Owen Sound Sun Times

Owen Sound Attack captain Colby Barlow is the 2022-23 recipient of the Bobby Smith Trophy, which is awarded annually to the Ontario Hockey League’s Scholastic Player of the Year. Barlow becomes the first player in Owen Sound Attack history to win the prestigious award, excelling with an overall average of 93 percent across Grade 12 […]

Port Elgin’s Rachel Hannah smashed the Glass City Marathon’s course record Sunday in Toledo. Hannah won the women’s race in a time of 2:40:13 – nearly a full five minutes ahead of the next best competitor. She broke the course record by over a minute in her first time running in the Ohio marathon. Hannah, […]

South Bruce Peninsula council’s appeal of a judge’s finding that a large strip of beach at Sauble belongs to Saugeen First Nation says the judge’s decision raises questions that need clarification. But the appeal goes further, seeking the judgment to be set aside and the band’s action dismissed. And if the court still finds band […]

Grey County is urging the province to consider reinstating an uninsured persons program seen as vital in ensuring those who were impacted by a fire at a rooming house in Hanover last year had their medical needs met. At its meeting on Thursday, Grey County council unanimously supported a motion calling for the extension of […]

Police say they responded to a report of an armed robbery in progress at Saugeen First Nation Wednesday night and now two people are in custody. The call came in at 8:40 p.m. of an armed robbery at a business along Highway 21. Officers arrived and a suspect was taken into custody. A second suspect […]

The Owen Sound Attack added three more prospects to a growing talent pool at the Ontario Hockey League’s under-18 draft Wednesday night, including an offensively gifted defenceman. With the 10th overall pick in the “second-chance” draft, Dale DeGray selected Sam Ethier from the Rockland Nationals under-18 AAA squad. The five-foot-11, 173-pound, left-handed defenceman led the […]

Owen Sound has fenced off a section of the Kiwanis Sk8 and Bike Park at Victoria Park where the concrete pad has deteriorated, leading to safety concerns for users. A fence has been erected around the western portion of the park, which includes the pyramid, box/ramp/rail and combination ramp features. The city is working on […]

Grey Bruce Health Services is establishing an office of research and innovation to support physician research, lure more such work and explore opportunities to partner with academia, government and the private sector. The office will be part of the hospital corporation for now but ultimately it will stand on its own, as similar institutes at […]

Judi Riley thinks it may be too late for her family, but she continues to fight for the families of other missing persons. Ten years ago, the then 46-year-old Jon Riley left a note for his mother at their Meaford home saying he was heading to Toronto for a couple of days. He hasn’t been […]

Site preparation work has started on a planned retail space, hotel and conference centre development on Owen Sound’s east side. The work on the property at 1200 16th Ave. E. began over the winter, with plans to complete the first phase of the project over the next year, Arif Ismail, president of Toronto-based Legacy Hospitality […]

The Owen Sound Agricultural Society has started to peel back some of the layers of the grandstand at Victoria Park to get an idea of what kind of work needs to be done. Society president Hiliary Breadner said Tuesday that Graham Construction has started to take apart a portion of the grandstand. “Right now we […]

OHL HOLDS U18 DRAFT WEDNESDAY No fewer than 40 players born in 2005 and 2006 will have their names called in the seventh annual Ontario Hockey League under-18 Priority Selection draft Wednesday Night. The concept for the OHL Under-18 Priority Selection was developed in 2017 with support from Hockey Canada’s three Ontario branches including the […]

More than 550 Grade 5 students from schools in Dundalk, Durham, Hepworth, Meaford, Port Elgin and Owen Sound attended Grown in Grey at the Desboro Arena to learn about local agriculture. The event made its return after a three-year hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Thirty-one learning stations representing aspects of agriculture and related industries […]

Athletes from Shallow Lake’s Kilian Academy competed at the 2023 ADCC (Abu Dhabi Combat Club) Canada Submission Grappling Championship at the Collège La Cité, in Ottawa. It’s the first time Canada has hosted the international tournament. Arguably one of the toughest tournaments in the world, the ADCC Submission Grappling Championships draws athletes from across the […]

Owen Sound officials are planning to consult the public about a request to add a new city park to the list of suitable locations for community gardens. The city’s community services committee was presented a new draft community gardens policy that removes Stobbe Park, on 5th Avenue A West. The committee also initiated a process […]

Cooling off at Harrison Park this summer is likely to be more expensive as the cost to operate the pool heats up. But the city is reminding residents that there will still be free swims and other “affordable” options for people looking to take a dip. The community services committee has approved a recommendation that […]

High costs and low student demand are sinking Seneca College’s underwater skills program, according to a college spokesperson. The college announced earlier this year it is shuttering the program after nearly 50 years of training some of the world’s premier commercial divers from its King campus north of Toronto and in the waters of Colpoy’s […]

