Owen Sound Sun Times

In memory of beloved Owen Sound librarian Andrew Armitage, there’s a call to the community to create a repository of all published works related to Grey-Bruce. Armitage, 82, died last November and on Sunday, friends, neighbours and other admirers shared stories about him, read some poetry and played a song. There were old photos and […]

A 53-year-old Owen Sound man died in a collision involving the motorcycle he was riding Saturday about 11 p.m. A Grey Bruce OPP news release said the single-vehicle crash happened on Highway 21 in South Bruce Peninsula. The motorcycle driver, Troy Sisco, was pronounced dead after lifesaving efforts were unsuccessful. Tara Fire Department and Bruce […]

An experiment in democratic participation is unfolding in Grey Highlands. A non-partisan group of citizens let by Dave Meslin is aiming to boost municipal voter turnout from a paltry 36 per cent in 2018 to at least 50 per cent, by promoting the election like a company would advertise a big sale. And it seeks […]

The Owen Sound Bug Juice North Stars have secured home-floor advantage for the first round of the playoffs. With a 12-9 win over the Oakville Rock Saturday afternoon at the Harry Lumley Bayshore Community Centre, the North Stars finished the regular season with a 9-6-1 record and made sure they wouldn’t be caught from behind […]

A little more than one year after a suspicious fire closed the former Willow Creek trestle bridge near Paisley, the bridge is about to be repaired. Half the deck boards and the railing burned off in the fire on the bridge, which is part of the 80-kilometre Bruce County Rail Trail, from Port Elgin to […]

The Owen Sound Creative Playgrounds North Stars under-19 team will play for the Junior Elite Women’s League championship tonight in Oshawa at the Civic Fields. And the only thing standing in the way of the N’Stars’ championship dream is the undefeated and top-ranked team playing on their home field. Oshawa and Owen Sound face off […]

Police are searching this afternoon for Kodie Hearsum, a 34-year-old West Grey man whom police say is considered armed and dangerous. Police are investigating a homicide, Grey Bruce OPP announced in a news release about noon Saturday. Police released two photos of Hearsum, whom they called a suspect. There is an increased police presence in […]

The mood was upbeat, the music was pumping and the sun was shining when about 100 people set out with purpose Saturday morning on a leisurely five-kilometre walk down to the bayshore. The purpose was to remember Jeff Courage — a 21-year-old former West Hill student who took his life in November 2019 — and […]

The Mission Zimbabwe team sponsored by Hanover’s Hope Community Church is departing for Zimbabwe from Toronto Sunday for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic grounded the group’s annual international trip. The three-member team departs from Pearson International Airport on July 17 and will arrive in Zimbabwe’s capital of Harare after a planned 20-hour trip. […]

A development company behind a proposal to build a waterfront hotel and spa as well as eight residential buildings at 226 Boucher St. E – the site of the former Stanley Knight flooring factory in Meaford – is now appealing its application to the province. Meaford officials announced in a media release Thursday that the […]

Saugeen Shores plans to paint a truth and reconciliation crosswalk at Victoria Street North and Landsdown in front of G.C. Huston Public School in Southampton. Council approved a motion brought forward by John Divinski in a vote at its July 11 meeting. The motion recognized the close relationship between the school and the residents of […]

The Tom Thomson Art Gallery in Owen Sound is launching three new exhibits in celebration of its 55th anniversary this summer. On Tom Thomson’s 145th birthday – August 5 – the art gallery is holding a signature evening reception. “For more than 55 years, the art gallery has brought us inspiring exhibitions featuring regional and […]

The Saugeen Shores Police Service Criminal Investigations Branch is seeking the public’s help identifying two people suspected of assaulting and robbing a young female victim. On Wednesday, July 13 at approximately 2:45 p.m. the victim was walking on Market Street near Nodwell Park, between Highland Street and Geddes Street. police said in a news release. […]

It’s heating up in the local lacrosse world as a head-to-head matchup to determine home floor advantage in the Ontario Series Lacrosse league playoffs is set for Saturday afternoon in Owen Sound after the Oakville Rock were hit with a three-game forfeit for using an ineligible player. With one game remaining in their regular season, […]

Anyone 18 and older is now eligible for a second booster dose of the COVID-19 vaccine in Ontario, while infants and children are now able to receive a newly approved Moderna vaccine. The province announced the expanded eligibility for second booster doses Wednesday in a move made to provide an extra layer of protection for […]

Last weekend I did something I hadn’t done in over two years. I went to a folk festival—the Mariposa Folk Festival, to be exact. Mariposa is older than Summerfolk-–this was its 60th year. What a great experience! The festival was a sellout and the crowds were joyous. It was a thrill to wander from stage […]

Owen Sound Little Theatre is busy preparing a big 2022-23 season featuring some familiar favourites and locally-written shows. This year’s productions include Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, You, Me and a Bit of Driftwood, The Game’s Afoot, and Gorgeous, Gallivanting Goddesses. Beauty and the Beast will run from Nov. 10 to 12, Nov. 17 to […]

