Owen Sound Sun Times

Now that seven of eight member municipalities are onboard in principle with paying Grey Sauble Conservation Authority levies for what the province considers extras, agreements can be formalized with municipal staff and then voted on by councils. Tim Lanthier, the GSCA chief administrative officer, said in an interview Monday that he has visited seven of […]

SISKINS BEAT PATS The Stayner Siskins topped the Mount Forest Patriots 6-2 Sunday afternoon in Stayner to win the PJHL’s best-of-seven North Conference Finals series in six games. Tyson Bradford scored a pair of goals for Stayner while Jack Rispin, Cody Marles, Deandres DeJesus, and Cole MacArthur all hit paydirt. Derek Hartley earned the win […]

The Bruce Grey Music Hall of Fame will induct six more members at a musical event June 25 at the Owen Sound legion. The 2023 inductees include the late music hall of fame founding member, Jim Merriam; notable country crooner, Jim Beech; the legendary original Tombstones rock and blues band; master guitarist, Lloyd Williamson; the […]

People will gather Friday to mark the National Day of Awareness for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls and 2-Spirited People, or Red Dress Day. In Owen Sound, they’ll be at the Gichi-Name Wiikwedong Reconciliation Garden at Kelso Beach at Nawash Park. A ceremony will take place there between 11 a.m. and 1 p.m.

Grey County Historical Society’s 53rd annual dinner on May 18 will be the first time since the pandemic hit that people will gather and recognize local efforts to promote or preserve Grey County history. For 2020, authors Jean Hutchinson and Robert A. Cotton will be recognized. For 2021, aunt and nephew Edith Ruth Kitchen and […]

Colby Barlow and the Canadian men’s under-18 team earned a bronze medal at the 2023 IIHF U18 World Hockey Championship Sunday in Basel, Switzerland, with a 4-3 overtime win over Slovakia. Barlow, who missed an earlier tournament game with a nagging injury, scored in the bronze-medal game and finished the tournament with three goals and […]

Close won’t help the Owen Sound North Stars in the standings but it should help with their confidence early in the season. The Six Nations Rebels came into the Harry Lumley Bayshore Community Centre Sunday on an absolute tear. The annual heavy hitters of the Ontario Junior B Lacrosse League entered Sunday afternoon’s tilt in […]

Charlie Taylor Gillespie of Owen Sound will hit the Summerfolk stage in her hometown this summer. The 15-year-old was one of five acts selected to perform at the 48th Summerfolk Music and Crafts Festival at Kelso Beach at Nawash Park on Aug. 18-20. They were chosen from among 11 finalists who performed in the Youth […]

As the emerald ash borer continues its unrelenting march through the city, Owen Sound officials are ramping efforts to remove dead and dying ash trees. It is estimated that eventually thousands of ash trees will be removed in the city’s parks, public spaces, as well as wooded areas and escarpment lands adjacent to private property. […]

A Grey-Bruce group that is part of a provincewide movement to hold a referendum against the privatization of some public health-care services, is holding an online town hall meeting next week. The Grey Bruce County Health Coalition is holding the town hall meeting on Zoom on Thursday (May 4) from 7 to 8 p.m. The […]

One of the resident swans of Harrison Park has died, with City of Owen Sound officials suspecting natural causes. The city announced Friday that staff had discovered one of the domestic swans housed at the park had passed away on Wednesday. The city is working to have testing completed to confirm the cause of death, […]

Owen Sound police have charged a 31-year-old woman in relation to several area thefts including a break-and-enter at a restaurant south of the city. A person broke into a restaurant south of the city in the early morning hours of April 24, according to a city police news release. Later that morning, police responded to […]

With an aging and often isolated population the need for hospice palliative care is increasing in the Bruce Peninsula and a group of volunteer caregivers is already stretched thin. “We could use another 20 volunteers right away. Ideally, we’d have 50 home-care volunteers,” said Nancy Forgrave, manager of volunteer programs and outreach for Bruce Peninsula […]

The former St. Paul’s Anglican rectory in Southampton, which heritage advocates saved from demolition, will be preserved, restored and added to a company’s portfolio of vacation rentals, a representative said Friday. Once Upon a Stay, a vacation rental company, purchased the former rectory at 254 High St. The company is part of a family-owned parent […]

Community Foundation Grey Bruce (CFGB) is hosting a workshop for parents and students to help families find, apply for, and get approved for scholarships, bursaries, and awards to support post-secondary education on May 2, 2023. “At the Foundation we offer 29 scholarships just for local students to apply for through our website every year. This […]

Release your inner nerd and experience the 11th-annual Owen Sound Mini Con Saturday, May 6, at the Owen Sound and North Grey Union Public Library. Starting at 10 a.m., the Owen Sound Mini Con (OSMiCon) presents an entire day of comics and fandom-related programming, including videogame tournaments, board games with Scenic City Game Emporium, Dungeons […]

