Owen Sound Sun Times

When Tara Shannon sketched a drawing of a rabbit and a bear and wrote about being afraid and needing comfort she was just trying to cope. She was thinking about the death of her parents. She was reckoning with cancer treatments, the loss of her job, and feeling emotions of anxiety, depression, and grief. She [...]

Guests of the Tom Thomson Art Gallery in downtown Owen Sound can now view a photographic history of the city, works by one of Canada's most renowned and mysterious artists, and a thought-provoking collection of photographic overlays depicting Lake Huron - all in about 200 steps. The art gallery officially opened its three newest exhibits [...]

Last year, goaltenders Brayden Gillespie and Carter George began the season in the Greater Ontario Junior Hockey League. On Friday night in Guelph, both goaltenders put on major league performances as the Owen Sound Attack won 3-2 in overtime over the Storm inside the Sleeman Centre. Gillespie, 18, and George, 17, went toe-to-toe between the [...]

Earlier this month, the Markham Pan Am Centre welcomed the 2023 Ontario Provincial Jiu-Jitsu Championship, the last major Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu tournament for 2023, with twelve athletes representing Grey-Bruce County and Kilian Academy. Thirty-two-year-old Firefighter Troy Adair from Owen Sound made his debut by securing silver in the Masters 1 white belt light division. Troy is [...]

The Owen Sound Attack will pay homage to the history of hockey in Owen Sound with a commemorative third jersey to be worn a total of nine times in the second half of the 2023-24 season. The special third jersey honours the 100th anniversary of the Memorial Cup champion 1924 Owen Sound Greys and was [...]

Chris Peabody has been elected warden for Bruce County for 2024. The Brockton mayor was chosen for the position for the second consecutive year at the county's inaugural meeting on Thursday. Peabody was the lone candidate nominated for the position. Peabody's nomination was moved by Huron-Kinloss Mayor Don Murray and seconded by South Bruce Mayor [...]

A local author and the first-ever captain of the Owen Sound Ice Hawks girls' hockey team is spreading her love of the game to the next generation of female athletes. Jenna Prestidge recently released the first three books of what will be a six-part series entitled Rosie The Hockey Player. The children's book series follows [...]

Georgian Bluffs is looking to expand an indoor organic waste processor pilot program it started this year. On Wednesday, council directed staff to include as part of its 2024 budget an extended and expanded FoodCycler pilot program to a further 200 households. The municipality launched the program this year, partnering with Food Cycle Science to [...]

Conservative Huron-Bruce MP Ben Lobb said his private member's bill to exempt farmers from paying carbon tax on propane and natural gas could end up dead in parliamentary limbo. Until Tuesday, his bill called for amending the Greenhouse Gas Pollution Pricing Act to allow carbon tax exemptions on propane and natural gas used to heat [...]

Georgian Bluffs council has retreated from a scary" 30 per cent hike to the base fee for Shallow Lake water system users in 2024, instead electing for a 10 per cent increase. At its meeting on Wednesday, council chose to adopt a recommendation to increase the base fee for users on the Shallow Lake system [...]

Georgian Bluffs is taking a proactive" approach and will begin regulating short-term accommodations across the municipality beginning in the spring, despite extensive research that found they are currently not causing major problems there. On Wednesday, council directed staff to develop a bylaw to begin regulating STAs in April, and subject to budget approval, identify staff [...]

Local authors will sign copies of their books at the 38th annual open house at The Ginger Press bookstore in downtown Owen Sound Saturday. The authors will be there from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. to feature their children's books, poetry, history, fiction, photography and more. The store's hours Saturday are 10 a.m. to 4 [...]

Police ended their search for a 38-year-old man to check on his well-being when they found him dead Thursday. No foul play is suspected, Grey Bruce OPP said in an update. Grey Bruce OPP had asked residents to avoid the Bognor Marsh area of Meaford while they searched, and had requested information from the public [...]

Owen Sound Deputy-mayor Scott Greig wants council to reopen the garbage bag tag discussion. He introduced a notice of motion at Monday's city council meeting to do so and said in an interview more discussion is needed because council didn't consider all relevant information. He was at a trade show event for work and couldn't [...]

Lit candles stood beside photos of Ecole Polytechnique's 14 victims, all killed 34 years ago because they were women, in what's known as the Montreal Massacre. The annual vigil in Owen Sound's market building remembered them, and 62 women whom Krystal Stukas, a Women's Centre Grey Bruce spokeswoman, said all died due to femicide - [...]

The Community Foundation Grey Bruce has announced a scholarship fund has been created in memory of Sharif Rahman, who died from injuries sustained in a serious assault outside his restaurant in downtown Owen Sound on Aug. 17. The new endowment, initiated by an anonymous donor, is named the Sharifur Rahman Memorial Scholarship Fund and will [...]