The first annual Walk for Courage sponsored by Owen Sound Fitness is set to take place this Saturday in Owen Sound. The Walk for Courage is a fundraising event in memory of Jeff Courage, a former Owen Sound resident and West Hill Secondary School student who was a staff member at Owen Sound Fitness and […]

In one sense the City of Owen Sound’s plan to increase the stock of available rental housing by waiving development fees for purpose-built rentals in 2019 has been a massive success. It’s anticipated that if just the builds completed, under construction and in the pre-consultation and site-plan phases all come to pass, a total of […]

A 101-year-old sailing ketch used by the Royal Canadian Navy during both the Second World War and Cold War periods is docked in Owen Sound. The ship is now a training vessel and the navy’s oldest commissioned ship. It’s used as a teaching platform to train Royal Canadian Navy sailors in navigation, sail handling, boat […]

The Grey Highlands Fire Department used its drone to help locate two people who became lost along the Beaver River when their tubing trip didn’t go as planned Saturday night. Fire Chief Marty Wellwood said the young adults had aimed to float down the river from Access Point 1 to Access Point 2, but on […]

Kaleb Lawrence never expected to hear his name called during the 2022 NHL Entry Draft. He was a year older than the majority of players selected, already having been passed over in his first year of eligibility. He only played in two Ontario Hockey League games in the past two seasons and was coming off […]

The Beautiful Joe Leash Free Dog Park in Meaford (35 Grant Avenue) has been closed this week for an archaeological survey. The park is expected to open again Wednesday. The dig, being conducted by ASI Heritage specializing in cultural heritage conservation, planning and management, is part of the municipality’s environmental assessment for the expansion of […]

Blue Mountain Resort announced Tuesday it is inviting artists to submit proposals of work for a new on-mountain art installation. The call for submissions launched on Indigenous People’s Day and closes on July 21, 2022. Blue Mountain has earmarked a large, open area at the top of the mountain where the work will be visible […]

The washroom at the Owen Sound Police Services building at 2nd Avenue West in the River District is now open to the public all year and around the clock according to a notice from the city. Owen Sound announced the move in a media release and in response to “a growing need for a washroom […]

The Terry Fox Foundation is looking for volunteers to organize the Wiarton Terry Fox Run on September 18. The foundation is seeking to fill the roles of run organizer and event volunteer for the annual Wiarton run. The Wiarton Terry Fox Run has contributed over $192,000 to the Terry Fox Foundation for cancer research. Now […]

A former businessman, mayor and top municipal staffer in Moosonee is joining the Municipality of Kincardine as the lakeside town’s new chief administrative officer. The municipality announced the hiring of David Henderson via media release Monday after council passed a bylaw making the appointment official. Henderson’s appointment is effective as of Aug. 2. “I am […]

Cedrick Guindon didn’t need to travel far for his first professional development camp. The Rockland native selected by the Montreal Canadiens in the fourth round of the National Hockey League Entry Draft Friday is now in Brossard, a suburb of Montreal just two hours from his home, where he’s taking the ice as part of […]

Kilian Academy athletes represented the region this past weekend in the 2022 Ontario NoGi Open International Jiu-Jitsu Championship at the Markham Pan Am Centre. Port Elgin’s Nick Mole continued his domination in Ontario’s Masters Lightweight (154.5-pounds) Division, adding the Ontario NoGi Champion crown to the Ontario Gi Champion title earned two months prior. “Nick is […]

Five emergency vehicle access points at Sauble Beach are expected to reopen this week after being closed ahead of the Canada Day long weekend due to permit issues. According to a June 30 notice signed by South Bruce Peninsula CAO Bill Jones published to the town’s website, the Grey Sauble Conservation Authority informed the town […]

U15 NORTH STARS WIN TWO After a break in the schedule last weekend for Canada Day, the Owen Sound Krueger Custom Steel North Stars under-15 (1) girls field lacrosse team was back at it in Kawartha Saturday. The N’Stars ended their regular season with a pair of wins. The first game finished with a score […]

A Bruce County man has been charged with possessing a weapon for a dangerous purpose after using an axe to break a car window and damage a fence Sunday. According to a media release issued Sunday evening, Owen Sound Police responded to the 900 block of 2nd Avenue West shortly after 2 p.m. when someone […]

The Ukrainian Village of Owen Sound is ready to start welcoming families from the war-torn country to the city in the coming weeks. Renovations of the city-owned Rice House are wrapping up, and it is expected that by the end of July it may be the temporary home for between four and seven Ukrainian families […]

A group of citizens is being credited with extinguishing a grass fire in Owen Sound and ensuring the person who allegedly set it was caught. At about 7 p.m. on Saturday evening, a man was observed leaving the scene of the grass fire, which had been set in the field directly across from Georgian College […]

