Owen Sound Sun Times

Police say it appears that properties that had cable and internet lines cut in downtown Owen Sound recently were randomly selected. Police announced in a news release late Thursday afternoon that a 41-year-old Owen Sound woman had been charged with mischief over $5,000, mischief under $5,000 and failure to comply with a probation order in […]

People gathered Friday to remember and pay their respects to a homeless man who lived for years along the rail trail out past the hospital, and was found dead there by hikers Monday. Those who met in the chapel at Owen Sound hospital said his name was Wayne Milner. Police have not identified him but […]

A long-running issue of unauthorized off-road vehicle use on Grey County properties is once again on council’s radar. On Thursday, Grey County council asked staff to come back with a report on off-road vehicle use in the county’s forests, including some enforcement options and the costs associated with them. The issue was raised after council […]

A much-needed transitional housing project in Owen Sound is expected to be completed by the spring, with occupancy by the middle of the year. Grey County council received an update Thursday on the 14th Street Supportive Housing project from community services director Anne Marie Shaw. “The renovation itself is going quite well and we are […]

Hydrogen Optimized announced it has successfully demonstrated in Owen Sound that its RuggedCell hydrogen production system could be powered by the variable winds found in the west African country of Mauritania. That’s where renewable energy developer CWP Global is exploring generating green hydrogen at its planned 30 gigawatt AMAN project. The company is building large-scale […]

Police are looking for a man wanted on a Canada-wide warrant who is known to frequent Owen Sound, Walkerton and Hamilton. Aaron Marshall, 34, is serving five years for weapons and drug offences, a news release from the Ontario Provincial Police said. The Repeat Offender Parole Enforcement Squad issued a request for the public’s help […]

Owen Sound police have laid charges after cable and internet lines were cut at numerous downtown properties on Sunday. A 41-year-old Owen Sound woman has been charged with mischief over $5,000, mischief under $5,000 and failure to comply with a probation order. The woman was held in police custody on the charges as well as […]

Nobody said it was easy. The band Coldplay wrote that lyric in their hit song The Scientist, but with respect to Chris Martin and crew, it should have been easy for Owen Sound Thursday night in Pennsylvania after going up 4-0 over the struggling Erie Otters. The same Erie Otters who have won just one […]

Grey County council has asked staff to find close to $1.5 million more in savings after it was presented with a draft budget Thursday. In a recorded vote that passed 55-34, council directed staff to attempt to lower the net levy increase to $1 million, down from the $2.45 million increase that staff had proposed. […]

A man who drove a vehicle off the escarpment in Owen Sound in May received a 90-day conditional sentence, probation and a driving prohibition. A 46-year-old Owen Sound man pleaded guilty to dangerous driving and driving while impaired on May 6 in Owen Sound. He participated by audio link to the Owen Sound courtroom, where […]

The Mildmay Moose junior broomball team will represent Ontario at the 2023 Juvenile Nationals, the national under-20 broomball championship. The Moose qualified as the Ontario 2 team this past year in Trenton. The 2023 Juvenile Nationals will be held from March 29 to April 1 in Saskatoon at Merlis Belsher Place. The Moose have been […]

A Toronto man in a consensual fight at Blue Mountain Resort, who was punched first then delivered blows that fractured the other man’s face, pleaded guilty Thursday to assault causing bodily harm. Daniel Ferre Coppin, 37, of Toronto pleaded guilty to the charge for the fight on Dec. 21, 2021 at Blue Mountains. Ontario Court […]

Generally about half of all Crime Stoppers of Grey Bruce tips eligible for rewards are accepted by the tipsters, said Peter Reid, the chair of the board, in a year-end review of statistics. In 2022, out of 588 tips, there were 20 tips eligible for rewards. When asked, tipsters for 13 of the tips indicated […]

Ethan Burroughs and Cedrick Guindon recorded three points each as the Owen Sound Attack rolled over the lowly Niagara IceDogs in St. Catharines Wednesday night. After having their lunch eaten in a 5-1 defeat to the league-leading Ottawa 67’s Sunday afternoon the Scenic City Skaters returned the favour to the ‘Dogs 5-1 in front of […]

Winterfest is returning to Sauble Beach. The annual celebration of winter in the community along the Lake Huron shore is back on Jan. 20 and 21 after being cancelled the past two years because of the COVID-19 pandemic. “We are looking to get everybody out and about, especially with isolation in the winter here,” Sauble […]

Eight teams punched their ticket to Port Elgin this past weekend. Qualifiers for both the Port Elgin Chrysler ’23 Ontario Tankard and Scotties curling tournaments held in Welland and Midland this past weekend decided the final eight teams for the provincial tournament. In Midland, Team Chelsea Brandwood of the Listowel Curling Club, Team Susan Froud […]

