Owen Sound Sun Times

A contract valued at $130 million to fabricate and supply replacement feeders for reactor units at Bruce Power’s Tiverton plant has been awarded to Cambridge-based BWXT Canada Ltd. “We have a Made in Ontario technology and are announcing this ten-year contract today with the confidence that BWXT and the men and women of United Steelworkers […]

On Tuesday, the Toronto Maple Leafs announced the hiring of Owen Sound native Curtis Sanford to the position of goalie coach for the club. The team announced the hiring via Twitter. The Leafs also promoted Dr. Hayley Wickenheiser, Ryan Hardy and Darryl Metcalf to the roles of assistant general manager. Sanford spent the past five […]

The Owen Sound Attack’s blueline will feature a 19-year-old puck-moving defenceman from Switzerland next season. Dale DeGray selected Luc Schweingruber from Bern, a team that plays in the country’s under-20 elite circuit, in this past Friday’s Canadian Hockey League Import Draft. The Attack passed on their second pick as the club expects breakout star Servac […]

Dozens of Ukrainians fleeing the war in their home country are expected to arrive in Grey-Bruce by the end of July, and a new resource has been launched to assist them as well as provide information to those in the area who want to help. The Grey Bruce Local Immigration Partnership has added a new […]

Former Durhamite and National Hockey League player Dean Hopkins has dedicated a bench at the Durham Arena to his former coaches who helped him along his way to the NHL. The bench, unveiled this past week inside the Durham Community Centre and Arena, features a plaque with the inscription: “The Dream Makers. A dedication to […]

The Owen Sound North Stars junior B club suffered a 17-9 loss to the Windsor Clippers on Canada Day completing a three-game sweep by the Clippers in the first round of the Ontario Junior B Lacrosse League postseason. The North Stars couldn’t overcome the offence of Malikye Good, Josh Rosa, Connor McManus, Xander Derkatz and […]

The Owen Sound Selects under-23 fastpitch team travelled to Woodstock this past weekend where they rolled off three-straight wins to capture back-to-back Ontario Amateur Softball Association Elimination Championships. In the team’s opening game, the Selects defeated the Belmore Sting 9-2. Clay Dolbear led the attack with two doubles, a home run and four RBIs. Brendan […]

“Never let your fire go out. When you let your fire go out, that’s when the chaos happens.” Saugeen First Nation Elder Shirley John’s words weaved through some of the stories shared at the Giche Namewikwedong Reconciliation Garden sacred fire and healing circle Sunday morning. As part of The Sound Waterfront Festival’s Truth and Reconciliation […]

A 50-year-old man from Burlington was pronounced dead after being pulled from Lake Huron near Sauble Beach Wednesday. According to a Grey-Bruce OPP media release, just after 8:16 a.m. on Wednesday emergency services responded to a report of an individual who entered the water in Lake Huron at Saugeen First Nation. The man was pulled […]

This is Gord Price’s last season soaring, somersaulting and tumbling through the skies in a supercharged Moscow-made 435-horsepower YAK 50. He’s 80 years old. It’s time to move on, or so he thought. In a promotional video created ahead of his 2022 airshow tour, scrolling words across the screen read: “In 2022, Gordon Price attempts […]

Canada Day celebrations were back at Kelso Beach at Nawash Park in Owen Sound Friday. People dressed in red-and-white swarmed the Summerfolk stage and surrounding area. Food trucks and vendor tents lined the pathways. Nary a Zoom online video conference in sight. No phone app needed to view the harbour front fireworks, and ice cream […]

One of the longest-running community bands in the province is set to return to the stage this summer. The Owen Sound City Band, led by Music Director Julia Richards, is now back to Celebrate 100+2 Years of performing Music in the Scenic City, resuming its traditional Monday evening concerts at Harrison Park, starting at 7:30 […]

Calissa Curry asked her customer if they would like their balloon dog with floppy or straight ears. The talented 12-year-old balloon artist was one of the several vendors and community groups set up at booths during the Waterfront Festival Kids and Youth Day at the Owen Sound Visitor Centre Thursday afternoon. The event kicked off […]

After a two-year hiatus, the Noon Hour Series is back and celebrating twenty-seven years of summer songs. This summer’s series features nine concerts with some of the city’s favourite local musicians and renowned special guests all taking place at Georgian Shores United Church (997 4th Ave E.) in Owen Sound. Admission is by donation. The […]

Newly elected Bruce-Grey-Owen Sound MPP Rick Byers is taking on the role of parliamentary assistant to Ontario’s minister of finance. Byers was appointed to the job and sworn in on June 29. “I’m delighted to have the opportunity to work directly with Finance Minister Peter Bethlenfalvy,” said Byers in a release. “I have known Peter […]

Wiarton’s Jonny Pickett said he’s living the dream and still dreaming big. Most days, the former Peninsula Shores District School student wakes up and rollerblades the lakeshore boardwalk in Toronto to practice at Volleyball Canada’s Ashbridges Bay training centre with the national program’s summer development team. It’s been a successful summer. Pickett and his beach […]

