Owen Sound Sun Times

The South Bruce Grey Health Centre has appointed a new president and chief executive officer. On March 22, the board of the four-hospital corporation announced that Nancy Shaw has been appointed to the position effective this upcoming Saturday. Shaw replaces Michael Barrett after it was announced last November that he would not be renewing his […]

Owen Sound is taking measures to try to rein rising costs and misuse of its leaf and yard waste composting site. On Monday night, city council approved an operations committee recommendation and passed a bylaw to hire a bylaw officer to enforce the city’s waste management bylaw at the site. Council also approved a change […]

Rob Mignardi is Mr. Playoffs when it comes to the Owen Sound Attack. In 2011 when the Attack won their first and only Ontario Hockey League championship Mignardi won the Wayne Gretzky 99 Award as playoff MVP. His 15 goals and nine assists in 22 playoff games led all scorers. When asked earlier this month, […]

Owen Sound Fire and Emergency Services will begin a Junior Firefighter program for kids in May. Kids in Grades 5 and 6 from Owen Sound schools who are accepted into the free program will learn what it’s like to be a firefighter. There’s room for 40 students. Grade 6 Owen Sound residents will get priority, […]

Grey Bruce Public Health has issued an alert after a flurry of drug overdoses in the area, including two that were fatal. The health unit announced the alert on Tuesday after receiving notification of two fatal overdoses and five non-fatal overdoses within the past several days. People who use unregulated street drugs are at significant […]

A planned mixed-use development received support from Owen Sound city council on Monday, with some crediting the project for its compact nature in how it combined residential and commercial uses together in a limited area. At the meeting, Owen Sound council directed staff to prepare the bylaw for the official plan and zoning bylaw amendments […]

The results are in and Scotiabank Hockey Day in Canada in Owen Sound was a success in all areas, including financially. Local organizing committee co-chairs Denise Reid, Jim McManaman and Fred Wallace made a presentation to Owen Sound council Monday, where they gave a roundup of the four-day event in January that highlighted the city […]

A Kitchener man has been identified as the person who died in a hit-and-run on Story Book Park Road early Saturday morning. IPolice identified the victim as 44-year-old Ken Irvine in a news release Tuesday. They continue to investigate the incident and are asking for the public’s assistance. Just after 1 a.m. Saturday, Grey County […]

A person was taken into custody following an incident in Markdale early Tuesday morning. At approximately 3:15 a.m. Grey Bruce OPP responded to a disturbance in the area of Main Street West in Markdale. Police said there was an increased police presence for an investigation and the public was being asked to avoid the area […]

A development is being proposed for a strip of land on Owen Sound’s east side that could eventually see close to 500 residential units built in the form of townhouses and apartment buildings. Owen Sound council held a public meeting Monday for an official plan and zoning bylaw amendment for the approximately five-and-a-half-hectare site south […]

The Owen Sound Minor Hockey Group and several Owen Sound Junior Attack squads had a successful week out on the ice. The Owen Sound McDonalds Junior Attack (red) under-11 local league team won the WOAA finals after defeating Saugeen Shores in the North B division on Saturday. The Owen Sound Joe’s Garage Junior Attack (red) […]

London is calling and Landen answered. The Owen Sound Attack’s trade-deadline acquisition batted home the game-winning goal Sunday evening as the Owen Sound Attack beat the Saginaw Spirit, 6-4, to sneak into seventh place in the Western Conference and book a date with the London Knights in the first round of the playoffs. Owen Sound […]

The end of March brings Ontario’s annual Sunshine List, when light is shone on the highest earners among workers paid with tax dollars. Friday, the Ontario government published the names, positions and employers of people paid all or largely with public funds, who earned in salary and taxable benefits of at least $100,000 in 2022. […]

Storybook Park Road was closed on the weekend while police conducted what they said was a death investigation. Grey Bruce OPP started the investigation at 1:05 a.m. Saturday, according to a news release issued Sunday morning morning. Storybook Park Road was closed from Highway 6/10 to Conc. 10 in Meaford. “The investigation is in its […]

The Owen Sound Attack snapped a four-game winless streak with a 6-4 victory over the Flint Firebirds Saturday night in the penultimate game of the regular season for the Scenic City Skaters. With the win, Owen Sound can still finish as high as seventh place in the Western Conference if they win Sunday against the […]

Angela Rennie stood on the 8th Street bridge Saturday morning and tossed a carnation into the river as a memorial gesture to her daughter. She stood with family and friends, some of whom held carnations and wore lanyards with cards featuring a photo of Brooklyn Nickle, who died at 22 of a fentanyl overdose in […]

