Owen Sound Sun Times

Over $248,000 of grant money is being spread around Grey-Bruce this winter to local charities and non-profits. The Community Foundation Grey Bruce is dolling out $248,180 to several organizations that applied for support to start and grow projects. Three grant streams were made available. They include Kids Can Play Bruce Grey, Fall Community Grants and […]

Flu shots are now available for everyone throughout Grey-Bruce. They’re available at participating pharmacies, through health-care providers and at scheduled Grey Bruce Health Unit vaccine clinics. The health unit recommends everyone six months and older should get the shot, unless they have conditions which would indicate otherwise. “It’s much safer to get the vaccine than […]

Hanover police Const. Ryan Cabral was acquitted this week in Walkerton’s Ontario Court of Justice on a charge of sexual assault for something alleged to have taken place in 2017. A breach of trust charge was withdrawn before the trial began Monday. Visiting Crown attorney Ian Bulmer requested a sexual exploitation charge be stayed during […]

The Chapman House – Residential Hospice of Grey-Bruce had some very special visitors on Thursday. A litter of half a dozen six-month-old golden retriever puppies visited the palliative care facility on Owen Sound’s east side with their owner Neala Cook, where they cuddled with residents, staff and visitors for a couple of hours. After visiting […]

Parents with children five years and younger in local licensed YMCA child care and home care will be receiving rebates this month, the first step toward the government-touted provincial daily average $10-per-day child care promise. Rebates of between $5 and $11.25 per day for fees paid to the Y between April and September are the […]

The Bruce-Grey Catholic District School Board will close its schools on Friday if the education staff represented by the Canadian Union of Public Employees walk off the job, while the Bluewater District School Board intends to keep its schools open. But whether or not a strike would happen remained unclear late Wednesday afternoon as the […]

Tommy Holmes’ Victoria Cross is now in the Canadian War Museum’s care. Holmes is one of three Victoria Cross winners celebrated in Owen Sound, along with Billy Bishop and David Currie. At 19 years, Holmes was one of the youngest Canadians to be awarded the Commonwealth’s highest military honour for bravery. The War Museum already […]

Owen Sound Little Theatre is going big to kick off its 2022-23 season in bringing a hit Disney classic to the Roxy Theatre stage. The production of Disney’s Beauty and the Beast: The Broadway Musical opens on Nov. 10 for the first of 12 shows featuring a cast of close to 30 actors supported by […]

A survey has been launched to collect labour market demand data in the region that includes Grey-Bruce. The 2023 EmployerOne survey, which was put on hold for the past two years during the COVID-19 pandemic, launched on Tuesday and will run until the end of January. The information collected from the survey provides valuable insights […]

With the possibility of strike action looming on Friday, school boards in Grey-Bruce were closely watching where negotiations were heading between the province and the union representing education support staff. Both the Bruce-Grey Catholic District School Board and Bluewater District School Board were working to determine what steps to take should staff represented by the […]

Renovations meant to improve patient flow and add two examination rooms at the Wiarton Emergency Department began Tuesday. Grey Bruce Health Services announced in a media release the renovations were expected to be completed in the early spring. All services will remain open throughout the renovation and signs will be posted to help direct patients, […]

The provincial government plans to see homes built at a breakneck pace over the next decade and one of the ways it is proposing to do it is by limiting the oversight of conservation authorities in respect to new developments. The Doug Ford government’s Bill 23, called the More Homes Built Faster Act, is a […]

At a time when most people are so sick of Zoom meetings that they’d rather toss their laptop through a window than suffer through an hour-long digital drawl, Greg Walters signed up for more. As the Owen Sound Attack enjoy a race up the Western Conference standings, Walters has been pulling double duty preparing to […]

A pair of Bears swept the Ontario Hockey League weekly awards as the Owen Sound Attack sprinted to the end of October with a six-point week. Deni Goure claimed player of the week honours while rookie goalie Carter George took home the goaltender of the week award in his first major junior hockey foray. With […]

An event started out of the COVID-19 pandemic to give Saugeen Shores and area families a place to enjoy the thrills and chills of Halloween continues to grow. For the third year in a row, the trail meandering around Southampton’s Fairy Lake was alive with youngsters loading up on treats from locals who set up […]

Saugeen Shores police are investigating after a young girl stepped on a piece of wood pierced with nails near a parking area adjacent to the main beach in Port Elgin. On Oct. 23, police responded to the beach following reports of a girl stepping on a plank covered in nails while walking. Police said in […]

Sue Paterson is back for a third term mayor of Hanover. Paterson easily won the two-person race for the mayor’s seat by receiving 1,881 votes to beat out Rob McKean, who received 446 votes. “I am honoured and deeply humbled that the citizens of Hanover have elected me as mayor for a third term. It’s […]

Local school board elections in Grey-Bruce returned four of six incumbents at the Catholic board, and five of nine incumbents returned at the public board. Bruce Grey Catholic District School Board trustees re-elected Monday are Lori DiCastri, the current board chair, in Huron-Kinloss, Brockton Ward 31, Kincardine; Linda Strader, Brockton, Ward 34 and 36; and […]

