Owen Sound Sun Times

The Big Bruce Volleyball Club is back and looking for players. Club president Barry Mutrie said in a media release the club is inviting boys in the Grey-Bruce area born in 2005 or later to three open practices on Dec. 6, Dec. 13 and Dec. 20 at the Chesley District Community School from 7 to […]

Eighteen teams will vie for a share of the $14,000 purse this week at the 40th Super Spiel in Port Elgin. Teams are also aiming to earn points towards a possible spot at the Port Elgin ’23 Ontario Tankard and Ontario Scotties presented by Bruce Power in January. The popular curling event runs from Nov. […]

A rink from Owen Sound’s Blue Water Curling Club began play at the Canadian Masters Curling Championships at the Pembina Curling Club in Winnipeg Monday. The men are representing Ontario at the national competition for curlers 60 years of age and over. The Blue Water team is made up of skip Al Hutchinson, Kevin Daniel, […]

Servac Petrovsky’s hat trick and a three-point effort from captain Colby Barlow helped the Owen Sound Attack skate to a 6-3 win over the Erie Otters Sunday afternoon in front of just over 2,500 fans at the Bayshore. The Bears have now won three-straight games and propelled themselves to the top of the Midwest Division […]

It took longer than expected, but the new state-of-the-art rectory at St. Mary’s Catholic Church in Owen Sound is finally ready. On Sunday, Bishop Douglas Crosby, Oblate of Mary Immaculate, ninth bishop of the Diocese of Hamilton, was in Owen Sound where he officially blessed the new rectory. Neil Devlin, chair of the parish’s building […]

The finishing touches are being added for an annual event that has been a constant during the holiday season in Owen Sound for three-and-a-half decades now. Local volunteers are just about ready to flick the switch on the 35th season of Owen Sound’s Festival of Northern Lights, which will line the banks of the Sydenham […]

A familiar sight during the holiday season has returned to the Harry Lumley Bayshore Community Centre. The Bells of Christmas tree was once again placed in the lobby on Saturday morning, where volunteers placed approximately 150 crocheted bells, each with suggested gift items for lonely seniors at area care homes. Even as volunteers were placing […]

Down two with 20 minutes to play. No leads in the first 40 minutes. A sixteen-year-old goaltender between the pipes facing his first bout with adversity after allowing five goals. Owen Sound was determined to win this hockey game. And they did. The Scenic City skaters scored five unanswered goals in the third period to […]

The sound of respectful clapping from the sidewalk greeted cadets, legion and armed services members who paraded up 2nd Avenue East, past city hall and across the bridge to the cenotaph Friday. When the accompanying pipes and drum went silent and the people in the parade found their places by the monument, all stood silently. […]

The emergency department at the Chesley hospital is to reopen during weekdays in early December. At a special meeting on Wednesday the South Bruce Grey Health Centre board approved resumption of the service five days a week from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. beginning on Dec. 5. The emergency department is to remain closed overnight […]

Grey County has added its voice to the chorus of municipalities against some of the proposed changes contained in the province’s Bill 23, known as the More Homes Built Faster Act. Among concerns raised by county staff at a council meeting on Thursday are that the changes will be more administrative or financially burdensome to […]

November 11, 2022

Owen Sound’s Brianna Cavan won the women’s 2022 Hamilton Marathon Road2Hope in a personal best time of 2:53:13, nearly 11 months after giving birth. Cavan crossed the finish line in 13th overall and was the first female athlete to complete the 42.2-kilometre waterfront course last Sunday. Five-time Canadian champion distance runner Rachel Hannah, who recently […]

Saugeen District Royals head coach Joey Wentworth said his punter could kick the ball a “country mile”. Well, on Thursday afternoon in Port Elgin, Tyler Kobe only needed to punt the ball through the end zone from the opponent’s four-yard line to send the Royals to the Bluewater Athletic Association senior football championship. He boomed […]

Documentary filmmaker Graeme Bachiu’s six-part series about a nearly forgotten Black community’s cemetery has won the Ontario Historical Society’s President’s Award. Bachiu, who grew up in Owen Sound and made a documentary in 2007 about the demise of the Queen’s Hotel in the city, turned his attention to the story of Black freedom seekers near […]

A recent surge in COVID-19 cases in Grey-Bruce appears to have subsided. Grey-Bruce Medical Officer of Health Dr. Ian Arra reported to Grey County council on Thursday that the surge that occurred around late October had been “mitigated through the efforts of the partners around Grey-Bruce and the team at the health unit.” Arra said […]

Grey County council said so long to half of its current members at the final meeting of the 2018-2022 council term on Thursday. As the meeting wound down, county pins were presented to those in attendance who did not seek re-election or were defeated in last month’s municipal elections. At Grey County, that included nine […]

