Owen Sound Sun Times

The first fish Joel Benninger ever caught in the Owen Sound Salmon Spectacular fishing derby took the lead, but it didn’t last long. By the end of Day 3 of the derby, John Earnest of Owen Sound had taken over the lead with a 25.49 pound salmon, edging out Benninger’s entry of 24.38 lbs. Brett […]

Saugeen First Nation’s former head councillor has been elected chief. Conrad Ritchie received 166 votes in the election held Friday. Lester Anoquot did not seek re-election as chief but he was elected to one of nine council seats, results posted on SFN’s website show. Ritchie came close to becoming chief in 2020, receiving 32 fewer […]

Kids lined up Saturday on the second day of the Owen Sound Salmon Spectacular fishing derby to fish a tank full of rainbow trout under the big top. The attraction, which made its final appearance at this year’s derby on Sunday, Kids’ Day, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., is a fun new thing for […]

Chesley hospital’s emergency department will be closed tonight, Sunday and Monday night, from 5 p.m. until 7 the next morning due to staff shortages. Walkerton hospital’s emergency department will close Monday at 8 p.m. and re-open at 7 the next morning. Both South Bruce Grey Health Centre hospitals have been forced to close “due to […]

Community events marking International Overdose Awareness Day on Aug. 31 come after a series of public health overdose alerts, but there have been fewer local overdose deaths this year over last. Statistics show 28 people died by fentanyl or another opioid overdose in Grey-Bruce last year. But those are just coroner-confirmed cases. There were actually […]

Someone in their mid-30’s died of a suspected drug overdose in Owen Sound Thursday, which prompted the health unit urge people who use drugs not to use them alone. There has been an ongoing trend this month of multiple overdoses in Grey-Bruce, with public health issuing three opioid alerts in August. This is the first […]

Triple the usual number of people tried to get online tickets the night before the Owen Sound Salmon Spectacular fishing derby and it crashed the system. Derby officials are accommodating people who booked tickets but couldn’t print them by accepting a screenshot of their online purchases. They’re asking others who want tickets to call the […]

Nine new studio apartments with rent subsidies from Bruce County are planned to be built in Wiarton to house Community Living clients on a waiting list, with hopes that construction will begin before it snows. The Bruce Peninsula Community Association for Community Living, which supports people with developmental disabilities, secured support from South Bruce Peninsula […]

There will be no paper ballots used in Owen Sound’s municipal election Oct. 24. Voting will be done online or by touch-tone phone, by inputting unique voting credentials which voters will receive by mail at the beginning of October. The mailing will also include voting instructions, a news release from city hall said. Voter information […]

Three golfing friends who organized a charity golf tournament in its third year now raised $4,200 for Saugeen Memorial Hospital Foundation on Aug. 13. The Chantry Invitational hosted 100 golfers at Southampton Golf and Country Club. The two-man scramble arrangement had each member in teams of two play each hole. The best ball after each […]

New buses will begin serving Owen Sound’s four conventional transit routes and on-demand mobility transit system Saturday. The buses, owned and operated by the city’s new transit provider, Voyago, are themselves only temporary stand-ins for new buses on order. They’ve been delayed by supply-chain problems and are expected next spring, city acting environmental supervisor Rick […]

Chesley hospital’s emergency department will be closed overnight Saturday and overnight Monday due to staff shortages, South Bruce Grey Health Centre announced in a news release. The department will be closed both days from 5 p.m. to 7 a.m. the next morning. Ambulances will take patients to the nearest open emergency department. Non-urgent health-care concerns […]

A new commercial agreement with the Swiss global technology giant ABB will allow Hydrogen Optimized to “build out our factory with robotic manufacturing” in Owen Sound, company president and CEO Andrew Stuart said Wednesday. The agreement between the companies was signed at the recent hydrogen trade show in Stephenville, Nfld. attended by Prime Minister Justin […]

The story of a personal support worker who drowned in a swimming pool in Chatsworth during a livestream on social media has garnered international headlines, while a GoFundMe set up to raise funds to return her body to Kenya has already surpassed its $50,000 goal. On Wednesday, Grey-Bruce OPP identified the victim who drowned in […]

A 47-year-old man from Bluevale, Ont., northeast of Listowel, died as a result of a collision involving an SUV and motorcycle Aug. 16. Police identified the deceased motorcycle driver as Wayne Fischer. South Bruce OPP was called to the collision about 7:15 a.m., at Concession Road 10 and Bruce Road 4. Paramedics and firefighters also […]

