Owen Sound Sun Times

Grey Bruce OPP has taken two students into custody after police were called to Grey Highlands Secondary School because another student was reportedly stabbed Thursday morning. All are under 18 years old and the initial police report said a male had been stabbed, OPP Const. Joshua Cunningham said in an interview. No charges have been […]

Improved access to free residential well water testing is the aim of a new Grey Bruce Public Health initiative. The plan calls for drop-off locations within a 30-minute drive of any household in Grey-Bruce. GBPH plans to do some of the collection of water samples at drop-off and pick-up sites – replacing and adding to […]

The Ultimate Leaf Fan is using boozy beer-league stories to help supply life-saving AEDs (automated external defibrillators) to communities across the country. Mike Wilson – – perhaps best known for his epic collection of Toronto Maples Leafs memorabilia that at one point numbered over 2,000 items – – is using the proceeds of his self-published […]

North Bay Battalion goaltender Dom DiVincentiis is making a healthy case to take on Dominic Hasek’s famous netminder nickname. Dom “The Dominator” DiVincentiis. Not bad. The seventh-round pick of the Winnipeg Jets turned aside 36 shots Wednesday night to lead The Troops to a 4-1 victory over the Owen Sound Attack. It’s his latest stellar […]

United Way Bruce Grey has been tackling community causes for 25 years. The charitable organization aims to do something on the 25th of every month to mark its silver anniversary and has created a timeline of highlights of its work since 1998. The timeline recalls efforts in times of crisis but also when it acted […]

West Grey intends to work with the Grey County and local user groups to stop off-road vehicles from trespassing and damaging trails in the Glenelg Klondyke county forest. At its council meeting on Tuesday, West Grey council passed a motion directing staff to follow up with Grey County on the matter and work with the […]

A pedestrian was struck by a vehicle Tuesday morning on 10th Street and was airlifted to St. Michael’s Hospital to assess her injuries. An Owen Sound police news release said her injuries were not considered life-threatening. She was crossing the intersection at 4th Avenue East just before 11 a.m. when a car making a left, […]

An upcoming book tour set to trace the path of Irish families who emigrated to Canada some 200 years ago will make its way into the heart of Grey County where so many of them settled. The authors of Shoeboxes: From Irish Roots to Canadian Branches said Tuesday that the tour is not only a […]

Home sales in Grey-Bruce continued to be significantly lower than they were a year ago, but prices rebounded in February from where they were a month earlier. The Realtors Association of Grey Bruce Owen Sound reported that 154 units were sold in February, which is down 26.3 per cent from February 2022, when the market […]

Hanover police have determined that an older man handing out Pot of Gold chocolates was doing so to mark Random Acts of Kindness day. The intentions of the man were genuine and pure” when he handed out chocolates to people of varying ages on March 1, police said in an update on Tuesday. Police had […]

The Owen Sound River District Board of Management will hold a public meeting on Wednesday to present its 2023 draft budget, which includes a two per cent levy increase for its members. At a meeting on Jan. 11, the board was presented with two options – a two per cent increase or no increase. The […]

Hockey is sometimes a beautiful artistic game and Evan Vierling looked like a virtuoso Sunday afternoon in Owen Sound as his Barrie Colts topped the Owen Sound Attack 6-3 inside the Harry Lumley Bayshore Community Centre. The overage from Aurora netted a hat trick – the third of his career – and added a pair […]

City hall is seeking public input at an operations committee meeting March 16 at city hall concerning Alpha Street rehabilitation plans and possible additional features. The study area for two-lane road is between Grey Road 17B at the top of the hill to 6th Avenue West at the bottom. The reconstruction work may include adding […]

The 43rd annual Bowl for Kids’ Sake fundraiser returns in April with in-person bowling at three alleys, in Owen Sound, Collingwood and Port Elgin. The Big Brothers Big Sisters of Grey Bruce event supports more than 140 youths, numerous in-school tutoring programs and a monthly outdoor wellness program in Grey, Bruce and western Simcoe counties. […]

Both drivers of vehicles involved in a downtown Owen Sound collision Saturday afternoon went to hospital with injuries that police said Sunday appeared minor. One of the vehicles hit a house on the southeast corner of 8th Street East and 4th Avenue East, severing a natural gas line. The gas line break prompted police to […]

Anything you can do I can do better. Just over a week after watching 16-year-old rookie goaltender Carter George put on a sparkling 48-save performance in a 3-2 win over the Rangers at the Kitchener Memorial Auditorium, Marco Costantini was in the mood for revenge. “We kind of had to stick it back to them […]

Owen Sound police ask everyone to avoid the 8th Street East area of downtown after a two-vehicle crash in which a house was hit, causing a natural gas line leak shortly after 4 p.m. Saturday. Police dispatch said officers were still on the scene at 5:05 p.m. of what they called a “major accident” at […]

