Owen Sound Sun Times

Masks are now mostly optional in Grey Bruce Health Services sites. They remain mandatory in emergency departments, for people visiting patient rooms and anywhere in the hospital for people who have COVID-19 symptoms. The new policy reflects updated recommendations from Public Health Ontario regarding the COVID-19 virus and hospital practice in the province, a GBHS […]

The live performances, and all the excitement and nerves that come with them, are back at the Grey County Kiwanis Festival of Music. The festival, which is holding its first fully in-person event in four years, kicked off its 91st anniversary event on Monday at five venues throughout Owen Sound. By the time it ends […]

Now all fans of Saugeen Shores couple Jason and Bronwyn Irwin — and their horses Chief and Kate — can do is wait until after Tuesday to see if they made it into the semifinals of Canada’s Got Talent. Their performance at OLG Stage, a 5,000-seat theatre in Niagara Falls, aired Tuesday. The horse trainers […]

Dale DeGray is getting ready for his 16th Ontario Priority Selection draft as the general manager of the Owen Sound Attack. He’ll make three picks Friday night when the province’s major junior league conducts the first three rounds of its annual 15-round-under-16 draft, including at 12th overall. Rounds four through 15 are to follow starting […]

Federal government services in Grey-Bruce were limited to the essentials on Wednesday after tens of thousands of federal public servants hit the picket lines in a nationwide strike. Approximately 155,000 Public Service Alliance of Canada members were officially off the job as of 12:01 a.m. on Wednesday, making it one of the largest strikes in […]

BARLOW NAMED TO TEAM CANADA LEADERSHIP On Wednesday, Hockey Canada announced Owen Sound Attack captain Colby Barlow will serve as an assistant captain with the Canadian under-18 team at the World Championships in Switzerland, beginning Thursday. Andrew Cristall from the Kelowna Rockets will serve as the team’s other assistant captain while Cam Allen of the […]

An Owen Sound-born architect who helped transform the famous David Geffen Hall at the Lincoln Centre in New York City with an acoustically focused overhaul is speaking in the Scenic City Saturday. Gary McCluskie, a principal at the Canadian architectural firm Diamond Schmitt, will be at the Georgian Shores United Church Saturday at 2 p.m. […]

Owen Sound Transit is using an entirely new fleet. Starting Monday, the system is using new buses with low-floor ramps front and back, stop request buttons, bus banners that display the route and stop announcements broadcast on exterior and interior speakers. The buses can carry more passengers than before. GPS and ridership tracking will better […]

Weeks after a Superior Court judge ruled a 1.4-mile strip of one of the most popular tourist beaches in the province belongs to Saugeen First Nation, the First Nations community is working to create a beach management plan and South Bruce Peninsula has said it is appealing the decision. After the matter was discussed in […]

The Chippewas of Saugeen First Nation has retained a private security company after reports of careless and reckless driving near the Sauble Beach sign Friday night. “We are aware that there was vehicular traffic that had assembled on our newly reacquired Saugeen Beach last evening,” a release posted to the Chippewas of Saugeen First Nation […]

MNP’s six main recommendations, with some of the 13 sub-recommendations and suggested timing of implementation: 1) Redesign the organizational structure – Target a “reduction or strategic reallocation” of three management or staff full-time-equivalent positions in the short-term, in areas of traditional and discretionary services “and design a longer-term strategic attrition plan,” starting in the third […]

Owen Sound councillors on Monday night said they were disappointed that they didn’t get actionable solutions to ease the burden on taxpayers from a consultant’s long-awaited final service analysis report. MNP presented its six broad recommendations and 13 sub-recommendations to council. Some could be done quickly, others not until 2025. All city departments and services […]

The Woodroffe sisters, representing Grey-Bruce and the Kilian Academy, made their competitive debut at the 2023 Budo Kids Open Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu tournament at the Collège Boréal in Sudbury on Saturday, both winning silver medals. Twelve-year-old Melanie Woodroffe secured silver in the teen 14-to-15-year-old middleweight division. The Timothy Christian School student faced an athlete three years […]

All bets are off at 14 Ontario casinos, including one in London, after weekend computer problems forced them to close “until further notice.”

The Ontario government announced it is spending more than $4.8 million in Grey-Bruce toward the province’s Homelessness Prevention Program and Indigenous Support Housing Program in 2023 and 2024. The funding includes $1,536,900 (increased by $599,400) for Bruce County and $3,282,800 (increased by $1,237,200) for Grey County. “This investment will make a real impact to support […]

The Ontario government is sending $3,215,962 to local hospitals for on-call funding for doctors working after hours. Broken down by hospital, the funding is headed to Grey Bruce Health Services – Owen Sound (up to $2,356,948, increased by $87,210), Grey Bruce Health Services – Lion’s Head (up to $112,734, increased by $9,686), and Hanover and […]

