Owen Sound Sun Times

Chippewas of Nawash poet Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm's poem, restitution OR Nanabush speaks to the settlers, is shortlisted for the annual 2023 CBC Poetry Prize. The winner will be announced Thursday. Akiwenzie-Damm, 58, said her roots are in Neyaashiinigmiing, where she spent childhood summers with her grandparents and helped in their general store many weekends. She has [...]

Sharif Rahman was awarded the 2023 YMCA Peace Medal, the first time it's been presented posthumously in Owen Sound. Rahman, 44, died a week after he was assaulted outside his downtown Owen Sound restaurant on Aug. 17. His death so affronted the community that it rallied behind his memory and supported his young family with [...]

South Bruce Peninsula council approved its 2024 budget with a nearly five per cent tax levy impact. At its Nov. 21 meeting, council passed the 2024 operating and capital budget bylaw, with staff noting early approval of the budget and 4.99 per cent increase will permit staff to begin planning for 2024 and seek out [...]

A teen from Owen Sound has been identified as the victim of a homicide in the city on July 11, while another youth is the third person charged with murder in the incident. Police identified 17-year-old Robert McIntosh as the victim of what police believe was a targeted shooting at an apartment complex on 6th [...]

Owen Sound council has asked for a staff report on ways to strengthen its street occupation permit and property standard bylaws to deal with ongoing issues related to construction hoarding and boarded windows in the downtown. Council passed a motion Monday asking for the report after Deputy-mayor Scott Greig raised concerns about two properties downtown [...]

An unsafe building order has resulted in the removal of wall panels at the Georgian Landing development near the Harry Lumley Bayshore Community Centre. The developer of the apartment building development, meanwhile, says they are continuing to try to secure financing to move the project forward now more than four years after work there stopped. [...]

N'STARS SHINE BRIGHT WITH TEAM ONTARIO The Team Ontario under-15 and under-17 women's field lacrosse teams went undefeated in Florida over the weekend. The under-15 team, competing in the IWLCA Debut Cup in Tampa, won four straight games defeating Grit Lacrosse from Dallas 12-6, True Lacrosse Colorado 14-8, South Coast 2027 from Houston 19-6, and [...]

The Ontario Hockey League announced earlier this week that draft-eligible Owen Sound Attack netminder Carter George is the OHL Goaltender of the Week. George backstopped the Attack to a 2-0 record this past weekend with a 1.00 goals-against average, .966 save percentage and one shutout. George helped the Attack to a perfect weekend on the [...]

The Knights of Meaford junior hockey team is hosting a memorial game Thursday to raise funds for the young daughters of a woman who helped take care of the team and its players for 10 years as a faithful volunteer and billet mom. Ashley Clock, a single mother, died suddenly and unexpectedly on Nov. 12, [...]

There is a new operator of the concession area at the Julie McArthur Regional Recreation Centre. Owen Sound council passed a bylaw Monday to execute an assignment of lease for the concession stand in the corridor at the facility to Saleem Khan or his corporation. The bylaw passed after the city received a request to [...]

Owen Sound has approved building permits for interior renovations to the former Sun Times building on 9th Street East. In his monthly update to council on Monday, city manager Tim Simmonds called the work great news for the River District and the downtown" in the form of more office space and people working in the [...]

A report on surveillance cameras in the downtown is expected to come before Owen Sound council early next year. City manager Tim Simmonds said during Monday's council meeting that he has been in discussion with the Owen Sound Police Services and Police Chief Craig Ambrose about surveillance cameras in the downtown. He said staff will [...]

Owen Sound council gave final approval to the following business licences at its meeting on Monday: Shayela Nasrin is the new owner of The Curry House restaurant at 984 2nd E. Parth Patel is the new owner of Vince's Kwik Mart convenience store at 601 2nd E. The Rumpus Room, a community bar at 237 [...]

Owen Sound will cap the number of nights short-term rental operators will be able to rent out their principal residence in a year at 180 days. At its meeting on Monday, Owen Sound council voted 5-3 in favour of raising the annual nightly rental from the 90 days that was proposed in the draft bylaw. [...]

When Sharif Rahman and Shayela Nasrin opened The Curry House in downtown Owen Sound eight years ago they did it all together. The married couple was still fairly new to Canada and spent most of their time building the business and putting down roots in the city. On Aug. 17, Rahman, 44, suffered devastating injuries [...]

Sometimes a hockey team just needs some time away . . . apparently. The Owen Sound Attack completed a three-in-three sweep through southwestern Ontario and mid-Michigan Saturday at the Dort Financial Center with a 4-2 win over the Firebirds. The F-Birds entered the contest as winners of two straight as well and looked to be [...]

