Owen Sound Sun Times

A Big Brothers Big Sisters of Grey Bruce fundraiser aims to crown the best Home for the Holidays-themed edible house or cookie bakers in Grey-Bruce. The deadline to enter in under 16, over 16, and professional baker categories was just extended to Dec. 11 at 11 p.m. By then you must have paid the $25 […]

The Grey Bruce Health Unit announced Thursday a local COVID-19 case may soon be the first confirmed Omicron infection in the region. The health unit said in a news release it is managing a case under investigation for Omicron and is “conducting an enhanced management of the case and high-risk contacts, while we await the […]

Blue Mountain Resort will invite skiers and riders back to the slopes Friday at 9 a.m. The ski resort announced in a media release Thursday it is set to “take back winter” with a return to the slopes “snow-lovers have been waiting for” after the provincial shutdowns of last season. The slopes will officially open […]

Owen Sound-based Hydrogen Optimized announced its patent-pending alkaline water electrolyser technology can operate at variable power levels, making it a candidate to help stabilize electrical grids by receiving surplus power. And by adapting quickly to power fluctuations characteristic of wind and solar power, it has also demonstrated its technology can maximize the use of available […]

Home sales remain hot and supply remains tight in Grey-Bruce as sales tied the record for the month of November, while listings were the lowest they have been in more than 30 years. A total of 258 units were sold through the MLS System of the Realtors Association of Grey Bruce Owen Sound last month, […]

Georgian Bluffs will move to permanently close the Kemble Mountain Trail to off-road vehicles, while planning to create a working group to explore other possible routes in the municipality. At it committee of the whole meeting on Wednesday, council directed staff to prepare an amendment to the township’s off-road vehicle bylaw to close the trail […]

The Owen Sound Attack dropped the first game of a long roadie, 4-1, in Windsor Wednesday night. It’s the clubs first long road trip of the season. They’ll play two more games in Flint Friday and Saturday night before heading home to take on the Kitchener Rangers on Dec. 15 at the Bayshore. The Attack […]

Both the Bluewater District School Board and Bruce-Grey Catholic District School Board plan to return to a four-course per day schedule for their high school students. The timing of the change will coincide with the beginning of the second semester of the 2021-22 school year on Feb. 4, 2022. At the Bluewater board’s initial meeting […]

The Grey Bruce Health Unit reported three new COVID-19 cases Wednesday. Meaford, Saugeen Shores and South Bruce each added a new COVID-19 case to the regional totals. There are now 47 confirmed active COVID-19 cases in the two counties as well as 206 associated high-risk contacts. Holland Chatsworth Central School, where one cohort and one […]

A developer’s plan to build a $6.5-million four-storey luxury hotel with 21 rooms and ground-floor restaurant on Sauble Beach’s Lakeshore Boulevard cleared a significant hurdle Tuesday. South Bruce Peninsula council voted to direct staff to include on an upcoming agenda a bylaw to approve a zoning change that will allow Maison Canada Design & Build […]

There’s hope the Sydenham Condominium will have all 34 of its residential units completed and occupied by the end of 2022, a news release from the condo board says. “After years of construction delays, Sydenham Condominium Corporation is now seeing a completion date in sight,” the condo board announced Tuesday night. “If all goes according […]

South Bruce Peninsula has opted to let sleeping dogs lie when it comes to its Sauble Beach bylaw. After gathering public input via the town’s online “open mic,” council approved a staff recommendation Tuesday to not alter a section of the bylaw that prohibits dogs on the beach from June 1 to Labour Day. “The […]

Police have named the person who died in a crash at Copper Kettle in Georgian Bluffs last week. Brandon Joseph, 27, of Georgian Bluffs was pronounced dead at hospital following the crash that happened at about 8:30 a.m. on Nov. 30. Joseph was the driver of a passenger vehicle that was involved in a crash […]

A biotechnology firm, headed by Owen Sound native John Lewis, has received the go-ahead to begin Phase 2 clinical trials of its made-in-Canada, single-dose COVID-19 DNA vaccine candidate. Edmonton-based Entos Pharmaceuticals is planning to begin the trial of Covigenix VAX-001 in the new year, involving 11 sites in South Africa and up to 500 participants. […]

Georgian College is looking for rental housing in the Owen Sound area as the need for places for students to live is expected to rise in both the short-term and further into the future. Dave Shorey, executive director of Georgian College’s Owen Sound campus, said Tuesday that the college is looking to make people aware […]

Ontario’s science advisory table projects the number of ICU patients could rise to between 250 and 400 in January, not counting the effects of Omicron, the latest pandemic variant of concern. As of Monday there were 340 people in hospital with COVID-19, 165 in an intensive care unit. COVID-19 hospitalizations and ICU admissions are stable […]

