Owen Sound Sun Times

It’s never been easy to find enough volunteers but COVID-19 has made it harder, a local volunteer co-ordinator said Monday. There’s a volunteer fair planned for Oct. 24 at the Harmony Centre in Owen Sound, the first since the pandemic struck in early 2020 and people were told to stay away from each other as […]

South Bruce Peninsula Mayor Janice Jackson says the municipality is working to have a decorative retaining wall replace concrete barriers along a portion of Lakeshore Boulevard in time for next year’s tourist season. Jackson said Monday that the new permit process for the wall is well underway with the hope that it will be installed […]

An office to help people learn about online resources to earn a degree, learn basic skills or pursue a hobby has opened in Wiarton. The new Contact North office at 576 Edward St., in the Salvation Army building, is one of 78 in Ontario. An office in Kincardine has been open for about a dozen […]

Two people from Saugeen Shores were arrested and charged after a firearm was seized while police investigated a crash on Highway 21 last week. Just before 2:30 p.m. on Sept. 27, police responded to the collision on the highway in South Bruce Peninsula. During the investigation, officers located a firearm in one of the vehicles […]

A man has been charged after a pickup truck hit a utility pole and house in Owen Sound Saturday. Owen Sound police were alerted to the crash in the area of the 2500 block of 3rd Avenue West just after 8 a.m., police said in a news release. Police said a 2010 Ford F150 driven […]

The public was being asked to avoid Albert Street in Meaford on Monday morning because of an ongoing investigation. Just before 5 a.m. on Monday, Grey Bruce OPP officers and Grey County Paramedic Services responded to a report of an individual in medical distress on Albert Street. The individual was transported to hospital in critical […]

The popularity of gravel bike riding was evident in Lion’s Head on Sunday as the Bruce Peninsula Lighthouse Gravel Gran Fondo returned for its third time. A total of 400 riders took part in the event, which sold out months ago, that took them along four routes that all started in Lion’s Head and travelled […]

A little more than a month after the Owen Sound Salmon Spectacular, members of the Sydenham Sportsmen’s Association were back at the water busy making sure there are plenty of fish to catch in future years of the derby. About a dozen club members and other volunteers gathered at the mill dam on Friday morning […]

Drama, controversy, heroics, and beer cup pyramids – the Owen Sound Attack’s home opener had it all including a second-straight victory over a big division rival. The Attack held on to a 4-3 win over the Kitchener Rangers Saturday night inside the Harry Lumley Bayshore Community Centre and in front of 2,632 rowdy fans. Win […]

Dave McQuay had to bring his backup to Pumpkinfest 2022 after the biggest pumpkin in his patch “blew up” this summer. But the Delhi, Ont., resident’s second-place specimen still had enough to win it all at Saturday’s Bruce Power International Weigh-Off, tipping the scale at 1,888.5 pounds, more than 80 pounds better than the runner-up […]

For 20 minutes Friday, the Owen Sound Attack exceeded the wildest fever dream expectations of even the most hopeful among their fans. For 20 minutes they were near perfect and rode the wave to a win. The Attack scored three unanswered goals in the second period while holding the London Knights to a single shot […]

Owen Sound voters got a look at the candidates in the Oct. 24 municipal election Thursday night. Sixteen candidates for council introduced themselves and fielded questions in a packed room at the Harry Lumley Bayshore Community Centre during a meeting organized by the Owen Sound & District Chamber of Commerce. Questions were directed at smaller […]

Of the dozens of children from Saugeen First Nation who attended residential schools, only five are alive today. One of those is Shirley John, who on Friday during the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation was busy talking about her own experiences as a way to both educate as many as possible and help others. […]

Owen Sound Attack general manager Dale DeGray looked to bolster the club’s blueline on the eve of the regular season in a pair of moves. First DeGray shipped depth defender Cedricson Okitundu to the Guelph Storm for a fifth-round pick in 2023. The Attack then made a move with the Ottawa 67’s to bring in […]

Two single-term councillors are looking to replace outgoing mayor Barb Clumpus, with residents raising concerns about massive waterfront developments and a landscape-altering energy project. Ross Kentner and Paul Vickers put forth their visions for leading municipal government at a time both called pivotal. The mayoral all-candidates meeting at Bognor Community Hall Thursday night featured opening […]

An all-candidates meeting revealed differences in approach, if not aims, between Owen Sound’s two mayoral candidates. Coun. Richard Thomas, who is challenging Mayor Ian Boddy, questioned Boddy’s leadership during the two-hour meeting at the Harry Lumley-Bayshore Community Centre on Thursday. The city needs “strong leadership, something we have not witnessed a lot of in the […]

