Owen Sound Sun Times

Nineteen firefighters, 10 laps of the arena grandstand, 193 stairs per lap, and carrying roughly 65 pounds of gear. Firefighters from Grey and Bruce counties held a 9/11 Memorial Stair Climb inside the Harry Lumley Bayshore Community Centre Sunday morning. The 1,930 total steps are meant to represent the 110 storeys of the World Trade […]

It’s Nick’s net. For the first time in his Ontario Hockey League career, overage netminder Nick Chenard enters the season as a team’s No. 1 goaltender. From being one of the last players to make the team as a 17-year-old rookie, to breaking his finger on the first day of training camp after the league […]

With no grandstand, no big tractor pull, no demolition derby and no midway as part of their event, Owen Sound Fall Fair organizers said they felt like they were going back to their roots for the first fully-fledged fair since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. “It’s nice to feel like we can come back […]

Southampton swerved into the future Saturday. At the Nuclear Innovation Institute’s first SWERVE science and technology festival, robot dogs engaged in dance battles, a holographic mammoth greeted visitors and kids lined up to step into another reality. The ice pad at the Southampton Coliseum transformed into a collection of immersive exhibitions for the free public […]

When Owen Sound residents Kimberley Love and Glen Drummond visited the grounds of Balmoral Castle in Scotland last weekend it was a joyous time after they attended the highland games in nearby Braemer. On Thursday, word would come of the Royal family making their way to that very place to be with Queen Elizabeth II […]

Chesley hospital’s emergency department will be closed nightly for an indefinite period and it won’t be open at all this weekend, due to a “critical shortage of nurses,” South Bruce Grey Health Centre announced. That means Chesley hospital’s emergency department will close tonight at 5 and reopen Monday at 7 a.m. It will be daytime […]

The Owen Sound Attack announced the signing of 2021 ninth-round pick Tomislav Brennan to a standard player agreement Friday. “I can’t even express the joy I’m feeling right now,” Brennan said in a team release. “To be able to join such an amazing organization with a great team, it feels surreal.” Brennan played last season […]

It’s as if it happened yesterday. The Owen Sound Attack’s 2021-22 season came to an end May 4 in Flint. The score was 4-2 for the Firebirds. Owen Sound Attack Head Coach Greg Walters, entering his second season at the helm, didn’t let the long summer offseason dull his memory of the finer details of […]

Grey County council endorsed an official plan amendment that flags West Grey lands abutting Hanover for possible future development for the growing town, one of two designated primary settlement areas in the county. Based on growth projections calculated after a comprehensive review, Hanover will need to expand. Discussions with its West Grey neighbour have been […]

On Sept. 17, Owen Sound’s Adam Jones will be inducted into the Canisius College Sports Hall of Fame. Jones, like most Canadian lacrosse players, grew up playing the sport indoors. And like most Canadians at the time who learned the game on concrete floors with hockey boards surrounding the playing surface, Jones said he never […]

The popular Canadian television series The Amazing Race Canada is about to make a splash in the Grey-Bruce area. The 10th episode of the show’s eighth season that airs next Tuesday at 9 p.m. on CTV will see race teams make stops on the Bruce Peninsula, including in Tobermory, Wiarton and Meaford. While the show’s […]

Grey County is looking at a 3.23 per cent tax levy increase to meet its capital spending needs in 2023, preliminary 10-year capital budgets presented to council Thursday show. That’s an additional $2.048 million in taxes, details of which council received in a large information package and department-by-department presentations. Council received the report and agreed […]

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The Bluewater District School Board is still awaiting a decision from the province on a proposal to build a larger school in Markdale, with a pricetag more than double what the board was originally approved for. The board has asked the province for an increase in funding to build the school due to rising construction […]

It was a busy summer of construction at the Bluewater District School Board, with projects to upgrade, update and renovate a number of schools. More than $11 million was invested in the schools to ensure they are in good condition and continue to provide safe and supportive environments for students and staff, superintendent of business […]

The number of school bus routes being operated across Grey-Bruce has been reduced this school year in an attempt to address bus driver shortages and minimize route cancellations. The Student Transportation Service Consortium of Grey Bruce, which co-ordinates student busing for the Bluewater and Bruce-Grey Catholic District school boards, has reduced the total number of […]

