Owen Sound Sun Times

Owen Sound’s Arts and Cultural Awards took the stage at the Georgian Bay Centre for the Arts Sunday afternoon. Award nominees along with their families and friends gathered to celebrate excellence in the arts, culture and heritage in the greater Owen Sound area. The city holds the celebration every two years. “These awards are a […]

One man was taken to hospital with minor injuries after a two-vehicle crash on Highway 6 and 10 in the village of Chatsworth on Monday afternoon. Just after 2:30 p.m., the Grey Bruce OPP, Chatsworth Fire Department and Grey County EMS responded to the crash, which occurred in the area of the OPP detachment in […]

The official nomination period for the 2022 municipal elections on Oct. 24 opened on Monday, and it didn’t take long for a candidate to file papers to run for mayor in Owen Sound. Two-term councillor Richard Thomas is the first candidate to file papers for a seat on Owen Sound council, this time deciding to […]

Kincardine has banned the watering of lawns and gardens or washing of buildings, driveways and vehicles for those on its main water system as repairs continue on its treatment plant reservoir. On Monday, the municipality announced it was immediately moving into Stage 3 water supply prohibitions under its outdoor water use bylaw for the water […]

Jr. B North Stars split weekend games The Owen Sound North Stars junior B club returned to the floor in their first weekend of Ontario Junior B Lacrosse League regular-season action in nearly three years. Dominic Millman netted a hat-trick and Brayden Krueger added a pair in an 18-8 loss to the Elora Mohawks Saturday. […]

Owen Sound’s longstanding hyper-local independent bookstore and publisher The Ginger Press celebrated Independent Bookstore Day with a serial signing Saturday. Ten local authors of books published during the pandemic were in the downtown store to meet their readers and sign copies of the works for the first time. “We really had our legs pulled out […]

Home Depot recently helped police return over $5,000 worth of products after an investigation found they were purchased with a stolen credit card, police said. Owen Sound Police said they charged a 46-year-old Owen Sound woman with fraud over $5,000, unauthorized use of a credit card and possession of property obtained by crime after a […]

Co-ordinators are being sought for a handful of sites of the Grey-Bruce Good Food Box program that provides area residents with fresh fruit and vegetables. Site co-ordinators are required for the Good Food Box sites in Walkerton, Teeswater, Tara, Sauble Beach and Markdale. Grey Bruce Health Unit dietitian Laura Needham, who works with the program, […]

The Flint Firebirds entered this best-of-seven Western Conference quarterfinal against the Owen Sound Attack as the favourites and for the first time all series that much was clear Sunday at the Dort Financial Center. The Attack looked outmatched throughout key stretches of the second and third periods, and short bursts of domination are all this […]

On day two of the OHL Priority Selection draft, the Owen Sound Attack added 12 more prospects to the fold including seven forwards, four defenders and a goaltender. Owen Sound opened the day by selecting Quinte Red Devils centre Jared Langdon with their fourth-round pick, 74th-overall. The five-foot-11 and 163-pound centre was the second player […]

The Ottawa to Owen Sound talent pipeline continued to flow Friday night as the Attack selected Navan Grads product Ben Cormier 11th-overall in the Ontario Priority Selection draft. The five-foot-11, 175-pound centre is touted as a player with a shoot-first mentality and a nose for the net by OHL Central Scouting. He netted 38 goals […]

Perth County OPP said a 75-year-old Hanover woman died as a result of her injuries from a two-car crash which also left a man dead at the scene on March 31. Evonne “Bonnie” Bierworth, of Hanover died from injuries sustained in the crash just after 6:30 a.m. in North Perth, on Perth Line 86 at […]

Grey County Warden Selwyn Hicks will take a leave of absence from his council duties beginning on Sunday as he runs in the upcoming provincial election. Hicks is running as the Liberal candidate in Bruce-Grey-Owen Sound in the election, slated for June 2. Deputy Warden Paul McQueen will serve as acting warden during the leave. […]

Construction of seven affordable homes at Saugeen First Nation is set to start next week using Habitat for Humanity as the building contractor. This is Habitat’s go-to model now, to get more homes built faster, said Greg Fryer, the executive director of Habitat for Humanity Grey-Bruce. The original model, in which Habitat raised money for […]

Half a dozen Grey County paramedics have been recognized for their work in assisting in COVID-19 response locally as well as in Essex County near Windsor as they dealt with an outbreak involving temporary farm workers early last year. Darren Clock, Sherry Foster, Lori Morton, Reid Milne-O’Neil, Sarah Brouwer and Jeff Adams have received the […]

Bruce-Grey-Owen Sound’s runner-up in 2018 is once again putting their name forward to represent the local NDP in a provincial election. Karen Gventer is seeking the local NDP nomination ahead of the 2022 Ontario general election. Gventer finished second in 2018 behind Progressive Conservative candidate and current Bruce-Grey-Owen Sound MPP Bill Walker with 24 per […]

Lisa Thompson has launched her bid for a fourth term as MPP for Huron-Bruce. The Conservative politician and current Minister of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs officially launched her bid for re-election on Saturday with the opening of her campaign office in Wingham. Thompson, who was first elected to represent the riding in 2011 and […]

A Southampton man has won $2 million playing the lottery. Thomas Gibbons, 42, won an Ontario 49 top prize in the Dec. 29 draw, the OLG announced on Thursday. The small business owner and father of three said in a news release said it was New Year’s Eve when he decided to check his numbers […]

Grey County is planning a review of its CP Rail Trail as it balances accommodating different users as maintenance costs rise and the number of people hitting the trail increases. In its committee of the whole meeting on Thursday, county council received a report on the existing and future funding challenges facing the trail that […]

Hydrogen Optimized in Owen Sound hopes to build a manufacturing plant in Texas to sell the plant’s entire electrolyzer unit output to supply green hydrogen to a huge production, storage and transportation hub. It signed a memorandum of understanding with Green Hydrogen International for the proposed development of a large electrolyzer manufacturing facility in Texas. […]

South Bruce Peninsula council will not fight the latest court decision upholding the town’s conviction on two counts of damaging piping plover habitat at Sauble Beach in 2017. But a statement posted to the town’s website on Thursday, over the name of Mayor Janice Jackson, makes it clear that while council has accepted the decision […]

An Owen Sound company will review inlet-outlet structures of a 1,000 megawatt pumped-storage power project proposed in Meaford to “minimize impacts on fish and the overall aquatic environment in Georgian Bay.” TC Energy is using Makwa-Cahill, which has a facility in Owen Sound, to review the structures, which would be part of Ontario’s largest pumped […]

Big Brothers Big Sisters of Grey Bruce raised more than $29,000 in its 42nd annual Bowl for Kids’ Sake event last week. It took place at bowling alleys in Owen Sound, Port Elgin and Collingwood, and there was also an online option. People could set up their own pins at home and too. More than […]

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 […]