Owen Sound Sun Times

The Grey Bruce Community Safety and Well-Being Plan and its community partners are holding a series of town hall meetings to raise awareness about human trafficking. The town halls, which are open to everyone, will shine a light on what human trafficking looks like locally, how it impacts people and what people can do to [...]

Some fine felines will be landing on their feet in Owen Sound this weekend. Approximately 100 cats of a variety of breeds are expected to take part in the No Name Cat Club show at the Harry Lumley Bayshore Community Centre on Saturday and Sunday. Kathy Balmer, vice-president of the local cat club, said Tuesday [...]

Police are looking for a vehicle that left the scene of a collision east of Burgoyne Sunday night. At approximately 9:15 p.m. South Bruce OPP received a report of fail-to-remain collision at the intersection of Bruce Road 17 and B Line in Arran-Elderslie. A vehicle was travelling along Bruce Road 17 when a pick-up truck [...]

The driver of a tractor was airlifted to a London trauma centre after a crash near Holyrood on Monday evening. At approximately 8:30 p.m., South Bruce OPP responded along with Bruce County Paramedic Services and Huron-Kinloss Fire and Emergency Services to a collision on Bruce Road 1 near Kairshea Avenue in the Township of Huron-Kinloss. [...]

The driver of a vehicle was airlifted to hospital following a collision at a property in the Municipality of South Bruce on Monday evening. Just after 8 p.m., South Bruce OPP were called to a report of a motor vehicle collision at an address along Sideroad 40. Police attended along with Bruce County Paramedic Services [...]

A Northern Bruce Peninsula man has been charged after crashing his vehicle into a telephone pole when he swerved to avoid a deer, police said. Grey Bruce OPP were dispatched to single-vehicle collision on Stokes Bay Road in Northern Bruce Peninsula just after 8 p.m. Monday. The 58-year-old driver of the vehicle, who was uninjured, [...]

Nicholas Sykora can't win rookie of the year because he's 18, but the Owen Sound Attack's first-year player is making a mark in the Ontario Hockey League. Sykora scored a pair of goals on Thanksgiving Monday as the Owen Sound Attack beat the North Bay Battalion 6-4 inside the Boart Longyear Memorial Gardens. Sykora's seven [...]

Thanksgiving Monday is often the time to either sleep off the turkey-induced tryptophan tiredness or walk off the third helping of pumpkin pie. Inside OSHaRE's 3rd Avenue East headquarters, a group of dedicated volunteers were busy preparing meals for hundreds of community members. We had 346 people on Friday, and about 286 on Saturday, so [...]

More than 3,000 full-time jobs were added in the Bruce, Grey, Huron, Perth region in September. Those gains were partially offset by losses in part-time employment, totalling 1,400 jobs. The unemployment rate for the region served by the Four County Labour Market Planning Board fell marginally by 0.1 per cent to 4.8 per cent last [...]

It's about to get spooky, night-at-the-museum style, in Owen Sound this month. The Billy Bishop Museum is hosting a Spooktacular Trivia Night at the Royal Canadian Legion in Owen Sound (1450 2nd Ave. W.) on Friday, Oct. 25. Billed as a ghoulishly good time, doors open at 6 p.m. the night of the event, with [...]

Thursday is Dress Purple Day, and Bruce Grey Child and Family Services is inviting the community to take part. Dress Purple Day is an annual awareness campaign led by the Ontario Association of Children's Aid Societies (OACAS). The day is meant to highlight the importance of supporting vulnerable children, youth, and families in Ontario. Those [...]

Bruce County held its first cultural symposium last week. On Wednesday, Oct. 8, the county invited participants to attend the symposium, entitled Common Ground: Connecting Through Culture, at the Chesley Community Centre. Keynote speaker Heather Keam, from the Tamarack Institute for Community Engagement, discussed new ways of fostering a culture of volunteerism. Keam addressed the [...]