Police have charged a 21-year-old South Bruce man with attempted murder. Mason Stroeder, of the former Carrick Township, is scheduled to attend bail court in Walkerton Thursday. He also faces charges of assault a peace officer with a weapon, possession of a weapon for a dangerous purpose, resist a peace officer, flight from police, four […]

A Kincardine man police honoured recently for his part in life-saving efforts — of a man who died trying to save his cousins at Kincardine’s Station Beach in 2020 — said some people don’t understand the water is still dangerous there. Dave Jenkins noticed a man and his small children in the water the other […]

“The Sound” is pumping up the volume for Canada Day celebrations this year after two years of relatively subdued festivities due to the pandemic. In fact, the vibe is set to reverberate through the city with four days of celebrations in Owen Sound beginning with Youth Day at the Owen Sound Visitor Centre Thursday. From […]

Sean Teakle has been around hockey his entire life, but he got thrown into the sport’s deep end in April. When the Ontario Hockey League announced the long-term suspension of Niagara IceDogs general manager Joey Burke and head coach Billy Burke for violating the league’s harassment, abuse and diversity policy, Teakle and associate coach Jody […]

Owen Sound’s 2022 Volunteer of the Year – Elizabeth Charlton — and 2022 Senior of the Year – Sharon McKeachnie — were honoured at Monday night’s city council meeting. Mayor Ian Boddy, Coun. Travis Dodd and Bruce-Grey-Owen Sound MPP Rick Byers presented the awards. Information from the city about Charlton said she was nominated by […]

City council agreed Monday to look at providing a public toilet that would be available around the clock, after a man asked for one on behalf of homeless people. Council quickly agreed after Ray Botten, a sometimes controversial local advocate for homeless people and one-time mayoral candidate, addressed council during a public question period. “We […]

How sweet it is for Sauble Beach’s Kurtis MacDermid. The former member of the Grey-Bruce Highlanders, Owen Sound Greys and Owen Sound Attack reached hockey’s pinnacle Sunday night in Tampa as a member of the Stanley Cup champion Colorado Avalanche. Several family and friends from the Grey-Bruce area who made the trip to Tampa Bay […]

Owen Sound council postponed debate and a vote on Coun. John Tamming’s motion to ban some short-term accommodation rentals in residential neighbourhoods until city staff provide councillors with more information — not expected for six months. The delay upset and disappointed neighbours of short-term rentals, who questioned why council had to wait so long to […]

Huron-Bruce MPP Lisa Thompson is back as the province’s minister of agriculture, food and rural affairs as Doug Ford’s cabinet was sworn in on June 24. The former education minister and minister for government and consumer services was first named to the role in a year ago in June 2021. She replaced longtime agriculture minister […]

A 19-year-old male from South Bruce Peninsula and three youths have been charged by police following a stabbing on Grey Road 1 in Georgian Bluffs Friday night. According to an Ontario Provincial Police media release, the OPP, Owen Sound police and Grey County paramedics responded to a report of a stabbing on Grey Road 1 […]

A barbecue and its propane tank are believed to be the source of a fire and reported explosion that destroyed both units of a semi-detached home near Owen Sound District Secondary School Sunday afternoon. The Owen Sound Fire Department responded to reports of an explosion and fire at 923 8th Ave. W in Owen Sound […]

Alex Rauket’s emotions swirled around and mixed together Monday morning less than 24 hours before he sets out on an eight-day, 800-plus kilometre bike ride to Montreal in support of the Shriners Hospital for Children. “I’m excited. I’m anxious, a little scared. I’m kind of everything,” the 37-year-old Freemason and member of the Bruce Shrine […]

The Owen Sound North Stars junior B club is facing a first-round sweep by the Windsor Clippers after dropping the first two games of their first-round best-of-five series in Ontario Junior B Lacrosse League playoff action this past weekend. The seventh-seed N’Stars were outscored 24-8 in the series’ opening contests by the second-seed Clippers. On […]

UNITED FALL TO STRATFORD The Owen Sound Grey Motors United dropped a 2-1 decision to Stratford in Kitchener and District Soccer League action Sunday evening at the Kiwanis Soccer Complex. Scott MacDonald scored the goal for Owen Sound. The United’s record now stands at 1-2-2 (win-loss-tie). Owen Sound is now off until Sunday, July 10, […]

A pair of Owen Sound North Stars girls field lacrosse players are headed to the World Lacrosse Women’s World Championships this week with a team from Halton Hills. Bree Wilkins has been asked to participate in the opening ceremonies of the 2022 world championships hosted in Towson, Maryland, from June 29 to July 9. In […]

A two-unit building was extensively damaged in a fire in Owen Sound late Sunday afternoon. Firefighters were called to 923 8th Ave. W. at 5:37 p.m. on a report of an explosion, according to a news release issued shortly after midnight. “Upon arrival at the two- unit residential building, both units were on fire,” the […]