Kurtis and the Cup are coming to Sauble Beach. Colorado Avalanche player, National Hockey League playoff champion and Sauble Beach native Kurtis MacDermid and the Stanley Cup will be paraded along Lakeshore Boulevard in the South Bruce Peninsula community on Monday. The event will kick off at 12:30 p.m. with MacDermid travelling on a fire […]

Dozens of volunteers helped raise the big white fishing derby tent Wednesday, a sure sign that the end-of-summer Owen Sound Salmon Spectacular is back. Last year’s partial derby, limited due to pandemic health concerns, had 4,800 angler registrations, which followed having no derby in 2020. Derby co-chair Chris Geberdt suspects this year’s 10-day event, which […]

With the grandstand declared “unsafe” and the fall fair less than three weeks away, a much smaller, admission-free fair will be offered in Owen Sound this year. “We get questions almost daily about it and it’s so unfortunate that I have to tell them that we’re not having it with a midway and we’re not […]

There is guaranteed to be a mix of some new and old faces on both the Bluewater District School Board and the Bruce-Grey Catholic District School Board following the upcoming election this fall. While four incumbent trustees have already been acclaimed to another term on the Bluewater board, there are also three current trustees who […]

An Etobicoke man died after a mishap in the bay in Meaford Aug. 14. Grey Bruce OPP said Dzenad Icagic, 51, died despite life-saving efforts after he became in distress in the water, just off Grant Avenue in Meaford. Police, Grey County paramedics and Meaford firefighters responded to the 1:58 p.m call. Police continue to […]

Work will start soon to create a wheelchair-safe path around Owen Sound hospital for patients, visitors and staff to enjoy. The Healing Path project is the fourth initiative of the local group NeighbourWoods North to beautify and improve the hospital grounds, said Dr. Brendan Mulroy, a project volunteer. The Healing Path will trace the perimeter […]

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South Bruce Mayor Bob Buckle said heavy rains amid a project to remove a dam in Mildmay prompted the municipality’s warning Sunday night to stay away from area watercourses and parks due to the possibility of flooding if the dam broke. “Right now it’s under construction to take it all out, and then we had […]

Voters in the Oct. 24 municipal elections in Grey County have a plenty of candidates from which to choose. In Grey Highlands, where a group of citizens actively encouraged candidates to run for office, record numbers of candidates answered the call. There are three candidates for mayor, three candidates for deputy mayor, and 17 candidates […]

After 40 consecutive years as a head of council on the Bruce Peninsula, Milt McIver is taking another run at the top job in Northern Bruce Peninsula. McIver is one of two people running for the mayor’s position in the Municipality of Northern Bruce Peninsula after the nomination period for this fall’s municipal elections closed […]

Much like Summerfolk, the Toronto-based band Moskitto Bar is a variety of musical genres and cultures coming together. Their unique brand of music, which includes influences from around the world, got the crowds hopping, clapping and dancing along during the music festival that took over Kelso Beach at Nawash Park over the weekend. Founding band […]

South Bruce is warning people to stay away from all watercourses, parks and trails in the Mildmay area due to concerns the Adams Street Dam in Mildmay may fail. Concerns about a dam prompted the municipality to issue a warning on its website Sunday night. Residents should stay away from the banks of Otter Creek […]

It was all about fitness, fundraising and fun on the roads of Bruce County as the Gran Fondo Lake Huron returned to the region on Sunday. Hundreds of riders took part in the event, which included 110-, 70- and 30-kilometre rides starting and finishing in Southampton, all with a goal of not only finishing the […]

After facing many struggles during the COVID-19 pandemic, members of Chippewas of Nawash Unceded First Nation at Neyaashiinigmiing were happy to come together and celebrate their culture, their veterans and more on the weekend. The Neyaashiinigmiing 36th Annual Traditional Pow Wow returned to the Arthur “Butch” Elliott Azhdayoniquot Memorial Cultural Grounds at Cape Croker Park […]

Police are investigating after a person drowned in a swimming pool in Chatsworth on Thursday. Grey Bruce OPP, the Chatsworth Fire Department and Grey County Paramedic Services responded to the incident at 5:44 p.m., it said in a news release issued on Friday by police. A person was removed from the pool and pronounced deceased […]

Grey County’s pleas for help to manage sites overrun by tourists, creating safety, parking and nuisance concerns, were well received by provincial officials during the annual Association of Municipalities of Ontario conference, Grey Warden Selwyn Hicks said. That was one of Grey County’s priorities discussed during face-to-face meetings with ministers or their associate ministers and […]

Walkerton and Chesley emergency departments will close at 5 p.m. and reopen at 7 a.m. tonight, Saturday and Sunday night due to lack of staff. In fact, staffing shortages will make it “very challenging” to maintain 24-hour emergency department hours in the four South Bruce Grey Health Centre hospitals this fall, hospital CEO Michael Barrett […]