It's early, but the Owen Sound Attack are starting to look like the real deal. Happy Thanksgiving, Grey-Bruce hockey fans. They've got the league's best goaltender, which was expected coming into the season. Not to mention Matthew Koprowski and Trenten Bennett, the latter of whom backstopped Owen Sound to a 5-3 win over the North [...]

More than 700 runners gobbled up the kilometres as part of the Rotary Club of Thornbury-Clarksburg's annual Thornbury Turkey Trot on Saturday morning. The sun peeked out behind the clouds just in time for the start of the Kids' Fun Race, a short course that featured another 300 chick" runners. Spectators, make sure you're behind [...]

The Tom Thomson Art Gallery is opening a pair of fall exhibitions. Convergence and Bianca Artemida Nam: Where the Willows Weep and Orchids Dream will open with a public reception at the gallery on Oct. 18 from 2 to 4 p.m. The Convergence exhibition, which runs until Jan. 17, is the gallery's biennial juried exhibition [...]

BASKETBALL It's getting crowded at the top. With three weeks in the books, the cream is starting to rise in the Bluewater Athletic Association senior girls' basketball circuit. In the North Division, the Georgian Bay Thunder are still undefeated at 4-0 after a 41-17 win over the Grey Highlands Lions. The St. Mary's Mustangs are [...]

Program being launched after homelessness and substance use concerns raised

Grey County has awarded the tender for its planned paramedic base in Feversham. On Thursday during its committee of the whole meeting, council awarded the tender for the base to Domm Construction Ltd. for $2.155 million. Director of paramedic services Kevin McNab told council that the area is underserviced and the southeast corner of the [...]

Owen Sound Deputy-mayor says municipalities should be left to decide if they want to use speed cameras

Local hospital corporation is re-introducing its internal office of research and innovation

The Saugeen Bruce Peninsula Gravel Gran Fondo raised around $70,000 for conservation efforts. More than 400 riders took part in the sixth annual Gran Fondo on Oct. 5 in support of the Bruce Peninsula Biosphere Association. Eighty volunteers supported the event, including a support and medical vehicle. Riders could choose from 115-kilometre, 80-kilometre, 56-kilometre and [...]

A 31-year-old Saugeen First Nation man is facing robbery charges after a theft from a Highway 21 business on Tuesday. Just before 9 p.m., Tuesday, Grey Bruce OPP officers responded to a report of a robbery at a Saugeen First Nation business on Highway 21. Police said it was reported that a person entered the [...]

A 68-year-old male from Mildmay is dead following a single-motorcycle collision near Mount Forest on Monday. Members of the Wellington County OPP were dispatched to Sideroad 3 West, south of Mount Forest, at approximately 5:15 p.m. on Monday for a report of a motorcycle crash. Police arrived a the scene to discover the 68-year-old male [...]

Some larger companies are considering assembling their products in the United States to get around the tariff.

Multiple portables being used at both Beaver Valley and Georgian Bay schools

A local family recently donated a 46-hectare property near Mountain Lake on the Bruce Peninsula to the Nature Conservancy of Canada. The property, southeast of Wiarton, features a mosaic of forests, wetlands, and regenerating fields that provide habitat for a wide range of species, including several that are at risk, according to the NCC. The [...]

Action plan to address findings of independent assessment, which province has not made public.

The Bluewater District School Board is inviting the public to comment on the design of a planned new Kincardine District Senior School. Between now and Oct. 24, student, staff, families and other community members are being invited to visit the board's website to view a preliminary floor plan for the proposed two-storey school. Questions and [...]

Nick Suzuki, Jordan Binnington, Sean Durzi, Jonah Gadjovich, Cody Ceci, Jacob Middleton and Kurtis MacDermid are all on NHL rosters to start the year.

A trio of local ball players keep hauling home the softball hardware. Matthew Weiler (Hepworth), Alex McGillivray (Durham) and Mac Mulvay (Wingham) helped Team Canada win the silver medal at the 2025 U23 Pan American Softball games, held in La Pampa, Argentina, last month. Canada finished 5-2 in the preliminary round, placing third behind Mexico [...]

