Owen Sound Sun Times

A convoy of tractors, big rigs and passenger vehicles rolled through central Bruce County on Saturday, where participants called for the end of the government’s COVID-19 mandates. Like in other communities across Canada on Saturday, the local event was held to show support for those calling for the end of the mandates. Alana Lewis of […]

Saturday’s playoff matches are shaping up at the Port Elgin ’22 Ontario Tankard. Team Epping and Team Howard will face-off for the second time at the tankard in a playoff match at the Plex scheduled to begin at 2:30 p.m., Saturday. Team Epping beat Team Howard in the A-side final Friday only to have Team […]

The rapid growth experienced in recent years has posed challenges for The Blue Mountains, but the municipality’s mayor said Friday that they are managing it well. Alar Soever said the municipality is in pretty good shape to deal with the growth with the planning and infrastructure already in place to accommodate development there. “We are […]

A COVID-19 outbreak at Rockwood Terrace long-term care home in Durham declared just before Christmas is now over. The Grey Bruce Health Unit declared the outbreak over on Friday. It started on Dec. 23. Three local long-term care and retirement homes remain with COVID-19 outbreaks. They are Kelso Pines in Owen Sound, Maple Court in […]

Planning students will help Grey County staff by preparing what staff dub a “density is not a dirty word” residential development guide as a tool for public education and by surveying “green” development standards. Guelph University rural planning and development master’s students will present their findings in April. The savings to the county by enlisting […]

Grey County council endorsed the creation and mandate of a Mental Health and Addictions Task Force Thursday, and expanded county councillor representation to accommodate more members who wanted to join. The increasing problems seen in Grey County to do with mental health and addiction prompted Chatsworth Mayor Scott Mackey to propose the task force last […]

A group in opposition to TC Energy’s proposed hydroelectric pumped storage facility in Meaford is taking their fight to the frigid waters. The Save the Bay Polar Dip is set for Feb. 27 from 1 to 2 p.m., at Fred Raper Park in Meaford. The Save Georgian Bay team has raised nearly $8,000 of their […]

Georgian Bluffs will move ahead with changes to how customers of its municipal water systems are charged later this year. And with the change come renewed calls by council members to approach Owen Sound about the possibility of extending city water to the users of the small Pottawatomi system on the western edge of the […]

A charge of dangerous operation causing death was withdrawn last month against a woman, who was of Collingwood at the time, concerning an incident at a park in the Thunder Bay area in 2020. Denise Harrison, 30, was charged with driving in a manner that was dangerous to the public, which caused the death of […]

Team Howard and Team Epping will meet in the A-bracket final of the Port Elgin Chrysler ’22 Ontario Tankard when Draw 5 begins Friday morning at The Plex. Both teams went undefeated in their matches Thursday and will now play for a chance to head straight to Saturday’s playoff contests. The loser will slide into […]

Christian Kyrou’s third-period goal capped off a second-straight win for the Erie Otters Thursday night as the Pennsylvania squad was able to outlast the shorthanded Scenic City club. With the 5-3 victory, the Otters have swept the two-game set. The Attack played both games in Erie with the league minimum roster size of 15 skaters […]

The stats are in and the population of Grey-Bruce is growing. On Wednesday, Statistics Canada released the first results from its census conducted last spring, including population growth, and it shows that every municipality in the two counties experienced some growth since 2016. In Bruce County, the fastest growing municipality was Saugeen Shores, which saw […]

Grey County homeowners, on average, will pay $29.30 more in county property tax this year. That represents a 2.88 per cent tax rate increase for homes not on the water, with an average 2016 assessed value to $279,580. The tax increase represents $10.48 per $100,000 assessment. County council unanimously approved the budget without comment. Budget […]

The number of Grey-Bruce residents that have died from COVID-19 now totals 40, after the Grey-Bruce Health Unit reported another death on Thursday. Along with 30 deaths in Grey-Bruce, there has been one death of an area resident who acquired the infection and was treated outside the two counties, while nine residents acquired the infection […]

A Torontonian with strong ties to the Georgian Peaks ski club in Thornbury won Canada’s first alpine medal in nearly a decade at the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games. Jack Crawford’s bronze medal in the men’s alpine combine is the first Canadian medal in an Olympic alpine event in eight years. Crawford, 24, ran the […]

Not wanting to risk 14 days of isolation in Erie, the Owen Sound Attack decided to leave their three European players at home while the team crossed the border for a doubleheader against the Otters. Attack General Manager Dale DeGray said the risk was too much to bear following his team’s game Wednesday, a 7-4 […]