Owen Sound Attack captain Colby Barlow is the 2022-23 recipient of the Bobby Smith Trophy, which is awarded annually to the Ontario Hockey League’s Scholastic Player of the Year. Barlow becomes the first player in Owen Sound Attack history to win the prestigious award, excelling with an overall average of 93 percent across Grade 12 […]

Port Elgin’s Rachel Hannah smashed the Glass City Marathon’s course record Sunday in Toledo. Hannah won the women’s race in a time of 2:40:13 – nearly a full five minutes ahead of the next best competitor. She broke the course record by over a minute in her first time running in the Ohio marathon. Hannah, […]

South Bruce Peninsula council’s appeal of a judge’s finding that a large strip of beach at Sauble belongs to Saugeen First Nation says the judge’s decision raises questions that need clarification. But the appeal goes further, seeking the judgment to be set aside and the band’s action dismissed. And if the court still finds band […]

Grey County is urging the province to consider reinstating an uninsured persons program seen as vital in ensuring those who were impacted by a fire at a rooming house in Hanover last year had their medical needs met. At its meeting on Thursday, Grey County council unanimously supported a motion calling for the extension of […]

Police say they responded to a report of an armed robbery in progress at Saugeen First Nation Wednesday night and now two people are in custody. The call came in at 8:40 p.m. of an armed robbery at a business along Highway 21. Officers arrived and a suspect was taken into custody. A second suspect […]

The Owen Sound Attack added three more prospects to a growing talent pool at the Ontario Hockey League’s under-18 draft Wednesday night, including an offensively gifted defenceman. With the 10th overall pick in the “second-chance” draft, Dale DeGray selected Sam Ethier from the Rockland Nationals under-18 AAA squad. The five-foot-11, 173-pound, left-handed defenceman led the […]

Owen Sound has fenced off a section of the Kiwanis Sk8 and Bike Park at Victoria Park where the concrete pad has deteriorated, leading to safety concerns for users. A fence has been erected around the western portion of the park, which includes the pyramid, box/ramp/rail and combination ramp features. The city is working on […]

Grey Bruce Health Services is establishing an office of research and innovation to support physician research, lure more such work and explore opportunities to partner with academia, government and the private sector. The office will be part of the hospital corporation for now but ultimately it will stand on its own, as similar institutes at […]

Judi Riley thinks it may be too late for her family, but she continues to fight for the families of other missing persons. Ten years ago, the then 46-year-old Jon Riley left a note for his mother at their Meaford home saying he was heading to Toronto for a couple of days. He hasn’t been […]

Site preparation work has started on a planned retail space, hotel and conference centre development on Owen Sound’s east side. The work on the property at 1200 16th Ave. E. began over the winter, with plans to complete the first phase of the project over the next year, Arif Ismail, president of Toronto-based Legacy Hospitality […]

The Owen Sound Agricultural Society has started to peel back some of the layers of the grandstand at Victoria Park to get an idea of what kind of work needs to be done. Society president Hiliary Breadner said Tuesday that Graham Construction has started to take apart a portion of the grandstand. “Right now we […]

OHL HOLDS U18 DRAFT WEDNESDAY No fewer than 40 players born in 2005 and 2006 will have their names called in the seventh annual Ontario Hockey League under-18 Priority Selection draft Wednesday Night. The concept for the OHL Under-18 Priority Selection was developed in 2017 with support from Hockey Canada’s three Ontario branches including the […]

More than 550 Grade 5 students from schools in Dundalk, Durham, Hepworth, Meaford, Port Elgin and Owen Sound attended Grown in Grey at the Desboro Arena to learn about local agriculture. The event made its return after a three-year hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Thirty-one learning stations representing aspects of agriculture and related industries […]

Athletes from Shallow Lake’s Kilian Academy competed at the 2023 ADCC (Abu Dhabi Combat Club) Canada Submission Grappling Championship at the Collège La Cité, in Ottawa. It’s the first time Canada has hosted the international tournament. Arguably one of the toughest tournaments in the world, the ADCC Submission Grappling Championships draws athletes from across the […]

Owen Sound officials are planning to consult the public about a request to add a new city park to the list of suitable locations for community gardens. The city’s community services committee was presented a new draft community gardens policy that removes Stobbe Park, on 5th Avenue A West. The committee also initiated a process […]

Cooling off at Harrison Park this summer is likely to be more expensive as the cost to operate the pool heats up. But the city is reminding residents that there will still be free swims and other “affordable” options for people looking to take a dip. The community services committee has approved a recommendation that […]

High costs and low student demand are sinking Seneca College’s underwater skills program, according to a college spokesperson. The college announced earlier this year it is shuttering the program after nearly 50 years of training some of the world’s premier commercial divers from its King campus north of Toronto and in the waters of Colpoy’s […]