The Hanover and District Hospital has joined other southwestern Ontario hospitals in lifting COVID-19-related masking policies and making the wearing of a mask optional for some effective immediately. The move follows updated guidance and recommendations from Public Health Ontario based on the current COVID-19 transmission risk. Hanover and District Hospital said they’ve adopted the new […]

The Owen Sound North Stars won their Ontario Junior B Lacrosse League home and season opener 12-10 over the Wallaceburg Red Devils Saturday afternoon. Sean McMahon and Carter Moran led the way on the scoresheet for the N’Stars with six points apiece. Moran led the club in scoring last year while McMahon was acquired in […]

Bruce County will again look into using development charges to help pay for some growth-related capital expenses. The county kicked off the development charges background study process on Thursday with a workshop that featured an introductory report from Daryl Abbs of Watson and Associates, the consultant conducting the study. Bruce County last explored development charges […]

The Owen Sound Attack put a hurtin’ on their billets’ grocery bills with the team’s top picks in the 2023 OHL Priority Selection draft this past weekend. Attack GM Dale DeGray identified size as a key asset in this year’s top prospects, starting with six-foot-four and 204-pound winger Nico Addy who the Attack selected with […]

The South Bruce Grey Health Centre is no longer requiring universal masking at its four hospitals in Chesley, Durham, Kincardine and Walkerton. The changes to the hospital corporation’s masking policy, which began on Monday, comes after Public Health Ontario recently updated its guidance on Infection Prevention and Control Measures in Hospitals. Grey Bruce Health Services […]

Earth Day events help people think about the threat of climate change, particularly those who might otherwise not bother, an organizer of Owen Sound’s event said Saturday. It was soggy and cold day to engage with people but there were lots of events to get people’s attention around the farmers’ market and at the library. […]

About 75 Bruce County firefighters gathered in Tobermory this weekend to train, hone the skills they have and learn new ones. It was the 30th year the county has run a fire school, which Northern Bruce Peninsula Fire Chief Jack Burt believes might be the only county fire school like it. The firefighters have full-time […]

Architect Gary McCluskie returned home to Owen Sound Saturday to tell how his team transformed the New York Philharmonic’s concert hall, where acoustics had disappointed since the day it opened in 1962. The problem was a last-minute decision to widen the hall to fit in more seats, without considering acoustics, he said. “One of the […]

A motel desk clerk said she saw a police officer point a gun at a truck that officers had just pulled over along Highway 21 Thursday night, on the southern fringe of Port Elgin. A Saugeen Shores Facebook post Friday said Saugeen Shores police and the OPP “responded to a serious incident last night that […]

Owen Sound will not change the hours of operation for its leaf and yard waste compositing site in 2023. In an update to the city’s operations committee on Thursday, supervisor of environmental services Heidi Jennen, said that after receiving feedback from both residents and the committee they have decided to keep the site open status […]

An arrest has been made after a business was robbed on Sykes Street North in Meaford. Just before midnight on Thursday, Grey Bruce OPP responded to the business for a robbery in progress. About half an hour later, police located a suspect and he was taken into custody. Members of the the OPP West Region […]

A person who was the subject of a search in the area of the Lion’s Head Lookout has been found deceased. Grey-Bruce OPP said in a news release Friday afternoon that just after 10 a.m. members of the West Region Emergency Response Team located the body of the missing person. Foul play was not suspected, […]

Bruce County council decided not to pay for a successor organization to the Municipal Innovation Council, part of the Nuclear Innovation Institute, which will no longer support it after this year either. Bruce County Warden Chris Peabody said in an interview Friday he thought the MIC’s work was “hit-and-miss.” Council turned down a staff recommendation […]

A Hamilton man has been arrested and charged after police responded to a disturbance involving a weapon at Neyaashiinigmiing First Nation on Wednesday. Just after 9:30 a.m., the Neyaashiinigmiing First Nation Police and Grey Bruce OPP responded to the incident on Kaikaiknong Crescent at Cape Croker. Members of the West Region Emergency Response Team, the […]

An important piece of the ecological puzzle in the Tobermory area is being preserved. The Nature Conservancy of Canada announced on Friday that it has worked with its supporters to purchase and conserve the 24-hectare (59-acre) Baptist Harbour Alvar property on Lake Huron at the tip of the Bruce Peninsula. “It has always been a […]

People are being asked to avoid the area of the Lion’s Head Provincial Park as a search is being conducted for a missing person. In a news release issued on Friday morning, Grey Bruce OPP asked for the public’s assistance in locating a missing man who was last seen in Aylmer on Thursday morning and […]

Owen Sound is closing sections of 8th Street East between 8th Avenue East and 9th Avenue East daily for infrastructure and concrete repairs. The street was closed on Thursday and will be closed from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. each day until Tuesday, the city said in a news release. The road will be reopened […]