Free rapid COVID-19 tests are going to grocery stores and pharmacies in Ontario. Ontario pledged to ship five million free rapid tests a week for eight weeks to more than 2,300 pharmacies and grocery stores across the province. One free box of five tests per household per visit will be permitted while supplies last. Store […]

The Grey-Bruce real estate market has kicked off 2022 much of the same way it closed out 2021, with high prices, strong demand and record-low supply. Last month, a total of 166 residential units were sold in Grey-Bruce through the MLS system, which was a gain of 10.7 per cent from January 2021 and a […]

Former Owen Sound Attack d-man Damir Sharipzyanov is one of 23 Ontario Hockey League alumni suiting up for their respective countries at the 2022 Olympic Winter Games. Sharipzyanov and the Russian Olympic Committee topped Switzerland 1-0 in the team’s tournament-opening game Wednesday. The 25-year-old from Nizhnekamsk, Russia, now plays for Avangard Omsk in the KHL. […]

The director of the latest Owen Sound Little Theatre production believes a heart-warming comedy in the middle of a pandemic winter is just what the doctor ordered. And Val Underwood expects there to be plenty of the prescribed laughs when A Red Plaid Shirt opens at the Roxy Theatre next Thursday. “If you can laugh, […]

A shorthanded Owen Sound Attack squad slept in a little too long for a school day. A slow start to the annual school-day game cost the Bayshore Boys as they fell 7-4 to the Otters inside Erie Insurance Arena Wednesday. Over 20 schools were in attendance with enthusiastic students given plenty to scream about as […]

Twelve of southern Ontario’s top men’s curling rinks have gathered in Bruce County for the chance to represent the region at next month’s national championship. The Port Elgin Chrysler ’22 Ontario Tankard presented by Bruce Power kicks off Wednesday evening at the Plex with an opening ceremony followed by the first draw of the competition. […]

Police say a missing Grey Highlands man may be making his way to Ottawa. Grey Bruce OPP first asked on Jan. 29 for the public’s help to locate Robert Hamilton, a 67-year-old last seen 7:30 a.m. in Markdale the day before. Police renewed that request Tuesday and released more information. “It is believed that Hamilton […]

A Bruce County Public Library bookmobile should be rolling down county roads again this year. Bookmobiles are an old idea some libraries are using to increase access to library materials and services. There used to be a Bruce County library bookmobile into at least the 1950s. The new one will be a modern version, serving […]

Another three local people have reportedly died of COVID-19. The Grey Bruce Health Unit reported the deaths on Tuesday, raising the local death toll from the virus to 39. Grey-Bruce actually didn’t see its first death from the virus until almost a year into the pandemic, on Jan. 30, 2021. With the additional deaths on […]

Local health board chair Sue Paterson said the health unit is preparing to resume normal operations as part of post-pandemic recovery this year. The mayor of Hanover was returned by acclamation as chair for a second term at the Feb. 4 Grey Bruce Health Unit board of health meeting. She looked ahead in an interview […]

South Bruce Peninsula provided its fourth $25,000 annual payment on Feb. 1 toward its $100,000 pledge to the local hospital foundation to support youth mental health, Bruce Peninsula Hospitals Foundation announced. The town pledged the money after the hospital foundation approached council four years ago to help fund a Grey Bruce Health Services effort to […]

Owen Sound has introduced a backflow prevention program intended to protect the city’s drinking water system from possible contamination. On Jan. 10 the city passed a bylaw that requires backflow preventers on water services for industrial, commercial and institutional properties. Matt Prentice, the city’s manager of public works, said Monday that in a year the […]

Two more local people have died due to COVID-19. The Grey Bruce Health Unit reported one death Saturday and another Monday. The local toll stands at 36 since the start of the pandemic about two years ago. At total of 12 local patients are hospitalized due to COVID: Nine in a local hospital and three […]

Summerfolk organizers have started to run the business side of their operations more like a business, the president of the Georgian Bay Folk Society said Monday. Starting next week, six volunteers, each with a list of 10 businesses, will fan out across Grey-Bruce to solicit sponsorships for the 47-year-old Owen Sound festival, which is planning […]

The London Knights scored three unanswered goals in the second period en route to their seventh-straight victory against the Owen Sound Attack this season. The final score was 8-3, but only after the Knights scored three empty-net markers and a last-second Landon Sim tally with the Attack goaltender back in the net out of necessity. […]

Another Grey-Bruce resident has died with COVID-19 according to the Grey Bruce Health Unit. The health unit’s Saturday situation report listed the new death. There are now 35 reported local deaths since the start of the pandemic including nine residents who died outside of the region. Meanwhile, a COVID-19 outbreak at Parkview Manor in Chesley […]

