Category Archives: Owen Sound News

The recession isn’t slowing a multi billion-dollar bid by Ontario-based Bruce Power to bring nuclear reactors to Alberta and Saskatchewan. Bruce Power C-E-O executive Duncan Hawthorne says long-...

There’s new life for a housing development in Walkerton. Brockton Council has passed a motion last Friday, asking Bruce County to extend a draft plan subdivision agreement for 18 months. The mot...

Another business is coming to Port Elgin! The Mildmay Cheese Haus is opening in the former Trading Post on Highway 21 at the South end of town. Owner Tom Fischer says they plan to open April 1st ̵...

A family is picking up the pieces today. A residential fire on Fuller Avenue in Penetanguishene leveled a home yesterday around 3 PM in the afternoon. The cause still isn’t known. Fire departmen...

We have been hearing a lot about job losses in recent months, but there are jobs on offer today in Collingwood. Canadian Tire is hiring its seasonal staff to work in the Garden Centre, among other thi...

The committee making recommendations to the Simcoe County public school board about schools for high school students may not be able to come up with a unanimous decision. Collingwood Mayor Chris Carri...

A second corrections officer at the jail in Penetanguishene is now charged with assault. A 25 year old officer was originally charged with assault last weekend after a complaint from an inmate. Now a ...

OPP are looking for a missing Penetanguishene man. The 49 year old was reported missing from a Water Street Group Home last night. The OPP say he has medical concerns as well, which means he is missin...

If you don’t have a computer or are visually impaired, there is now a way you can get information on Collingwood without logging on to the town website. A community info line has now been set up...

As March Break in Ontario unfolds, many of us will be on the road travelling from one place to another. Reader’s Digest author Stuart Foxman in this month’s magazine says many of us, wheth...