Desiree van Dijk was among dozens of cyclists who raised more than $40,000 for community-funded mental health programs Sunday. The ninth annual Ride Don’t Hide event was the community’s biggest chance to support heavily used mental health programs that aren’t funded by the government. Van Dijk waited at a balloon archway at Kelso Beach Park […]

When the federal government formally apologizes to descendants of Black men who served in the First World War’s No. 2 Construction Battalion on July 9, an Owen Sound man will be listening closely. Blaine Courtney’s great uncle, Henry Francis Courtney, served in the battalion and is buried in Greenwood Cemetery’s newly created Military Heritage Trail. […]

A 77-year-old Georgian Bluffs woman is dead after a collision in Springmount Saturday. Grey Bruce OPP identified the victim as Loraine Newman, who was one of the drivers involved in the crash. She was taken to hospital where she was pronounced dead, a police news release said. Police were called about 1:14 p.m. to the […]

It must have been a close group of classmates, the class of 1970. Members of that West Hill alumni clan have gathered about every five years since they graduated. Fifty of them, plus spouses, celebrated the 50th anniversary of that occasion Saturday, two years delayed by COVID. The average age was around 70, and the […]

Justin Lozon was found guilty Friday of dangerous driving causing the death of Pastor Chad Honneyman along Highway 6 almost five years ago, but he was acquitted on a charge of possession of methamphetamine. Superior Court Justice John Sproat read his judgment aloud in an Owen Sound courtroom Friday. The case will return to court […]

Grey County has committed funds to extend an “invaluable” partnership program that is providing supports to the most vulnerable residents living in the Owen Sound and Hanover areas. And those delivering the Supportive Outreach Service (SOS) program in Grey-Bruce hope to keep it going for as long as they can. At its meeting on Thursday, […]

Georgian Bluffs council has heard the concerns of Kemble residents about water drainage in their community and are vowing to do something about it. But one person who attended a public meeting Wednesday to outline the township’s options to deal with flooding said many left feeling disappointed. “There was not a lot of information,” Bruno […]

Superior Court Justice John Sproat agreed a “central issue” in the dangerous driving causing death trial he must decide seems to be whether the headlight was working on a motorcycle in a head-on crash with a car after dark. Sproat made the comment in response to a similar defence remark Wednesday during closing arguments on […]

Meaford Fire Chief Courtney Allen said he did not believe there were any injuries as a result of a house fire Wednesday afternoon, though family pets may have perished in the blaze. A house near the corner of Louisa and Centre streets in Meaford suffered heavy damage as the fire seemed to tear through the […]

South Bruce Peninsula has been presented with some “horrifically big numbers” as it looks into how it increases capacity and continues to deliver water to users on five small municipal systems it operates. During its meeting on Tuesday, town council was presented with an update on an Amabel Water Master Servicing Study by R.J. Burnside […]

The Owen Sound Attack’s 2021 first-round pick Colby Barlow played his way onto the Ontario Hockey League’s all-rookie team. The OHL released their first and second all-rookie teams Tuesday headlined locally by the Orillia native who set new Attack franchise rookie record marks in his first season of major junior hockey. Barlow shattered the Owen […]

This time female hockey fans in Owen Sound are getting a shot at hitting the gym and working out like their favourite on-ice athletes as the Hockey Fans in Training program returns to the Scenic City. The 12-week Hockey Fans in Training (Hockey FIT) program offered by the YMCA in partnership with researchers from Western […]

A man charged with dangerous driving causing death testified Tuesday that he only saw an oncoming motorcycle a “millisecond” before impact because its headlight was off. Justin Lozon testified on the sixth day of his trial in an Owen Sound courtroom that his car’s headlights lit up the black Honda Shadow just before it collided […]

Major Series Lacrosse announced on Saturday it will try to finish the remainder of the 2022 season with four of its franchises six and without commissioner Doug Luey. A day after the Oakville Rock informed the MSL board of governors it was taking a one-year “sabbatical” amid ongoing uncertainty stemming from the dispute over the […]

The Lake Huron Coastal Centre (LHCC) is encouraging youth ages 14 to 18 to join their Coastal Conservation Youth Corps program (CCYC) in Goderich and Port Elgin this July, August, and September. The free outdoor education program uses Lake Huron as a classroom to teach youth about coastal ecology, helping them learn new skills in […]

A first-of-its-kind isotope production system at Bruce Power has successfully produced a medical isotope used in cancer treatments. The system installed at Bruce Power’s Unit 7 successfully irradiated targets to produce lutetium-177, a short-lived medical isotope used in precision oncology for targeted therapy of a growing number of cancers, the nuclear power generator said in […]

The Owen Sound Hospital Foundation’s 31st annual Charity Golf Classic raised $94,000 for the Owen Sound Regional Hospital. More than 140 golfers participated in the charity tournament held on June 3 at Legacy Ridge Golf Club. Funds were raised through golf registrations, sponsorships, donations and an online auction, all in support of the event. “Thanks […]