South Bruce Peninsula will take applications from eligible electors to fill its vacant council seat. At its meeting on Tuesday, council chose to fill the vacant council seat by appointing an individual rather than holding a by-election, which would cost the municipality an estimated $40,000 and staff time. Mayor Jay Kirkland said Tuesday that the [...]

Brian Milne is back as Grey County warden for 2024. The Southgate Mayor was acclaimed to the position for the second year in a row at the inaugural meeting in the county council chambers in Owen Sound late Tuesday afternoon. I love the job. I really do," Milne said following Tuesday's meeting, which was attended [...]

Owen Sound city council is approving a six-month extension to the construction timeline proposed for the historic courthouse and jail on 3rd Avenue East. Developers are planning to convert the building into an entertainment and event venue as well as a business incubator. In a report submitted to the committee of the whole Monday, staff [...]

Wednesday marks National Day of Remembrance Joachim Ostertag, representing Violence Prevention Grey Bruce, gave a deputation at Monday's council meeting as he has annually for several years in advance of the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women on December 6. Canadian parliament established the national day of remembrance in the wake [...]

The Mastermind Toys store in Owen Sound will close its doors. The Owen Sound location, at 1969 16th St. E., is one of 18 stores in Canada where liquidation sales are being held by the specialty children's toy and book retailer. The company obtained court approval on Nov. 30 to conduct the liquidation sales at [...]

Owen Sound officials are a continuing to dot the I's and cross the T's ahead of licensing short-term rentals and levying a municipal accommodation tax early next year. City council, sitting as committee of the whole, held a public meeting Monday about an amendment to a zoning bylaw to refine the definition of a bed [...]

Blue Mountain Resort is opening for the ski and snowboard season on Thursday. The hills at the resort will open beginning at 9 a.m. The Silver Bullet high-speed six-pack chairlift serving the Tranquility ski run and the Easy Rider beginner carpet will both be running until 4:30 p.m. that day, it announced in a news [...]

Three suspects were arrested after an armed robbery of a jewelry store in Collingwood Monday afternoon. Collingwood and The Blue Mountains OPP responded at approximately 3:20 p.m. to the robbery downtown, where three suspects were observed going into the store discharging a firearm in the process, police said in a news release. A short time [...]

A 22-year-old man has been arrested after a rollover crash involving a stolen vehicle near Owen Sound's eastside harbour late Monday afternoon. Just before 6 p.m., Owen Sound Police, Owen Sound Fire and Grey County Paramedics responded to the single-vehicle crash in the 1000 block of 1st Avenue East. The vehicle involved, which had been [...]

A film about the drug overdose crisis and the efforts being made to save lives and give hope to the marginalized community impacted by it is set to screen at the Roxy in Owen Sound on Thursday. Love in the Time of Fentanyl, a film set in Vancouver's Downtown East Side, often referred to as [...]

Police are investigating the theft of a trailer and tools valued at approximately $40,000 from a property in Grey Highlands. Just after 10 a.m. on Friday, Grey Bruce OPP investigated the theft of the trailer and other various tools from at the property on Grey Rd. 14. It was determined that sometime between 7 p.m. [...]

A South Bruce Peninsula man has been charged after a police officer was assaulted after responding to a disturbance in Wiarton on Saturday. Police attended a property on Boyd Street, where two individuals had engaged in a heated verbal dispute that escalated into a physical altercation, leading to a victim being assaulted, it said in [...]

Christmas shoppers were out Saturday at the Artisans Holiday Show and Sale in Owen Sound, where both buyers and sellers said they were feeling the pinch of the rising cost of living. There were 59 local artisans selling their baking and other foods, paintings, jewelry, woodworking, knitted and sewn garments and bags, metalwork and more, [...]

Illegal street racing mogul Dominic Toretto once said, it doesn't matter whether you win by an inch or a mile, winning is winning." And if we can extrapolate his powerful statement and assume the inverse - - losing is just losing - - and the Owen Sound Attack keep finding new ways to lose. On [...]

Police and the fire marshal are investigating suspicious" fires at townhouses under construction in Blue Mountains over two days last week. No injuries were reported in either incident, Collingwood/Blue Mountains OPP said in a news release on Saturday. Four townhouses were destroyed Thursday in a fire reported about 5:40 a.m. in the area of 190 [...]

It's probably nothing of consequence, but this past week the Owen Sound Attack took some time from their typical daily schedule of hockey practices to play dodgeball at the YMCA. We just wanted to make sure they're together as a group," explained Attack assistant coach Sean Teakle. I think sometimes that goes a lot further [...]