The G-Men strike again for Owen Sound. Fresh off Ontario Hockey League player of the week nods, Deni Goure and Carter George combined for a pair of stellar efforts in a 6-2 bounce-back win over the Sarnia Sting Wednesday night at the Harry Lumley Bayshore Community Centre. The Attack’s rookie goaltender stopped 29 of 31 […]

Andy Brown, the Owen Sound Attack’s longtime head athletic therapist and equipment manager, can check another item off his hockey bucket list. Hockey Canada announced its coaching and bench staff for the 2023 IIHF World Junior Hockey Championship in Halifax and Moncton Wednesday and Brown is among the staff who will aim to help the […]

Owen Sound’s legion branch is planning the return of a full Remembrance Day service at the cenotaph Friday. The legion is not making masks mandatory but if people want to wear one against COVID-19, they’re welcome to, said service organizer Marcia Dixon in an interview Wednesday. Armed services and legion members will fall in at […]

The Ontario government has granted a Minister’s Zoning Order that Brockton requested to allow residential development in Walkerton’s business park. The municipality asked for the MZO to expedite development of up to 500 housing units and allow expansion of Walkerton’s boundaries to accommodate future business and industrial development. The lands subject to the MZO that […]

Flesherton’s Chris Neil will receive hockey’s ultimate honour when the Ottawa Senators raise his number 25 to the rafters of the Canadian Tire Centre on February 17. “Chris Neil was and is everything that you would want an Ottawa Senator to be,” said Ottawa Senators president of business operations Anthony LeBlanc in a media release. […]

Grey-Bruce real estate sales for October were well below what they were a year prior. Sales in Grey-Bruce were down by close to 45 per cent in October when compared to the same month in 2021, when the market continued to be red hot, fuelled by low interest rates, record low inventory and the pandemic […]

For close to three years the Georgian Bay Concert Choir has had to shelve public performances because of the COVID-19 pandemic and the safety concerns and restrictions that have come with it. But the local community choir is returning with a vengeance with plans to perform alongside the Juno-nominated Sultans of String later this month. […]

A proponent of a different kind of affordable housing project, on industrial or “employment” land that would need to be needs city rezoned, has asked city council for help to “surmount the red tape.” Kelsey Carrierre, president of Glassworks Cooperative, filled in councillors on the group’s development concept. She appeared Monday at the last meeting […]

Maybe it was always too good to be true for Owen Sound. A Midwest Division race with London, Kitchener and Guelph all struggling early. Well, after dropping back-to-back games to the Rangers and Knights while being outscored 11-2, the Attack’s reign at the top looks rented not owned. On the bright side, the Guelph Storm […]

Owen Sound council has directed staff to continue processing an application to build rental apartments on an empty piece of land at 740 10th Street West, roughly across from the Marlan Towers apartment building. A development application for that site has been submitted. It calls for an “eight-unit stacked cluster townhouse development” with four units […]

City council on Monday agreed to take $25,000 from an anticipated 2022 budget surplus and give it to Safe ‘n Sound, a homeless drop-in centre on 8th Street East in Owen Sound, to extend its winter hours from Nov. 14 through next March. Grey County is responsible for providing affordable, temporary and emergency housing for […]

A Blue Mountains woman is one of two people charged with numerous drug offences after a vehicle stop in Collingwood last week. Shortly before 1 a.m. on Nov. 2, an officer on patrol made a vehicle stop on Raglan Street in relation to a Highway Traffic Act infraction, Collingwood and the Blue Mountains OPP said […]

A Holstein man has been identified as the person who died in a crash in Caledon last week. Clinton Lopez, 48, was pronounced dead at the scene of the crash on Highway 10 in the Town of Caledon on Nov. 2. Caledon OPP and other emergency services responded to a two-vehicle collision just after 4:30 […]

The province’s Special Investigations Unit has concluded an investigation without calling for charges against Owen Sound police after a man who was in custody overdosed in July. The director of the SIU, Joseph Martino, found no reasonable grounds to believe that any officers with the city police department committed a criminal offence in connection with […]

Owen Sound Mayor Ian Boddy thanked three departing members of council for helping to guide the city over the past four years. Boddy suggested Deputy-mayor Brian O’Leary, a two-term councillor, should most be remembered for his successful advocacy at Grey County council for a one per cent budget increase annually for housing. Coun. John Tamming, […]

There is a chill in the air, Halloween is in the rearview mirror and a faint ringing sound is picking up steam in the Scenic City. The hotly anticipated Bells of Christmas returns to the Harry Lumley Bayshore Community Centre Saturday. The local initiative aims to spread holiday cheer to lonely seniors at Owen Sound-area […]

