Owen Sound Sun Times

South Bruce Peninsula’s mayor is sounding the alarm and looking to rein in boozing beachgoers. In a summer update letter to residents, Mayor Janice Jackson noted an “alarming spike” in the amount of alcohol being consumed at Sauble Beach and incidents of property destruction. The popular tourist destination gets nearly 1.5 million tourists annually, but […]

Wellington County OPP identified two men from the Tiverton area who died as the result of a motor vehicle collision in Mapleton Township Monday afternoon. At approximately 3:30 p.m. Monday, the Wellington County OPP responded to a report of a collision involving a commercial vehicle and a pickup truck at the intersection of Wellington Road […]

After a two-year hiatus, the 11th Bruce Peninsula Multisport Race and festival presented by Bruce Power makes its big splashy return Saturday, Aug. 6, in Wiarton. Live music, vendors, and food will be available once again this year at Wiarton’s Bluewater Park as the endurance athletes cross the BPMR finish line throughout the afternoon. The […]

The longest-running Emancipation Day Festival in North America returns for its 160th year in Owen Sound this month. The festival is scheduled to take place from Friday to Sunday and will be the second Emancipation Day celebration since Bill M-36 was passed in the House of Commons to officially recognize the occasion. “Bruce-Grey-Owen Sound, in […]

A Show ‘N Go Classic Car Tour in support of Crimestoppers Grey Bruce is set to tour around the peninsula Sunday and finish at the Wiarton Keppel Airport. Classic cars will set off from five different locations with a shotgun start at 1 p.m. and drive in a loop around the peninsula culminating at the […]

One person is dead after two passenger vehicles collided on Highway 26 east of Owen Sound Tuesday night. Grey Bruce OPP, Grey County Medical Services, Ornge air ambulance, the Meaford Fire Department and the Inter Township Fire Department all responded to what police called a serious motor vehicle collision between two passenger vehicles near Woodford […]

A 20-year-old cyclist died early Tuesday morning in Southgate Township as the result of a collision with a motor vehicle. Grey Bruce OPP responded to a report of a collision involving a motor vehicle and a bicycle on Southgate Sideroad 49 at approximately 6:15 a.m. Lifesaving efforts were unsuccessful. The cyclist was pronounced dead at […]

Friday on CFOS 560 AM’s Open Line radio show, listeners will be invited to share memories and say hello to long-time former Bruce-Grey-Owen Sound MPP Bill Murdoch, who is in failing health. Murdoch is in hospice in Owen Sound and will be listening to the broadcast, not participating, his daughter Angola Murdoch said Tuesday. Murdoch […]

The Owen Sound Salmon Spectacular is returning as a full-fledged event this year, but with some changes that organizers expect will make the celebration more family friendly. Derby co-chair Chris Geberdt was at Owen Sound council on Monday night, where he said the event will be back in full force for its 34th installment after […]

A pair of developments that could eventually add more than 1,400 new residential units in Owen Sound took steps forward at council on Monday. A public meeting was held Monday on the zoning bylaw amendment for a planned development by SkyDev to build eight six-storey apartment buildings with a total of 712 rental units at […]

Work to revitalize a “forgotten” area of Owen Sound’s downtown that had been planned for this year is being pushed to 2023. The city is reassessing the work and plans to re-tender Phase 2 of its Downtown River Precinct to upgrade the 900 block of 1st Avenue East after only one bid came in that […]

The occupant of what police called an ultralight glider was pronounced dead at the scene of a crash in a Southgate Township field, just east of Mount Forest, Monday night. Grey Bruce OPP withheld the name of the person who died pending notification of next of kin. The crash happened about 7:45 pm., off Southgate […]

It was Eugene Bourgeois’ hope that his Inverhuron farm would not be sold upon his death but instead used to make a lasting contribution for public good, his friends and family said. Friend and neighbour Marti McFadzean promised Bourgeois a couple of weeks before he died that she would try to help make that happen […]

Four Owen Sound North Stars girls’ field lacrosse players won gold medals at the Ontario Summer Games in Mississauga this past weekend. Team Pink, featuring Brooklyn Doyle, Aliyah Bonterre, Edyn Beyer and Cassidy Low, defeated Team Red by a score of 11-7 to win gold. Doyle and Low each scored for Team Pink in the championship […]

The Owen Sound Berner Contracting North Stars under-13 (2) girls field lacrosse team, participated in the year-end Ontario Women’s Field Lacrosse provincial tournament in Oshawa this weekend earning silver medals. The North Stars played two games on an exceptionally hot Saturday. The first game was against Orangeville. The girls played hard and came away with […]

The Oakville Rock came out firing in Game 2 and held on to win 11-8 over the Owen Sound Bug Juice North Stars Sunday night at the Toronto Rock Athletic Centre. The Oakville win evens the Ontario Series Lacrosse best-of-five semifinal series between the second and third-seed teams at a game apiece. The series heads […]

The Owen Sound Sports Hall of Fame will add 10 more local sports greats in its class of 2022 set to be inducted this fall. The Class of 2022 includes six athletes, two builders and two teams. The athletes heading to the hall in 2022 are Bill (William) Korz, Tim Abbott, John Vary, Peter Kazarian, […]

