Owen Sound Sun Times

A new study has revealed that more than 330 people were able to access more than $1 million thanks to free income tax programs being offered in five Grey-Bruce municipalities. On Tuesday, the Bruce Grey Poverty Task Force, along with the United Way of Bruce Grey and the Grey Bruce Community Foundation, released its Grey [...]

Darren Rumble will call the shots behind the bench for the Owen Sound Attack while the Scenic City skaters reverberate from the shockwave of Greg Walters' firing earlier this week. The team named Rumble interim head coach Wednesday morning. Sean Teakle will remain in his current role of assistant coach. The Attack announced Walter's firing [...]

The Silver C's, Caring Canadians, have collected more than 7,100 pounds of food in their first Thanksgiving food drive. The fellowship group for retired men in the Owen Sound area is calling the drive an overwhelming success" after it was held at area grocery stores leading up to Thanksgiving. Along with the 7,103 lbs. of [...]

Words Aloud Poetry Festival returns to local stages this weekend. It's been four years since the weekend of poetry was held. It will take place at several locations in Owen Sound and Meaford, from Friday through Sunday. Everyone who loves the written and spoken word is invited to be moved by top-flight poets who don't [...]

After business people raised concerns about downtown safety at a city chamber of commerce event last month, the chamber has organized a public meeting Oct. 30 to help bring forward information and answers. The meeting will take place from 8:30 to 10 a.m. at the Harry Lumley Bayshore Community Centre in Owen Sound. While it's [...]

The Walk for OSHaRE has raised $430,000 for the Owen Sound-based charity that provides hundreds of meals a day to those in need. More than 100 people came out to the walk on Sept. 22, which marked the Owen Sound Hunger and Relief Effort's 10th anniversary in the community. On Tuesday, the charity announced the [...]

The Sauble Beach and Wiarton MD Quest team is optimistic that their efforts are paying off as they try to attract more family physicians to the area. The recruitment team was at South Bruce Peninsula council on Tuesday where they provided an update on their efforts over the past few months, and reported that they [...]

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 [...]

MacKAY STICKS WITH BANDITS Port Elgin's Ian MacKay is staying in Buffalo and signed a three-year contract with the NLL's Bandits earlier this month. MacKay finished the 2022-23 season with new career highs in goals (19), points (38) and loose-ball recoveries (121) while also tying his previous career high in games played (18). In his [...]

After a summer of periodic emergency room closures in South Bruce Grey Health Centre hospitals and elsewhere, the province has given SBGHC some money to hire agency nurses. Chesley hospital's emergency department closed again all day Tuesday but hospital president and CEO Nancy Shaw said there's reason for optimism that those closures will diminish and [...]

A 56-year-old Hanover man is facing charges after being accused of sexually assaulting a female youth. According to a Hanover Police media release, it's alleged the man sexually assaulted a female youth and that the offender and victim are known to each other. Police received a complaint of the sexual assault on Oct. 10. During [...]

The newly formed Southwestern Ontario Isotope Coalition hopes to plant its flag in what is expected to be a rapidly growing industry within the next decade. Industry analysts suggest the global demand for medical isotopes, many of which are produced at Bruce Power's plant in Tiverton, will double by 2021 with the international market swelling [...]

Northern Bruce Peninsula council voted on Oct. 10 to hire Kitchener-based Ball Construction to act on behalf of the municipality by dealing with the architects, engineers and other consultants, at a cost of $1,121,220, plus tax. Construction is to start in April and finish May 29, 2025. Council has limited the total cost of the [...]

Owen Sound Attack general manager Dale DeGray said there is no good time to fire a coach, but there are surprising times, and Monday afternoon after a 4-2-1-0 start is definitely puzzling. The Owen Sound Attack announced the firing of head coach Greg Walters a day after the team returned from its three-game northern Ontario [...]

NORTH STARS AT BROGDEN CUP The Team Ontario under-17 team finished with a record of 2-2 at the two-day USA Brogden Cup in Maryland this past weekend. Featuring Owen Sound's Laine Nissen, Taryn Lee, Bree Wilkins and head coach Lyndsay Brooks - Team Ontario beat the Haudenosaunee Nationals 13-3 and 16-2. Wilkins had two goals [...]

Cedric Guindon had a goal and three assists as the Owen Sound Attack earned a 4-0 victory over the Soo Greyhounds in OHL action at the GFL Memorial Gardens on Saturday night. Attack head coach Greg Walters says it was just a matter of time until Guindon found the scoresheet, saying the centreman has run [...]

A man who displayed a gun and demanded money from a convenience store clerk in Shallow Lake Sunday night left empty-handed when the woman behind the counter wouldn't give it to him. The manager of Allan's Mercantile, Jodie Rutledge, recounted in an interview Monday morning what her employee told her she saw and did and [...]

