Owen Sound Sun Times

The SS Norisle, a predecessor to the MS Chi-Cheemaun on the ferry route between Tobermory and Manitoulin Island, is on its way to being scrapped. On Wednesday, the 214-foot ship that has been moored at Manitowaning on the island for close to 50 years was pulled from its berth by a tugboat and began the [...]

Work starts Tuesday on a six-week project to fix the foundation at Meaford Museum. The museum is housed in the town's old water pumping station, built in 1895. The museum's been there since 1961 and the building has undergone renovations and expansion. The work will focus the foundation of the original building, said Cassandra Cesco, [...]

Four people have been charged and a significant quantity of illegal drugs have been seized after search warrants were executed at three residences on Highway 6 in Georgian Bluffs on Thursday. Police seized suspected methamphetamine, fentanyl and cocaine, in addition to scales, cellular phones and prohibited devices, police said in a news release. These arrests [...]

City staff have approved a community garden application for Ed Taylor Park, the first since policies were updated for gardens in city parks. The Ed Taylor Park Community Collective was granted a one-year term, renewable possibly for a three-year term. It's in the neighbourhood below the 10th Street East extension, which passes to the south [...]

Statistics are showing that it was a particularly deadly year on the roads, trails and waterways of Grey-Bruce. On Thursday, days before the start of a provincial traffic safety blitz, the Grey Bruce OPP said that there were 14 fatal collisions in the detachment area in 2022, more than any other area of the province. [...]

A Saugeen Ojibway Nation lawyer said they're considering seeking leave to appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada a recent Ontario appeal court decision concerning SON's multi-billion-dollar Bruce Peninsula land claim and Aboriginal title claim. SON lawyer Cathy Guirguis said Thursday they have until the end of October to formalize an appeal of the Aug. [...]

Grey Bruce Public Health has reported the area's first laboratory-confirmed flu case of the respiratory 2023-24 illness season. A Grey County resident has tested positive for Influenza A, which was likely acquired during out-of-province travel, the health unit said in a news release. It is an earlier than usual start to the influenza season in [...]

Grey Bruce Public Health has issued an alert after it received reports of four drug overdoses, including a probable fentanyl-related death, in the past five days. Toxicology results are still pending, but fentanyl is suspected in three of the four overdoses, while methamphetamine is the suspected substance in one of the non-fatal overdoses, the health [...]

A cyclist was airlifted to hospital in London with serious injuries following a crash in South Bruce on Tuesday. Just before 6 a.m., South Bruce OPP received a report of a collision involving a bicycle near the intersection of Bruce Rd. 28 and Conc. 4 in the former Carrick Township south of Mildmay. Police responded [...]

A Newmarket resident has been charged after driving on the wrong side of the road cresting a hill to pass a line of traffic and then attempting to drive around a firefighter holding a stop sign at a collision scene on Highway 10 in Chatsworth. Grey-Bruce OPP were investigating the collision on the highway before [...]

South Bruce Grey Health Services are adjusting their masking guidelines as the region enters the fall respiratory virus season. The local health corporation, which operates hospitals in Chesley, Durham, Walkerton and Kincardine, announced Wednesday that effective immediately, it was introducing new masking requirements for patients, visitors and staff. For patients and visitors, it is recommended [...]

NEW GM AT SAUBLE SPEEDWAY Brad Holmes is the new general manager at Sauble Speedway. Racetrack owners Jeff Cassidy and Paul Gresel announced the hiring Wednesday afternoon. Holmes has experience in the automotive industry and 20 years of passion and dedication to racing, a media release said. Holmes said he's spent years preparing for the [...]

A few years before Colby Barlow started marking headlines for looking like a man in a teenager's body and becoming a premier National Hockey League prospect, he was taking Owen Sound by storm. On Tuesday, the first-round pick of the Winnipeg Jets returned to the Scenic City to lead the club for another season. In [...]

The Owen Sound Police Service still has spots available in its annual citizen's police academy. The service announced on Tuesday that it was looking for people interested in taking a deep dive into the world of policing operations in the city. The citizen's police academy begins on Oct. 18 and runs eight consecutive Wednesday evenings [...]

Grey-Bruce residents will now be able to pick up and drop off well water testing kits and samples at 14 locations throughout the two counties. Grey Bruce Public Health announced that beginning Wednesday, a service that was locally developed in collaboration with area municipalities, was to begin offering improved local access to the Public Health [...]

With winter around the corner, Grey-Bruce's first West Nile virus-positive mosquitoes for this year have been found in a trap in southern Bruce County. Grey Bruce Public Health confirmed on Tuesday that they had received confirmation from a microbiology laboratory in St. Catharines that the mosquito pool retrieved in Brockton and sent for testing on [...]