Owen Sound’s downtown River District came alive on Saturday as the Hottest Street Sale returned for the first time in three years. Thousands flocked to the event along 2nd Avenue East where they mingled with friends, took in the entertainment and activities, browsed the sales of the vendors and businesses and enjoyed some of the […]

A growing number of incidents of people misusing and damaging Saugeen Valley Conservation Authority properties has prompted the organization to warning that it plans to ticketiviolators. Unauthorized vehicles, dogs off-leash, illegal camping and dumping garbage are just some of the violations the conservation authority is seeing on the 21,000 acres it manages across its watershed, […]

A nationwide Rogers internet service outage that started early Friday morning stretched into the afternoon and was impacting many throughout Grey-Bruce, including municipalities, organizations and businesses. The service outage left customers without phone or internet service and by 3:30 p.m., work was still underway to restore the services. In an update posted to its social […]

Grey-Bruce has its first confirmed case of monkeypox. The Grey Bruce Health Unit reported the laboratory-confirmed case in a news release Friday. It said the person resides in Grey-Bruce, but most likely acquired the infection while visiting the Greater Toronto Area. The individual is isolating at home and health unit staff have determined the person […]

The emergency department at the Chesley hospital is closing for two nights due to a number of unexpected staff absences. The department in the South Bruce Grey Health Centre will temporarily close on Saturday at 5 p.m. until 7 a.m. on Sunday, and again at 5 p.m. on Sunday until 7 a.m. on Monday, it […]

While Grey-Bruce home sales dropped almost 41 per cent in June when compared to a year ago, the head of the local realtors association is reassuring buyers and sellers there is no bubble bursting in the local market. Steve Dickie, president of the Realtors Association of Grey Bruce Owen Sound, which represents approximately 450 realtors […]

Georgian Bluffs council has approved spending up to $200,000 for drainage improvements in the village of Kemble after residents there raised concerns about flooding on their properties. During its committee of the whole meeting on Wednesday, council moved to use the funds from its stormwater management reserve and working capital reserve to do the improvements […]

Former Bruce-Grey-Owen Sound MPP Bill Walker has been named the president and CEO of the Organization of Canadian Nuclear Industries. Walker is to begin his new role on Monday after he was selected to the position following a three-month search and interview process, according to a news release issued by the OCNI on Thursday. “Bill […]

Bill Walker will be honoured this evening for his work in serving Bruce-Grey-Owen Sound as MPP for more than a decade. A retirement celebration is being held for Walker beginning at 6 p.m. at the Cobble Beach Resort pavilion in Georgian Bluffs. Proceeds from the event, which will include dinner, speeches and an auction, will […]

Sauble Beach is getting a new permanent dog park. At its regularly scheduled meeting of council Tuesday, South Bruce Peninsula councillors approved a $17,257 contract with Owen Sound’s Ottewell Fencing to build a 250-by-150-foot fence beside the Sauble Beach Community Centre parking lot. In 2021, COVID-19 public health restrictions closed the Bannister Park ball diamond […]

According to cellphone data collected from Sauble Beach visitors over a three-year period, those who visit the lakeside town are often middle-aged Facebook users with six-figure incomes, pick-up trucks and traditional views on politics and religion. South Bruce Peninsula received the Sauble Beach Geofence Project report during a delegation from employees of Regional Tourism Organization […]

With the possibility of COVID-19 cases increasing in the fall, the Grey Bruce Health Unit is holding vaccine clinics over summer to help residents get up to date with their shots. Thousands of Grey-Bruce residents aged 60 and up are to become eligible in July and August to receive a second booster, based on the […]

Three North Stars helped Team Ontario claim the under-18 championship at the 2022 World Lacrosse Women’s Festival in Maryland Tuesday. Head coach Lyndsay Brooks and her Team Ontario under-17 squad, featuring Taryn Lee and Laine Nissen, who both play for the Owen Sound North Stars in the Junior Elite Women’s League (JEWL), topped the Akwesasne […]

The Hottest Street Sale is back and taking over Owen Sound’s River District this weekend. The 32nd edition of the event will take place on Saturday featuring music and entertainment, children’s activities, food vendors, plenty of shopping opportunities and more. It is returning to the city’s core for the first time since the summer of […]

Some infectious diseases experts are calling an uptick in virus transmission indicators a “summer wave”, but in Grey-Bruce the waters remain calm. Specialists now often use wastewater data to identify transmission trends in Ontario as testing for COVID-19, while consistent among those eligible, is no longer done widely enough to paint a detailed picture. Wastewater […]

A Kincardine councillor’s remark made during a meeting three months ago and called derogatory and vulgar by the authors of an integrity report has resulted in a reprimanded by council and a suspension of pay for 90 days, the harshest penalty council is able to impose under the Municipal Act. At its meeting on Monday, […]