Owen Sound Sun Times

After more than four years as president and chief executive officer of the South Bruce Grey Health Centre, Michael Barrett has elected not to renew his contract. The organization, which operates hospitals in Chesley, Durham, Kincardine and Walkerton, announced on Monday that Barrett would not be renewing his contract when it expires on March 31, […]

A community group that formed in the Durham area earlier this year to support Ukrainians displaced by war have recently welcomed two families to the area. Ukrainian Friends in West Grey and Area have helped to relocate two families, each consisting of a mother and two children, with host families in the municipality. One family […]

A survey has been launched to gauge the Owen Sound public’s perception of crime, neighbourhood concerns, satisfaction with the city’s police service and safety. The Owen Sound Police Services Board has collaborated with the Owen Sound Police Service in the survey that will assist in determining future direction and policing priorities for the city’s police […]

An award-winning musical about First World War flying ace Billy Bishop of Owen Sound is touching down on the Roxy stage this week. The two-person play Billy Bishop Goes to War will be at the Owen Sound Little Theatre venue for one night only on Thursday (Dec. 1) at 7:30 p.m. The musical, which has […]

Santa Claus is busy spreading holiday cheer around Grey-Bruce. The big guy made an appearance in Port Elgin Saturday night with the Saugeen Shores Rotary Club being host for Saint Nick’s party along with a free barbecue and hot apple cider. Rotary Club president Pat O’Connor said 44 floats helped usher in Santa as the […]

Big Brothers Big Sisters Grey Bruce wants to ensure no child goes without this holiday season and is asking for the community’s help in making it a December to remember for area youths. The organization is asking people to become a Secret Santa this year for a child in need. To donate funds visit www.greybruce.bigbrothersbigsisters.ca […]

The St. Mary Catholic High School girls’ basketball team is the 2022 Ontario Federation of School Athletic Associations single-A champion. The Crusaders from Brockville defeated Nicholson Catholic College 53-44 in the gold-medal game played in Walkerton Saturday night. The Crusaders’ Grace Kelly led all scorers in the contest with 20 points while Evelynn Shakell dropped […]

Sacred Heart’s perfect season held firm all the way up until the semi-finals at the OFSAA double-A boys’ volleyball championship in Muskoka Saturday. It’s there the Crusaders finally suffered a defeat at the hands of Ottawa’s École secondaire catholique Béatrice-Desloges, dropping a fifth and deciding set 15-13. The Walkerton school rebounded in the bronze medal […]

Oh Danny Boy, the goal horns the goal horns are calling. Danny Zhilkin deflated the comeback balloon Saturday night inside the Harry Lumley Bayshore Community Centre with a bullet in overtime to secure the Guelph Storm’s fourth-straight win, 4-3 over the Owen Sound Attack. The Winnipeg Jets prospect rushed down the left wing and snapped […]

Four local hospital organizations and health care service providers will receive $3.2 million in funding from the provincial government this year to support critical infrastructure upgrades and repairs. Bruce-Grey-Owen Sound MPP Rick Byers made the announcement in a media release distributed Friday. As part of the infrastructure funding, Grey Bruce Health Services receives $1,808,269, Hanover […]

The Owen Sound Attack are playing with fire. The Bears ranked fifth in the league in penalty minutes per game heading into Friday night’s match-up in Guelph and suffered seven minor infractions inside the Sleeman Centre before losing in a shootout, 4-3, to the suddenly surging Guelph Storm. It’s not good to be on the […]

Take a bow seeding committee. After two full days of basketball at the OFSAA single-A senior girls’ championship in Walkerton and Kincardine, the top-four teams are headed to Saturday’s championship semi-finals. Days before the tournament began the committee ranked the 16 best small-school teams weighing the strength of schedule, season record, program history and any […]

Two local police services are getting provincial funding for technology that automatically scans vehicle licence plates. Bruce-Grey-Owen Sound MPP Rick Byers announced the Owen Sound Police Service will receive more than $95,000, while the West Grey Police Service will receive just under $72,000. “The Ontario government is providing our local police services with additional funding […]

Actions speak louder than words, but in the case of Owen Sound Attack general manager Dale DeGray, they’re both loud and clear. Nearly a third of the way through the Ontario Hockey League season and with under two months until the trade deadline the Attack find themselves atop the Midwest Division and second in the […]

Colby Barlow and Servac Petrovsky both netted hat-tricks as the Owen Sound Attack beat the Windsor Spitfires 6-3 inside the WFCU Centre Wednesday night. Barlow extended his goal streak to five games, the longest current streak in the OHL. He has eight tallies in those five contests and now has 15 on the season, which […]

An Owen Sound man has been charged with several sex-related offences after police in the city concluded a human trafficking investigation. The 43-year-old man was arrested on Monday after investigators were alerted about a 15-year-old girl being exploited for sexual services, the Owen Sound Police Service said in a news release. The investigation found that […]

A new opportunity for young people in Grey-Bruce looking to make an impact in their communities is launching in Owen Sound later this month. The first monthly meeting for the new Grey Bruce Youth Council is set to take place Wednesday, Nov. 30, from 6 to 7:30 p.m. The initiative is a partnership between Big […]

