruce bands will be joined by [...]

SCENIC CITY TRIO EXCEL WITH TEAM ONTARIO The Team Ontario under-17 squad finished with a perfect 4-0 record at the two-day MidAtlantic Summer Club Championships in Edgewood, Maryland this past weekend. Three Sound North Stars Junior Elite Women's Lacrosse (JEWL) team members, Bree Wilkins, Taryn Weppler and head coach Lyndsay Brooks, are with Team Ontario. [...]

Fifteen volunteers searched the Lake Huron shoreline Sunday for signs of two men missing since 1995 and one man missing since January, but had no luck. Kirk Weidemannand Erwyn Cecil Rody"Lippettwent for an evening fishing trip in the lake July 21, 1995 and never returned. They left their Brucedale Conservation campsite about 8 p.m. Their [...]

Fraser McGruer, a respected local boat builder who with partners also developed Owen Sound marina and a once-popular restaurant there, has died at age 86. He died June 26 of complications from a leg infection, said his eldest son, Christopher McGruer. A come-and-go memorial service is scheduled for Aug. 10 from 2 to 4 p.m. [...]

The North Stars wanted to play their best lacrosse when it mattered most, but after opening up their return to Major Series Lacrosse with eight straight losses, it looked like the season could be a wash. Now, having gone 3-1 in their final four games of the season, Owen Sound is looking to make some [...]

Sr. B NORTH STARS SPLIT The Owen Sound North Stars senior B team wrapped up the regular season in the Ontario Series Lacrosse loop with a 14-9 loss to Six Nations Saturday and a 9-6 win over Hamilton Sunday. Both games took place at the Harry Lumley Bayshore Community Centre. The North Stars finished in [...]

Lawrence Gregg has called Paisley home for all of his 84 years in that time he has come to know a lot of people. As the small central Bruce County village marked its 150th anniversary with a giant Homecoming celebration on the weekend he saw many familiar faces, including some he hadn't seen in a [...]

Owen Sound's River District was alive with activity on Saturday as thousands ventured down for the annual Hottest Street Sale. Close to 200 vendors lined sections of 2nd Avenue East and 9th Street East, as the public shopped for bargains, enjoyed food and beverage options, and were entertained by the music of area performers and [...]

By the time the Meaford Harbour 5-km run and walk began at 9 a.m. on Saturday, the sun was beating down and the temperature had passed the 20 Celsius mark. But that didn't stop a team of five dedicated Meaford firefighters from taking on the race, each wearing a near complete set of bunker gear, [...]

Owen Sound Police Service is reminding people to lock their vehicles after police received numerous reports of thefts from unlocked vehicles in the city in recent days. The investigation into the thefts over the previous two days led to the arrest of six Owen Sound residents who face a total of 42 charges, Owen Sound [...]

A driver has been charged after a two-vehicle crash on Owen Sound's east side on July 7 sent five people to hospital. The collision occurred at the intersection of 8th Avenue East and 20th Street East at about 8 p.m., when a mid-sized Kia SUV that was travelling west on 20th Street. A Volkswagen SUV [...]

Ignace Township council has made its decision: the community, between Thunder Bay and Kenora, would willingly be a host to a nuclear waste repository. Ignace and South Bruce are the final two candidates for a deep geological repository, or DGR, to house the waste. Roger Dufault, chair of the Township of Ignace's resident ad hoc [...]

Owen Sound's committee of adjustmentwill consider a plan to build a new Catholic high school on vacant land on the city's eastern fringe. A 1,012-student Catholic high school is proposed for along 28th Avenue East, about300metressouth of 16th Street East,documentson the city's website show. The hearing Tuesday may be watched online via a link on [...]

Two Saugeen Shores Lifesaving Club athletes have been selected to represent Canada at the upcoming Lifesaving World Championships in Australia. Team Canada selected Izzy Speiran to join its youth women's team for the championships in Gold Coast, while Hayden Kaake was chosen for the youth men's team. Luna Abbott is an alternate for the Canadian [...]

The investigation into Sharif Rahman's death continues, police say, and they ask for the public's help to solve the case. Rahman, 44, died a week after an Aug. 17, 2023, assault outside his downtown Owen Sound restaurant, The Curry House. Police are looking for three suspects but there have been no arrests. The investigation into [...]