Owen Sound police charged a Brampton man with drug offences and seized more than $100,000 worth of fentanyl and methamphetamine Wednesday. City police said in a news release the major drug seizure resulted from a “lengthy and complex investigation involving a drug trafficker selling illicit drugs in Owen Sound and the Grey-Bruce area.” Police seized […]

A man pleaded guilty and was fined $100 Thursday in Owen Sound Provincial Offences court for a traffic infraction that involved the death of at 56-year-old Clarksburg man on a snowmobile 20 months ago in The Blue Mountains. Chris Kornas pleaded guilty through his lawyer to the Highway Traffic Act offence of unlawfully parking his […]

Bruce Power will collaborate with federal, provincial and municipal agencies next week to test its emergency response capabilities. Bruce Power is holding its three-day Exercise Huron Endeavour on-site emergency scenario simulation from Oct. 4 to 6, the fourth such exercise conducted by the nuclear power producer in the past decade. “Bruce Power’s emergency response organization, […]

A Meaford woman has been identified as the person who died in a head-on crash on Highway 26 on Tuesday. Lisa Rowe-Wilson, 33, was pronounced dead at the scene of the crash on Highway 26 just east of Grey Road 112 in the Municipality of Meaford. A three-year-old child and a 33-year-old adult who were […]

The emergency department at the Chesley hospital has again been closed and will remain closed until 7 a.m. on Monday morning. The closure is a result of a critical shortage of nurses, with extended overnight closures of the Chesley ED to continue beyond Monday, the South Bruce Grey Health Centre announced on Wednesday. “All efforts […]

20 teams, 20-dreams: Storm, Firebirds, Colts, Petes lead quest for OHL crown

A Canada-wide warrant has been issued for a man known to frequent Owen Sound as well as a number of other communities. Ontario’s ROPE (Repeat Offender Parole Enforcement) Squad has issued a Canada-wide warrant for 48-year-old Stephen Smart. Smart, who is known to frequent Kingston, Toronto, Brampton, Kitchener, North Bay and Owen Sound, is currently […]

Owen Sound will have formal representation on the Bruce Grey Poverty Task Force. During its committee of the whole meeting on Monday council voted to have a member sit on the task force, which is led by the United Way of Bruce Grey along with help from Grey and Bruce counties. The organization, which works […]

September 24, 2022

An “easy fit,” said Dale DeGrey of the team’s decision to name Colby Barlow the youngest captain in Owen Sound Attack franchise history. Head coach Greg Walters said Barlow simply was the team’s captain. The letter on the jersey and the team meeting following Tuesday’s practice just confirmed how the players and coaches all felt. […]

Scarecrows are stalking Meaford’s streets in preparation for the 25th annual invasion parade Friday. The 2022 Scarecrow Invasion and Family Festival is nearly here with volunteers working hard since the spring to get ready for the town’s top event. More than 300 scarecrows are hanging for the lampposts, posing in store-front windows and lounging around […]

The Georgian Bay Symphony is planning to return to a full lineup of live concerts as it celebrates 50 +1 years of music. On Monday at Owen Sound council symphony secretary Sandy Stevenson unveiled the plans for the upcoming live season after it had been forced mostly online the last couple of years because of […]

A person has died and two others suffered injuries considered life threatening in a crash on Highway 26 just west of Meaford. Grey Bruce OPP responded, along with Grey County EMS and the Meaford Fire Department, to the crash just east of the Grey Road 112 intersection at about 12:20 p.m. on Tuesday. When police […]

Owen Sound council has voted in favour of a zoning bylaw amendment to allow an eight-building apartment complex on lands in the city’s northeast. At its meeting on Monday council passed a motion endorsing staff’s findings that the proposed development on the former RCA lands at 3195 East Bayshore Rd. is consistent with the Provincial […]

Pumpkinfest 2022 returns to downtown Port Elgin this Saturday and Sunday, with a midway sneak-peek for locals Friday night from 5 to about 10 p.m. in Pumpkinfest Village, by the old arena. Pumpkinfest was greatly diminished over the past two years by the threat of COVID-19. This year, with nearly all COVID-19 mandatory public health […]

The province’s Special Investigations Unit is looking into police interaction with a man who died Monday in Owen Sound. An SIU news release Tuesday said it is investigating the circumstances around the death of a 56-year-old man in the city. Owen Sound Police Service officers arrested the man on warrants in the area of 4th […]

Election fever led to some political theatre at Owen Sound city hall on Monday night. It was the final council meeting in the city before the Oct. 24 municipal election, and while the agenda was relatively cool in content, it didn’t stop some members of the public from turning up the heat on the evening. […]