Six different plyers scored for the York University Lions as the de facto road team spoiled an away-from-homecoming for the Waterloo Warriors Saturday with a 6-3 win at the Harry Lumley Bayshore Community Centre. The Ontario University Athletics women's hockey game highlighted this weekend's Hockeyfest in Owen Sound. The celebration of Canada's national winter sport [...]

Owen Sound may have to change its nickname from the Scenic City to the Santa City after the holiday spirit shown Saturday night. Hundreds of onlookers gathered downtown as the 78th annual Kiwanis Owen Sound Santa Claus Parade circled through the River District from the Metro grocery store to the former Sun Times building. What [...]

Head coach Alan Letang wanted to see passion and urgency and emotion from the Sarnia Sting. He got all that Friday. What he didn't get was a win. The Sting's skid hit a season-high four games with a 4-0 loss to the Owen Sound Attack before a crowd of 3,768 at Progressive Auto Sales Arena. [...]

Members of Owen Sound Glassworks Co-operative have voted to delay selling the group's 46-acre property in Owen Sound's industrial park, where the group first proposed three years ago to create affordable housing within a net-zero eco-village." The project faces challenges on that property, which isn't zoned for housing, but rather for employment and industrial uses. [...]

Long-time OwenSound criminal defence lawyer Brian Barrie has written a book about a murder case 35 years ago that lit a fire in him that never went out. Four Bullets, Four Witnesses, Four Liars, published by Irwin Law Inc. under the trade name Delve Books, introduces the world of Mae McEachern, a woman he defended [...]

The Scenic City is once again declaring its love for Canada's national winter sport with Hockeyfest - - two days dedicated to the game. The new event began Friday in Owen Sound and is a partnership between Owen Sound Girls Hockey, elementary and high schools and the city, with the support of the University of [...]

There's no question the Windsor Spitfires have some issues with the defensive side of the game. However, there was also a mental part to the game that no doubt played a part in Thursday's humbling 12-3 loss to the Owen Sound Attack before 4,811 at the WFCU Centre. The team hit the ice just hours [...]

There's no question the Windsor Spitfires have some issues with the defensive side of the game. However, there was also a mental part to the game that no doubt played a part in Thursday's humbling 12-3 loss to the Owen Sound Attack before 4,811 at the WFCU Centre. The team hit the ice just hours [...]

NORTH STAR COMMITS TO CANISIUS Owen Sound's Laine Nissen has verbally committed to play NCAA Div. 1 lacrosse with the Canisius College Griffins beginning in 2025. Nissen's lacrosse career began with the under-11 North Stars. Since then she's progressed through the ranks, competing this year with Owen Sound's JEWL team and winning a silver medal [...]

Northern Bruce Peninsula has three new drones on its wishlist this year. Municipal councillors on Tuesday approved a fire department's request to support its Community Emergency Preparedness Grant (CEPG) application. If successful, the fire department intends to purchase one large drone and two smaller drones while training six to seven operators at an estimated cost [...]

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas. This week marks the unofficial kickoff to the holiday season in Owen Sound, with a full slate of Santa-themed events set for Saturday. This time there is a a slap shot of a twist. The 78th annual Kiwanis Owen Sound Santa Claus Parade is set for 5 [...]

The Harmony Centre in Owen Sound is holding a community appreciation reception on Thursday to mark its 10th anniversary as a social enterprise. Dedicated to the celebration of the arts, culture, and a healthy community, the Harmony Centre continues to build on past successes while looking forward to ways it can meet stakeholders' needs during [...]

Grey-Bruce OPP are seeking the public's assistance after a trailer loaded with farm equipment worth more than $150,000 was stolen from a business in Grey Highlands. Grey-Bruce OPP responded to a report of the theft from a business on Highway 10 early Friday morning, according to a news release from the detachment. Video surveillance shows [...]

Employees at the last remaining gas station in the town of Wiarton will be out of a job before Christmas. An employee at the Petro-Canada gas station at 490 Berford St. in Wiarton posted a notice of termination to Facebook Friday morning in which the site operator, Faheem Tahir, explained Petro-Canada is divesting the site [...]

Tracy Marsh seeks out messy situations and tries to put them right. She's a professional organizer and her business, House n Order, just won more than $10,000 in cash and prizes at the annual Meaford Dragons' Den competition Thursday at Meaford Hall. People pay her to declutter their homes. She helps adults get rid of [...]

By the second period of the Attack hockey game Saturday night, people had claimed all the special Bells of Christmas ornaments on the tree in the Harry Lumley Bayshore Community Centre lobby. The tree was placed there Saturday morning, decorated with lights, colourful bell ornaments and special, white crocheted bells, each with a different local [...]

MUSTANGS FALL TO RESURRECTION Kitchener's Resurrection Catholic Secondary School shut out the St. Mary's Mustangs 38-0 this past Friday at Victoria Park in Owen Sound. Three days after winning a ninth-straight Bluewater Athletic Association championship, the Mustangs couldn't keep pace in the Central Western Ontario Secondary Schools Association (CWOSSA) quarterfinal. Resurrection advances to face Waterloo's [...]