Christmas toy drive organizers are expecting longer lists of children's names to shop for this year. Last year's Owen Sound Firefighters' toy drive provided toys to about 650 kids in the city. The Inter Township Fire Department's toy drive supplied toys to about 60 kids in Georgian Bluffs and Meaford. The Salvation Army assesses the [...]

Police have arrested another suspect to do with an armed robbery and home invasion in Hanover in October. Charles Chuck" Martin, 42, of Waterloo was arrested after a foot pursuit in Kitchener by Waterloo Regional Police Nov. 30 at 9 a.m., Hanover Police Service announced in a news release Dec. 1. Hanover police said in [...]

Owen Sound's garbage bag tags, which cost $2.50 now, will cost $1 more starting in the new year. Council endorsed Coun. Jon Farmer's motion to increase the price to $3.50 each, in a split vote. Staff had recommended raising the price to $3.25 each. The change is estimated to raise about $100,000 and possibly more [...]

Fledgling Gingerbug has captured a mighty dragon. The Silk family from Meaford landed long-time dragon Arlene Dickinson as a partner in their startup company, as shown during their appearance on CBC's Dragons' Den on Thursday. And they got exactly what they asked for when they went into the den - $200,000 for 10 per cent [...]

From the rink in Listowel to one of softball's biggest stages, Durham's Alex McGillivray has enjoyed a busy fall season competing in both the local and international arenas. The 18-year-old helped Team Canada's under-18 softball team win a bronze medal at the World Baseball Softball Confederation Under-18 Men's Softball World Cup in Mexico recently and [...]

Owen Sound council ended its pre-budget discussions Friday with an average residential taxpayer facing about a $155 increase in property taxes next year. That included a 3.16 per cent city budget levy increase and a predicted seven per cent Grey County levy increase, for a combined percentage increase of 3.63 per cent. That's a bit [...]

The unemployment rate for the region that includes Grey-Bruce saw a slight increase in November over its previous month. The rate for the Stratford Bruce Peninsula Economic Region ticked up a tenth of a per cent to 3.7 per cent in November, after the region's overall population and labour force size increased by 300 simultaneously, [...]

A hotel, marina, two condominium apartment buildings and a seniors apartment building are proposed for the long-vacant Russel Brothers factory waterfront site in Owen Sound. The city posted online a public notice of intention to remove a holding provision on much of the site at 2198 3rd Ave. E., a requirement before anything could be [...]

There are a dozen COVID-19 outbreaks at health-care institutions in Grey-Bruce and an uptick in respiratory illness across the province. Test positivity for COVID-19 in Ontario was 20.4 per cent for the period measured between Nov. 12 and Nov. 18, although limited widespread testing presents a challenge with getting an accurate estimate of the number [...]

Nominations for induction into the Owen Sound Sports Hall of Fame in 2024 will be accepted until Dec. 31. Forms and criteria are downloadable from the city's website, under Sports Hall of Fame. Nominations will be accepted in the following categories: athletes, builders, teams and merit. Induction ceremonies will take place Friday, May 3 at [...]

How do you make heads or tails of the season thus far if you're in charge of the Owen Sound Attack and over a third of the way through the campaign? In the past month, the team lost four games in a row before winning five straight on the road. They've beaten the league-leading Kitchener [...]

Saugeen Ojibway Nation wants the Supreme Court to consider whether the Crown owed a fiduciary duty to them and whether it was breached when the Crown didn't stop settlers from moving into the Bruce Peninsula, which was promised to SON. It's asking the Supreme Court of Canada for leave to appeal parts of lower court [...]

One person is dead as the result of a house fire in Kincardine Friday. Emergency services responded to a residential fire on Whippoorwill Lane in Kincardine late Friday morning. A 911 call from a neighbour made at approximately 10:50 a.m. indicated a visible fire inside the home with heavy smoke and an occupant believed to [...]

The Owen Sound Ice Hawks under-15 C team won a bronze medal at the Owen Sound Girls Hockey Norther Lights Tournament this past weekend in Owen Sound. The Ice Hawks topped a team from Mississauga, 5-1, to earn the bronze medals after falling 4-1 to Collingwood in a semifinal contest. The loss to Collingwood was [...]

This coming weekend the Markham Pan Am Centre will play host to the 2023 Ontario Provincial Jiu-Jitsu Championship, the last major Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu tournament for 2023. Twelve athletes representing Grey and Bruce counties and the Kilian Academy will fight for gold at this year's Championship. Twelve-year-old Southampton phenom and Canadian White Belt Champion Hunter Ward [...]

Residential building permit demand has plummetedin Grey County this year over the last two years, a county staff report shows. Forty-five per cent fewer residential building permits were issued to the end of September this year over last - 371 units this year compared with 687 last year. It's also a 53 per cent drop [...]