Owen Sound Sun Times

A new opportunity for young people in Grey-Bruce looking to make an impact in their communities is launching in Owen Sound later this month. The first monthly meeting for the new Grey Bruce Youth Council is set to take place Wednesday, Nov. 30, from 6 to 7:30 p.m. The initiative is a partnership between Big […]

A Tobermory doctor, described as “a true champion for the needs of rural physicians,” has received an award from the Ontario College of Family Physicians. Dr. Elaine Blau was recognized for her leadership and excellence in patient care with the Regional Family Physician of the Year award for the Erie St. Clair and Southwest Ontario […]

The best small-school teams in Ontario will step onto the hardwood in Walkerton and Kincardine Thursday and compete for the OFSAA single-A senior girls’ basketball championship. Sixteen squads have qualified for the three-day tournament with host Walkerton District Community School and games set for both WDCS and Kincardine District Senior School. More than 250 participants […]

The Bruce Grey Poverty Task Force has joined a growing list of local organizations that are speaking out against the province’s plan to build 1.5 million homes in the next decade through legislative changes intended to help streamline development. Bill 23, sometimes referred to as the “More Homes Built Faster” act, is the Doug Ford […]

Meaford’s new mayor and council met officially for the first time Monday at Meaford Hall to recite the declaration of office and share a few words of thanks and inspiration. Justice Herman Wilton-Siegel presided over the formalities while clerk Matt Smith emceed the event to officially welcome Mayor Ross Kentner, Deputy-mayor Shirley Keaveney and councillors […]

The aptly named Alex Champ and his rink from Kitchener-Waterloo took home the top prize at this past weekend’s 40th Port Elgin Super Spiel with a 6-0 win over Newfoundland’s Greg Smith at the Port Elgin Curling Club. Champ bested John Willsey (Oakville), 6-2, in the semi-final to earn a berth into the long-running super […]

The strikingly handsome Harmony Centre auditorium was the scene Monday night to what, may be the briefest and most cheerful meeting Owen Sound’s new city council will experience over the next four years. Music performed by local musicians and several rounds of applause preceded the close of the hour-and-a-half meeting, which came before a reception […]

The Sacred Heart Crusaders senior boys’ volleyball team will compete for a provincial high school championship this week. The Crusaders went unbeaten on their home floor Saturday en route to winning the Central Western Ontario Secondary School Association (CWOSSA) double-A title. Sacred Heart defeated St. David’s in straight sets in the seven-team tournament’s best-of-five final […]

At least two people were taken to hospital after being exposed to the cold over the weekend, Owen Sound police said. The sudden and heavy snowfall had city officers busy helping people in cars, at home and on foot. “Police would like to thank the concerned community members, for without their timely calls to police, […]

Saugeen Shores heritage advocates are warning that Ontario’s Bill 23 threatens more than 100 heritage buildings in the town by weakening their already modest protections. The Southampton Cultural Heritage Conservancy has filed objections to heritage provisions in Bill 23, the More Homes Faster Act, saying it could cause Saugeen Shores to lose heritage protection for […]

Snowy and windy weather played havoc with the Festival of Northern Lights opening Saturday night in Owen Sound, but it didn’t stop the switch from being thrown. Though the Christmas parade attracted huge crowds downtown at 5 p.m., it was clear to organizers that windy conditions and falling temperatures were dissuading folks from waiting around […]

The North Bay Battalion didn’t look like a team playing their third game in as many nights. The Troops marched into a snow-covered Scenic City Saturday night and jumped all over the Owen Sound Attack en route to snapping the Bears’ four-game winning streak with a 6-3 victory inside the Harry Lumley Bayshore Community Centre. […]

The Sacred Heart Crusaders’ remarkable run on the hardcourt came to a close in Cambridge Saturday. The Crusaders lost to Our Lady of Lourdes in the CWOSSA double-A junior girls’ basketball semi-finals, 47-14. Hope Manglal-Lan led Sacred Heart scorers with six points. Our Lady of Lourdes went on to beat Holy Trinity, 47-44, to claim […]

A little snowstorm didn’t stop thousands of people from crowding into downtown Owen Sound Saturday night, all waiting to see Santa in his sleigh at the finale of the 77th annual Kiwanis Owen Sound Santa Claus Parade. Snow swirled around kids who sat atop snow banks about a metre high along 2nd Avenue East. They […]

Taos Jordan grew up just a little north of Oshawa in Brooklin, so maybe he knows a bit better than others how the boards play inside the Tribute Communities Centre. He must, because he played the angles and predicted the bounce perfectly on a designed play off a neutral zone draw leading to the game-winning […]

Snow wreaked havoc on local Central Western Ontario Secondary School Association (CWOSSA) championships set for Walkerton Friday, but two local schools are headed to basketball semi-finals in Cambridge Saturday. Here’s the CWOSSA catch-up. FOOTBALL The Jacob Hespeler Hawks rolled to a 33-0 shutout victory over the St. Mary’s Mustangs Thursday in Cambridge in a CWOSSA […]