Community gatherings will mark Truth and Reconciliation Day Friday in Grey-Bruce. There will be events in Owen Sound, Southampton and at Neyaashiinigmiing to commemorate the painful history of residential schools and intergenerational impacts they caused. The annual Sept. 30 event is a federally designated day to honour residential school survivors and children who died while […]

The future of the Harrison Park bird sanctuary will be discussed early next year, when the city seeks comment on a master plan for the park. City staff know of community fundraising in the wake of the avian flu contamination of park birds, which led to a federal order to euthanize all the park’s geese, […]

An unoccupied F-150 pickup truck was pulled out of Meaford harbour Sunday afternoon, after police advised the public to avoid the marina. Grey Bruce OPP confirmed later in the day that the truck was unoccupied, it was pulled out just after 6 p.m. and that it was reported stolen from a Meaford residence. Police continue […]

The Grey Bruce Ontario Provincial Police are asking members of the public to avoid the Meaford Marina while they conduct an investigation. According to a police media release, on Sunday at 11:51 a.m., officers from the Grey Bruce OPP responded to a report of a submerged vehicle just off of St. Vincent Street in the […]

Voters in South Bruce Peninsula are headed to the polls on Oct. 24 with several choices to sort through in the mayor, deputy mayor and council races. During Saturday’s all-candidates meeting the hopeful participants discussed a wide range of topics of concern within the municipality. The Town of South Bruce Peninsula is a municipality home […]

After a two-year hiatus during the COVID-19 pandemic, an annual day of fun on the farm in support of Canadian Foodgrains Bank returned to the Parkin’s plot southeast of Owen Sound Saturday. Heather Parkin said Owen Sound Harvest for Hunger scaled down the event this year, but a steady stream of vehicles and smiling faces […]

Owen Sound finished their final game of the preseason with five players on the bench, four on the ice, and another check mark in the win column. Despite spending most of the night on the penalty kill – and despite losing Madden Steen, Deni Goure, Sam Sedley, Ethan Burroughs and Gavin Bryant for various game […]

With OSHaRE feeding around 300 people a day, many of them twice a day, the organization needs to raise around $300,000 this year to cover expenses. Dozens of Owen Sound Hunger and Relief Effort supporters took to their feet Friday afternoon on one of two five-kilometre fundraising walks which started behind city hall. Last year’s […]

Jordan Hill and Nolan Seed are the old guards now as the 2022-23 Owen Sound Attack attempt to get past the first round of the playoffs for the first time since the 2017-18 season.

Twelve people in Grey-Bruce collectively were charged with 67 criminal and drug offences after a four-month regional drug investigation. They’re among 26 people facing 111 charges resulting from what police called Project Carlina. It involved nine search warrants executed on Wednesday. The investigation started in May after an increase in overdoses in Grey, Bruce, Huron […]

Georgian College’s new $7.1 million state-of-the-art nursing wing officially opened in Owen Sound Thursday in preparation for the college’s new honours of bachelor of science – nursing degree, which launched this fall at the college. The massive renovation transformed over 10,000 square feet of space at the campus. The new nursing and wellness wing provides […]

Grey County is contributing close to $10,000 as well as staff resources towards a drive to implement a Regional Electric Vehicle Charging Network. On Thursday, county council voted to commit the funds from this year’s climate action implementation budget, contingent on matching grant contributions by other partners in the initiative. Linda Swanston, the county’s manager […]

Grey Bruce OPP’s new commander laid out some of his policing priorities in an interview Friday. Insp. Paul Richardson said one overriding priority is to foster partnership and collaboration with the communities. He quoted the former British prime minister, Robert Peel, a legal reformer and crime-prevention advocate, who is said to be the founder of […]

Grey County has deferred the vote on a bylaw to amend its official plan until its next meeting on Oct. 13, after more concerns were raised about the designation of West Grey lands abutting Hanover as well as changes to on-farm diversified use policies. The move to defer what is known as Official Plan Amendment […]

Emergency rooms in Chesley and Kincardine closed temporarily due to a critical shortage of nurses according to a media release from the South Bruce Grey Health Centre. The Chesley ED closed at 5 p.m. Thursday evening and will remain closed until 7 a.m. Tuesday, Sept. 27. Extended overnight closures at the Chesley ED will continue […]

At 81, Hugh Greenwood can’t find a family doctor, like thousands of others in the Owen Sound area. “I’m concerned that now I’m 81 years old, I do have medications and I don’t have a family doctor,” he said in an interview this week. “And I’m being told not to show up at emerg. And […]

Someone in Bruce County has tested positive for the flu, a sign the annual respiratory bug has come early this year, the Grey Bruce Health Unit announced Thursday. Influenza A was lab-confirmed Sept. 20. In years immediately before COVID-19 in Grey-Bruce, it was confirmed by a lab on Nov. 18, 2018 and on Nov. 20, […]