Owen Sound Sun Times

Like a phoenix, the Firebirds rose from the ashes in Game 4 to erase a two-goal Attack lead and tie the Western Conference quarterfinal at two games apiece with the clubs headed back to Michigan. Flint scored three unanswered goals and two in the third period to win 3-2 in front of 2,122 fans at […]

Walkerton’s emergency department will resume 24-hour coverage May 9 and there’s a plan to expand Chesley’s emergency department to 24-hour service starting June 15. In addition, on May 9 the remaining four acute-care beds will be reopened in Chesley hospital, bringing the total to back eight, and it will return to having 10 alternative-care beds […]

The organization that has been naturalizing the grounds of the Owen Sound hospital is embarking on a next phase of a project that will allow the public to enjoy the fruits of their labour. NeighbourWoods North has issued a request for quotes to find a contractor to build the first phase of the Healing Path […]

The province’s Special Investigations Unit has found no reasonable grounds to believe that a Saugeen Shores Police Service officer committed a criminal offence in connection with a Christmas Day crash in Port Elgin that left a 45-year-old woman seriously injured. The woman was a passenger in a vehicle that had been briefly pursued by the […]

Major lacrosse in Ontario is facing a reckoning and Owen Sound is at its epicentre. A unanimous vote by the Major Series Lacrosse governors to approve the move of the storied Brampton Excelsiors franchise to Owen Sound in October 2020 sent shockwaves through the tight-knit lacrosse world and has fractured longstanding friendships. In the time […]

An Owen Sound councillor has raised the prospect of municipal councillors who exhibit behavior including hatred, misogyny and discrimination to be impeached or removed from office. City Coun. John Tamming presented a notice of motion during Monday’s committee of the whole meeting where he called for council to ask the provincial Ministry of Municipal Affairs […]

Ontario’s Ministry of Health has provided additional funding support and final approval for South Bruce Grey Health Centre (SBGHC) to proceed with the construction of a 2,000-square-foot addition to the Kincardine hospital to house a new computed tomography (CT) scanner. Huron-Bruce MPP Lisa Thompson made a presentation at the Kincardine Hospital Monday where the announcement […]

Work to replace a nearly 87-year-old bridge in Paisley begins Monday. The Teeswater River Bridge replacement project on Bruce Road 3 in Paisley will begin Monday with the construction of a temporary bridge over the Teeswater River to connect Goldie Street with Church Street and serve as a connecting detour for motorists and pedestrians. The […]

Owen Sound council has awarded a tender for a third phase of work on East Bayshore Road to upgrade services to accommodate development in the area. On Monday, city council awarded its portion of the job to MacDonnell Excavating Ltd. for just under $3.9 million. The joint project with Grey County is the continuation of […]

Baseball has Mr. October and the Owen Sound Attack may have found Mr. April. Julian Fantino netted the game-winner Monday as the Owen Sound Attack defeated the Flint Firebirds 2-1 in the team’s first playoff game on home ice in nearly three years. Fantino’s third-period goal was his third of the postseason, already matching his […]

It’s been nearly three years since the Owen Sound North Stars senior B club hit the floor for game action, and when they finally put rubber to concrete it was in a new location. The N’Stars travelled to Creemore Saturday to take on the upstart Clearview Crushers in exhibition action ahead of the 2022 summer […]

Ontario’s appeal court dismissed South Bruce Peninsula’s appeal of convictions on two counts of damaging piping plover habitat at Sauble Beach — the third time a court has found against the town in this case. The municipality was convicted of damaging the beach habitat of the endangered migratory shorebird on April 13, 2017 and between […]

It was the dedicated who turned out on cold, grey and wet Saturday morning to pick up garbage along the Sydenham River and out by the old boat launch on the east side of the harbour. Members of the annual Sydenham Sportsmen Association pitched in during the annual Earth Day Clean-up. But due to the […]

Hundreds came out to a lively celebration of Earth Day Saturday afternoon in downtown Owen Sound. It offered a mix of entertainment, information and a chance for the community to gather, which COVID-19 restrictions haven’t permitted much in the last two years. Kids drew coloured chalk drawings and joined tug-of-war challenges and people packed the […]

The fans in Flint celebrated their team’s first home-ice playoff win in the flesh Saturday night as the Firebirds’ firepower was on full display. Flint topped Owen Sound 6-3 inside the Dort Financial Center. The best-of-seven Western Conference quarterfinal series now shifts to Owen Sound tied 1-1 as the clubs split the opening salvo. “We […]

