Owen Sound Sun Times

Smoke plumes from forest fires in northeastern Ontario and Quebec are expected to cause the air quality in Grey-Bruce to deteriorate for a second time this month, prompting Environment and Climate Change Canada to issue a Special Air Quality Statement for the area. The province'sAir Quality Health Index(AQHI) for Grey-Bruce is also forecasted to reach [...]

The Sound Waterfront Festival, a free two-day multicultural festival, returns to Owen Sound this week in time for Canada Day. Owen Sound's annual bayside bash begins on Friday before spilling into Canada Day celebrations the next day. Events Saturday culminate in a fireworks show over the city's harbour at 10 p.m. The festival will feature [...]

The Owen Sound Attack released its 2023-24 Ontario Hockey League schedule on Tuesday. The Bears will open up the year in Guelph on Friday, Sept. 29, as the Storm invites the Scenic City club into the Sleeman Centre to kick off the campaign. Then, on Saturday, Sept. 30, the Owen Sound Attack open the doors [...]

The City of Owen Sound is one step closer to charging a four per cent municipal accommodation tax for short-term stays in the city. On Monday evening at its regular meeting, council carried a recommendation from its community development, tourism and culture advisory committee to have a draft municipal accommodation tax bylaw brought forward for [...]

Bruce Power and a 1,200-member local announced a new, three-year contract Monday. In May, the Society of United Professionals asked the province to appoint a conciliator and its members voted 98.6 per cent in favour of strike action if necessary. The main issues identified by the union included contracting out of members' work, forced shift [...]

SR. B NORTH STARS WIN NAILBITERS The Owen Sound North Stars headed back from Ennismore Sunday with a pair of wins and a playoff spot. The North Stars topped the James Gang 12-11 on Saturday and then 9-8 Sunday afternoon to improve to 7-4-1 on the year with four games remaining in the regular season. [...]

The Owen Sound Baysox continued to struggle on the field over the weekend but enjoyed a great turnout at Tom Williams Baseball Field for a Saturday doubleheader and the Bailey Durocher Memorial Game. Both the Baysox and the New Lowell Knights wore special jerseys in memory of the former Baysox player who was killed last [...]

Police say they charged a 37-year-old Huron County driver with stunt driving after seeing Lamborghini sports car reach more than 140 kilometres per hour near Sauble Beach. Grey Bruce OPP said an officer observed the speeding on Bruce Road 8 in South Bruce Peninsula, where the speed limit is 80 km/h, on Saturday, June 24 [...]

The Rebels are still perfect and the North Stars are one game away from falling out of contention in 2023. The still undefeated Six Nations Rebel won both games in a home-and-home weekend series against the Owen Sound North Stars to take a 2-0 lead in the best-of-five Ontario Junior B Lacrosse League first-round playoff [...]

Fifty years ago a community came together to purchase a park, and on Saturday night hundreds gathered to thank those who had the vision for what is now called Hibou Conservation Area. On a beautiful sun-soaked Saturday evening folks gathered around the pavilion stage listening to live music as others splashed in the calm bay [...]

People gathered at Wiarton's Bluewater Park on Saturday in advance of Canadian Multiculturalism Day and celebrated with international food, music, dance, singing art and beautiful scenery. The event held by Grey Bruce Settlement and Language Services as well as the Grey Bruce Local Immigration Partnership was funded by Immigration, Refugees, and Citizenship Canada. It's the [...]

Hanover has received a non-repayable contribution of $11,254 from the Government of Canada through the Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario (FedDev Ontario) for an outdoor ice rink. The ice rink will be at the Kinsmen Ball Park during the winter months. In a news release, the town said the rink should provide a [...]

Georgian College, in partnership with the Simcoe County District School Board (SCDSB) and Bruce-Grey Catholic District School Board (BGCDSB), will hope to inspire a new generation to build careers in the emerging automotive electrification industry with the help of a $500,000 grant from Ontario Vehicle Innovation Network's (OVIN) Regional Future Workforce Program. Rob Theriault, the [...]

The province's independent police watchdog is investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of a 48-year-old man in Goderich yesterday. According to a Special Investigations Unit media release, the Ontario Provincial Police were requested to check on the well-being of a man at approximately 1:15 p.m. on June 22. Officers located the man's vehicle around 2:30 [...]

A teenage cancer survivor from Georgian Bluffs is taking on a new challenge in his fourth year of raising funds for cancer research. After completing half-marathons in 2020 and 2022 and a full marathon in 2021, Jesse Walker of Balmy Beach is preparing to tackle an Olympic triathlon - 1.5-kilometre swim, 40-km bike and 10-km [...]

When learning to ride a bike, it's important to just keep pedalling. It's when the bike slows down the rider is most at risk of toppling over. Ten years after Joachim Ostertag cycled from Owen Sound to Vancouver to raise awareness of gender-based violence and missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls in Canada, he [...]