Sr. B N’STARS SIGN KEY PLAYERS The Owen Sound Bug Juice North Stars announced the signing of several key players Sunday ahead of the Ontario Series Lacrosse league’s regular season – Ontario’s senior B lacrosse loop. Highlighting the signings are last year’s leading scorer Jake McNabb as well as veterans Mike and Matt MacLeod, Wyatt […]

Owen Sound Attack captain Colby Barlow is one of 22 players who will represent the country as Team Canada team tries for gold at the IIHF U18 World Championship in Basel and Porrentruy, Switzerland, from April 20 to 30. Barlow is coming off a season in which he led the Owen Sound Attack in scoring […]

U13 ‘A’ ICE HAWKS GOLDEN AT PROVINCIALS The Owen Sound Ice Hawks under-13 ‘A’ team went 4-1 en route to winning the gold at the Ontario Women’s Hockey Association provincial championships this past weekend in Toronto. The Ice Hawks shut out the Windsor Wildcats in the championship final, 2-0, Sunday afternoon to win it all. […]

Heart-wrenching and unfathomable stories of pain, suffering and death were shared in Owen Sound on Sunday as the local synagogue observed Yom Hashoah, the day held each year to commemorate the approximately six million Jews murdered by Nazi Germany and its collaborators during the Holocaust of the Second World War. More than 100 people sat […]

Earth Day events will take over Owen Sound’s River Precinct on Saturday, April 22, with festivities to mark the occasion along both sides of the Sydenham River. The local sportsmen’s club, meanwhile, will have volunteers fanning out along the banks of the river for their annual Earth Day clean-up, which returned last year after a […]

The fight is on against plans by Ontario’s Conservative government to privatize some public health services. A Grey-Bruce group has formed as part of a provincewide movement against plans by Premier Doug Ford’s government to privatize some health-care services. The Ontario Health Coalition plans to hold a citizen-led referendum across Ontario next month that will […]

Owen Sound officials have planned an information session on a proposed municipal accommodation tax. The city is inviting accommodation business operators and stakeholders to an information session regarding the MAT on April 25 in the Bay Room at the Harry Lumley Bayshore Community Centre. Two meeting times are available on April 25, from 10 to […]

A film set in Owen Sound was shut out at the Canadian Screen Awards last week, but another film with ties to the area came away with some hardware. Cult Hero, which was shot over 25 days in the fall of 2021 in Owen Sound and the surrounding area, went 0-for-6 when the Academy of […]

Owen Sound’s development charge for a new single family home could rise by more than 250 per cent from current levels if city council decides to charge a new draft maximum amount allowable – although staff are not recommending a change yet. On Thursday, the city’s corporate services committee began the process of looking into […]

The province’s Special Investigations Unit has concluded its investigation into an incident in Owen Sound late last year in whihc a man suffered a fractured orbital bone while being arrested by police. SIU Director Joseph Martino determined there were no reasonable grounds to believe that the Owen Sound Police Service officer committed a criminal offence […]

Four Owen Sound Ice Hawks teams are soaring into Ontario Women’s Hockey Association (OWHA) provincial championship tournaments this weekend. The clubs from the city’s girls hockey program that will compete at provincials include the under-11 ‘C’ team, as well as the under-11, under-13, and under-18 ‘A’ squads. Those interested in tracking the local teams’ progress […]

A six-lot subdivision is now draft-approved on an historic Balmy Beach-area property known as The Martins, with conditions including that public access to the shore road allowance is permitted through part of it. Grey County councillors voted to approve the lots during their committee of the whole meeting Thursday. The property belongs to a local […]

Saugeen Shores Mayor Luke Charbonneau officially began construction of the town’s new Innovation Park with a ceremonial groundbreaking Thursday. Located at 300 Concession 6 in Port Elgin – 25 kilometres from Bruce Power – the Innovation Park is 23 acres of employment land in an area set up to attract clean energy businesses by capitalizing […]

As other communities in Ontario have poured resources and incentives into attracting a limited number of primary-care physicians to their areas, Owen Sound has fallen behind, and now an estimated 25 per cent of the city’s population is without a family doctor. In an attempt to get the city back into what has become a […]

A $1 million request to help pay for a new $25 million mental health and addictions treatment centre at the former Bayview Public School in Owen Sound was received for future consideration at Grey County council’s committee of the whole Thursday. By county policy, health-care funding requests made by June will be considered in the […]

High winds fanned the flames that quickly destroyed a log house near Rocklyn Wednesday evening. Roughly 40 firefighters from Grey Highlands, Meaford, The Blue Mountains and the Inter-Township Fire Department responded to the call to the home on Sideroad 22B east of Grey Road 7. Grey Highlands Fire Chief Marty Wellwood said the home was […]

Ever wondered if your cat is left or right-handed? What about how long you could leave a bowl of ice cream outside of the freezer before the tasty treat melts? Or, which soil grows the best plants? Students tried to answer those questions and more at the Junior Bluewater Regional Science and Technology Fair Wednesday […]