Selwyn Hicks is returning as Grey County warden for his third term in four years, with a call for the county to have a renewed focus on mental health and addictions. The Hanover deputy-mayor was elected warden for 2022 at the county’s inaugural meeting on Tuesday after defeating his lone challenger, West Grey Mayor Christine […]

Owen Sound will be in the running for two provincial economic development awards in February, including one for its marketing and recruitment campaign that featured a pyjama giveaway. The city’s Work from Home Capital of Canada initiative has been named a finalist for an Economic Developers Council of Ontario (EDCO) Award of Excellence in the […]

People who marked the deaths of 14 women slain in the Montreal Massacre 32 years ago, and stood against violence against all women, were asked whether there’d have been a vigil at all if the victims had been Indigenous or trans women. Karen Houle made the observation from the steps of Owen Sound city hall […]

A total of 34 staff at Grey Bruce Health Services are no longer working with the organization after they chose not to be vaccinated. The corporation, which operates hospitals in Owen Sound, Lion’s Head, Southampton, Wiarton, Markdale and Meaford, said Monday that the 34 staff impacted worked across their sites in various clinical and administrative […]

The region’s unemployment rate dropped below three per cent in November, something that has happened only three other times in the past two decades. The Four County Labour Market Planning Board says last month’s 2.8 per cent jobless rate for the Stratford-Bruce Peninsula economic region, which includes Grey-Bruce, was the lowest local rate since December […]

The Beckett Family’s performance during Sunday’s virtual CFOS-Sun Times Christmas Fund Broadcast came just days after two of its members — Tyler and Linsey — were up for the same national music award. The two fiddling siblings, who grew up near Kemble, were nominated separately for a third straight year for Fiddle Player of the […]

Thomas Chafe earned a raucous round of applause from 2,300 spectators Sunday afternoon at the Bayshore for beating out an icing call. It’s not the typical hockey play one would expect an outpouring of support for, but the 16-year-old’s hustle negated an icing call that would have taken the puck back into the Attack zone […]

A 35-year-old man is facing several charges, including assault with a weapon, after police say he wielded a 16-inch metal pipe and threatened another man near the Owen Sound Farmer’s Market. Multiple residents called police after seeing someone threatening a man with a pipe while shouting threats and obscenities as they ran through the market […]

Amadeus Lombardi is making a name for himself in the Ontario Hockey League. The Flint Firebirds 13th-round pick in 2020 courtesy of the Toronto Titans triple-A program scored his sixth and seventh goals of the season to lead his squad to a 7-4 win over the Owen Sound Attack Saturday at the Bayshore. The unheralded […]

Seven local residents have been arrested and face a combined 69 criminal charges following an investigation that police say revealed a “local drug organization” that had hundreds of area customers. Police seized a loaded 9mm handgun, 9mm automatic rifle, 12-gauge short-barrelled pistol grip shotgun, .38 calibre revolver, a large amount of ammunition, three prohibited weapons, […]

Owen Sound is looking to approve a proposal that will ensure all of its permanent employees will earn at least a “provincial average living wage.” Human resources manager Melissa Clancy said in a report to council, included in the agenda package for operating budget discussions Dec. 1, that two city employee groups — seasonal parks […]

The Grey Bruce Health Unit reported four new cases of COVID-19 Sunday and 12 new local cases Saturday. There are now 53 known active cases of the virus in Grey-Bruce and 255 active high-risk contacts, according to public health’s daily situation report for Sunday. Single new cases were reported Sunday in Owen Sound, Grey Highlands, […]

Owen Sound and Kitchener turned back the clock Friday night in a throwback penalty-filled and brawl-brimming 60 minutes. Kitchener’s Carson Rekhoph scored the game-winner in the third period with a magnificent individual effort, but it was the type of game where the sideshow quickly became the main event. A dust-up had been percolating between these […]

With the National Lacrosse League season opening this weekend a trio of former North Stars are set to suit up in the league’s 35th campaign. Lion Head’s Rob Hellyer is back as a member of the Toronto Rock. Hellyer has been a fixture with the club since being drafted 30th-overall in 2010. He finished third […]

The Grey Bruce Health Unit is investigating a COVID-19 outbreak related to a field party near Holstein as it reports eight new cases of the virus in the two counties on Friday. The health unit is investigating three cases linked to the party, which drew approximately 100 people, on Nov. 27, it said in a […]

South Bruce Peninsula Mayor Janice Jackson was returned as warden of Bruce County for a second one-year term after a vote of county councillors Thursday. “It is an honour to have my council colleagues once again instil me with the responsibilities of warden for the upcoming year,” Jackson said in a news release about her […]

City council has approved a policy for renaming Owen Sound parks and facilities, a move stemming from the controversy surrounding the moniker of Ryerson Park — whose namesake is considered a primary architect of Canada’s residential school system. The document lays out the process required to name or rename a park or facility, which can […]