Grey-Bruce Catholic schools are bursting with students, so the province has agreed to replace St. Mary’s in Owen Sound with a new Grade 9-12 high school, rather than build an addition onto it. An extra $16.3 million for the school was announced Friday by Bruce-Grey-Owen Sound MPP Bill Walker, on top of almost $20 million […]

Buckle up and breathe deeply because this Attack and Firebirds series is off to an explosive start. Nick Porco said two weeks before the start of the playoffs he just knew Owen Sound would win their first-round series. Before the team even knew who they would face in the opening round. His confidence was rewarded […]

The Mildmay Jr. Moose under-20 broomball team earned provincial gold and national bronze medals following a successful season by the small-town club. The junior provincial games were held at Carleton Place in March and the Moose made a statement by bringing home the gold for the second consecutive season. The Jr. Moose went undefeated en […]

A local initiative has the community fighting back against invasive plant species threatening the biodiverse and unique ecosystem of the Saugeen Bruce Peninsula. On Friday, The Nature Conservancy of Canada and other community members marked Earth Day by gathering together on the peninsula to launch the third year of an initiative to monitor and control […]

Changes to traffic light timing are underway on 10th Street to improve traffic flow and reduce travel time. A traffic consultant’s calculations are being used to change the signal timing on 10th Street, from 4th Avenue East to 3rd Avenue West. Motorists may experience delays while the changes are made over the next several days, […]

If you’ve tried to hire a carpenter, you’ll know they’re busy. That’s not great if you want a deck built this spring and the earliest it can be done is next year, as OSDSS construction teacher Owen Ferguson said is common. But it’s probably good news for his students, some of whom competed in the […]

West Grey police would like the public’s help identifying suspects and a car police say accelerated at officers on the Easter long weekend. West Grey Police Service responded to a break and enter in progress at a property located on South Line, just west of Priceville, on Sunday, April 17. “Upon arrival, a four-door red vehicle […]

Scone’s one-room schoolhouse will soon be demolished, one of three old Chatsworth Township buildings facing that fate. “It’s probably the last original one-room schoolhouse that still has not been touched,” said Adam Watson, whose Owen Sound company, Roy-Mar Demolition, won the contract to take it down. He said he’s doing the work reluctantly. “I mean, […]

A $100,000 grant to Owen Sound Little Theatre from the Ontario Trillium Foundation is welcome after two years with next to no income due to pandemic health restrictions, the theatre company’s executive director said. There were bills to pay while the theatre sat mostly dark, Marcia Cunningham said after a ceremonial cheque presentation on the […]

Mission accomplished for Igor Chibrikov. “The only reason I came to Canada is to play hockey and I felt like this was the path I wanted to try and I’ve been here (in the OHL) for five years now,” the Attack’s overage defender said after a recent practice. Chibrikov, along with fellow veterans Mark Woolley […]

Ninety-four per cent of those recently polled are confident the nuclear power plant operated by Bruce Power in Tiverton operates safely. Global market research company Ipsos was commissioned by Bruce Power to help understand and track attitudes and opinions from residents in Bruce, Grey, and Huron counties about a number of topics and issues. According […]

At Tuesday’s South Bruce Peninsula council meeting, a proposed $6.5-million four-storey luxury hotel with 21 rooms and a ground-floor cafe on Sauble Beach’s Lakeshore Boulevard inched closer to shovels in the ground. Council carried a motion directing the necessary bylaw authorizing the mayor and clerk to enter into a site plan control agreement with Lakeshore […]

Bruce Power is studying the feasibility of making hydrogen with excess energy from its nuclear reactors, which is specifically mentioned in Ontario’s new low-carbon hydrogen strategy announced April 7. Among the eight immediate strategic actions listed in the provincial vision for a “low-carbon hydrogen economy” is Bruce Power’s hydrogen feasibility study and the company’s support […]

It’s playoff time, but the Owen Sound Attack are hoping not much will change. That’s the plan. When the Attack ride into Flint Friday for Game 1 of their first-round best-of-seven series it will mark the start of the team’s fourth playoff round – unofficially. Mired in an eight-game losing streak in February the Attack […]

The province is investing over $3.6 million locally to help recruit, train and develop employees for both the manufacturing and healthcare sectors. Bruce-Grey-Owen Sound MPP Bill Walker made the funding announcement Tuesday. The Owen Sound headquartered Excellence in Manufacturing Consortium of Canada (EMC) is receiving $2,851,171 to help manufacturing companies throughout the province recruit, hire […]

No charges were laid after a car jumped a parking barrier and hit a downtown Owen Sound building Tuesday afternoon. Owen Sound Police Services investigated the crash, which was reported just after 1:30 p.m., and learned a Priceville woman was attempting to park when the car struck the brick wall and window of a business […]