Friends, family and fellow volunteers are mourning the loss of Kevin Walsh after he was struck and killed by a car while walking with his partner and friends in Eugenia Tuesday. Walsh, 44, was an outdoorsman, cyclist and community volunteer who served on the board of the Kolapore Wilderness Trails Association. “It is with the […]

Landon Kells said it felt surreal. He earned back-to-back victories in net for the Owen Sound North Stars Saturday night while staring down the floor at Toronto Rock goaltender Nick Rose. “I grew up with Nick Rose teaching me when I was 11 and 12 years old,” Kells said. “Just battling against someone of his […]

A group working to foster community engagement and seeking new candidates to run for city council has invited former member of Parliament Peggy Nash to speak at its meeting Wednesday. Rebound Owen Sound’s third meeting begins at 7 p.m. at Owen Sound’s Harmony Centre. Admission is free. Nash rose to prominence as a labour negotiator […]

Burgoyne’s Josh Cassidy will carry Canada’s flag for the opening ceremony of the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, England. Commonwealth Sport Canada (CSC) announced Olympic and Commonwealth Champion Maude Charron will do the flag-bearing honours alongside Cassidy, a Commonwealth medallist and Paralympian long-distance wheelchair racing specialist. “These two athletes exemplify everything our team needs and […]

To move along the case of a young man charged in the death of a 17-year-old girl in a 2020 Sauble Beach fire, the Crown has obtained a direct indictment for accused Taran Hibma. The development means there will be no preliminary hearing, which had been scheduled for later this month. Those hearings are used […]

A suspect identified by Hanover police as having fled from them on a motorcycle twice in one day last month was arrested and charged on Thursday after he was observed operating the motorcycle in a dangerous manner. On June 26 just after 2 p.m., a Hanover Police Service officer was assisting West Grey police with […]

The Please Bring Me Home cold case group is facing the fact that it takes money to keep searching. The volunteer group grew out of renewed efforts in 2016 to solve the mysterious 1988 disappearance of Lisa Maas, then was formally established in 2018 to expand searches to other local missing person cases. Now a […]

After postponing the celebration for a couple of years due to the pandemic, the Owen Sound City Band is ready to mark its centennial. On Monday, the band will celebrate its 100 +2 years of serving the Scenic City with its centennial picnic, reunion and concert at Harrison Park. The band, directed by Julia Richards, […]

Owen Sound has its first candidate for deputy-mayor as two-term councillor Scott Greig has announced his intention to run for the position in the upcoming municipal election. Greig, who was first elected to city council in 2014 and then re-elected in 2018, is the current chair the city’s operations committee and corporate services committee. He […]

A man who was the subject of a missing person’s report in Town of the Blue Mountains earlier this week has now been charged with the theft of a vehicle. At about 4:15 p.m. on Wednesday, police responded to a report of a stolen motor vehicle from a property on Creekwood Court in the Town […]

A 38-year-old woman was pronounced dead at the site of a submerged vehicle just north of the grain elevators in Owen Sound on Thursday. Owen Sound Police Service said in a news release that foul play is not suspected in her death. A vehicle was recovered from the bay. City police, fire department, and paramedics […]

The West Grey Police Service charged Kodie Hearsum, 34, with second-degree murder in connection with an ongoing homicide investigation involving his father’s death. On Thursday, in a news release, police identified Brett Douglas Hearsum as the deceased 62-year-old man discovered in the Walter’s Falls area on July 15. The West Grey Police Service later confirmed […]

Guests who attend MP Alex Ruff’s first annual constituency appreciation barbecue in Chesley Sunday can rest assured their host knows the Heimlich. At the recently held Bruce County Beef Farmers’ Big 50th BBQ in Chesley, Ruff was called in to help a gentleman who was choking on a piece of meat. “I just heard someone […]

An elderly Hanover man remains in hospital in London with serious injuries following a collision involving the scooter he was riding last week. On July 14 just after 1:30 p.m., Hanover police responded along with the Hanover Fire Department and paramedics to a collision involving a mobility scooter and a pick-up truck. The investigation has […]

Thousands of Chinook salmon fingerlings, each no longer than a pen, gushed out of a tank as they were poured into the Sydenham River in Harrison Park on Thursday. There were about 70,000 in all, deposited in batches of about 10,000, raised in the Sydenham Sportsmen’s Association fish hatchery at the bottom of the Creamery […]

OPP divers were on their way to Owen Sound harbour Thursday after a submerged vehicle was reported at the end of the pier just north of the grain elevators. The area was cordoned off with yellow tape, while police, firefighters and paramedics stood by on a cloudy but calm morning which threatened more rain, following […]

Construction of a temporary bridge has started in Paisley as the Teeswater River Bridge replacement project continues. According to a Bruce County media release, vehicles are still able to drive to and through Paisley while bridge construction is underway and local businesses will remain open throughout the project. However, from August 2 of this year […]

