Owen Sound Sun Times

In a major senior hockey shake-up, 10 teams from the Western Ontario Athletic Association's senior double-A hockey league announced Thursday they're leaving the circuit to form a new Ontario Elite Hockey League. The OEHL will begin play in two months under the Ontario Hockey Association and Hockey Canada umbrella. The 10 teams leaving the WOAA [...]

The skies near Dundalk soon will be filled with dragons and giant squid when Grey County's free kite festival returns on Aug. 26 and 27. Dave Meslin is organizing the second kite festival, planned this year for a Hopeville farm at the corner of Grey Road 9 and Southgate Sideroad 15. Several guest kite fliers [...]

Georgian Bluffs is seeking public feedback about permitting backyard chickens in residential areas. The township has opened up a consultation process on its Engage Georgian Bluffs public engagement forum at engageGB.ca, where residents can complete a short survey, share opinions and use an interactive map to locate areas where they believe backyard chickens should be [...]

The United Way of Bruce Grey is stuffing a bus this week to assist local families finding it difficult to fill their kids' backpacks as they prepare to head back to class. A full-size school bus arrived outside Staples on the Sunset Strip just west of Owen Sound on Thursday, where it will remain Friday [...]

Lucknow's Julie-Anne Staehli is set to compete in the women's 5,000-metre race when the best track and field athletes converge at the World Athletic Championships in Budapest beginning this weekend. Staehli is one of three Canadian women running in the 5,000-metre race. Heats for the race begin Wednesday, Aug. 23, with the women's 5,000-metre final [...]

Georgian Bluffs is going to its residents for input on how to allocate resources and funding over the next year. The municipality is holding an in-person public engagement session for the 2024 budget at the Grey Roots Museum and Archives near Rockford on Aug. 24 from 3 to 7 p.m., where people can discuss what [...]

Owen Sound is inviting the public to provide feedback on the Harrison Park Master Plan, designed to shape the park over the next decade and beyond. The city announced Tuesday that an online survey about the plan was now open, allowing citizens and visitors to have input on it until Sept. 11 at the city's [...]

Neyaashiinigmiing's annual traditional powwow is returning to Cape Croker Park this weekend for the community's 37th annual weekend celebration of culture in honour of local veterans. Members of the Chippewas of Nawash Unceded First Nation at Neyaashiinigmiing are set to hold the celebration at the Arthur Butch" Elliott Azhdayoniquot Memorial Cultural Grounds on Saturday and [...]

Wardens of Grey and of Bruce counties and municipal officials from Owen Sound and Walkerton have many issues to raise with provincial counterparts at a conference next week. The week-long Association of Municipalities of Ontario conference in London offers municipal officials the chance to plead their case directly to provincial ministers, parliamentary secretaries and other [...]

Home sales in Grey-Bruce rebounded by nearly 70 per cent in July year-over-year. According to monthly statistics reported by the REALTORS Association of Grey Bruce Owen Sound (RAGBOS), 241 units were sold in July, marking an increase of 69.7 per cent from July 2022, though home sales were 17.6 per cent below the five-year average [...]

The Gran Fondo Lake Huron fundraising campaign in support of Grey Bruce Health Services and the Saugeen Memorial Hospital Foundation with pass the $1 million mark this year. Despite the cancellation of the ride in 2020, and a pivot to a small virtual event in 2021, Gran Fondo cyclists have raised $843,000 since the start [...]

The first phase of Bruce County's Transit and Demand Feasibility Study is over. Now, the county is seeking the public's input on prioritizing the needs of its citizens to help shape potential transit solutions. In May, the county surveyed residents, workers, students and visitors through an online survey aimed at helping it and its consultants [...]

UNITED LOSE TO SOARING EAGLES Owen Sound United, sponsored by the Jerry Pfeil Auto Group, lost 5-1 to the league-leading Kitchener Polish Eagles Sunday night at the Kiwanis Soccer Complex. The Eagles remain undefeated on the season with 11 wins and two ties. Simon Petersen scored the lone goal for United. The United's next game [...]

Kilian Academy athletes competed at the 2023 AJP Canada National Pro Jiu-Jitsu Championship at Toronto Metropolitan University this past weekend. Three of the four athletes representing Grey-Bruce secured gold and were crowned Canada National Pro Champions. Two of the Kilian Academy's teenage sensations, Derrick Scheper and Waylon Roote, faced off in an all Grey-Bruce final [...]

Grey Bruce OPP officers are looking for a beige or tan Toyota Camry which was reported stolen at Saugeen First Nation Friday. Police estimate the car was stolen between 2:30 a.m. and 6:30 a.m. on Aug. 11 from a Bruce Road 13 address. It is a 1999 Toyota Camry with driver's side damage, bumper stickers [...]

Crime Stoppers of Grey Bruce held its Show N Go Classic Car Tour of the Bruce Peninsula on Sunday. The tour included a shotgun start at 1 p.m. from a number of locations, including Grey Roots south of Owen Sound, Sauble Beach Community Centre, The Plex in Port Elgin, and the Wiarton Keppel Airport. There [...]