Lynn Silverton is the 2022 YMCA Peace Medal recipient. The former Grey Highlands councillor founded the Grey Highlands Peace Committee and helped found Grey County Cares, two of many accomplishments noted at a presentation ceremony at the Y Thursday. “When I got the phone call last week, I was totally stunned,” Silverton said in an […]

A local doctor whose survival skills and determination were recently featured on the History Channel’s Alone reality television series will give a talk at the Tom Thomson Art Gallery on Dec. 3. Limited $25 tickets for Teimojin Tan: Surviving the Wilderness are available for purchase at the art gallery or by telephone. The cost of […]

Owen Sound will mark a new council term Monday by holding a ceremony complete with a procession of dignitaries and performances by local musicians as municipal leaders gather for their first official council meeting. According to a city media release, the ceremony for the declaration of office and inaugural council meeting is set for Harmony […]

The Grey Bruce Health Unit is spearheading a collective response to concerns about home takeovers, where unwanted guests take over someone’s home. There are no statistics showing the scale of the problem, initially raised by Grey County public housing staff a year ago, who were seeing it happen in county housing, public health nurse Lisa […]

School boards in Grey-Bruce will close schools to students and move to online learning if Canadian Union of Public Employees members strike Monday. Bargaining is to resume Saturday between the Ontario government and CUPE, after the union said talks broke down and gave five days notice of a potential provincewide strike Monday. In Grey-Bruce, the […]

Sauble Beach’s shifting sands came up for discussion as one of the first major orders of business for South Bruce Peninsula’s new mayor and council Tuesday morning. A staff report submitted to council opened with “sometimes with projects like the proposed Sauble Beach retaining wall, its hard to retain the focus of what the project […]

The Owen Sound Aquatic Club hosted the McDonald’s Team Challenge Short Course Swim Meet at the Julie McArthur Regional Recreation Centre in Owen Sound this past weekend. Six clubs and over 300 athletes travelled to Owen Sound for the three-day swim meet. For OSAC head coach Ken Fitzpatrick, the meet was about getting the local […]

South Bruce Peninsula is looking to hire a new part-time short-term rental accommodation (STRA) licensing and compliance officer after a successful first year running the program, according to a staff report presented to council on Tuesday. Staff said the town’s current licensing and compliance officer has decided not to renew their contract for 2023, and […]

A Neyaashiinigmiing woman won $250,000 in an Instant 25x Multiplier­ lottery, OLG said in a news release. “I was sitting in the Tim Horton’s drive-thru line playing my ticket when I realized I won big,” said prize-winner Lauren Watson, while at the OLG Prize Centre in Toronto to pick up her winnings. She said she […]

Some snow in the forecast and events in downtown Owen Sound Saturday might start to kindle some Christmas spirit. There’s the nighttime Kiwanis Owen Sound Santa Claus Parade starting at 5 p.m., which leads into the annual Festival of Northern Lights kick-off just before 7 p.m., when lights and displays along the Sydenham River and […]

The regional living wage, the pay rate needed to make ends meet without frills, has climbed by 12.6 per cent over 2021 and stands at $20.70 per hour, according to the Ontario Living Wage Network advocacy group. “It’s not something to aspire to, it’s a place to start,” said Francesca Dobbyn, executive director of the […]

Bruce Power found things of interest in the Nov. 3 federal economic statement, including an investment tax credit of up to 30 per cent for clean energy technologies, including small modular reactors. The local nuclear operator recently signed a memorandum of understanding with Hydrogen Optimized, Greenfield Global and Hensall Co-op to collaborate on a feasibility […]

Hydrogen Optimized president Andrew Stuart wonders if Canadian policymakers are thinking big enough to really leverage green-energy potential for economic growth. Are they aiming to develop a homegrown hydrogen-production industry or will people who utilize new federal tax credits use them buy foreign-made technology? And does the government appreciate the potential for exporting that technology? […]

No living entity has been able to stop the St. Mary’s Mustangs football team for the better part of the decade so someone at the school thought they’d tempt fate and karma. Mustangs head coach Matt Bushey said he’s not a superstitious guy, but when he saw someone at the school had painted a football […]

Police released blurry photos of a suspect who might have backed into a light standard in Meaford and fled on Nov. 3. Grey Bruce OPP said an unknown driver on Boucher Street East backed into a light standard, which fell onto overhead power lines, then left. Police would like to speak with the driver in […]

A 22-year-old man from Bruce County died after a two-vehicle crash on Grey Road 4 in West Grey Saturday. The call came in about 8:06 p.m. and police found the collision between Allan Park Road and Grey Road 13. The driver and passenger of one motor vehicle and the passenger of the second vehicle were […]