Peter Carter met his lofty fundraising goal for the Alzheimer Society and has decided to retire from his decades-long volunteer efforts. “He had wanted to raise $100,000 for the Alzheimers and he raised $105,000, I think it was,” his wife Jo-Ann said by phone Saturday from their Teeswater home. “And we thought maybe if he’d […]

If Friday night’s feisty tilt proves to be the last time the Owen Sound Attack play in Hamilton, they’ll have definitely left their mark on the Steel City. Captain Colby Barlow scored a pair of goals as Owen Sound notched a third-straight win, 5-2, over the Bulldogs at the FirstOntario Centre in front of a […]

Hanover police are actively investigating two incidents involving children to see if they’re linked involving the same “suspicious” male. The incidents involve what police called a suspicious older man, described as having grey hair with grey facial hair, possibly wearing prescription glasses, a Hanover Police Service news release Friday. The first incident was on Wednesday, […]

South Bruce OPP needs help finding the driver of a dark coloured vehicle, likely with side-view mirror damage caused when it passed a black SUV in Chesley Feb. 8. When police arrived, they found the black SUV had remained. It had been passed at high speed on 1st Avenue South at 6 p.m. Damage to […]

The barriers for those who resettle in a new country far away from their homeland have come to light for the Ukrainian Friends in West Grey and Area. Earlier this week a Ukrainian woman and her two sons who the group were assisting returned to Poland after it became apparent the challenges of earning a […]

Bruce Power removed its Unit 3 reactor from service on Wednesday to begin its Major Component Replacement outage. The refurbished unit is scheduled to come back online in 2026, as part of the project that will see Units 3-8 refurbished to enable them to continue to provide power and produce medical isotopes through 2064, the […]

Due to weather conditions, there may be delays in the delivery of the Saturday print edition of The Sun Times. We apologize for the inconvenience and will do our best to deliver your newspaper as soon as possible. We have opened access to the ePaper, a digital replica of the print edition. To access it, […]

Owen Sound police identified and charged suspects after thefts at a church, which included an SUV, recovered the vehicle and, during the same investigation, came upon a drug overdose and reversed it — all Thursday night. Early Thursday night, a male entered an eastside church and stole items from people’s jackets, including a cellphone and […]

An inaugural conference held in Owen Sound on Thursday aimed to empower and encourage local youth to take community climate action and strengthen local climate strategies. Approximately 50 students from six area schools took part in the Owen Sound area’s first Youth Climate Action Conference at the Harmony Centre in Owen Sound on Thursday, where […]

More than two years after Michigan-based businessman Joe Norton announced his Brampton Excelsiors were moving to Owen Sound, the Scenic City is once again on the outside looking in as a new Major Series Lacrosse season gets ready to roll. The North Stars senior A club is taking a one-year hiatus from league play for […]

There are 1,500 jobs going unfilled at any given time in Grey-Bruce, said the YMCA’s Linda Alexander, who helped organize a job fair at the Harry Lumley Bayshore Community Centre in Owen Sound Wednesday afternoon. That’s the most she’s seen in her 13 years with YMCA Employment Services, so having about 70 job seekers lined […]

The Grey Roots Museum and Archives has launched an interactive online map of significant Black history sites in Grey County. The map highlights many locations across the county, including the Old Durham Road Black Pioneer Cemetery, Negro Creek Road, Sheffield Park Black History Museum, Nenagh, Priceville and Ceylon. There are sites in Owen Sound, including […]

The Saugeen Ojibway Nation and Bruce County Museum and Cultural Centre are working together on a framework to simplify transferring ownership and repatriating artifacts to First Nations. “It’s 2023. It’s well beyond the time that museums should be doing this. From the museum’s perspective, I can speak to the perspective of the community museum, you […]

A panel of three appeal court judges has dismissed a former Hanover priest’s appeal of his convictions for sexually abusing a child. Mervin Perera was 73 when he was convicted on Jan. 30, 2020 of sexual assault and touching a girl for a sexual purpose, after a five-day trial. He was sentenced March 31, 2021 […]

A concert is being held on Friday evening in Owen Sound featuring local acts and pitches from local organizations about what they do and the support they need. The ChangeMaker Pub Night will be held in the lower hall of the Harmony Centre beginning at 7 p.m. The event will features the music of Amber […]

Owen Sound police charged a 62-year-old city resident with aggravated assault after a 38-year-old woman was pushed down a fire escape last fall. Austin Soucoup was taken into custody and charged in February and remains in custody pending a bail hearing Thursday. Police said in a news release that their investigation began last October. “The […]

Wingfield Farm series playwright Dan Needles will present Why Can’t Sheep Be More Like Trees? on Saturday, April 1 at the Harmony Centre in Owen Sound. The event is a fundraiser for the Intersections Wood Collaborative, a not-for-profit woodworking studio offering classes in woodworking and design. The IWC emerged from the legacy of Owen Sound […]