A Grey Highlands family doctor responsible for in-patient care at the Markdale hospital says staff are struggling under their workload, Markdale’s population is set to double and the $68-million new hospital under construction will have too few beds. Dr. Erica Ferguson, a hospitalist at Markdale’s Centre-Grey General Hospital, is calling for a moratorium on Grey […]

Grey Bruce Health Services is undertaking a “grand planning” process that could recommend replacing the Owen Sound hospital, said Gary Sims, the president and CEO of the six-site corporation. “In Southampton, it might be a whole new addition. In Lion’s Head, a brand new hospital. Owen Sound, might be a brand new hospital. And I’m […]

The death of a person whose body was found along the Bruce Trail near Owen Sound is not suspiscious, the OPP said Wednesday. Grey Bruce OPP provided an update about the case that led them to ask the public to avoid an area around Concession 11 south of Superior Street in the Municipality of Meaford. […]

Bayshore Broadcasting is improving its radio coverage on the Bruce Peninsula. The local radio broadcaster officially turned on the switch Tuesday to begin testing the FM radio signals for 91.9FM the Bruce (CFPS-FM-1) and 104.3 FM, the Tobermory Information Station (CIBP-FM). “Spotty radio reception on the peninsula for local radio and a demand for local […]

Chatsworth and Georgian Bluffs have issued a request for proposals as it searches for ownership or partnership opportunities for the biodigester they own. On Tuesday, the townships announced in a news release that the RFP would be available for interested parties to make submissions until March 24 at 1 p.m. The two councils directed staff […]

Bruce County egg farmer Gerald Poechman is harnessing the past in order to feed the masses today. During Ecological Day at Grey Bruce Farmers’ Week on Monday, Poechman made a presentation on small-scale poultry farming where he talked about how he is using some of the same practices farmers utilized decades ago in his own […]

Farmers who asked questions at a weather seminar on the final day of Grey Bruce Farmers’ Week were hungry for news they could use. Andrew Pritchard, a senior meteorologist with global farm fertilizer, seed and crop protection product company Nutrien Ag Solutions, did his best to answer. But the weather forecaster was candid about the […]

You don’t have to be a hockey savant to deduce what the Owen Sound Attack hope to improve on the ice based on the pair of deadline deals the team made early this week. Size and toughness. “We need to play harder. We need to be harder to play against, without question. A little bit […]

Hanover police arrested two people at gunpoint on Sunday evening after they were seen acting suspiciously behind a commercial building. An officer on patrol observed the individuals, who refused to comply with police commands, Hanover Police Chief Chris Knoll said in a Twitter post. Both suspects were eventually taken into custody, Knoll said in a […]

More than 24 hours after they received the call, police remained on scene along the Bruce Trail just southeast of Owen Sound Tuesday morning. People were still being asked to avoid the area as police investigated, but few details of what that investigation entailed were being released. An OPP spokesperson said Tuesday morning he expected […]

Police charged a 30-year-old Brantford resident with stunt driving in Huron-Kinloss Sunday after noticing a speeding vehicle. South Bruce OPP said the vehicle was clocked at 144 kilometres per hour in an 80 km/h zone, along Bruce Road 86 at 3:24 p.m. That would be 64 kilometres per hour over the limit. The driver’s licence […]

The Owen Sound Attack and Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds swapped 2004-born wingers Julian Fantino and Landen Hookey a day before the Ontario Hockey League’s noon Tuesday trade deadline. The deal also included the swapping of 15th-round picks in the 2026 OHL Priority Selection draft. Owen Sound Attack general manager Dale DeGray said the pick swap […]

The Grey-Bruce real estate market came into 2022 like a lion, but went out like a lamb. After record home sales and prices were reported in a hot start to 2022, they finished off on a “subdued note,” according to the Realtors Association of Bruce Grey Owen Sound. In the final month of 2022, a […]

Work is proceeding this week on drainage improvements in Kemble to try to alleviate flooding that has occurred there in the past. Georgian Bluffs is planning to do roadside ditching work along Kemble Rock Road south of Concession 20 this week. Georgian Bluffs Ssuperintendent of infrastructure and building services Tim Lewis said on Monday that […]

Police are continuing to investigate a crash involving an OPP cruiser that occurred south of the village of Chatsworth on Jan. 2. Both drivers of the vehicles involved suffered minor injuries in the crash, which occurred on Highway 10 just south of Grey Rd. 40 just after 3:15 p.m. The highway was closed for a […]

Organizers of the annual holiday-season light show in Owen Sound pulled the plug on Sunday night but planning for 2023 is already underway. The last night of the annual Festival of Northern Lights in Owen Sound Sunday marked the close of the 35th iteration of the display throughout downtown Owen Sound and Harrison Park. Owen […]

When Ben Cormier took the ice at TD Place Sunday afternoon for the first time as an Ontario Hockey League player there were around 80 family and friends in the stands to support him. The first-round pick of the Attack grew up in Orleans, about a ten-minute drive from the nation’s capital. When he was […]