Grey County has recognized two residents who were recently inducted into the Ontario Agriculture Hall of Fame. County council recognized Ray Robertson and Brian Gilroy on Thursday after they were inducted into the hall of fame at a ceremony in Elora on June 11. The Ontario Agriculture Hall of Fame Association announced in February it [...]

Grey County plans to expropriate two small parcels of land required to construct a roundabout at an intersection identified in the past as the county's most dangerous. At its committee of the whole meeting on Thursday, Grey County council approved a staff recommendation to expropriate the two pieces of land southeast and southwest of the [...]

Grey County will make some speed limit changes to county roads in and around Allan Park, Neustadt and Walter's Falls. Council directed staff Thursday to bring forward a bylaw to amend its traffic and parking regulations to allow for some changes, including the speed limit reductions in the communities. The recommended changes include reducing the [...]

The Grey Bruce Health Unit issued an opioid alert Friday following reports of four suspected drug overdoses, including a fatal overdose, over a recent six-day period. The health unit said a person in their 50s died on June 21 of a suspected fentanyl overdose, while other non-fatal overdoses were reported between June 16 and June [...]

A planned collaboration between Grey Roots and the Bluewater District School Board is expected to breathe some farm life into the Moreston Heritage Village next year. The Grey County-run museum and archives and the Bluewater board are working through a draft agreement that would see the board's specialist high skills major program in agriculture moved [...]

One of the fastest-growing sports in North America is taking centre stage in Wiarton this July to help Big Brothers Big Sisters raise awareness and funds. Big Brothers Big Sisters of Grey Bruce and Western Simcoe in partnership with the Taylored Pickleball Academy (TPA) will hold a three-day pickleball weekend extravaganza featuring learn-to-play clinics and [...]

The Bluewater District School Board has named Wendy Louwerse a superintendent of education effective Sept. 1. She will replace superintendent of education Andrea Tang, who is set to retire. A media release announcing the post said Louwerse grew up in Caledon but has spent more than 34 years as a resident of Grey County. With [...]

New this year is a celebration of the local culinary arts and international food scene at the Owen Sound Farmers' Market Saturday morning.

A 28-year-old Owen Sound man is facing operation while impaired charges after police were called about two people in running vehicle outside an eastside business early Wednesday morning. Owen Sound police, fire services and Grey County paramedics were called to the business around 2 a.m. after receiving reports of two unresponsive males inside a running [...]

A Saugeen Shores police officer and firefighters helped save a woman from drowning in Lake Huron on June 21 around 9 p.m., according to a police media release. Police attended the area near Scubby's Point Park in Southampton after receiving reports of a person in crisis. Upon arrival, police observed the female walking into the [...]

A 32-year-old woman from Bruce County faces several charges after a Saugeen Shores police officer was punched in the face. Officers received a report of an intoxicated woman stealing a vehicle from Lamont Sports Park in Port Elgin at 10:20 p.m. Wednesday, Saugeen Shores police said in a news release. Approximately 10 minutes later an [...]

A Huron-Kinloss man was sentenced to four years in prison for his role in a fatal pickup truck rollover almost four years ago in Southgate. John Franken, who was 25 at the time, was sentenced in the Superior Court of Justice in Owen Sound on June 9. He pleaded guilty to impaired driving causing death [...]

Port Elgin's Ian MacKay is bringing the NLL Cup to the Queen's Bar and Grill on Saturday. MacKay and the Buffalo Bandits won the National Lacrosse League's top prize in a deciding Game 3 over the Colorado Mammoth with a 13-4 victory at Buffalo's KeyBank Center earlier this month in front of over 18,000 fans. [...]

The South Bruce Grey Health Centre will close the Durham emergency department overnight at times this summer due to a lack of staff. Hospitals across Canada and Ontario are facing staffing challenges and South Bruce Grey Health Centre is no exception. We are experiencing an ongoing shortage of physicians, nurses and other healthcare workers over [...]

South Bruce Peninsula has postponed its Canada Day weekend fireworks in Sauble Beach and Wiarton due to the dry conditions on the Bruce Peninsula. The municipality announced on Tuesday that the fireworks at Sauble Beach and Bluewater Park in Wiarton had been cancelled and will be rescheduled at a later date once a municipal fire [...]

A third person has pleaded guilty to charges related to the death of a young man at an Owen Sound hotel two years ago. Mackenzie Paterek, 23, of no fixed address when arrested, pleaded guilty over Zoom from jail Wednesday in the Superior Court of Justice to manslaughter in the death of Kody Hunter, 22, [...]

West Grey council is throwing its support behind a proposed battery farm south of Hanover. Grant Johns and Bogdan Dinu of the Halton-based Shift Solar Inc. appeared as a delegation at the West Grey council meeting Tuesday morning and presented their plan to build a 100-megawatt battery energy storage system (BESS) on 40 acres of [...]