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Police have seized hundreds of thousands of dollars in illegal drugs and recovered a large amount of stolen property after a search warrant was executed in Chesley. On Sept. 1, the South Bruce OPP and OPP Community Street Crimes Unit executed the warrant at a residence on 2nd Avenue Southwest in Chesley, it said in […]

A Dundalk man has won just over $96,000 playing Lotto 6/49. Kenneth (Gary) Horsman won a prize of $96,047.60 in the April 13 Lotto 6/49 draw, along with $2 on his Encore selection. Horsman, who said he has been playing the lottery weekly for the past three years, said it was his first big win. […]

A Huron-Kinloss resident is in hospital with injuries considered life threatening and a man is facing charges following a serious assault in Ripley on the weekend, according to police. Just before midnight on Sunday, South Bruce OPP received a report of the assault at a residence on Jesse Street and officers attended along with members […]

High-speed Internet access is coming to Neyaashiinigmiing, through a project that provides subsidies to enable companies to bring it to rural southwestern Ontario, where returns on investment would otherwise be too low. High-speed fibre-optic cable is being installed to 297 homes, farms and business at the Chippewas of Nawash Unceded First Nation, northeast of Wiarton […]

The gold-medal-winning Team Ontario softball squad featured several local players at the Canada Summer Games in the Niagara region. Team Ontario defeated Team Nova Scotia in the gold medal game, 6-3, on August 21. Owen Torrie of Williamsford pitched his second complete game of the day in the win. Earlier in the day, Nova Scotia […]

South Bruce Peninsula will continue to contract the Ontario Provincial Police for its municipal policing services for at least one more year. At its meeting Tuesday evening council approved extending its current contract with the OPP for one year under the same terms and conditions. The contract between the town and OPP was set to […]

Sauble Beach should have its own ambulance bay by early 2023 if all goes according to plan. At its regularly scheduled meeting of council Tuesday evening, South Bruce Peninsula councillors approved a bid by Allen-Hastings Ltd. for the amount of $807,418, not including HST, to complete the project. Once constructed, it’s expected Bruce County EMS […]

Friends of the Victoria Park grandstand in Owen Sound are being called on to support a fundraiser to fix the old, deteriorating structure. Owen Sound Agricultural Society has announced a plan to recognize donors who “buy” eight-foot sections of grandstand bench for $250, by putting each donor’s name on a plaque at the grandstand. Donors […]

Ontario Hockey League locker rooms and coaches’ offices are thick at this time of year with discussions about how to temper, manage or exceed expectations as teams prepare ahead of the 2022-23 season. Longtime Owen Sound Attack General Manager Dale DeGray prefers his players to ignore expectations altogether. Or, replace expectation with effort. “If we’re […]

At Durham Furniture, federal funding for digital technology will halve the time it takes a machine to cut wood pieces for assembly into furniture, CEO and president Luke Simpson said Tuesday. Durham Furniture in Durham, and West Bros. Furniture in Hanover, are among 10 wood manufacturing companies participating in a collaboration demonstration project, which will […]

Julian Fantino picked up where he left off last season, scoring a pair of goals Monday in Barrie to help the Owen Sound Attack record their first victory of the warm-up season. The Attack topped the Colts 5-4 in their preseason opener at the Sadlon Arena. Ethan Burroughs scored the only goal of the shootout […]

Grey Bruce OPP has identified a farmer who died Aug. 25 in a farm tractor and wagon incident. Brian Betts, 58, of Grey Highlands, was taken to a local hospital where he was pronounced dead, a police news release said Tuesday. Police were called about 10:30 a.m. that day to an address on the 4th […]

Four years ago, John Earnest took the early lead at the Owen Sound Salmon Spectacular, but his catch got squeezed out by a fish just a few ounces heavier. This year he would again take the lead early in the event, but 2022 proved to be different as he held off all challengers to take […]

A large quantity of tools have been reported stolen from a vehicle on Owen Sound’s west side. Owen Sound police are investigating after it is believed a number of vehicles were entered sometime around 1 a.m. Friday. Police responded to the 500 block of 13th Street A West on Friday morning after a resident reported […]

A Hanover man has been charged after a pick-up truck fled police and rolled over early Friday morning. At about 1:40 a.m., Hanover police were patrolling in the 400 block of 12th Avenue when they spotted an older model Ford pick-up driving in a suspicious manner, it said in a news release. Police followed the […]