Masks are now mostly optional in Grey Bruce Health Services sites. They remain mandatory in emergency departments, for people visiting patient rooms and anywhere in the hospital for people who have COVID-19 symptoms. The new policy reflects updated recommendations from Public Health Ontario regarding the COVID-19 virus and hospital practice in the province, a GBHS […]

The live performances, and all the excitement and nerves that come with them, are back at the Grey County Kiwanis Festival of Music. The festival, which is holding its first fully in-person event in four years, kicked off its 91st anniversary event on Monday at five venues throughout Owen Sound. By the time it ends […]

Now all fans of Saugeen Shores couple Jason and Bronwyn Irwin — and their horses Chief and Kate — can do is wait until after Tuesday to see if they made it into the semifinals of Canada’s Got Talent. Their performance at OLG Stage, a 5,000-seat theatre in Niagara Falls, aired Tuesday. The horse trainers […]

Dale DeGray is getting ready for his 16th Ontario Priority Selection draft as the general manager of the Owen Sound Attack. He’ll make three picks Friday night when the province’s major junior league conducts the first three rounds of its annual 15-round-under-16 draft, including at 12th overall. Rounds four through 15 are to follow starting […]

Federal government services in Grey-Bruce were limited to the essentials on Wednesday after tens of thousands of federal public servants hit the picket lines in a nationwide strike. Approximately 155,000 Public Service Alliance of Canada members were officially off the job as of 12:01 a.m. on Wednesday, making it one of the largest strikes in […]

BARLOW NAMED TO TEAM CANADA LEADERSHIP On Wednesday, Hockey Canada announced Owen Sound Attack captain Colby Barlow will serve as an assistant captain with the Canadian under-18 team at the World Championships in Switzerland, beginning Thursday. Andrew Cristall from the Kelowna Rockets will serve as the team’s other assistant captain while Cam Allen of the […]

An Owen Sound-born architect who helped transform the famous David Geffen Hall at the Lincoln Centre in New York City with an acoustically focused overhaul is speaking in the Scenic City Saturday. Gary McCluskie, a principal at the Canadian architectural firm Diamond Schmitt, will be at the Georgian Shores United Church Saturday at 2 p.m. […]

Owen Sound Transit is using an entirely new fleet. Starting Monday, the system is using new buses with low-floor ramps front and back, stop request buttons, bus banners that display the route and stop announcements broadcast on exterior and interior speakers. The buses can carry more passengers than before. GPS and ridership tracking will better […]

Weeks after a Superior Court judge ruled a 1.4-mile strip of one of the most popular tourist beaches in the province belongs to Saugeen First Nation, the First Nations community is working to create a beach management plan and South Bruce Peninsula has said it is appealing the decision. After the matter was discussed in […]

The Chippewas of Saugeen First Nation has retained a private security company after reports of careless and reckless driving near the Sauble Beach sign Friday night. “We are aware that there was vehicular traffic that had assembled on our newly reacquired Saugeen Beach last evening,” a release posted to the Chippewas of Saugeen First Nation […]

MNP’s six main recommendations, with some of the 13 sub-recommendations and suggested timing of implementation: 1) Redesign the organizational structure – Target a “reduction or strategic reallocation” of three management or staff full-time-equivalent positions in the short-term, in areas of traditional and discretionary services “and design a longer-term strategic attrition plan,” starting in the third […]

Owen Sound councillors on Monday night said they were disappointed that they didn’t get actionable solutions to ease the burden on taxpayers from a consultant’s long-awaited final service analysis report. MNP presented its six broad recommendations and 13 sub-recommendations to council. Some could be done quickly, others not until 2025. All city departments and services […]

The Woodroffe sisters, representing Grey-Bruce and the Kilian Academy, made their competitive debut at the 2023 Budo Kids Open Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu tournament at the Collège Boréal in Sudbury on Saturday, both winning silver medals. Twelve-year-old Melanie Woodroffe secured silver in the teen 14-to-15-year-old middleweight division. The Timothy Christian School student faced an athlete three years […]

All bets are off at 14 Ontario casinos, including one in London, after weekend computer problems forced them to close “until further notice.”

The Ontario government announced it is spending more than $4.8 million in Grey-Bruce toward the province’s Homelessness Prevention Program and Indigenous Support Housing Program in 2023 and 2024. The funding includes $1,536,900 (increased by $599,400) for Bruce County and $3,282,800 (increased by $1,237,200) for Grey County. “This investment will make a real impact to support […]

The Ontario government is sending $3,215,962 to local hospitals for on-call funding for doctors working after hours. Broken down by hospital, the funding is headed to Grey Bruce Health Services – Owen Sound (up to $2,356,948, increased by $87,210), Grey Bruce Health Services – Lion’s Head (up to $112,734, increased by $9,686), and Hanover and […]