Grey Bruce Health Services is pleading for patients with minor issues to avoid going to the ER if they have alternatives. Short-staffing and increased demand for care in emergency rooms prompted the hospital corporation reminder that emergency departments are for “urgent health issues,” a news release issued Wednesday said. “GBHS is seeing an increase in […]

Bruce County council has elected not to video- or audio-record its executive committee closed meetings, contrary to one of several Ombudsman Ontario recommendations made to improve county closed meeting transparency. In a report in May, Ombudsman Ontario found three Bruce County executive committee meetings — typically attended by all county mayors — were improperly closed to the public, which violated the Municipal […]

The stage is set and the schedule is now finalized. The Owen Sound Bug Juice North Stars open the Ontario Series Lacrosse league postseason Saturday night at the Harry Lumley Bayshore Community Centre where they’ll host the Oakville Rock in Game 1 of the first-round best-of-five series. Game time is set for 7 p.m. In […]

A tornado watch is in effect for most of Grey-Bruce this afternoon and into the evening. Environment Canada issued its tornado watch at 12:10 p.m., for the Bruce Peninsula, Sauble Beach, Tobermory, Hanover, Dundalk, Southern Grey County, Owen Sound, The Blue Mountains, Northern Grey County, Saugeen Shores, Kincardine and Southern Bruce County. According to Environment […]

A total of 11 girls’ field lacrosse players from the Owen Sound North Stars program will take part in the Ontario Summer Games this week in Mississauga. The participating players include Madison Playter (Team Orange), Laine Nissen and Courtney Scott (Team Grey), Gillian Warren and Bree Wilkins (Team Red), Edyn Beyer, Aliyah Bonterre, Brooklyn Doyle, […]

Hepworth’s Landon Lorenowicz once again took gold in the 14-year-old teenage boys’ gi combined 69-kilogram division at the 2022 Next Gen Toronto Jiu-Jitsu tournament this past weekend. The event hosted at the Toronto Metropolitan University featured 719 athletes competing for gold including two athletes representing Kilian Academy. Fresh off being crowned Ontario champion a week […]

Police are investigating after a pedestrian was struck and killed by a vehicle that fled the scene in Eugenia on Tuesday night. Just after 10 p.m., Grey Bruce OPP, Grey Highlands Fire department and Grey County EMS responded to a report of a collision involving a motor vehicle and four pedestrians on Inkerman Street in […]

With a month until the nomination period closes for the fall’s municipal elections, there are some mayoral races taking shape in Grey-Bruce. West Grey, Meaford, Georgian Bluffs, Southgate and Huron-Kinloss all have multiple candidates running for mayor so far. The official nomination period for the municipal and school board election runs until Aug. 19 at […]

After two straight virtual Terry Fox Runs the event is headed back to Harrison Park this year. The in-person run set for September 18 has a fundraising goal of $17,000. In 2020 and 2021 amid the COVID-19 pandemic, public health measures aimed at reducing transmission of the virus prevented large gatherings and forced Terry Fox […]

Grey County has received nearly $150,000 to help small businesses take their products online through the Digital Service Squad program. In a media release distributed Tuesday, the Grey County Business Enterprise Centre announced it is the recipient of a $147,000 Digital Main Street grant to operate a two-year program providing small business owners with the […]

Joey Hishon just recently learned he was using the wrong hockey stick. After 15 years. In those 15 years, he scored 20 goals and notched 47 points as a rookie with the Owen Sound Attack. He led the Attack in scoring en route to an Ontario Hockey League championship. He was selected in the first […]

Grey Bruce OPP are investigating a fatal two-vehicle collision involving a motorcycle Monday evening on Highway 6-21 in the Township of Georgian Bluffs. According to a police media release, the OPP, Inter Township Fire Department and Grey County EMS were dispatched to the scene of the collision west of Owen Sound at approximately 5:12 p.m. […]

An upgraded CT scanner model to the one that was previously planned for is to be installed at the Kincardine hospital. The Siemens “X.Cite”CT scanner, the newest Health Canada-approved single source Computed Tomography scanner, is to be installed in a new 2,000-square-foot addition at the hospital, which is currently under construction. The new model is […]

UNITED FALL TO LEAGUE LEADERS The Owen Sound Grey Motors United dropped a 5-3 road game to league-leading Kitchener Riverside in Kitchener and District Soccer League action Sunday evening. Scott MacDonald, Aaron Illman and Logan Black scored the goals for Owen Sound. The United’s record now stands at 1-3-2 (win-loss-tie) United’s next action is Sunday, […]

The Owen Sound Creative Playgrounds North Stars under-19 team finished their first Junior Elite Women’s Lacrosse season as silver medalists Saturday. After two big wins last week in both the quarterfinal and semifinal matches, the N’Stars earned the opportunity to compete for the JEWL gold medal against the top-ranked and undefeated Oshawa Lady Blue Knights […]

West Grey Police Service confirmed Sunday evening that police had arrested the man they had been searching for whom they’d publicly warned was considered armed and dangerous. According to a West Grey Police media release, multiple units of the West Region OPP and Central Region OPP responded to the area of Walter’s Falls at approximately […]