A Pokémon Go augmented reality event taking place Saturday could attract hundreds of players to Harrison Park, while fundraising to support United Way programs, executive director Francesca Dobbyn said Tuesday. Pokémon Go is an augmented reality mobile game based on the popular Japanese anime series. It allows “trainers” to “catch” wild Pokémon, hatch eggs, battle […]

This winter was “hellish” on city roads. The repeated freeze-thaw cycle and penetration of water within the asphalt layer through road defects and beneath it has taken its toll, city engineering services manager Chris Webb said. It’s been about 10 years since the last bad winter with so many freezing and thawing events like the […]

Burgoyne’s Josh Cassidy finished seventh in the wheelchair division at the Boston Marathon Monday. The 126th Boston Marathon returned to its annual Patriots’ Day date for the first time in three years amid pandemic cancellations and postponements. Cassidy finished in a time of 1:35:02 behind race winner Daniel Romanchuk’s 1:26:58. It’s the 10th-anniversary of Cassidy’s […]

Three more candidates have stepped forward in the Bruce-Grey-Owen Sound riding as the 2022 Ontario general election draws nearer. Paralegal Suzanne Coles will represent the Ontario Party in the riding while Great Lakes freighter engineer Dan Little runs for the Ontario Libertarian Party and Vince Grimaldi enters the race for the New Blue Party of […]

A Wiarton hospital nurse is flying to Poland tonight as part of a Canadian volunteer-led medical-aid mission into the northwestern corner of Ukraine. She’s among a handful of local health-care workers who are volunteering to help care for people displaced by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, now more than seven weeks old. Christine Moffat of Oliphant […]

The Canadian and Ontario governments have announced millions in funding for a number of water infrastructure projects in Grey-Bruce. Close to a dozen projects in the region are among 144 provincewide that are to receive more than $190 million in federal funding and about $140.5 million in provincial funding, to go along with another $108.5 […]

Summer can wait because these Scenic City skaters have something special brewing. They’re not the favourites to win the west. They may not even be a trendy sleeper pick. But there’s an ember here waiting for a strong wind and a tinderbox. On Saturday, nearly 3,000 at the Bayshore saw how quickly this young Owen […]

Grey County has endorsed a climate change plan that would see it “lead by example” locally on climate change with a target of achieving net zero carbon emissions at a corporate level by 2045. During its committee of the whole meeting on Thursday, county council accepted its climate change action plan, which has been in […]

Local police services are receiving more than $2 million in provincial funding through the Community Safety and Policing Grant Program. The funds are earmarked for initiatives that help combat crime such as sexual violence and harassment, human trafficking, mental health and addictions, gang and gun violence and hate-motivated crime. Many of the projects are to […]

Port Elgin is getting its chance to do the Ontario Tankard all over again, and more, with the addition of the Ontario Scotties Tournament of Hearts in 2023. The Port Elgin Curling Club and CurlOn announced that the Southern Ontario women’s and men’s championship events would be held in the town on Jan. 23 to […]

Owen Sound’s eastside elementary schools were victorious over their westside counterparts in a friendly crosstown food-drive challenge this year. Students at Alexandra, St. Dominique-Savio and East Ridge collected more food and other items, based on a point system, than their rivals at Hillcrest, Keppel-Sarawak and St. Basil’s. This was the second year of the challenge. […]

The city’s transit terminal reopened Thursday after it was closed parts of Tuesday and Wednesday due to unavailability of staff. The facility has one full-time staff, with a part-time staff member and casual member to call upon there in the event they’re needed, Rick Chappell, the city’s environmental supervisor, said Thursday.

Owen Sound has won awards of excellence for two initiatives from the Economic Developers Council of Ontario. The River District Action Plan strategy by the city and the River District Board of Management won the award in the Planning and Strategic Development (Rural) category, while the city’s Work from Home Capital of Canada initiative won […]

It’s spring cleaning time in Owen Sound and the city invites anyone to report areas that need some attention. City crews have a plan and Thursday a crew worked along the 6th Street East hill, where a sidewalk sweeper and road sweeper were used in tandem to sweep up wintertime grit. Other crews picked up […]

When Owen Sound police conducted a traffic enforcement blitz recently they were shocked at the number of people who weren’t doing something as simple as buckling their seatbelt. The city force conducted a “Belts and Cells” initiative from April 4 to 7 in which they focused on people who weren’t wearing seatbelts, or were using […]

A documentary set to premiere on TVO on Friday evening will give viewers a different view of the top of the Bruce Peninsula. Mitch Azaria of Good Earth Productions, who is executive producer the show called Tripping the Bruce, said Thursday that those who watch the episode get an uninterrupted run of the top of […]

April 14, 2022