Plan will outline actions to revitalize elements of the River District streetscape

Police seized more than $5,500 of suspected fentanyl, more than $1,100 of suspected cocaine, more than $500 in cash, a prohibited knife, drug trafficking paraphernalia and stolen property.

On Saturday, Oct. 4, Kim-Thibodeau Tae Kwon Do (KT TKD) sent three young athletes to the 24th Jung Ko Canadian Classic in Markham. The competition was fierce, and David, Ava Marie, and Justina brilliantly showcased everything they had been practicing. David placed third in poomsae (patterns) and second in kyorugi (sparring). David embodied the tenet [...]

Document will help guide Owen Sounds direction over the next 25 years

Amazon is planning to build a last mile" distribution centre in Owen Sound's industrial park. City staff have given site plan approval for the company to construct a 1,100-square-metre (11,800-square-foot) distribution centre and 6,280-sq.-m. (67,600-sq.ft.) parking, staging and loading area at 1875 16th Ave. E. The application was included in minutes of the Sept. 17 [...]

Maple holds historical and cultural significance for local First Nations

A London resident has been arrested in relation with a series of thefts across Southwestern Ontario involving boats, jet skis and trailers, including some in the Grey-Bruce region. On Oct. 1, members of the Grey Bruce and Middlesex OPP street crime units executed a search warrant at a residence on Sevilla Park Place in London, [...]

The Owen Sound Attack played big-boy" hockey Sunday afternoon and took down the league's top dogs. The 7-0 Windsor Spitfires were looking to set a new franchise record for consecutive wins to start a season, and were coming off a big shootout win in Brantford a day earlier. Owen Sound popped that bubble with no [...]

'I'm just feeling very grateful that it's over and done with. We have finally been able to reclaim what has always been ours.' -- Shawnessy Thompson, Saugeen First Nation

'It can feel a little daunting for some to get out on the trails if they're not familiar' -- youth hike leader Jeannine Kralt

A Walkerton man is in custody and facing charges.

'I don't honestly know. It just grew right from the get-go.' -- novice giant pumpkin grower Terry Weber, when asked how he did it.

A pair of USHL transplants helped the Saginaw Spirit outpace the Owen Sound Attack on Saturday afternoon. Egor Barabanov and Nikita Klepov each scored a pair of goals as the Spirit topped the Attack 7-5 inside the Harry Lumley Bayshore Community Centre. With back-to-back losses, Owen Sound is now 4-2-0-0 on the year, while Saginaw [...]

Owen Sound will fail to go 68-0-0-0 again this year. The Kitchener Rangers ended Owen Sound's undefeated bid with a 4-3 win inside the Kitchener Memorial Auditorium Friday night, less than a week after losing 5-2 to Owen Sound in the Attack's home opener. Kitchener improves to 4-1-0-0 on the year, while the Attack will [...]

The navy is short some 1,600 sailors

The Canadian Football League is eliminating the rule that awards a team a point for missing a field goal. But it was the difference in Friday afternoon's high school football game in Owen Sound. The Owen Sound Wolves topped the Saugeen Royals 7-6 at OSDSS in a closely contested defensive battle marred by turnovers. Wolves' [...]

A renowned bear expert is making a stop in Owen Sound next week for a talk about the genetically isolated and unique population of black bears that call the Saugeen Bruce Peninsula home. Wildlife biologist Dr. Martyn Obbard, an emeritus research scientist with the Ministry of Natural Resources who studied both black bears and polar [...]

BASKETBALL Two undefeated teams met in Meaford on Thursday, with the Georgian Bay Thunder coming out on top, 35-32 over the St. Mary's Mustangs. The Mustangs and Thunder traded leads several times in the seesaw game, with Georgian Bay leading 21-13 at the half before St. Mary's stormed back to tie the game, 27-27, heading [...]

New Bluewater schools planned for Dundalk, Port Elgin and Kincardine, and Bruce-Grey Catholic board school in Owen Sound

Local impacts of new U.S. tariffs on wood products are unclear but 'potentially devastating'