Kesleys restaurant in Owen Sound will undergo a major renovation, required after a fire Aug. 1, and is anticipated to reopen in early fall 2024. The company provided an update Wednesday by email in response to a Sun Times request. We've confirmed that the fire at our Owen Sound Kelseys location started in the electrical [...]

South Bruce OPP is investigating a theft in Lucknow of a pickup truck valued at more than $52,000. On Saturday, just before 4 p.m., police received a report of the theft from an address on Campbell Street. The red Ford F-250 pickup with licence plate No. BW89137 was taken sometime between Sept. 28 at 9 [...]

The Owen Sound Salvation Army's annual Thanksgiving food drive has a lot riding on it, again. August saw an increase of 42 per cent in the number of people helped at the food bank, compared with last August. There were 1,064 individuals helped, compared to 745 a year ago. These are the latest figures available. [...]

The Friends of Sauble Beach have completed the first phase of their Post and Rope project aimed at protecting the sand dunes at Sauble Beach. In recent days, about 20 volunteers from the friends group and the community installed the ropes and posts along a section of the beach from the area of the former [...]

The Owen Sound Attack have solved an overage abundance issue. On Tuesday afternoon the team announced Kaleb Lawrence is heading closer to home to play out his Ontario Hockey League career with the Ottawa 67's. The 67's are returning their 2024 8th-round pick in the deal. Lawrence recently returned from training camp with the National [...]

The smiling faces said it all as the Owen Sound District Secondary School leadership class held its second annual Terry Fox Fire Truck Pull out front of the school on Tuesday morning. The event was a smashing success. Held as a fundraiser for the Terry Fox Foundation and to teach students about community involvement, teams [...]

Jay Kirkland has been sworn in as mayor of South Bruce Peninsula. The municipality passed a bylaw during its council meeting on Tuesday to appoint Kirkland to the position, which had been vacant since Garry Michi resigned in late August. The former mayor stepped down after he was heard on a recording making disparaging remarks [...]

No one was injured in a fire which destroyed a two-storey brick home in the Pottawatomi Village subdivision this morning. Inter Township Fire Department firefighters responded to a fire call about 5:15 a.m. and the fire was fully involved when they arrived, Fire Chief Jeff Gautreau said at the scene. No one was home at [...]

About 450 passengers will make the return voyage of the Chi-Cheemaun ferry from Tobermory to Owen Sound on Monday, Oct. 16, the Owen Sound Transportation Company announced. The annual trip back to Owen Sound, where the ferry will spend the winter, is fully booked. It's a sigh-seeing trip offering an opportunity to see the fall [...]

The Court of Appeal for Ontario has ordered Saugeen Ojibway Nation's Aboriginal title claim for waters surrounding the Bruce Peninsula to be examined further by the trial judge, but limited to the Hope Bay area of the peninsula. The area claimed at trial included from near Goderich to the Canada-United States boundary in Lake Huron, [...]

Grey Bruce Public Health has led a project aimed at identifying and enhancing ways to prevent opioid use and related harms among Ontario youth. Known as a Locally Driven Collaborative Project, the initiative came up with a number of recommendations for improving efforts to prevent and delay substance use among people aged 15 to 24. [...]

A salmon, hole in a tree, squirrel, mushrooms and feather - - those were some of the items the Sydenham Bruce Trail Club chose for their children's treasure hunt Saturday. The local conservation club that started in 1962 played host to Bruce Trail Day celebrations at Harrison Park on Saturday afternoon. From 1 to 3 [...]

Just get the puck on net and good things happen. It's a saying as old as the ink in the hockey coaches' handbook, and on Saturday night it resulted in a win for the Owen Sound Attack, 4-2, over the Barrie Colts in the Bears' home opener at the Bayshore. Sam Sedley's three points led [...]

Chippewas of Nawash Unceded First Nation Chief Greg Nadjiwon stood behind a microphone in front of a sacred fire and spoke about the time he broke down crying in the halls of a former residential school near Algoma University. Dozens dressed in orange listened to the chief at the Gichi-Name Wiikwedong Reconciliation Garden near Kelso [...]

Saturday's plumpest pumpkin hit the scales at Pumpkinfest 2023 in Port Elgin weighing in at 1,596.50 pounds. To get there it was grown in St. Thomas by a man named John Butler, and Butler got the seed from a man in Alaska. I just met this man on vacation one year and we swapped seeds. [...]

The Hanover Police are seeking the public's assistance in seeking two men who are accused of robbing a victim in a wheelchair of sentimental personal items including photographs of deceased family members. According to a police media release distributed Friday evening, police were called to the area of 10th Street and 11th Avenue for a [...]

It's a tough look to pull out the bad bounces" card so early in the season but the wrong-time wrong-place ricochet plagued the Owen Sound Attack Friday night in Guelph. The Storm took the regular-season opener for both clubs by a score of 4-2 thanks in large part to a few Attack miscues and a [...]