The Sarnia Sting made scored three unanswered goals after the first period en route to their second-straight victory over the Owen Sound Attack, 4-1, inside the Progressive Auto Sales Arena Friday night. The win gives the surging Sting points in their last 17 games. Owen Sound is now winless in their last four games. Owen […]

Does Nick Chenard have one more pleasant surprise left in his Ontario Hockey League career? The Owen Sound Attack’s postseason chances may rest on the overage goaltender finding his form again in time for the playoffs. To this point, his final season in the world’s top junior hockey league has been up and down, much […]

Grey County has awarded tenders for a pair of multi-million-dollar road reconstruction jobs in Meaford and Grey Highlands to be completed this summer. At its meeting on Thursday, Grey County council awarded the jobs that will see includes the reconstruction of two stretches of Grey Rd. 7 in Meaford and Grey Highlands, as well as […]

Some Grey-Bruce farmers and church leaders who are helping end global hunger gathered Thursday in Owen Sound for a spring update to learn how those efforts are making a difference. They are supporters of the Canadian Foodgrains Bank, a partnership of faith-based charitable groups. About a dozen local projects raise money for emergency food aid […]

Oxenden’s Julian Smith participated in four races at the 2023 Canadian Ski Nationals hosted by Lappe Nordic Center in Thunder Bay from March 11 to 17.Smith, competing for both National Team Development Centre (NTDC) and his home club Georgian Bay Nordic, and having recently returned from World Championships in Slovenia, had caught a nasty cold […]

The director of a film that used props from the former Blockbuster on the Sunset Strip in Georgian Bluffs will be in attendance at a showing of her film just steps away from the abandoned former movie rental store. Chandler Levack will attend a presentation of her first feature film I Like Movies at the […]

The Wiarton Village Fair has been called off for 2023. The Rotary Club of Wiarton, which puts on the annual event, made the announcement in a news release issued late Thursday afternoon. “After 83 very successful years of providing a Village Fair on the August long weekend, we must announce that it will not happen […]

The rising cost for the Rockwood Terrace redevelopment in Durham has Grey County scaling back the project to focus on the long-term care home. At its meeting on Thursday, Grey County council passed a motion calling for staff to communicate with the development managers Colliers Project Leaders that the total project budget be amend to […]

A husband and wife horse training duo from Southampton are hoping their animal act creates a buzz on the second season of Canada’s Got Talent. Jason and Bronwyn Irwin are one of 82 acts trying to earn the respect and admiration of the popular talent show’s panel of celebrity judges as well as its widespread […]

A man whose alcohol fuelled attacks on his grandparents left his grandmother disfigured was sentenced to 22 months in jail, less time served. Darcy Solomon, 26, of Neyaashiinigmiing pleaded guilty in January in the Ontario Court of Justice in Owen Sound to aggravated assault, common assault and assault police for events April 26, 2022 in […]

Northern Bruce Peninsula Fire Chief Jack Burt said working smoke detectors equipped with strobe lights saved the lives of two residents asleep inside their Tobermory home when a fire started in the roof. An overheated chimney is the suspected cause of the house fire that began early Wednesday morning. The family’s dog made it safely […]

A community garden project is being planned for Sauble Beach to help improve the mental and physical health of the residents of the area. The Sauble and Area Lions Club is teaming up with the Sauble Family Health Team and has already raised $20,000 for the garden, which is being proposed to be constructed south […]

Restoration work will be undertaken at the Wiarton cenotaph this year. On Tuesday, South Bruce Peninsula council supported upgrades and improvements at the cenotaph property, in partnership with the Royal Canadian Legion Branch 208. Expected to cost about $95,000, the project is to be completed this year and is to include extensive work to the […]

Some people who live on Mallory Beach Road, where police said they killed a bear last week for public safety when their efforts to scare it away didn’t work, consider the decision to kill the bear unnecessary. “I just think it was wrong,” Richard Gawel, who has lived on Mallory Beach Road for 35 years, […]

The average homeowner in Meaford will be asked to contribute roughly $120 more in property taxes in 2023 if council passes the municipality’s proposed budget later this month. Town staff presented a draft budget to the new council in late January that called for a seven per cent increase to the bottom line. Staff and […]

A man police caught with a baggie of fentanyl hidden in his underwear was convicted Wednesday after a trial in the Superior Court of Justice on drug and weapons offences. Shane Croke was 31, of Owen Sound, when arrested by West Grey Police Nov. 9, 2020 at a residence in Neustadt. He was remanded into […]

BULLS WIN AT PROVINCIALS The Tara Bulls won gold in the intermediate division at the 2023 OBA Senior Provincial Championships in Windsor this past weekend. The team features players from the Grey-Bruce area. The Bulls went 4-1 at the tournament besting six other teams for the gold. Kyle Seifried led the tournament in goal-scoring with […]