A Park Head man is facing charges in relation to an incident in Saugeen Shores last week that left two police vehicles heavily damaged and a police officer with minor injuries. The 31-year-old man was arrested in Windsor on several criminal charges as a result of the incident in Saugeen Shores and other related incidents, […]

Jesse Walker has put cancer in the rearview mirror. On Saturday, he had a goal of doing the same to the hills that tower over Big Bay at the start of his third fundraising run for childhood cancer research. The 18-year-old from Balmy Beach said Saturday after the run that he could have just as […]

A celebration of the world’s automotive masterpieces, rare and often very expensive cars, will grace the Cobble Beach Concours d’Elegance on Sunday, Sept. 18. There will be 114 cars coming from across North America, all displayed along the 18th fairway that day, the third and final day of the eighth annual event just north of Owen […]

Marie Walpole, the woman who was the driving force behind the creation of Owen Sound’s Festival of Northern Lights three-and-a-half decades ago, has died. Ms. Walpole died peacefully on Sunday at the age of 95 in a nursing home in Hamilton where she lived for the past decade. Her grandson Jamie Walpole, who is now […]

The storm that hit the north end of Sauble Beach on Wednesday has been confirmed as a tornado. The Northern Tornadoes Project confirmed the tornado on Friday, two days after it caused damage to homes and docks and toppled trees in the area of the Sauble River. No injuries were reported. The tornado started as […]

A group in southern Grey-Bruce that formed to build a hospice in Walkerton has received a nearly $570,000 boost. The money was transferred by Grey-Bruce Hospice Inc., because it was collected to eventually build a satellite hospice in southern Grey-Bruce. When the Owen Sound-based organization turned to focus on its Owen Sound hospice, Chapman House, […]

The head of Grey Bruce Health Services warns that his emergency rooms are on the verge of closing amid a chronic shortage of beds and barely enough staff. Some surgeries have been cancelled in recent days too, because there haven’t been any beds in which to put those patients after surgery, said Gary Sims, the […]

Back-to-school can be an exciting time, but also an anxious time, and local organizations and agencies gathered together on Friday to help prepare children, youth and their families for next week’s big return to the classroom. The Canadian Mental Health Association Grey Bruce Mental Health and Addiction Services teamed up with about a dozen organizations […]

Linda Russell was alone in her home at the north end of Sauble Beach Wednesday afternoon when the wind picked up and what sounded like hail began battering her house. Though she had no warning, the 75-year-old knew exactly what she had to do and she headed for the basement just in the nick of […]

A housing forum in Owen Sound Thursday heard about efforts by local governments, non-profits and others to tackle problems with affordability. Alex Ruff, the Conservative federal member of Parliament for Bruce-Grey-Owen Sound who called the meeting, held in-person at Sydenham Campus and online, noted federal housing programs the Liberal government announced this week. The announcements […]

Jesse Walker is hitting the road again to raise funds for childhood cancer research. The 18-year-old Balmy Beach resident and cancer survivor will run a half-marathon on Saturday, marking the third year in a row he has held his fundraising run. As of Wednesday he had surpassed his $10,000 goal for 2022, and has now […]

Bell expects the ongoing installation of fibre-optic cable for high-speed Internet access in Owen Sound will be completed by 2023. The company said in a news release its service will provide downloads of up to three gigabytes per second and include access to Fibe TV to more than 10,000 additional homes and businesses. It started […]

Police have identified a man who died more than a month after a collision involving two vehicles and livestock along Bruce Road 3 in the former Elderslie Township on June 15. Sheldon McKee, 37, of Saugeen Shores was pronounced dead on Aug. 22. South Bruce OPP were called at 10:54 p.m. to the collision. He […]

Russel James Ford said he has never overdosed. But the 23-year-old Owen Sound man, who said he’s been homeless off and on for two years, said he has saved lots people by administering Naloxone. He has been living in a tent in Harrison Park for the past two months. His three young children live in […]

There were 10 COVID-19 outbreaks underway in Grey-Bruce Wednesday, mainly in local nursing and retirement homes, which can be combatted with more vaccination, the Grey Bruce Health Unit said. “Vaccine offers strong personal protection from hospitalization, complications, ICU admission and death,” said Dr. Rim Zayed, who is in line to become an assistant medical officer […]

The 34th Owen Sound Salmon Spectacular has passed the midway point and organizers couldn’t be happier with how the event has gone so far. “The first day on Friday was a record day for us with 380 fish, the line went outside the tent and the events have seen lots of people every night,” derby […]