The Bruce Grey Music Hall of Fame is tuning up to induct six more members at its first induction ceremony in three years Sunday in Owen Sound. Doors to the Memorial Auditorium at the Royal Canadian Legion in Owen Sound open at 1 p.m., as the local music hall of fame celebrates entertainment legends of [...]

Owen Sound firefighters put out a fire at a triplex on the city's west side early Saturday morning. All units were evacuated and the fire was contained to the deck and family room of the main floor unit. The fire started on the exterior of the home. Improperly extinguished smokers' materials are the suspected cause, [...]

Event organizers are planning to make the three-day festival bigger and better in 2024 for the 50th anniversary

The Ukrainian Village of Owen Sound continues to provide assistance to families as Russia's invasion of their homeland drags on. The organization is preparing to welcome a mother and her child from Ukraine in the next two weeks, with another larger family expected to move to the city by the end of July, Lesya Chapman, [...]

The Friends of Hibou Park are throwing a party to help celebrate the 50-year anniversary of the park's purchase for public use on Saturday. The family event will feature live music, children's activities and a cash-only barbecue supported by the Sydenham Junior Optimists. The 50th anniversary event begins at 5 p.m. and runs until 11 [...]

Georgian Bluffs council has approved spending an additional $308,623 on a major road reconstruction project at its northwestern boundary with South Bruce Peninsula. The municipality's committee of the whole voted at its meeting on Wednesday to fund the additional cost of the Elm Street reconstruction project from its working capital reserve. The additional funds are [...]

The Ontario Jiu-Jitsu Association hosted its annual Kids Jiu-Jitsu Festival in Brampton earlier this month, a very popular tournament raising funds for children challenged by autism, with a strong showing from local Kilian Academy athletes. Canadian Champion and pupil at Harvest Canadian Reformed Christian School, Derrick Scheper, pressed his claim as one of the best [...]

UNITED SHUT OUT KITCHENER The Owen Sound United sponsored by the Jerry Pfeil Auto Group won 1-0 over Kitchener Riverside in Kitchener and District Soccer League action Sunday night at the Kiwanis Soccer Complex. Colin Lake scored the game-winner in the first half and Flynn Cowell-Castles earned the shutout. The United's next game is Sunday [...]

The Owen Sound North Stars junior B club will open up the Ontario Junior B Lacrosse League playoffs against the top-seed and undefeated Six Nations Rebels. N'Stars general manager Ethan Woods said the teams were working to confirm the schedule for the best-of-five series Monday. The North Stars finished the 20-game regular season schedule this [...]

The Owen Sound North Stars stalled out against the Six Nations Rivermen Saturday and are sliding down the standings in the province's senior B lacrosse circuit. The North Stars travelled to the Six Nations Sports and Cultural Memorial Center for their fourth game against the Rivermen this past Saturday, losing 11-6. The North Stars are [...]

The work of some of the area's young amateur filmmakers will hit the big screen at the 2023 Grey Bruce Youth Film Festival screening on Wednesday. A lineup of 10 short films created by youth from across Grey and Bruce counties will be screened at Galaxy Cinemas just west of Owen Sound, followed by an [...]

A person died after a collision involving an all-terrain vehicle in West Grey on Sunday. At about noon, the West Grey Police Service, West Grey Fire Department and Wellington County EMS were called to a single-vehicle ATV crash in the area of Grey Road 3 and Concession 8 east of Elmwood. The male driver, who [...]

Bring on the crowd because the performers with The Roxy Star Company are ready for an audience. The Owen Sound Little Theatre program for adults with intellectual, developmental or physical disabilities is wrapping up its first session and the participants can’t wait to present their finale event — The Imagine Talent Show — on Thursday, […]

A program that prepares medical residents for rural family practice is benefitting the Grey-Bruce region in a big way. On Tuesday, a virtual graduation ceremony was held at the Meaford Library for five family medicine residents who were part of McMaster University’s Rural Stream Program, which provides residency training for aspiring family doctors at six […]

Owen Sound police say they charged a 19-year-old with stunt driving after they saw him perform a stunt in his pickup truck Thursday at noon on the east side of the city. His driver’s licence was suspended immediately for a mandatory 30 days and the truck was impounded for 14 days. The driver, whom police […]

Police charged a 15-year-old from Grey Highlands with assault with a weapon and possession of an imitation weapon for a dangerous purpose in a “school-related” incident Tuesday. Grey Bruce OPP were called at 12:47 p.m. to a local school for a weapons call, a police news release said Thursday. There were no injuries reported and […]

Music at the Market, a free series of concerts, takes place in July and August at the Owen Sound Farmers’ Market building on Thursdays and Fridays in downtown Owen Sound. Thursday concerts begin at 5 p.m. and Friday shows start at noon. The live concerts will be presented rain or shine at 88 8th St. […]