Owen Sound police are looking for more information and potential witnesses after at least 10 eastside homes had cable and Internet lines intentionally cut early Sunday morning. Homeowners on 3rd Avenue East and 2nd Avenue Easty woke without cable and internet, only to realize the lines attached to their homes had been cut. The Owen […]

The Owen Sound Attack tied their own league record this season for fewest shots in a game with 14 against the Ottawa 67’s in a 5-1 loss Sunday afternoon at TD Place. The 67’s controlled much of the game and scored two goals in each of the final two frames to improve on their league-leading […]

New Canadians with an appetite for lamb are fuelling a rise in demand with no sign of slowing down as Ontario sheep farmers now try to open up new avenues for expanding herds and diversifying their base of producers. “In many ways, the future of our sector has not arrived in Canada yet. We are […]

When people talk about innovation it’s typically in reference to things like self-driving electric cars, robots that can deliver food and drones that can deliver packages. But innovation isn’t and never has been limited to Silicon Valley and futuristic sci-fi-inspired prototypes. Innovation is often born of necessity, and in Bruce County innovation has gone part […]

The Owen Sound Attack will hope to bottle up their winning performance Friday night against the Kingston Frontenacs and remember how it tastes later in the season. The Attack topped Kingston 5-2 in a complete start-to-finish victory. With the win, Owen Sound improves to 18-13-3-1 while the Frontenacs fall to 17-16-1-1. The Bears burst onto […]

Owen Sound Attack general manager Dale DeGray doesn’t like to talk in absolutes this time of year. The Ontario Hockey League trade deadline is noon Tuesday. Overage players must be moved by noon on Monday, Jan. 9. The Owen Sound Attack have made three moves this season affecting their current roster. They acquired Teddy Sawyer, […]

An 83-year-old Hanover man took the $20 winnings from one in-store lottery game to buy another lottery ticket with a bigger potential jackpot and hauled in almost $160,000, an OLG news release announced Friday. “I used the winnings from PLINKO to purchase another ticket and added TOP UP,” Herbert Girodat told the OLG Prize Centre […]

The region that includes Grey-Bruce lost 6,000 full-time jobs for the second straight month in December and is no longer the provincial leader in employment rate, according to new monthly figures from Statistics Canada. The Stratford-Bruce Peninsula Economic Region’s unemployment rate increased by 0.8 percentage points to 3.5 per cent, the second lowest in Ontario. […]

The Dairy Farmers of Ontario plans to look into its policy to deal with emergencies or times of crisis like the blizzard over Christmas that forced producers to dump thousands of litres of milk. The issue was top of mind for dairy farmers during Dairy Day at Grey Bruce Farmers’ Week on Thursday, where DFO […]

Kiah Jasper of Mar did it! With a couple of intrepid birders on his trail, he kept adding bird sightings and finished 2022 with 359 birds on his list, which set a new Ontario Big Year record. The 20-year-old Bruce Peninsula birder added a dozen birds to his Oct. 10 total, when he first broke […]

The Owen Sound Attack blasted out of the gate Thursday night in Peterborough but couldn’t beat the blistering hot Petes who picked up their seventh-straight victory, 5-3, inside the Peterborough Memorial Centre. The Attack fired the first nine shots on goal in the game and dominated the first half of the first period. Petes’ backup […]

At the turn of the century the Houston Aeros of the now defunct International Hockey League became a coaching factory. Between 1999 and 2001, the Aeros lineup featured Lane Lambert (head coach of the New York Islanders), Brian Wiseman (assistant coach of the San Jose Sharks), Marty Wilford (assistant coach of the Buffalo Sabres), Trent […]

With the high cost of feed and other inputs weighing on dairy farmers, it is inevitable that consumers will also see the prices for products like milk, cheese and butter also rise on the grocery store, a U.S. specialist said during Dairy Day at Grey Bruce Farmers’ Week on Thursday. Mike Hutjens, an extension dairy […]

Two new firefighters have joined Owen Sound’s fire department. Bethany Pilkington, the city’s first female firefighter, and Kevin Aleinik, return the team to its full complement of 26 firefighters, maintaining the historical staffing levels of the department, the city said in a news release. Pilkington served most recently with the Orangeville Fire Service. Prior to […]

OAKVILLE IS OUT FOR MSL SEASON For a second-straight season, the Major Series Lacrosse league’s Oakville Rock have requested a one-year hiatus. The MSL made the announcement on its website Thursday while saying that as a result the Rock will forfeit participation in the 2023 MSL Draft set for later this month. The Rock are […]

Eat Local Grey Bruce board chair Jason Hayes said the local food co-op is “situation critical,” but he remains hopeful. Twenty-one days remain in a $115,000 Indigogo online fundraising campaign. So far, $21,000 has been pledged. If the goal isn’t reached, the money will be returned to the donors. An Eat Local news release Dec. […]