It wasn't until during their drive up to Sauble Beach for the weekend that friends Adele Strub and Miranda Vanderkooy decided they would enter the sand sculpture competition at the community's Sandfest festivities. They had so much fun taking part, that they now plan to make it a tradition. It was just a really fun [...]

Thousands came together this weekend to celebrate First Nation culture and heritage at the Saugeen First Nation annual competition pow wow. Those who took part on Saturday spoke of the event's importance as a time for people of all walks of life to gather for both celebration and reflection. We all come from the same [...]

Thunder, lightning and torrential downpours delayed the start of the Bruce Peninsula Multisport Race, but it couldn't stop hundreds of participants from eventually getting out and paddling, biking and running to the finish line. The intense line of storms that blew through Grey-Bruce early Saturday morning delayed the start of the Subaru Long Course and [...]

A 66-year-old man was declared deceased after being pulled from the waters of Lake Huron off Station Beach in Kincardine on Saturday morning. At 11:17 a.m., South Bruce OPP received a report of an unresponsive person in the lake, police said in a news release. Members of the South Bruce OPP Marine Unit, Kincardine Fire [...]

Grey County paramedic staff anticipate six new ambulance bases will be needed over the next six years as well as numerous additional paramedic shifts to maintain response times as call volume increases and demand for services rise. On Thursday, Grey County council supported in principle a modified Paramedic Comprehensive Deployment Review Implementation Plan, which includes [...]

Grey County council has voted in favour of a new council pay structure that could see county councillors receive a 12.7 per cent increase to their salaries next year. During their committee of the whole meeting on Thursday, councillors voted to direct staff to move forward with an updated pay structure that would raise their [...]

Saugeen First Nation Chief Conrad Ritchie said a new mobile mental health team pilot project will offer faster access to support for people as the community's opioid-related state of emergency continues. The Mobile Crisis Response Team members were introduced at the band administration centre Thursday. Clinicians with an office at Saugeen will accompany police to [...]

Grey County has supported calls by the Canadian Federation of Independent Business and other associations to give small businesses more time to repay the emergency federal loans they took out to carry them through the COVID-19 pandemic. On Thursday, county council passed a motion to support the CFIB's call on the federal government to extend [...]

Police need help identifying two unknown males after the theft of about $2,300 worth of merchandise from a Meaford business, a Grey Bruce OPP news release said Friday. Police responded the reported theft on Thursday, Aug. 3 at 4:30 p.m. They released photos of the suspects. Police ask people to call them at 1-888-310-1122 or [...]

An Owen Sound resident got a home visit from police after a driver evaded police at a high rate of speed in The Blue Mountains on Wednesday morning. Police were able to record the licence plate of the car, while the cruiser's in-car camera recorded video of the driver behind the wheel of the vehicle [...]

The countdown is officially on to the 35th edition of the Owen Sound Salmon Spectacular fishing derby. With about two weeks to go before the derby kicks off at midnight on Aug. 25 for 10 days of fishing, entertainment and prizes, the Sydenham Sportsmen's Association held its sponsor's appreciation afternoon fish fry at its clubhouse [...]

Meaford chief administrative officer Rob Armstrong is retiring. Armstrong has worked for the municipality since 2009 in a variety of roles and has served as Meaford's CAO since 2018, it said in a news release from the municipality. Throughout his tenure at the Municipality of Meaford, Rob has been instrumental in guiding the organization to [...]

The OPP in Grey-Bruce laid dozens of charges during its Civic Holiday Weekend Campaign. On Wednesday, both the South Bruce OPP and Grey-Bruce OPP released results for the Aug. 4 to 7 campaign, which focused on traffic moving over for emergency vehicles and tow trucks, as well as the big four" infractions - distracted driving, [...]

Bruce B's Unit 6 is another step closer to returning to service after it achieved a sustained fission chain reaction, which creates the heat needed to produce electricity. The unit, which is the first of six that Bruce Power and its partners are refurbishing as part of its Major Component Replacement between 2020 and 2033, [...]

Summerfolk 48 is just a little over a week away and preparations are in full swing to welcome thousands of music fans back to the annual music and crafts festival. This year's festivities will run Aug. 18-20 at Kelso Beach at Nawash Park in Owen Sound, and will feature approximately 35 musical acts, more than [...]

A road rage incident in Wiarton on Tuesday has resulted in assault charges against a South Bruce Peninsula resident. At approximately 1:40 p.m. Grey Bruce OPP responded to a report of an assault on Berford Street. Officers determined a driver assaulted another one, police said in a news release. A 46-year-old from South Bruce Peninsula [...]

The South Bruce Grey Health Centre has announced the temporary closure of emergency departments in Chesley, Durham and Walkerton due to insufficient staffing. On Tuesday, it was announced that the Chesley ED would be closed Tuesday at 5 p.m. and reopen Friday at 7 a.m. The Chesley ED will then again close on Friday at [...]