The Owen Sound Attack bagged their third-straight win, 4-1, over the Kingston Frontenacs Sunday afternoon inside the Harry Lumley Bayshore Community Centre. Rookie goaltender Carter George, who is up with the club from St. Marys while Nick Chenard recovers from an injury, made 27 stops on 28 shots and earned his second-career Ontario Hockey League […]

Grey County council’s conditional development charge deferral program, which is intended to encourage rental and other priority housing construction, has unintentionally discouraged Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation financing. On Thursday county council approved staff recommendations they hope will deal with the issue, while staff continue to examine implications of newly introduced provincial legislation that includes […]

Deni Goure and the Owen Sound Attack are rolling now. Since losing three-straight games earlier this month, the Attack have gone 6-1 including Saturday night’s impressive 5-2 victory over the Guelph Storm at the Bayshore. In those seven games, the Attack have outscored their opponents 33-18. Goure is leading the way with seven points in […]

Grey County staff will nudge municipal treasurers to better publicize a little-used tax-relief program for low-income seniors and people with disabilities. There have been just four qualifying applications to the program created last year, which rebates county, lower-tier municipal and education property tax increases up to $500. Total tax relief granted to date is $146.71 […]

A Northern Bruce Peninsula man received a 3 1/2-year prison sentence for a drive-by shooting at a house in Tobermory, then firing a shotgun at a car that gave chase with two men inside. David Hillyer was 39 when initially charged with two counts of attempted murder and for other offences related to events on […]

The Grey Bruce Health Unit is advising people to guard against the COVID-19 virus, which it said has been spreading more lately than in previous weeks, both locally and across the province. Indicators of increased transmission include outbreaks in long-term care and retirement homes, hospitals, COVID-19-related admissions, test positivity rates and new case counts, a […]

The Wiarton Propeller Club is tapping the brakes on a plan to donate its building and land at 575 Edward St. to South Bruce Peninsula to make way for affordable housing. Joanne Lancaster confirmed Friday the board members of the 73-year-old club have decided to try to jumpstart the aging organization at its current location […]

Durham hospital’s emergency department will be closed Saturday and Sunday night due to an ongoing staff shortage. Both days the emergency department will be closed between 5 p.m. and 7 a.m. the next day. Last Sunday the emergency department was also closed overnight on short notice due to staff calling in sick. The latest closure […]

Kiah Jasper has been bitten by the birding bug. And the 20-year-old from Mar has made the most of that passion by setting an Ontario Big Year record for spotting the most species of birds in the province in one year. Jasper set the mark on Oct. 10 in Windsor with his 347th species, when […]

Those interested in furthering their education are invited to the Georgian College campus at its 8th Street East location in Owen Sound next Wednesday for a college fair. In-person college information sessions are returning to Georgian College campuses in Barrie, Orillia and Owen Sound next week for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic began […]

Jack Diaz has loved to spend time in the woodshop since he was a young child. Then about three years ago he decided to start taking it a little more seriously, making fun picnic table feeders for squirrels. They were an immediate hit and he ended up selling dozens. He hasn’t looked back since and […]

Welcome to the Ontario Hockey League Carter George. The Owen Sound Attack’s 16-year-old third-string goaltender played a starring role Thursday night in Barrie as the Owen Sound Attack came all the way back from a 5-1 deficit midway through the game to win in a shootout. The Thunder Bay native who the Attack took in […]

Seven Bluewater Athletic Association athletes are headed to the OFSAA cross country championships after qualifying Thursday in Kincardine. The Central Western Ontario Secondary School Association (CWOSSA) cross country championships returned to full-fledged competition for the first time since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic with over 1,100 runners and dozens of schools gathered at the […]

Growth, affordable bridges and the future of a biodigester co-owned with Georgian Bluffs are among the issues Chatsworth’s incoming council will face, says the municipality’s incoming mayor. Elections Monday returned Mayor Scott Mackey to the head of Chatsworth Township council. He received 1,870 votes to challenger Kent Nuhn’s 360. The deputy-mayor’s job went to a […]

The majority of people identified as homeless in Grey County are local, contrary to some misconceptions, the county’s community services director said Thursday. Anne Marie Shaw confirmed the origin of homeless people in the county in an answer to a question from Owen Sound Deputy-mayor Brian O’Leary at county council Thursday. O’Leary wondered if most […]

Kincardine council is seeing a shakeup, with voters choosing a new mayor, new deputy-mayor and many new councillors. Kenneth Craig beat out current councillor Laura Haight for the mayor’s seat, with 59.3 per cent of the vote. Craig, a former dairy farmer and retired pastor at Kincardine Baptist Church, is not new to municipal politics, […]

Brian Milne will move up to the mayor’s chair in Southgate Township in the coming council term with determination to manage the community’s “supercharged” growth. Milne, currently deputy-mayor, said the pandemic was the supercharger that accelerated new home construction in Dundalk, which has strained local abilities to keep up. “Everybody’s scared of change and that’s […]