A Tobermory doctor, described as “a true champion for the needs of rural physicians,” has received an award from the Ontario College of Family Physicians. Dr. Elaine Blau was recognized for her leadership and excellence in patient care with the Regional Family Physician of the Year award for the Erie St. Clair and Southwest Ontario […]

The best small-school teams in Ontario will step onto the hardwood in Walkerton and Kincardine Thursday and compete for the OFSAA single-A senior girls’ basketball championship. Sixteen squads have qualified for the three-day tournament with host Walkerton District Community School and games set for both WDCS and Kincardine District Senior School. More than 250 participants […]

The Bruce Grey Poverty Task Force has joined a growing list of local organizations that are speaking out against the province’s plan to build 1.5 million homes in the next decade through legislative changes intended to help streamline development. Bill 23, sometimes referred to as the “More Homes Built Faster” act, is the Doug Ford […]

Meaford’s new mayor and council met officially for the first time Monday at Meaford Hall to recite the declaration of office and share a few words of thanks and inspiration. Justice Herman Wilton-Siegel presided over the formalities while clerk Matt Smith emceed the event to officially welcome Mayor Ross Kentner, Deputy-mayor Shirley Keaveney and councillors […]

The aptly named Alex Champ and his rink from Kitchener-Waterloo took home the top prize at this past weekend’s 40th Port Elgin Super Spiel with a 6-0 win over Newfoundland’s Greg Smith at the Port Elgin Curling Club. Champ bested John Willsey (Oakville), 6-2, in the semi-final to earn a berth into the long-running super […]

The strikingly handsome Harmony Centre auditorium was the scene Monday night to what, may be the briefest and most cheerful meeting Owen Sound’s new city council will experience over the next four years. Music performed by local musicians and several rounds of applause preceded the close of the hour-and-a-half meeting, which came before a reception […]

The Sacred Heart Crusaders senior boys’ volleyball team will compete for a provincial high school championship this week. The Crusaders went unbeaten on their home floor Saturday en route to winning the Central Western Ontario Secondary School Association (CWOSSA) double-A title. Sacred Heart defeated St. David’s in straight sets in the seven-team tournament’s best-of-five final […]

At least two people were taken to hospital after being exposed to the cold over the weekend, Owen Sound police said. The sudden and heavy snowfall had city officers busy helping people in cars, at home and on foot. “Police would like to thank the concerned community members, for without their timely calls to police, […]

Saugeen Shores heritage advocates are warning that Ontario’s Bill 23 threatens more than 100 heritage buildings in the town by weakening their already modest protections. The Southampton Cultural Heritage Conservancy has filed objections to heritage provisions in Bill 23, the More Homes Faster Act, saying it could cause Saugeen Shores to lose heritage protection for […]

Snowy and windy weather played havoc with the Festival of Northern Lights opening Saturday night in Owen Sound, but it didn’t stop the switch from being thrown. Though the Christmas parade attracted huge crowds downtown at 5 p.m., it was clear to organizers that windy conditions and falling temperatures were dissuading folks from waiting around […]

The North Bay Battalion didn’t look like a team playing their third game in as many nights. The Troops marched into a snow-covered Scenic City Saturday night and jumped all over the Owen Sound Attack en route to snapping the Bears’ four-game winning streak with a 6-3 victory inside the Harry Lumley Bayshore Community Centre. […]

The Sacred Heart Crusaders’ remarkable run on the hardcourt came to a close in Cambridge Saturday. The Crusaders lost to Our Lady of Lourdes in the CWOSSA double-A junior girls’ basketball semi-finals, 47-14. Hope Manglal-Lan led Sacred Heart scorers with six points. Our Lady of Lourdes went on to beat Holy Trinity, 47-44, to claim […]

A little snowstorm didn’t stop thousands of people from crowding into downtown Owen Sound Saturday night, all waiting to see Santa in his sleigh at the finale of the 77th annual Kiwanis Owen Sound Santa Claus Parade. Snow swirled around kids who sat atop snow banks about a metre high along 2nd Avenue East. They […]

Taos Jordan grew up just a little north of Oshawa in Brooklin, so maybe he knows a bit better than others how the boards play inside the Tribute Communities Centre. He must, because he played the angles and predicted the bounce perfectly on a designed play off a neutral zone draw leading to the game-winning […]

Snow wreaked havoc on local Central Western Ontario Secondary School Association (CWOSSA) championships set for Walkerton Friday, but two local schools are headed to basketball semi-finals in Cambridge Saturday. Here’s the CWOSSA catch-up. FOOTBALL The Jacob Hespeler Hawks rolled to a 33-0 shutout victory over the St. Mary’s Mustangs Thursday in Cambridge in a CWOSSA […]

Lynn Silverton is the 2022 YMCA Peace Medal recipient. The former Grey Highlands councillor founded the Grey Highlands Peace Committee and helped found Grey County Cares, two of many accomplishments noted at a presentation ceremony at the Y Thursday. “When I got the phone call last week, I was totally stunned,” Silverton said in an […]