The sand at Sauble Beach is ready to be moulded into whatever creations flow from the minds of sculptors when Sandfest returns to the Lake Huron community this weekend. The annual event will kick off on Saturday with the sand sculpture competition just north of the Sauble Beach sign along Lakeshore Boulevard. Registration is at [...]

The annual Chantry Chinook Classic Salmon Derby has wrapped up for 2023 with 1,530 fish weighed in. The numbers that really impressed me, was that of those 1,530 fish, 1,103 of them were chinook salmon," Derby chair Mike Hahn said Tuesday. For some reason this spring on both sides of the Peninsula - on the [...]

Two motorcyclists have been charged with stunt driving after they were stopped on the Bruce Peninsula for going more than 65 kilometres per hour over the posted speed limit. Just after 10:30 p.m. on Sunday, police stopped two motorcycles on Highway 6 in Northern Bruce Peninsula after an officer observed them travelling in excess of [...]

An accused porch pirate" in Owen Sound has been arrested two days after a package was taken, but police have unfortunately been unable to recover the goods. Shortly after noon on Sunday, a man entered the front porch of a west-side residence and stole the package that had recently been delivered. The home was equipped [...]

An Owen Sound woman has been charged with impaired driving after a stop sign was struck at the corner of 32nd Street East and East Bayshore Road on Sunday afternoon. Just prior to 2:30 p.m., the 47-year-old woman was driving a 2019 Toyota Corolla northbound on East Bayshore Road. As she attempted to turn right [...]

Former Chippewas of Saugeen First Nation chief Vernon Roote died Aug. 4 at Chapman House hospice in Owen Sound. He was 74. He died of a chronic condition and spent two days in hospice. A cedar bath ceremony was performed there to remove any body negativity before he entered the spirit world, his son, Mark, [...]

You could say Ethan Kruisselbrink celebrated the Civic holiday Monday the hard way. Facing headwinds and rain in his face, he finished first in the 13-kilometre Shore to Shore race along hilly roads from Oliphant on the Lake Huron shoreline to Wiarton on the shores of Georgian Bay in a time of 45:20.7. The event [...]

Wiarton's Rotary Club threw birthday bash Sunday marking its 85th anniversary afternoon and everyone was invited. The free event included a barbecue, inflatable slide and lawn games, Petunia the Clown and more in Bluewater Park, the same space the cancelled Rotary Village Fair has used for generations. Kids painted and played with golf ball-sized robots [...]

The unemployment rate in the Stratford-Bruce Peninsula Economic Region decreased by 0.2 percentage points to 4.3 per cent in July but there was a net loss of 700 jobs, Statistics Canada figures show. The provincial unemployment rate increased by 0.4 percentage points to 5.9 per cent. Both rates are unadjusted for seasonality, a monthly bulletin [...]

Alex Williams stood at the Black History Cairn in Harrison Park at the the end of a 15-day bicycle journey that traced the Underground Railroad route escaping U.S. slaves used to reach freedom in Canada. It's been very rewarding, we shed tears," said the 47-year-old married father of three from Normal, Ill. He and eight [...]

Chippewas of Nawawh Unceded First Nation voters elected Greg Nadjiwon as chief over incumbent Veronica Smith Friday. Nadjiwon, a former chief and councillor, was elected with 291 votes over Smith, who received 218. Smith also ran for a councillor position, as rules in the election permitted, but was not elected, the statement of votes from [...]

Local demand for food aid has never been so great, the Owen Sound Salvation Army food bank co-ordinator said Friday. In a week when owners of Kelseys restaurant donated about 1,100 pounds of frozen meat to the food bank after a fire Tuesday, Alice Wannan said that food will be hugely impactful for the next [...]

Kelseys restaurant franchise owners in Owen Sound donated food spared by Tuesday's fire to the Salvation Army. The donation was noted in a Facebook post by Alice Wannan, co-ordinator of Owen Sound Family Services and the food bank at the Salvation Army, the day of the fire. In the midst of tragedy ....30 employees who [...]

A decision by the Grey Highlands committee of adjustment to deny the severance and sale of a Lake Eugenia public access point to abutting cottagers is being called a small victory for democracy by some residents. A complex multi-year process came to a head in July when the committee voted on two severance applications proposed [...]

Warrant Officer Reid Bellamy, a graduate of St. Mary's High School in Owen Sound, is serving in Kamloops as part of Operation LENTUS in support of the B.C. Wildfire Service. LENTUS is the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) response to natural disasters in Canada. The objectives of operation LENTUS are to help provincial and territorial authorities [...]

Already a city sports Hall of Famer, Chatsworth's Bayleigh Hooper has added another sporting accomplishment to her list of accolades. On Thursday, Hooper tied for the lead in the women's lower extremity division at the 2023 NOBULL CrossFit Games in Wisconsin, at her first CrossFit Games competition. Her 680 combined points in the fitness challenge [...]

On Friday, the Owen Sound Attack continued their build-up to the 2023-24 season with the signing of 2023 OHL Priority Selection draft third-round pick Gabriel Smith to a standard player agreement. Attack General Manager Dale DeGray welcomed Smith and his family to the Attack organization in a team media release. I look forward to seeing [...]