Just days after his Ontario Hockey League career ended Nick Chenard stumbled into a dream. The Owen Sound Attack’s recently graduated goaltender found himself at the end of the Toronto Maple Leafs bench in Florida. He had the best seat in the house as Leafs captain John Tavares won the game in sudden-death overtime, 2-1 […]

Home sales in Grey-Bruce were down by about 19 per cent in March when compared with the same month a year ago, but rose 29 per cent from February. A total of 217 units were sold through the MLS system of the Realtors Association of Grey Bruce Owen Sound last month. In February, 154 units […]

Seneca College’s decision to shutter its underwater skills program is causing concern within the Canadian commercial diving sector and will have implications in Wiarton. For decades, the practical college program worked to prepare commercial divers for local and international careers while using Colpoy’s Bay in Wiarton as the site of its deep training dives. It’s […]

A Meaford family whose autistic son in the psychiatric unit at the Owen Sound hospital are hopeful a recently announced Ontario Ombudsman’s investigation into situations like theirs will lead to some changes that would benefit families of adults with developmental disabilities. After their story was highlighted in the media last month, Sean and Michelle Crooks […]

A film with ties to Owen Sound and featuring members of Owen Sound Little Theatre received six Canadian Screen Award nominations. Cult Hero is set in the city and was shot by director James Thomas Cook over 25 days in the fall of 2021 in Owen Sound and the surrounding area, including a return to […]

The Blue Mountains is using a new provincial tool to fast-track getting shovels in the ground for its proposed campus of care project. The provincial government recently announced the first community infrastructure and housing accelerator order in response to a request from the town to streamline approvals and build a 160-bed long-term-care facility on municipally […]

A Melancthon Township man has been arrested and charged in connection with stolen items recovered in Grey Highlands earlier this year. On Jan. 24, Grey Bruce OPP recovered stolen items at a property on Grey Rd. 4 in the Municipality of Grey Highlands. On Sunday, just before 3:30 p.m., Grey Bruce OPP arrested an individual […]

The Lake Huron Coastal Centre will hold its biennial conference delving into the coastal sustainability challenges and solutions for Lake Huron in Grand Bend early next month. The Is the Coast Clear? conference will bring environmental professionals, Indigenous communities, government officials and members of the public together on May 5. The theme this year is […]

PATS UP 2-1 IN POLLOCK FINAL Brody Leblanc scored his second goal of the game, and what proved to be the game-winning goal, in the third period as the Mount Forest Patriots topped the Hanover Barons 3-2 in front of just over 1,000 fans inside the Mount Forest and District Sports Complex Sunday evening. Vince […]

UNDER 21 The Shallow Lake Lakers under-21 club lost three group games at the Ontario Minor Hockey Association championship tournament in Whitby this past weekend and failed to advance to the playoff round. The Lakers opened the tournament with a 5-0 defeat at the hands of the Thorold Blackhawks before falling to both the Ennismore […]

Owen Sound Attack captain Colby Barlow is one of only two players named the best player at three different skills in the annual Ontario Hockey League’s coaches poll. The league released the 2022-23 coaches poll Monday morning. In the poll, the coaches placed Barlow at the top spot in the Western Conference in “Best Shot” […]

Beth Ezekiel Synagogue is inviting the community into its sanctuary to mark Yom Hashoah on April 16, a day to commemorate Holocaust victims, survivors, rescuers and liberators. This will be the first time the local Jewish congregation has invited the public to attend this annual service to mark Holocaust Remembrance Day, Owen Sound synagogue president […]

The judge who found a 1.4-mile northern strip of popular beach at Sauble Beach belongs to Saugeen First Nation proposed to let three owners of property on the disputed portion of beach to retain a life interest in their land. One of those owners, David Dobson, who runs a take-out restaurant within the disputed area […]

Ryan Willis says he has credible Bigfoot sightings in the Owen Sound area, so how could he not check them out? He and Joel Porter co-host a TV show called Sasquatch University, premiering on Wild TV Sept. 25. The Owen Sound episode will be among the first of 13 weekly episodes. They started the Trent […]

Now that a court has decided a 1.4 mile-strip of beach at Sauble Beach belongs to Saugeen First Nation, South Bruce Peninsula Mayor Garry Michi wants both councils to discuss the matter and move forward. “This is year 2023. It’s time to talk to our neighbours and reconcile everything and get along,” Michi said in an […]

Police confirmed Friday the remains of two men found Monday near Hepworth belonged to men who were missing since January. A search by volunteers discovered the remains of Keith Campbell, 33, and Justin Yeo, 37, less than a half-hour after the search began. Grey Bruce OPP’s crime unit continues to investigate the circumstances around the […]

The wound is still fresh when Greg Walters is asked to talk about next year, and why it might be different. Just minutes after the London Knights stormed into town and won a pair of games to complete the four-game sweep of the Owen Sound Attack in the Western Conference quarterfinal series, Walters didn’t want […]