Meaford plans to expand its paid parking program to two more areas in the town. Meaford council passed a motion Monday approving the permanent continuation of a paid parking program at Memorial Park and directing staff to expand the program to include David Johnson Park and the Meaford Harbour. Coun. Harley Greenfield said he doesn’t […]

A Toronto-based company proposing to build a “state-of-the-art” and completely land-based salmon farm near Colpoy’s Bay will hold two public information sessions in Wiarton this month. The Georgian Bay Salmon company, an offshoot of the Georgian Bay Innovation Group, has scheduled the sessions for Dec. 9 and Dec. 14 at the Wiarton Propeller Club from […]

The Grey Bruce Health Unit reported nine new cases of COVID-19 on Thursday. The new cases included three in Chatsworth, two in The Blue Mountains, and one each in Hanover, Kincardine, Meaford and Southgate. There are now 48 active cases in Grey-Bruce and 246 active high-risk contacts, according to the health unit’s daily situation report, […]

Owen Sound’s average household income is among the lowest in Ontario, while the city’s homeowners are spending a higher percentage of their paycheques on property taxes than ratepayers in nearly every other community in the province. That’s according to the latest BMA Management Consulting municipal study, received by the city Nov. 16 and presented to […]

Northern Bruce Peninsula municipal councillor James Mielhausen breached provincial conflict-of-interest rules and the municipal code of conduct by advancing a zoning amendment for a large, private parking lot project proposed by his daughter’s employer. That was the finding of the municipality’s integrity commissioner, Harold Elston, who recommended a reprimand in his Nov. 9 report. Mielhausen […]

Georgian Bluffs council has asked staff for a report and draft bylaw aimed at protecting trees in the municipality. At its meeting on Wednesday, council passed a motion calling for the report after it was brought forward by the township’s climate action committee. Committee chair Coun. Cathy Moore Coburn said there have been instances in […]

Owen Sound’s transit costs are expected to jump by nearly 50 per cent — or about $500,000 — in 2022 due to higher fuel, contract and winter maintenance costs and declining ridership. Corporate services director Kate Allan said the increase — by far the largest in the city’s draft operating budget for next year — […]

An increased volume of groundwater has been penetrating the basement of the city-owned former Canadian National Railway station, causing mould contamination on the lower level and on stored items and elevated spore counts on both levels of the waterfront building. City council was informed of those issues during a budget session Wednesday before approving a […]

A wet and mild fall has presented some challenges for clubs preparing local snowmobile trails, but that hasn’t stopped them from working on many across Grey-Bruce. Karen Buratynski, manager of Ontario Federation of Snowmobile Clubs District 9, said Wednesday that the local clubs have been out and about for about six weeks doing preparatory work […]

Owen Sound and Owen Sound Minor Soccer are splitting the cost of a $20,000 study to explore the feasibility of an artificial turf field and dome in the city. Each is investing $10,000 for the study by national consulting firm RC Strategies, a group specializing in recreation, parks, trails and cultural planning. Owen Sound Minor […]

Marcie Riegling is available to help small businesses on the peninsula with digital marketing and e-commerce projects for free until February. Riegling, who operates a social media and marketing company, is part of Digital Main Street’s Digital Service Squad. The program is funded through provincial and federal grants, including investment from the Ontario Ministry of […]

The documentary filmmaker who gave us Queen’s Hotel Blues, about the demise of a downtown Owen Sound landmark, has taken a long look at a little known former rural Black community near his home on the Niagara Peninsula. Graeme Bachiu’s latest effort is the six-part series, Canfield Roots, about the tiny community of Canfield’s importance […]

One person died and another suffered life-threatening injuries after a collision in Georgian Bluffs on Tuesday morning. At about 8:30 a.m., Grey Bruce OPP responded to the two vehicle crash on Grey Road 17 in the area of Copper Kettle. Police attended along with members of the Inter Township Fire Department and Grey County EMS […]

The CFOS Sun Times Christmas Fund Broadcast is back for its 82nd year, and organizers are hoping for another big year as local charities continue to feel the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. The broadcast had a record year in 2020 with about $48,000 raised for 22 local charities and organizations, and the hope is […]

Owen Sound plans to spend $10,000 next year to landscape a new natural burials section at Greenwood Cemetery. City council approved Monday a community services committee recommendation to include a stone garden as the central feature of the section. It also directed staff to develop a detailed plan for construction. A conceptual plan, designed by […]

The Grey Bruce Health Unit was awaiting results after hundreds of people were tested in relation to an outbreak at Holland Chatsworth Central School. Grey-Bruce Medical Officer of Health Ian Arra said Tuesday morning that the situation remained very much under control with just two cases related to the actual outbreak at the school. A […]