Westway Capital has teamed up with The Planning Partnership as the group of GTA-based investors works to move from visioning to building at the former Talisman Resort near Kimberley. Grey Highlands council unanimously approved a bylaw on Feb. 2 that paves the way for Westway to purchase the municipally owned upper Talisman lands and former […]

Charmaine Jenner (Tauchkwe), a self-taught local artist from Neyaashiinigmiing, will have her painting of a crane installed on the old general store in Oxenden as a community-funded symbol of grassroots reconciliation efforts. A group of neighbours are raising $10,000 to commission and install the piece after it was selected by a jury of local residents […]

Call them the comeback kids. The cardiac crew. The Owen Sound rebound. Call it what you want, the Owen Sound Attack did it again. A come-from-behind win snatching victory from the jaws of defeat against the Guelph Storm for the second time in as many nights, and this time at home in front of in-the-flesh […]

The NHL All-Star game is in Vegas this weekend, but in the junior ranks, it was getting weird and wild in Guelph Friday night. The Owen Sound Attack scored two goals less than a minute apart and with less than two minutes left in the game to come from behind and beat the Guelph Storm 2-1 […]

The Tom Thomson Art Gallery has made a donation of its 2022 fundraising calendars to local long-term care homes to celebrate the success of its recent calendar campaign. Calendars have been donated to 19 long-term care homes across Grey and Bruce counties after over $25,000 was raised through the campaign for exhibitions and programming at […]

Bruce County Warden Janice Jackson said in a statement Friday the county agrees it made mistakes after a court found the county breached terms of a bequest by purchasing a former rectory property in Southampton. She said the county purchased the property “to expand the archival services of the museum. Our goal has always been […]

Owen Sound has introduced QR codes at development sites so that residents and businesses can easily access detailed information about planning applications. With the province requiring municipalities to provide notice of applications, traditionally the city has posted notice in local media and via Canada Post. But the planning department at the city has introduced the […]

With a daunting task to rebuild ahead of them, members of the Hepworth-Shallow Lake branch of the Royal Canadian Legion have started a fundraiser to help them move forward following a fire last month. A GoFundMe started on Wednesday by Branch 586 president Karie Cole had already raised more than $3,500 towards a $50,000 goal. […]

Bruce County breached terms of the Krug trust by improperly using its funds to buy a former Anglican rectory in Southampton, for purposes other than solely for a new county archives building, a judge has found. Superior Court Justice G. D. Lemon’s Jan. 31 decision also said the county failed to provide “proper and transparent […]

Ontario’s Special Investigations Unit has charged a Hanover police constable with sexual assault after investigating an incident said to have happened in 2017. In a media release, Director of the Special Investigations Unit Joseph Martino said there are reasonable grounds to believe the officer committed criminal offences in Hanover. The SIU received the complaint on […]

Two vaccination clinics specifically for children five to 11 will operate this weekend at East Ridge Community School in Owen Sound. The clinics are scheduled to run from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on both Saturday and Sunday. No appointments are necessary. According to statistics posted on the Grey Bruce Health Unit’s website, 56 per […]

Grey Highlands and a GTA-based group of investors have entered the closing period on a $2.5 million deal for the municipally owned portion of the former Talisman resort lands. Meanwhile, a community organization dedicated to the protection and environmental sustainability of the lands at the former resort is taking the municipality to court over the […]

The MP for Bruce-Grey-Owen Sound says the country is divided and protests in the nation’s capital are proof of that. But Alex Ruff added that while it is important to address the protesters and listen to their concerns, reported acts of racism, ignorance and harassment are inexcusable. “The country is divided and it is very […]

Bruce-Grey-Owen Sound Conservative MP Alex Ruff says his party remains united and he hopes to see a new leader in place by summer after Erin O’Toole stepped down as leader on Wednesday. Ruff said from Ottawa on Thursday that there were some challenges the party faced that O’Toole was unfortunately unable to bring resolution to, […]

A dispute over a farm wagon between former friends ended when one drove over the other with a tractor, killing him, a Walkerton court heard Wednesday. Ronald Oscar Seifried, 60, pleaded guilty in the Superior Court of Justice to dangerous driving causing death, and to the criminal offence of failing to remain and offer assistance, […]

Bruce Power and the Nuclear Innovation Institute have signed a memorandum of understanding that could eventually see a fusion power plant constructed in Ontario, perhaps even locally. On Wednesday, the organizations announced the MOU with British Columbia-based General Fusion to evaluate the potential deployment of a fusion power plant in the province, including in the […]