Owen Sound staff will cut down 15 infected ash trees by the inner harbour and replace them with other trees as part of its ongoing effort to contend with emerald ash borer damage. The trees are found between 1155 1st Ave. W. and 11th Street West. They show “advanced symptoms of infestation” by the invasive beetle which […]

Grey County is moving ahead with a plan to turn an Owen Sound building into supportive housing for unhoused people. Councillors voted Aug. 11 to hire JP Commercial Contractors, an Owen Sound company which bid $3,743,000 plus HST to renovate the building at 396 14th St. W. There were two bidders in the request for […]

Summerfolk Music and Crafts Festival opens for its 47th season Friday night, ready to welcome people back like old times now that there area no provincial pandemic restrictions for such gatherings. The gate opens to Owen Sound’s three-day waterfront festival at 4:30 p.m., with the music starting at 6 p.m. and running to 1 a.m. […]

Bruce County has begun to replace the 87-year-old Teeswater River Bridge on Bruce Road 3 in Paisley. The bridge closed Aug. 10, demolition is underway and the construction project will continue until September 2023. Signs direct traffic to alternative routes and businesses in Paisley will remain open throughout the construction period, the county says. An […]

Former Bruce-Grey-Owen Sound MPP Bill Murdoch, who died Tuesday, is being remembered as a maverick politician who possessed personable ways and passion for his constituents and community causes. William Richard Murdoch died at Chapman House hospice in Owen Sound at age 77, after bouts of cancer over the past couple of years. The Bognor beef […]

Tickets for the annual Owen Sound Sports Hall of Fame inductees’ dinner are on sale now. They’re available at city hall’s community services department at $50 apiece until Sept. 5. The event takes place Sept. 30. The Class of 2022 includes six athletes, two builders and two teams. The athletes heading to the hall are […]

A motorcycle driver who was in a collision with an SUV in South Bruce has died. The collision occurred about 7:15 a.m. Tuesday, at Concession Road 10 and Bruce Road 4, north of Teeswater, a South Bruce OPP news release said. The motorcycle driver was taken to a local hospital and was pronounced dead. Police […]

West Nile virus has been found in a dead Cooper’s hawk in Lion’s Head but there have been no reported cases in people anywhere in Ontario as of Aug. 6. The hawk was submitted for testing in late July, the Grey Bruce Health Unit said in a news release Tuesday. It’s the first bird to […]

Grey County council has endorsed a targeted incentive that would see it forego an estimated $432,000 in property tax over five years to encourage a $60-million “attainable” rental apartment building development in Hanover. As part of the deal, Hanover would forego an estimated $1.05 million to encourage construction of two six-storey, 71-unit rental apartments to […]

Owen Sound police are investigating several nighttime thefts from cars on Aug. 12 and 13. The investigation includes a theft from a westside residential garage too, where an estimated $8,000 worth of tools and sports gear was taken. Items reported stolen include two Norco Charger mountain bikes, a Blue Wave stand-up paddle board, mig welder, […]

Collingwood/Blue Mountains OPP has identified a cyclist who died after his bike crashed on Scenic Caves Road Aug. 11 as Jeffery Miller, 33, of Richmond Hill. Shortly before 6 p.m. that day, Blue Mountains Fire Department notified the OPP that they were on scene of a fatal collision involving a lone cyclist on Scenic Caves Road in […]

A 30-year-old West Grey man is in custody, charged with attempted murder after a shooting in Hanover Aug. 9. Brandon Boettinger was arrested at gunpoint in Ottawa by Ottawa Police Service’s tactical team and guns and gangs unit. He is to return to Hanover to face the attempted murder charge and others, Hanover police said […]

More than 420 athletes competed in the Owen Sound Subaru Triathlon races Sunday at Kelso Beach at Nawash Park. “The competitors, they never stopped talking about how great the venue was, how much they liked it,” race director Greg Nicol said Monday, including the smooth roads and scenery. The event made its return to the […]

Grey Bruce OPP charged Brett Page, 27, of Southgate with failing to stop at an accident resulting in death, and related offences, after four people were struck by a motor vehicle at Eugenia on July 19. He’s also charged with three counts of failing to stop at an accident resulting in bodily harm, careless driving […]

Police charged a 51-year-old South Bruce Peninsula driver with the provincial offence of careless driving causing death. The charge relates to a motorcycle crash with another vehicle on July 18 on Highway 6/21 in Georgian Bluffs. Emergency crews responded to a report of the crash about 5:12 p.m. The motorcycle driver, Jim Ring, 56, of […]