The Hanover and District Hospital has joined other southwestern Ontario hospitals in lifting COVID-19-related masking policies and making the wearing of a mask optional for some effective immediately. The move follows updated guidance and recommendations from Public Health Ontario based on the current COVID-19 transmission risk. Hanover and District Hospital said they’ve adopted the new […]

The Owen Sound North Stars won their Ontario Junior B Lacrosse League home and season opener 12-10 over the Wallaceburg Red Devils Saturday afternoon. Sean McMahon and Carter Moran led the way on the scoresheet for the N’Stars with six points apiece. Moran led the club in scoring last year while McMahon was acquired in […]

Bruce County will again look into using development charges to help pay for some growth-related capital expenses. The county kicked off the development charges background study process on Thursday with a workshop that featured an introductory report from Daryl Abbs of Watson and Associates, the consultant conducting the study. Bruce County last explored development charges […]

The Owen Sound Attack put a hurtin’ on their billets’ grocery bills with the team’s top picks in the 2023 OHL Priority Selection draft this past weekend. Attack GM Dale DeGray identified size as a key asset in this year’s top prospects, starting with six-foot-four and 204-pound winger Nico Addy who the Attack selected with […]

The South Bruce Grey Health Centre is no longer requiring universal masking at its four hospitals in Chesley, Durham, Kincardine and Walkerton. The changes to the hospital corporation’s masking policy, which began on Monday, comes after Public Health Ontario recently updated its guidance on Infection Prevention and Control Measures in Hospitals. Grey Bruce Health Services […]

Earth Day events help people think about the threat of climate change, particularly those who might otherwise not bother, an organizer of Owen Sound’s event said Saturday. It was soggy and cold day to engage with people but there were lots of events to get people’s attention around the farmers’ market and at the library. […]

About 75 Bruce County firefighters gathered in Tobermory this weekend to train, hone the skills they have and learn new ones. It was the 30th year the county has run a fire school, which Northern Bruce Peninsula Fire Chief Jack Burt believes might be the only county fire school like it. The firefighters have full-time […]

Architect Gary McCluskie returned home to Owen Sound Saturday to tell how his team transformed the New York Philharmonic’s concert hall, where acoustics had disappointed since the day it opened in 1962. The problem was a last-minute decision to widen the hall to fit in more seats, without considering acoustics, he said. “One of the […]

A motel desk clerk said she saw a police officer point a gun at a truck that officers had just pulled over along Highway 21 Thursday night, on the southern fringe of Port Elgin. A Saugeen Shores Facebook post Friday said Saugeen Shores police and the OPP “responded to a serious incident last night that […]

Owen Sound will not change the hours of operation for its leaf and yard waste compositing site in 2023. In an update to the city’s operations committee on Thursday, supervisor of environmental services Heidi Jennen, said that after receiving feedback from both residents and the committee they have decided to keep the site open status […]

An arrest has been made after a business was robbed on Sykes Street North in Meaford. Just before midnight on Thursday, Grey Bruce OPP responded to the business for a robbery in progress. About half an hour later, police located a suspect and he was taken into custody. Members of the the OPP West Region […]

A person who was the subject of a search in the area of the Lion’s Head Lookout has been found deceased. Grey-Bruce OPP said in a news release Friday afternoon that just after 10 a.m. members of the West Region Emergency Response Team located the body of the missing person. Foul play was not suspected, […]

Bruce County council decided not to pay for a successor organization to the Municipal Innovation Council, part of the Nuclear Innovation Institute, which will no longer support it after this year either. Bruce County Warden Chris Peabody said in an interview Friday he thought the MIC’s work was “hit-and-miss.” Council turned down a staff recommendation […]

A Hamilton man has been arrested and charged after police responded to a disturbance involving a weapon at Neyaashiinigmiing First Nation on Wednesday. Just after 9:30 a.m., the Neyaashiinigmiing First Nation Police and Grey Bruce OPP responded to the incident on Kaikaiknong Crescent at Cape Croker. Members of the West Region Emergency Response Team, the […]

An important piece of the ecological puzzle in the Tobermory area is being preserved. The Nature Conservancy of Canada announced on Friday that it has worked with its supporters to purchase and conserve the 24-hectare (59-acre) Baptist Harbour Alvar property on Lake Huron at the tip of the Bruce Peninsula. “It has always been a […]

People are being asked to avoid the area of the Lion’s Head Provincial Park as a search is being conducted for a missing person. In a news release issued on Friday morning, Grey Bruce OPP asked for the public’s assistance in locating a missing man who was last seen in Aylmer on Thursday morning and […]

Owen Sound is closing sections of 8th Street East between 8th Avenue East and 9th Avenue East daily for infrastructure and concrete repairs. The street was closed on Thursday and will be closed from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. each day until Tuesday, the city said in a news release. The road will be reopened […]