The Owen Sound Junior Attack under-16 squad secured a silver medal Sunday in a 4-1 loss to the St. Thomas Stars at the International Silver Stick Regional Owen Sound tournament hosted by Owen Sound Minor Hockey. Ty Shouldice scored the lone Jr. Attack goal in the game. Thirty single-A teams spread over four divisions competed […]

The countdown has started again for Owen Sound’s relaunch of Scotiabank Hockey Day in Canada . Tickets for the events that are part of the four-day celebration of all things hockey and all things Owen Sound went on sale Monday. The event was postponed in January after the Omicron wave of the COVID-19 pandemic resulted […]

Tucked away just north of Hepworth is a picturesque equestrian centre. It will soon need a bigger wall for all of its winnings. Next to the horse stalls inside the riding barn hangs a small Hollow Hills Equestrian sign. It’s surrounded by a sprawling rainbow of prize ribbons. Accolades one might assume display a history […]

Students were expected to be back in class across Ontario on Tuesday after the Canadian Union of Public Employees agreed to call off their strike if the Ontario government dropped its legislation that imposes a contract and orders the education workers back to work. Locally, Bruce Grey Catholic District School Board schools and the French […]

The Grey Bruce Labour Council has named former federal Bruce-Grey-Owen Sound NDP candidate David McLaren Activist of the Year. “For a career devoted to the well-being of your community and in recognition of your ceaseless drive . . . the award recognizes contributions made to and on behalf of the community, workers and vulnerable members […]

Ava Moric keeps mining for provincial gold. The John Diefenbaker Senior School student-athlete added another Ontario Federation of School Athletic Associations (OFSAA) gold medal to an already impressive haul Saturday the provincial high school cross country championships in Uxbridge. Moric won the junior girls’ five-kilometre race at the Dagmar Ski Resort in a time of […]

Fourteen athletes represented KT (Kim-Thibodeau) Tae Kwon Do in Markham at the Pan-Am Centre on Saturday, Oct. 29, for the 21st Jung Ko Canadian Classic Tae Kwon Do tournament. Head Instructor Rick Thibodeau, Master James Lee, senior students Sherra Westerveld, and Alex Hawton were coaching the athletes in poomsae (patterns) and full contact kyorugi (sparring). […]

A local group committed to raising funds for global food sustainability through agriculture is celebrating its 25th anniversary this month with a turkey dinner fundraiser. The Bighead River Foodgrains growing project has worked in the Meaford area since 1997 and has raised $639,000 for the Canadian Foodgrains Bank. On Friday, Nov. 18, at the Meaford […]

The Grey Bruce Health Unit is urging anyone who uses unregulated street drugs to practice harm reduction strategies such as not using alone and not mixing drugs and alcohol after another suspected fatal overdose in the area. In a media release, the health unit said it received notification of a person in their 50s died […]

Stingy, skilled, and with Brett Brochu between the pipes sucking in pucks like a blackhole when all else fails, the London Knights brought a more on-brand style of play to Owen Sound Saturday. The Knights skated to a 4-1 win over the Owen Sound Attack inside the Harry Lumley Bayshore Community Centre and looked like […]

Volunteer efforts are making headway to raise $50,000 or more toward possibly $100,000 worth of work needed to save the grandstand in Victoria Park. So far more than $25,000 has been raised, due in large part to a $10,000 donation from Nicol Insurance, which also succeeded in getting $2,500 from Edge Mutual Insurance and $5,000 […]

The remainder of the Bluewater Athletic Association’s fall season seems uncertain as the labour dispute between the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) and the Ontario government resulted in a walk-out at Ontario schools by CUPE employees Friday. The BAA is an inter-school athletic organization that governs high school sports in Grey and Bruce counties. […]

Police removed eight commercial vehicles from service during a one-day regulatory compliance and safety blitz this week. In all, 34 commercial motor vehicles were inspected resulting in 31 charges for various infractions, two unauthorized licence plate seizures, and 12 warnings, a Grey Bruce OPP news release said. The blitz was conducted in the Grey Roots […]

With the ongoing contract dispute between the Ontario government and the union representing education support staff looking like it will stretch into next week, Grey-Bruce school boards are telling parents to be prepared for more closures. The Bruce-Grey Catholic District School Board, which closed its schools on Friday for the first day of walkouts by […]

Data from sensors on land and in the water to study how to make Kincardine’s Station Beach safer will be analyzed this winter. This three-year “Smart Beach” pilot project is developing a real-time beach warning system to provide local water conditions, including rough surf and the presence of rip currents, to improve beach safety in […]

Hundreds of Grey-Bruce education workers who are members of the Canadian Union of Public Employees walked off the job on Friday in what the union has called an indefinite strike. The job action comes after a week of back-and-forth between the Ontario government and the union that represents about 55,000 of the workers in the […]