The Easter Bunny better be a lacrosse fan. Or perhaps the chocolate-canvassing cottontail can cheer for the Owen Sound Baysox as they enter their second season of competition in the North Dufferin Baseball League this summer. Either way, if the Owen Sound Attack play like they did Tuesday night in the final home game of […]

The Lake Huron Coastal Centre is looking for volunteer “citizen scientists” to monitor Lake Huron for changes along the lake’s 6,170 kilometre shoreline. They each have a section of beach on which they report data observed weekly through spring and summer. The results are gathered and for the past 17 years have culminated in an […]

Police killed a black bear that was reportedly trying to get inside a Mallory Beach Road cottage last week in South Bruce Peninsula. Occupants of the cottage, located east of Kathleen Avenue, called police, Grey Bruce OPP Const. Nick Wilson said by email in response to questions about the March 14 incident. “We were called […]

Ronald Hibbard of Wiarton won $100,000 in the Instant Jackpot Multiplier game from OLG. “I checked this ticket at the store, and I didn’t expect this to happen. The cashier was more excited than me!” an OLG news release quoted him saying. The winning ticket was purchased at Wiarton Foodland. Hibbard plans to move to […]

A small black bear in a westside neighbourhood near the escarpment this morning, city police said. About 6:30 a.m., police responded to reports from the public of the sighting. The bear was not acting aggressively and was last seen wandering into the bush area of the escarpment, according to a news release on the police […]

Huronia West OPP charged a 21-year-old man from Paisley as part of a child luring and pornography investigation. He faces charges of transmitting sexually explicit material to a person under 16, luring a person under 16 by means of telecommunication, and possessing child pornography. On March 15 police got a call about a male in […]

Canadian athletes did the country proud at the Craigleith Ski Club this past weekend as World Cup races returned to the country for the first time in six years. Racers from around the world gathered at the ski club just east of Thornbury to complete the final races of the FIS Ski Cross World Cup […]

A pair of Owen Sound Junior Attack teams have won gold at the Barb Downey Memorial Local League Tournament. The Owen Sound Junior Attack (white) team won the under-13 division with a 5-1 win over the North Middlesex Junior Stars inside the Harry Lumley Bayshore Community Centre Sunday. Nicholas Sturgeon and Atley Sampson each scored […]

The weekend’s snow and cold may have stopped the sap from flowing, but it didn’t stop hundreds of people from celebrating maple syrup season. The Rotary Club of Wiarton held the first of their back-to-back weekends of Maple Magic at the Regal Point Elk Farm near Oxenden, where families were invited to tour the farm, […]

Poor visibility from blowing snow led Bruce County to close a number of sections of county roads on Saturday evening and into Sunday morning. But as of 7:20 a.m, all but one section of road had been reopened. According to the Bruce County road conditions web page, the OPP had advised that all Bruce County […]

Who are the Owen Sound Attack? This week, they were the team who took losing its best player and captain on the chin to earn four out of a possible six points against quality competition. They’re also a team who surrendered leads in back-to-back games and failed to close when it counted. On Saturday night, […]

A multi-agency drug investigation has resulted in several arrests and the seizure of tens of thousands of dollars worth of suspected controlled substances. Last year, members of the Grey Bruce Community Street Crimes Unit and Owen Sound Police Service began an investigation surrounding drug trafficking in Owen Sound and throughout Grey-Bruce. On Thursday, the community […]

A Meaford family is growing more and more desperate for help as they approach eight months since their autistic son was placed in a hospital psychiatric unit, and they still have no idea when he will be able to leave. Aidan Crooks, the 23-year-old son of Sean and Michelle Crooks has been locked in a […]

The game wasn’t officially over when Evan Vierling, Ethan Cardwell and Brandt Clarke hopped over the boards to start three-on-three overtime, but unofficially it was closing time. Ethan Cardwell ended up scoring the overtime winner almost mercifully after 41 seconds of keep-away. Barrie’s third unanswered goal capped off the Colts come from behind effort to […]

Police have charged a 32-year-old Owen Sound man with theft after roughly $10,000 worth of tools were stolen from a construction site on the west side of the city Friday afternoon. According to an Owen Sound Police media release, the tools were stolen out of an unlocked van parked at the site at around 1 […]

South Bruce OPP is asking the public for video of the area of a fire that destroyed two outbuildings in the former Kinloss Township on March 9. Police were called at 7:51 p.m. that night to a fire along Grey Ox Avenue in the former Kinloss Township, north of Lucknow. Police officers arrived to find […]

Arran-Elderslie is using close to $1.4 million in grant funding for a number of projects in the community, including splash pads in Chesley, Tara and Paisley. The funding through the federal Canada Community Revitalization Fund delivered by the Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario includes $393,750 tobe used for the three splash pad projects. […]