Dale DeGray worked the phones Friday afternoon ahead of the Owen Sound Attack's regular-season opener in Guelph. Heading into his 17th season as the club's general manager DeGray is an elder statesman of the league, and he wanted other teams to know he's shopping. I'm just trying to see what's what. We have four overages [...]

Police said Friday that they continue to actively investigate the death of Sharif Rahman in Owen Sound in August. Grey Bruce OPP said in a release that the OPP and Owen Sound police have received many tips concerning the 44-year-old restaurateur's death. Both police services have made this investigation a priority and continue to dedicate [...]

Grey County will help organize a conference to build on momentum driven by a local hydrogen electrolyzer development and manufacturing company. Hydrogen Optimized, in Owen Sound's industrial park, this month announced it received a $3.5 million federal economic development loan towards an $11 million fivefold expansion of its production capabilities through robot automation and to [...]

Plans are in the works for Meaford's former high school, as well as its neighbouring running track and green space. A Toronto-based not-for-profit is proposing to turn the site of Meaford's former high school at St. Vincent Street into an engineering and trades college, while the municipality is setting aside funds and seeking the county's [...]

Grey County is seeking a $100,000 grant for 20 Level 2 electric vehicle chargers at its transportation depots and administration building, with the possibility of more elsewhere. The county is considering medium-speed chargers intended for use with cars, SUVs and pickups to be recharged overnight. The chargers will have the capability to meter the electricity [...]

Grey County council deferred discussion Thursday of a motion to buy the former Meaford high school football field property for affordable housing. The motion wasn't dealt with in open session, after procedural concerns raised. Council went behind closed doors earlier than scheduled to consider a staff report regarding the potential purchase and not much more [...]

The Friends of Cabot Head are once again trying to tip-toe through waves of bureaucracy and the permissions of various stakeholders in order to maintain the significant cultural heritage lighthouse at Cabot Head Provincial Park and Nature Reserve. Since 2020, when the municipality of Northern Bruce Peninsula voted to discontinue its lease with the federal [...]

Owen Sound council voted Monday to roughly double and phase in its development charges for residential construction to $16,221, while continuing to encourage rental housing. The new 10-year bylaw continues a development charge exemption for purpose-built rental housing already in the queue until March 2026. To qualify as a rental development, a property must add [...]

Police arrested a federal offender on the run from a Canada-wide warrant in Walkerton Wednesday. The Repeat Offender Parole Enforcement Squad (ROPE) advised the public via a media release that Aaron Marshall was located and arrested by the Peel Regional Police Service with the assistance of the South Bruce OPP and the emergency response team. [...]

Owen Sound council voted to issue a call for community groups and skilled volunteers to help fix Weaver's Creek boardwalk in Harrison Park. The 20-year-old wooden walkway near the Harrison Park pool which leads to the falls has been closed since June, when an ash tree fell on the boardwalk. It was then closed for [...]

City staff have begun to look at the pros and cons of ride-sharing services such as Uber and others. Owen Sound council on Monday endorsed a report from its community and business development manager, Paul McGrath, to allow staff to conduct further research and engage stakeholders before any ride-sharing service might be provided in Owen [...]

Nothing pisses you off more as a player than having to see other guys win when you think you should be in that position." Cedrick Guindon and the Owen Sound Attack have one goal in mind entering the 2023-24 season - - win it all. And while it's true that's the goal for all 20 [...]

The Sydenham Bruce Trail Club will hold a Bruce Trail Day Sunday at Harrison Park in Owen Sound. The day of hiking and family fun will include guided nature hikes featuring a challenging trek through the Palisades section of the Bruce Trail and a children's treasure hunt. Residents may engage with the Sydenham Bruce Trail [...]

Saturday marks the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation and Orange Shirt Day and several local events are planned. Truth and Reconciliation Day is a federal statutory holiday to recognize, reflect on and commemorate the legacy of residential schools. It coincides with Orange Shirt Day, which was first established as an observance in 2013 as [...]

Owen Sound council voted to limit short-term rentals to 90 nights a year during final deliberations Monday on regulating the sometimes-problematic rentals. Coun. Melanie Middlebro', vice-chair of the corporate services committee, pulled the STR recommendations from the committee's minutes for council to consider separately, then she proposed capping the nights at 90 annually. We want [...]

In 2020, three pumpkin growers joined forces to try and break the 2,000-pound mark at the Port Elgin Pumpkinfest. Chris Lyons along with Phil and Jane Hunt broke the Port Elgin site record with their 1,939.5-pound pumpkin but failed to tip the scales with a pumpkin weighing over a ton. It's been a good year [...]

City council voted 4-3 on Monday to disband Owen Sound's Accessibility Advisory Committee in favour of the city joining Grey County's Joint Accessibility Advisory Committee. The committee will remain operational until the end of January. Now the city will write to the county indicating it wants to join its accessibility committee and to ask for [...]