A local doctor whose survival skills and determination were recently featured on the History Channel’s Alone reality television series will give a talk at the Tom Thomson Art Gallery on Dec. 3. Limited $25 tickets for Teimojin Tan: Surviving the Wilderness are available for purchase at the art gallery or by telephone. The cost of […]

Owen Sound will mark a new council term Monday by holding a ceremony complete with a procession of dignitaries and performances by local musicians as municipal leaders gather for their first official council meeting. According to a city media release, the ceremony for the declaration of office and inaugural council meeting is set for Harmony […]

The Grey Bruce Health Unit is spearheading a collective response to concerns about home takeovers, where unwanted guests take over someone’s home. There are no statistics showing the scale of the problem, initially raised by Grey County public housing staff a year ago, who were seeing it happen in county housing, public health nurse Lisa […]

School boards in Grey-Bruce will close schools to students and move to online learning if Canadian Union of Public Employees members strike Monday. Bargaining is to resume Saturday between the Ontario government and CUPE, after the union said talks broke down and gave five days notice of a potential provincewide strike Monday. In Grey-Bruce, the […]

Sauble Beach’s shifting sands came up for discussion as one of the first major orders of business for South Bruce Peninsula’s new mayor and council Tuesday morning. A staff report submitted to council opened with “sometimes with projects like the proposed Sauble Beach retaining wall, its hard to retain the focus of what the project […]

The Owen Sound Aquatic Club hosted the McDonald’s Team Challenge Short Course Swim Meet at the Julie McArthur Regional Recreation Centre in Owen Sound this past weekend. Six clubs and over 300 athletes travelled to Owen Sound for the three-day swim meet. For OSAC head coach Ken Fitzpatrick, the meet was about getting the local […]

South Bruce Peninsula is looking to hire a new part-time short-term rental accommodation (STRA) licensing and compliance officer after a successful first year running the program, according to a staff report presented to council on Tuesday. Staff said the town’s current licensing and compliance officer has decided not to renew their contract for 2023, and […]

A Neyaashiinigmiing woman won $250,000 in an Instant 25x Multiplier­ lottery, OLG said in a news release. “I was sitting in the Tim Horton’s drive-thru line playing my ticket when I realized I won big,” said prize-winner Lauren Watson, while at the OLG Prize Centre in Toronto to pick up her winnings. She said she […]

Some snow in the forecast and events in downtown Owen Sound Saturday might start to kindle some Christmas spirit. There’s the nighttime Kiwanis Owen Sound Santa Claus Parade starting at 5 p.m., which leads into the annual Festival of Northern Lights kick-off just before 7 p.m., when lights and displays along the Sydenham River and […]

The regional living wage, the pay rate needed to make ends meet without frills, has climbed by 12.6 per cent over 2021 and stands at $20.70 per hour, according to the Ontario Living Wage Network advocacy group. “It’s not something to aspire to, it’s a place to start,” said Francesca Dobbyn, executive director of the […]

Bruce Power found things of interest in the Nov. 3 federal economic statement, including an investment tax credit of up to 30 per cent for clean energy technologies, including small modular reactors. The local nuclear operator recently signed a memorandum of understanding with Hydrogen Optimized, Greenfield Global and Hensall Co-op to collaborate on a feasibility […]

Hydrogen Optimized president Andrew Stuart wonders if Canadian policymakers are thinking big enough to really leverage green-energy potential for economic growth. Are they aiming to develop a homegrown hydrogen-production industry or will people who utilize new federal tax credits use them buy foreign-made technology? And does the government appreciate the potential for exporting that technology? […]

No living entity has been able to stop the St. Mary’s Mustangs football team for the better part of the decade so someone at the school thought they’d tempt fate and karma. Mustangs head coach Matt Bushey said he’s not a superstitious guy, but when he saw someone at the school had painted a football […]

Police released blurry photos of a suspect who might have backed into a light standard in Meaford and fled on Nov. 3. Grey Bruce OPP said an unknown driver on Boucher Street East backed into a light standard, which fell onto overhead power lines, then left. Police would like to speak with the driver in […]

A 22-year-old man from Bruce County died after a two-vehicle crash on Grey Road 4 in West Grey Saturday. The call came in about 8:06 p.m. and police found the collision between Allan Park Road and Grey Road 13. The driver and passenger of one motor vehicle and the passenger of the second vehicle were […]

Grey Bruce Health Services is seeing more sick kids in its emergency rooms than normal due to respiratory viruses, as is happening across the province. Kids’ visits to GBHS emergency rooms are up by 20 or 30 per cent, said Gary Sims, the president and CEO of GBHS. He blamed COVID-19, an early rise in […]

Police charged a South Bruce Peninsula man after police say an attempt was made to disarm a police officer during a scuffle Sunday. Grey Bruce OPP responded to a report of an assault on John Street in Wiarton. One man was arrested but he began to resist and caused minor injuries to an officer, who […]