Category Archives: Owen Sound News
Owen Sound Student Receives Grey Sauble Conservation Foundation Award
The Grey Sauble Conservation Foundation is presenting an Owen Sound student with a $2,000 environmental award. Kamyla Fisher, a graduating student from Owen Sound District Secondary School, was presen...
Aug 27, 2025 Malcolm Kirk Environmental Award Recipient Kamyla Fisher. From left to right: Dick Hibma (Director, Grey Sauble Conservation Foundation), Kamyla Fisher, Don Sankey (Chair, Grey Sauble Conservation Foundation). (Photo provided by Grey Sauble Conservation Foundation)
Tom Thomson Art Gallery Retiring Mural With Replacement Of Door
The Tom Thomson Art Gallery is retiring an Indigenous mural as it replaces a door. Director and Chief Curator Aidan Ware says the gallery's loading dock door on 2nd Avenue West is being replaced this ...
Aug 27, 2025 TOM Indigenous Mural (Photo provided by Aiden Ware)
NBP Wants To Hear From Residents On New Water, Wastewater Master Plans
Northern Bruce Peninsula is developing new water and wastewater master plans for Tobermory and Lion's Head and is looking to hear from the community. CAO Peggy Van Mierlo-West says the main goal for t...
Aug 27, 2025 AlphaBaby / Depositphotos.com
Driver Charged After Parking In Live Lane Of Traffic On Bruce County Road
South Bruce OPP have charged a driver after finding a vehicle parked with no lights on in a live lane of traffic in the middle of the night. Police say on Sunday at about 4:15 in the morning, they wer...
Aug 26, 2025 Image from OPP West Region on X
NBP Approves Proposed Dredging Project At Stokes Bay
Northern Bruce Peninsula is approving a proposed dredging project near the municipal park in Stokes Bay. Council approved the project during its meeting on Monday, if it meets a series of conditions b...
Aug 26, 2025 Stokes Bay (image from Tobermory and the Northern Bruce Changer of Commerce website)
Owen Sound's Mayor Optimistic Priorities Heard By Province At AMO Conference
The mayor of Owen Sound left this year's Association of Municipalities of Ontario (AMO) Conference feeling positive the city's priorities were heard by the province. City representatives as well as th...
Aug 26, 2025 Owen Sound Ministry of Health Delegation (Photo from City of Owen Sound website)
Owen Sound To Temporarily Close Leaf & Yard Waste Facility For Wood Grinding
The City of Owen Sound will be temporarily closing the Leaf and Yard Waste Facility for a few days this week. The city says that the facility, located at 2450 28th Avenue East, will be closed between ...
Aug 26, 2025
Arran-Elderslie Marks The Passing Of Mark Davis, Its First Deputy Mayor
The Municipality of Arran-Elderslie is paying tribute to Mark Davis, its first deputy mayor. He passed away peacefully, and surrounded by family on Friday. He was 68 years old. The municipality says h...
Aug 25, 2025 Image from Rhody Family Funeral Home
Chi-Cheemaun Ferry Operator Warns Of Online Booking Scam
The Owen Sound Transportation Company is warning about a scam that impersonates the website for its ferry services. Locally, the company operates the Chi-Cheemaun, which ferries passengers and their v...
Aug 25, 2025 The MS Chi-Cheemaun at the Owen Sound Harbour on May 2, 2022. (Matt Hermiz/Bayshore Broadcasting News)
Collision Closes Part Of Grey Road 18 Near Rockford
Grey Bruce OPP are on the scene of a collision at the intersection of Grey Road 18 and Concession 3 Derby west of Rockford. Grey Road 18 is closed between Inglis Falls Road and Concession 5. Concessio...
Aug 25, 2025 OPP Logo