When Jeannette Scobie's dream of establishing a French-language Catholic school in Owen Sound came to fruition in 1998, there were just seven students. On Saturday, Scobie returned to celebrate how far Ecole catholique Saint-Dominique-Savio has come as the now almost 200-student school marked its 25th anniversary in the community. I was so happy that they [...]

Local electric vehicle owners gathered at Cobble Beach on Saturday where they tooted the horns of their plug-in rides. About 15 vehicles graced the grass of the golf resort community in Georgian Bluffs as part of the first rEVolution fair, put on by the local Community Climate Action Working Group as a way to educate [...]

When Mary Lynn Houston-Leask thinks of what the M'Wikwedong Indigenous Friendship Centre has become today, she is overcome with a sense of accomplishment. Houston-Leask, the perinatal nurse at the centre for 22 years now, first stepped into what was then the M'Wikwedong Native Cultural Resource Centre in 2000. She was the wife of a survivor [...]

The driver of a pick-up truck was arrested and charged with impaired driving after the vehicle drove through the front wall of a home on Owen Sound's east side early Sunday morning. The homeowners were in the residence asleep at the time of the crash, but fortunately no one was hurt as a result, Owen [...]

Higher interest rates and an increase in the number of properties on the market have home sales softening in Grey-Bruce. The Realtors Association of Grey Bruce Owen Sound reported that sales were down by 2.1 per cent in September when compared to September 2022. The 183 units sold were four less than they were in [...]

It's unlikely the Sudbury Wolves could have scripted a better return to action for their most recently signed NHL prospects than the one that played out during a 3-2 overtime win against the Owen Sound Attack on Thursday night. They may have raised a reader's eyebrow by selecting defenceman Djibril Toure to score two goals [...]

Bruce Power is supporting a study that will explore the potential to produce hydrogen using electricity generated by nuclear power. The feasibility study by Kinectrics and FuelCell Energy was one of a number that the Independent Electricity System Operator announced on Thursday that it would fund through its Hydrogen Innovation Fund. The studies will all [...]

Grey County is pitching the province in an effort to turn the former Georgian Bay Community School track property in Meaford into affordable housing and green space. The 8.4-acre parcel of land at 87 Aiken St. in Meaford will soon be offered to the public for sale, but Meaford and Grey County are hoping the [...]

The West Grey and Owen Sound police services are receiving funding to enhance supports for mental health crisis response in those communities. On Tuesday, the Ontario government announced just over $113,000 in funding for the Owen Sound police and $93,000 for the West Grey police through the Mobile Crisis Response Team Enhancement Grant program. In [...]

The Georgian Bay Symphony will kick off its 52nd season on a sinister and spooky note. On Oct. 28, the local symphony will hold its Halloween Fright Night featuring some of the spookiest classical music ever written. It will include selections from Lloyd Webber's Phantom of the Opera, Saint-Saens' Danse Macabre, Mussorgsky's Night on Bald [...]

Long-time Meaford resident Ruby Ferguson will have a lasting impact in the community after her estate made a more than $1.15 million contribution to Brightshores Health Systems. Ferguson's estate recently made a donation totaling $1,153,836 to the hospital corporation through the Owen Sound and Meaford foundations. Her will directed that the funds be directed toward [...]

Three public access points on Bass Lake will remain open and in control of Georgian Bluffs, but the township has no plans to make any improvements or upgrades for public use. But the township says it will be receptive to reviewing and considering a future proposal if one is made for a resident group-owned and [...]

Georgian Bluffs council has turned down a proposal from a private business to install artificial turf in the Derby arena and rent out the facility to users. At its committee of the whole meeting in Shallow Lake on Wednesday, council moved to direct staff to inform Ontario Sport Development that it is not interested in [...]

In January, Owen Sound was the site of Hockey Day. Next month, the city plans to again celebrate the game when it holds HockeyFest. On Tuesday, the City of Owen Sound announced that a number of partners are coming together to hold HockeyFest 2023 on Nov. 17 and 18. The event will include a Ontario [...]

Students at Owen Sound District Secondary School are teaming up with local potters and area businesses to hold a fundraiser that will help those in need in the community. The Leadership Class at the school is getting set to put on their Empty Bowls event on Nov . 9, where participants can enjoy soup prepared [...]

A wood manufacturing industry group with roots in Grey-Bruce is welcoming a new funding program that will help small- and medium-sized companies in the age-old industry continue to be successful into the future. The federal government recently announced that it was providing almost $2.9 million in support to the Wood Manufacturing Cluster of Ontario (WMCO) [...]