Grey Bruce Health Services is seeing more sick kids in its emergency rooms than normal due to respiratory viruses, as is happening across the province. Kids’ visits to GBHS emergency rooms are up by 20 or 30 per cent, said Gary Sims, the president and CEO of GBHS. He blamed COVID-19, an early rise in […]

Police charged a South Bruce Peninsula man after police say an attempt was made to disarm a police officer during a scuffle Sunday. Grey Bruce OPP responded to a report of an assault on John Street in Wiarton. One man was arrested but he began to resist and caused minor injuries to an officer, who […]

The Big Bruce Volleyball Club is back and looking for players. Club president Barry Mutrie said in a media release the club is inviting boys in the Grey-Bruce area born in 2005 or later to three open practices on Dec. 6, Dec. 13 and Dec. 20 at the Chesley District Community School from 7 to […]

Eighteen teams will vie for a share of the $14,000 purse this week at the 40th Super Spiel in Port Elgin. Teams are also aiming to earn points towards a possible spot at the Port Elgin ’23 Ontario Tankard and Ontario Scotties presented by Bruce Power in January. The popular curling event runs from Nov. […]

A rink from Owen Sound’s Blue Water Curling Club began play at the Canadian Masters Curling Championships at the Pembina Curling Club in Winnipeg Monday. The men are representing Ontario at the national competition for curlers 60 years of age and over. The Blue Water team is made up of skip Al Hutchinson, Kevin Daniel, […]

Servac Petrovsky’s hat trick and a three-point effort from captain Colby Barlow helped the Owen Sound Attack skate to a 6-3 win over the Erie Otters Sunday afternoon in front of just over 2,500 fans at the Bayshore. The Bears have now won three-straight games and propelled themselves to the top of the Midwest Division […]

It took longer than expected, but the new state-of-the-art rectory at St. Mary’s Catholic Church in Owen Sound is finally ready. On Sunday, Bishop Douglas Crosby, Oblate of Mary Immaculate, ninth bishop of the Diocese of Hamilton, was in Owen Sound where he officially blessed the new rectory. Neil Devlin, chair of the parish’s building […]

The finishing touches are being added for an annual event that has been a constant during the holiday season in Owen Sound for three-and-a-half decades now. Local volunteers are just about ready to flick the switch on the 35th season of Owen Sound’s Festival of Northern Lights, which will line the banks of the Sydenham […]

A familiar sight during the holiday season has returned to the Harry Lumley Bayshore Community Centre. The Bells of Christmas tree was once again placed in the lobby on Saturday morning, where volunteers placed approximately 150 crocheted bells, each with suggested gift items for lonely seniors at area care homes. Even as volunteers were placing […]

Down two with 20 minutes to play. No leads in the first 40 minutes. A sixteen-year-old goaltender between the pipes facing his first bout with adversity after allowing five goals. Owen Sound was determined to win this hockey game. And they did. The Scenic City skaters scored five unanswered goals in the third period to […]

The sound of respectful clapping from the sidewalk greeted cadets, legion and armed services members who paraded up 2nd Avenue East, past city hall and across the bridge to the cenotaph Friday. When the accompanying pipes and drum went silent and the people in the parade found their places by the monument, all stood silently. […]

The emergency department at the Chesley hospital is to reopen during weekdays in early December. At a special meeting on Wednesday the South Bruce Grey Health Centre board approved resumption of the service five days a week from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. beginning on Dec. 5. The emergency department is to remain closed overnight […]

Grey County has added its voice to the chorus of municipalities against some of the proposed changes contained in the province’s Bill 23, known as the More Homes Built Faster Act. Among concerns raised by county staff at a council meeting on Thursday are that the changes will be more administrative or financially burdensome to […]

November 11, 2022

Owen Sound’s Brianna Cavan won the women’s 2022 Hamilton Marathon Road2Hope in a personal best time of 2:53:13, nearly 11 months after giving birth. Cavan crossed the finish line in 13th overall and was the first female athlete to complete the 42.2-kilometre waterfront course last Sunday. Five-time Canadian champion distance runner Rachel Hannah, who recently […]

Saugeen District Royals head coach Joey Wentworth said his punter could kick the ball a “country mile”. Well, on Thursday afternoon in Port Elgin, Tyler Kobe only needed to punt the ball through the end zone from the opponent’s four-yard line to send the Royals to the Bluewater Athletic Association senior football championship. He boomed […]

Documentary filmmaker Graeme Bachiu’s six-part series about a nearly forgotten Black community’s cemetery has won the Ontario Historical Society’s President’s Award. Bachiu, who grew up in Owen Sound and made a documentary in 2007 about the demise of the Queen’s Hotel in the city, turned his attention to the story of Black freedom seekers near […]

A recent surge in COVID-19 cases in Grey-Bruce appears to have subsided. Grey-Bruce Medical Officer of Health Dr. Ian Arra reported to Grey County council on Thursday that the surge that occurred around late October had been “mitigated through the efforts of the partners around Grey-Bruce and the team at the health unit.” Arra said […]