A new mayor is set to take the helm in South Bruce. Coun. Mark Goetz was elected mayor with nearly double the votes of the other two candidates — current mayor Robert Buckle and Rita Groen — receiving 788 votes each. The fate of the Nuclear Waste Management Organization’s proposed deep geological repository for Canada’s […]

It was a “low-key” municipal election in Brockton this time, with the mayor and new deputy=mayor acclaimed and six candidates seeking five available councillor seats. Mayor Chris Peabody will be joined by a new deputy-mayor, James Lang, who sat as a Brockton councillor for the past term. As a result of Monday’s election, there will […]

Arran-Elderslie Mayor Steve Hammell was acclaimed to serve with a council that saw its long-time deputy mayor replaced with a newcomer and one councillor replaced with a former holder of that office. Jennifer Christie handily defeated Mark Davis to become Arran-Elderslie’s incoming deputy mayor in Monday’s election. Christie received 1,704 votes to Davis’s 722. That’s […]

Police charged a 24-year-old West Grey man with 25 weapons offences after executing a search warrant Monday in West Grey. The man remained in custody Tuesday pending a bail hearing, a West Grey Police Service news release said. West Grey police called the arrest a “a multi-agency project” which also involved the Canada Border Security […]

Milt McIver is back as mayor of Northern Bruce Peninsula after 40 consecutive years as the head of council in the area. McIver was elected on Monday night, receiving 2,424 votes, defeating challenger Karen Phillips, who received 1,088 votes. McIver served as reeve of Lindsay Township and then as mayor of Northern Bruce Peninsula following […]

Paul McQueen is back for another term as the mayor of Grey Highlands. McQueen easily won a three-person race for the mayor’s seat by garnering 2,346 votes to beat out former councillor Danielle Valiquette’s 969 votes and Don Alp’s 265. Incumbent councillor Dane Neilsen replaces Aakash Desai as the municipality’s deputy mayor while Paul Allen […]

Former West Grey mayor Kevin Eccles defeated Mayor Christine Robinson by nearly doubling her vote in a three-way race in council elections Monday. Robinson, the former town chief administrative officer, defeated Eccles by about 150 votes in 2018. But this time voters reversed their “experiment,” Eccles said, between fetching a load of campaign signs and […]

Garry Michi has been elected mayor in South Bruce Peninsula, unseating incumbent mayor Janice Jackson in Monday’s election. Michi, 63, said on Tuesday that it felt surreal, but he was excited to get going. “There is a great bunch of people to work with and I am looking forward to that,” Michi said. “I am […]

Andrea Matrosovs won a four-person race for The Blue Mountains mayor’s chair Monday night. Matrosovs garnered just over 38 per cent of the vote with 1,564 ballots cast. Tony Poole finished as the runner-up with 1,084 votes while Joe Halos’ 783 votes and Elizabeth Marshall’s 620 rounded out the race. “It’s starting to sink in […]

It’s report card time and Colby Barlow is getting an ‘A’ from NHL Central Scouting. Owen Sound’s team captain and leading scorer is one of 28 prospects to earn an ‘A’ rating on the central scouting’s preliminary players to watch list released Tuesday. The list is a compilation of draft-eligible prospects from all the major […]

A quartet of North Stars helped the Queen’s Gaels rise to the occasion this past weekend and earn a 2022 Ontario University Athletics Women’s Lacrosse Championship. Former N’Stars Kenna McKee (OSDSS), Kennedy Coghlin (OSDSS), Tara Meikle (St. Mary’s), and Jordan Kosempel (OSDSS) earned gold medals as part of the championship squad. Meikle won OUA Rookie […]

Saugeen Shores Mayor Luke Charbonneau enters his second term as mayor safe in the knowledge that no one ran against him. He said in an interview Tuesday that he doesn’t know what if any message he should take from that, but there’s lots to do in Saugeen Shores and he said he’s excited by the […]

Ross Kentner moved to Meaford in 1956. Now he’ll lead. The one-term councillor who made his career in radio broadcasting before retiring in 2018 and entering municipal politics is the new mayor-elect of Meaford. “I arrived in Meaford in 1956 and lived here until this present time and I know this town produces champions and […]

There is a new face — but a familiar face — taking over the top job on Georgian Bluffs council. Sue Carleton, who has served the past four years as deputy-mayor, was voted mayor of the municipality on Monday night. Unofficially, Carleton received 1,727 votes, compared to 948 for incumbent mayor Dwight Burley, and 935 […]

Voters returned Owen Sound Mayor Ian Boddy to the head of council and promoted Scott Greig to deputy-mayor Monday night. Boddy received 3,372 votes to two-term city councillor Richard Thomas’s 2,697 votes. Boddy got 55.7 per cent of the vote in that race to Thomas’s 44.4 per cent. Greig defeated incumbent Deputy-mayor Brian O’Leary 3,717 […]