Hellyer's Foodland will be rebuilt after fire at the fifth-generation Lion's Head business forced it to close Aug. 29. The store itself is structurally sound," a post on the store's Facebook site said Thursday. A portion of the rafters and ceiling that were affected by the fire need to be replaced as does one exterior [...]

Owen Sound YMCA Peace Medal nominations are open until Oct. 27. The award celebrates acts of peace by recognizing individuals and groups who, without any special resources, status, wealth or position, have demonstrated a commitment to building peace within their community or communities elsewhere in the world," a Y news release says. Local peacemakers will [...]

Justin Ertel scored a bizarre shorthanded goal that proved the winner as the North Bay Battalion defeated the Owen Sound Attack 3-1 Monday in Ontario Hockey League action. Carter Kostuch and Owen Van Steensel, into an empty net, had the other North Bay goals before a Memorial Gardens crowd of 2,709 for the renewal of [...]

The unemployment rate remained steady at just over four per cent in the region last month while the labour force decreased by 1,600 and those not participating in the labour force increased by 2,000. According to a report from the Four County Labour Market Planning Board, the region's unemployment rate decreased by 0.3 percantage points [...]

Ski and snowboarding fans can mark Thursday, Dec. 7 on their calendars as Blue Mountain Resort has pegged the day as the opening of the local ski season. The popular ski resort near Collingwood announced the date on Friday, citing the forecasted drop in temperatures and a historical precedent of the resort opening in the [...]

Bruce County's chief administrative officer is set to retire in December just over a year after his appointment. The county announced CAO Derrick Thomson has officially announced his intention to retire on Dec. 15 after a 43-year career in public service. On behalf of the entire county, I would like to thank CAO Derrick Thomson [...]

A husband and wife team from Walkerton will push their mental and physical limits while raising money for palliative care in the area. Jenna Lee Lethbridge and Tyler O'Gorman have entered the Spartan Race set for Blue Mountain on Oct. 21 and are raising money for the Saugeen Hospice. The Spartan Race Sprint is a [...]

Local filmmakers working on a documentary about invasive quagga mussels in the Great Lakes discovered what's believed to be a wreck of a 128-year-old wooden steamship in Lake Huron. The discovery happened in June after Yvonne Drebert and Zach Melnick received a tip that scientists doing a fish study off Bruce Peninsula's west coast noticed [...]

They almost let it slip away, but 2,500-plus Owen Sound Attack fans went home thankful for the team's veterans on Saturday night. Ethan Burroughs recorded the first four-point night of his career including the overtime winner in a 6-5 win over the Erie Otters at the Bayshore. Deni Goure netted two goals, including a shorthanded [...]

Five hours after first alerting the public about an increased police presence in Kincardine, the South Bruce OPP said on X (formerly known as Twitter) that the incident is over and one person was taken into custody. Police said more details will shared as they become available. The South Bruce Ontario Provincial Police are making [...]

A house fire in Meaford resulted in a trip to the hospital for one person who suffered burns in the blaze. According to Meaford Fire Chief Courtney Allen, the fire began around 2 p.m. the afternoon of Oct. 2 on the second floor of a Lombard Street home in Meaford. Allen said the firefighting effort [...]

The Ontario Provincial Police's Community Street Crime Unit along with the South Bruce OPP and Hanover Police Service have charged four people with drug and stolen property offences after executing search a warrant along 10th Street in Hanover. According to a police media release, officers executed the search warrant Friday and seized a quantity of [...]

Colby Barlow scored a pair of goals in his first game back and Carter George once again tormented Rangers fans at The Aud as the Owen Sound Attack beat Kitchener 5-2 on the road Friday. Jake Crawford opened the scoring early in the first period. Jackson Stewart drove wide before cutting into the net area. [...]

The St. Mary's Mustangs bounced back from a loss to Saugeen District in their Bluewater Athletic Association gridiron opener with a shutout of cross-town rival Owen Sound District Friday afternoon. Quarterback Dereon Bushey's connection with wide receiver Wyatt Fassl proved the difference on the scoreboard as the Mustangs' topped the Wolves 20-0. The Stangs defence [...]

Thanksgiving came early at OSHaRE, with a full roast beef dinner Thursday, leftover roast beef in shepherd's pie Friday, then Saturday visitors will get three meals to take with them. That's why we do ours on Thursday, 'cause we always want to make sure we can use everything up," said Colleen Trask Seaman, executive director [...]

Kincardine council has approved the sale of the municipally owned Bruce Telecom telecommunications company to a private investment firm. The municipality announced on Thursday that it was selling all shares of the company, whose roots can be traced back almost 115 years in the community, to Windsor Private Capital. The purchase price is valued at [...]