Illusionist Jason Bishop’s magic show tour will make a stop in Owen Sound March 7. Helped by assistant Kim Hess and Gizmo the dog, “Bishop delivers a dynamic, highly interactive performance that’s set to a blend of rock and pop music,” his promotional information says. Bishop has performed his magic at the New Victory Theatre […]

Grey Bruce Public Health has issued an alert after there were three drug overdoses in a 48-hour period in the area, including a suspected fatal fentanyl overdose on Friday. A Grey-Bruce resident in their mid-40s died after it is believed they had been using yellow and purple fentanyl as well as methamphetamine, intravenously and via […]

BOYS BASKETBALL SINGLE-A The Woodland Christian High School Cavaliers swept both the senior and junior brackets at the CWOSSA single-A boys’ basketball championships hosted Friday in Walkerton. The senior Cavaliers beat Walkerton 56-47 in the championship contest to earn the crown while the junior Cavaliers beat Walkerton 42-39 in overtime to win the gold medals. […]

After a three-year wait – and a little longer due to the weather – Special Olympics athletes from the Owen Sound and the central Bruce Peninsula region returned to the Nordic Ski and Snowshoe Provincial Championships at Arrowhead Provincial Park this past weekend. The Owen Sound Waxwings and Central Bruce Snow Gliders nordic ski teams […]

Starting this March, the Grey Bruce Local Immigration Partnership (GBLIP) invites you to extend a warm welcome and offer support to immigrants in your local community. Embracing different cultural values and backgrounds creates a stronger and more vibrant society. Opening your arms and lending a helping hand to newcomers ensures everybody feels valued and respected. […]

New and aspiring business owners will pitch their ideas for their share of $30,000, plus mentorship and exposure, from the Dragon’s Den-inspired Hawks’ Nest competition May 17 at the Roxy. Those who enter must provide a business plan by March 10. Email hawksnest@sbdc.ca for an application or visit www.sdbc.ca for more information. Seven entrepreneurs will […]

Triathlon Ontario’s family-themed fun race for all ages is heading to Owen Sound this summer. At the City of Owen Sound council meeting Monday night the city approved the use of the Julie McArthur Regional Recreation Centre, Victoria Park and the surrounding parking areas for the 2023 Family Fun Fit Triathlon set for Saturday, Aug. […]

A tense drama unfolded over nearly four hours inside the theatre at Meaford Hall Monday afternoon. The town’s council heard impassioned pleas from members of the community hoping to “save the bay” before voting 5-2 in favour of providing conditional support to TC Energy’s proposed 1000 megawatt pumped storage project. During deliberations, some in the […]

A Saugeen Shores man pleaded guilty to mischief and uttering a threat to cause bodily harm from when he confronted two maskless teens in a store more than a year ago when pandemic restrictions required masks. Pier Donnini, 57, entered his pleas Monday on what was to be the first day of a three-day trial […]

A service held in Owen Sound on Sunday celebrated the area’s strong marine ties and marked the beginning of the 2023 shipping season. Approximately 100 people took in the 30th annual Mariners’ Service and Blessing of the Great Lakes Fleet presented by the International Shipmaster’s Association at St. George’s Anglican Church in Owen Sound on […]

As the Safe ‘n Sound homelessness initiative in Owen Sound sees the number of people coming to them for help continue to grow, they are encouraged to see the community stepping up with assistance and support. On Saturday, hundreds of people turned out for the Coldest Night of the Year walk in Owen Sound, an […]

Supply chain delays and rising costs have been common for just about everything the past couple of years, and ambulances are no different. On Thursday, Grey County council approved the purchase of four ambulances from Demers Ambulances, giving staff the go-ahead to order the two ambulances this year that are scheduled for replacement in 2024, […]

Landen Hookey netted his first-career Ontario Hockey League hat-trick and Colby Barlow scored his league-leading 12th game-winning goal as the Owen Sound Attack held off the first-place London Knights Saturday and skated to a 7-5 win at the Harry Lumley Bayshore Community Centre. Owen Sound scored the first five goals of the game, but no […]

A new program by Owen Sound Little Theatre is giving adults with intellectual, developmental or physical disabilities a chance to shine bright this spring. The local community theatre company is launching The Roxy Star Company to provide an opportunity for adults living with complex needs to participate and perform in theatre arts. “We are living […]

Residents have raised concerns about a planned road widening and roundabout along a section of Grey Road 19 near Blue Mountain Resort. Alan Wisniewski appeared as a delegation at Grey County council on Thursday where he expressed opposition to a recently completed municipal class environmental assessment that proposed widening Grey Road 19 between Grey Road […]

Carter George made his case for the starter’s crown in the Scenic City Friday on one of junior hockey’s biggest stages. The sixteen-year-old rookie goaltender made 48 saves in his first Ontario Hockey League start on the road to help the Owen Sound Attack snap a five-game losing streak, 3-2 in overtime, over the Kitchener […]