Category Archives: Owen Sound News

Relief for Owen Sound developers and home buyers. City Council has waived development charges for the remainder of 2009. The seven to nine thousand dollar development charge on newly purchased homes i...

Thousands of daffodils are brightening up homes and businesses across the region on this grey and snowy April day. The annual Daffodil Campaign for the Bluewater Unit of the Canadian Cancer Society wr...

Kincardine Council has arrived at a budget increase of just over six percent, and it looks like council will soon be giving it final approval. Mayor Larry Kraemer says the they have been keeping taxes...

The numbers are crunched and Hanover has set its 2009 Budget. Mayor Kathi Maskell believes residents will be satisfied with this years budget. The 10.3 million dollar budget represents a 1.3 percent t...

There are better days ahead. So says senior climatologist with Environment Canada David Phillips. Phillips suggests this latest spat of winter-like weather in Bruce and Grey counties is likely the ...

Kincardine Council has removed a controversial 125 thousand dollar organizational review of municipal staff and council from this year’s budget. Councillor Marsha Leggett had been pushing for th...

Quite a modest tax hike for Southgate residents. Homeowners are looking at an overall increase of 1.4 percent this year including municipal, county and education taxes. Mayor Don Lewis tells Bayshore ...

Kincardine’s Business Improvement Area has won an award from the provincial organization that oversees BIA’s. Chair Margriet Van Erp says they’ve won the award for Market Analysis an...

Arrests have been made in connection with a house break-in, in Walkerton. South Bruce OPP say three men from Bruce county faces multiple charges in connection with the incident. According to police su...

Owen Sound’s YMCA is quickly moving forward with preliminary plans on the proposed new recreation centre. They are preparing for grant applications from Federal and Provincial Governments At las...