Grey-Bruce OPP closed a section of Highway 6 between Stoneman Drive and Joynt Street in Shallow Lake following a serious motor vehicle collision Sunday evening. Police said in a news release injuries were classified as non-life-threatening, and that no further details will be provided due to privacy concerns for the victim. Police reopened the stretch [...]

The great, great, great nephew of Victoria Cross recipient Thomas William Holmes placed a wreath in Holmes' honour at Owen Sound's annual Remembrance Day service Saturday. Hundreds turned out to see the parade to the cenotaph, hear the bagpipes and drums, the lone bugle, the minute gun's boom, the chaplains' words, and to stand silently [...]

Justin Bieber's hit song Sorry provided the soundtrack as 2,935 fans filed out of the Harry Lumley Bayshore Community Centre following the Owen Sound Attack's 5-2 loss to the Mississauga Steelheads Saturday night. It's the Scenic City Skaters' fourth-straight defeat. The squad hasn't won at home since Oct. 28. You should be fired up to [...]

If you're an Owen Sound hockey fan, you must be already pretty sick of Sam O'Reilly and Owen Willmore. O'Reilly scored his second clutch goal in a week against the Attack and Willmore matched his career-high 38 saves from last Saturday at the Bayshore in the London Knights' 5-4 overtime victory before 9,036 Friday at [...]

Harmony Centre's move to electric heat pumps and energy-efficient windows, mostly paid with government grants, has made the charitable organization warmer, healthier and more financially sustainable." Retrofits on the 150-year-old former Knox United Church, which had used a natural gas boiler and radiators, should cut greenhouse gas emissions by 50 metric tonnes, a release from [...]

Grey County agricultural innovator Ray Robertson has entered the Canadian Agricultural Hall of Fame. Robertson, president and executive director of Grey Agricultural Services, was one of seven people from across the country inducted into the hall at a ceremony in Charlottetown, P.E.I., on Saturday. It certainly came as a surprise and wasn't expected, but it [...]

In what was described as difficult and tough budget deliberations, Grey County got its proposed net tax levy increase below double digits - but barely. After another day of budget talks that included lists of cost-cutting options, failed motions and closed-door discussions, county council managed on Thursday to whittle down the proposed net levy increase [...]

A second MRI machine in Owen Sound has been scanning patients for about two weeks now, accommodating urgent patients more easily, while shrinking wait times and enabling more kinds of diagnoses locally. Those benefits were described to donors invited to a gathering Thursday just outside the room containing the new MRI machine at Brighshores Health [...]

The Owen Sound Attack have an attitude problem. At least that's the story from the locker room after a 5-0 shutout loss to the Kitchener Rangers at home in front of a sparse crowd of 2,179 at the Harry Lumley Bayshore Community Centre Wednesday night. We didn't execute. Didn't compete. We didn't show enough character [...]

People will gather at cenotaphs across Grey-Bruce Saturday for annual Remembrance Day services. Owen Sound's parade will assemble at the Royal Bank on 2nd Avenue at 9th Street East. About 10:50 a.m. it will march up 2nd Avenue to city hall, turn west on 8th Street East and north to the cenotaph on 1st Street [...]

South Bruce Peninsula will have waste collected at the curb hauled away and disposed of at a landfill site outside the municipality beginning in the new year. At its meeting on Tuesday, council authorized awarding the contract for curbside garbage collection and disposal for the next two years to Waste Management of Canada Corporation at [...]

Burnout and staffing challenges are making it so pet owners in Grey-Bruce will have to drive over an hour to an emergency vet clinic to get potentially life-saving care for their animals. I've never had an emergency happen between the hours of 9 to 5, Monday to Friday," said Candice Christian, who operates Just Woof [...]

Work continues on Grey Sauble Conservation Authority plans to renovate and expand its administration building in Georgian Bluffs near Inglis Falls. The octagonal building's updates will bring it up current office standards, make offices for future needs, and add a ground-level accessible main entrance, lobby and elevator and meeting space. The lobby and meeting space [...]

Is it possible to be a heavyweight in today's OHL? Jackson Stewart thinks so, but he's paying the price for acting like one Saturday night against London.

By the middle of the month, local pet owners faced with an after-hours emergency may have no other option than a long drive to the nearest open clinic after a phone call with a third-party telemedicine worker. A group of eight local veterinarian clinics recently informed clients they will no longer provide on-call emergency care [...]

The word dynasty doesn't seem to do it justice anymore. The St. Mary's Mustangs won a ninth-straight Bluewater Athletic Association championship Tuesday afternoon at Victoria Park with a 19-0 win over the Owen Sound District Wolves. Their championship streak is almost old enough to play on the team. Mustangs offensive coordinator, Callin Bethune, was in [...]