Category Archives: News
Owen Sound Begins Sewer Inspection This Week
The City of Owen Sound is starting its sanitary sewer inspection project this week. Starting Monday, the about three week long project will focus on the area east of Sydenham River near the downtown a...
Jun 01, 2025 Owen Sound Sewer Inspection Map (Image from City of Owen Sound website)
Cargill And District Community Foundation Supports Pool Restoration Project
The Cargill and District Community Foundation (CDCF) is supporting a project to restore the Centennial Park Pool. The $2,000 donation to the Diving Board Project comes after the previous diving boards...
Jun 01, 2025 CDCF Diving Board Donation From left to right: Cadyn Connor, Aquatic Supervisor, Michelle Wilhelm, CDCF Member, Lisa Fagan, Recreation Programming Supervisor, Bonnie Thompson, CDCF Member, and Chris Peabody, Mayor (Photo provided by Municipality of Brockton)
Kincardine To Update Kin-Huron, Parkwood Playground Equipment
Kincardine council has approved the updating of two playgrounds in the municipality. The playgrounds at Kin-Huron Park and Parkwood Road are both scheduled to be updated, and staff outlined a minimum ...
May 31, 2025
Troy Life & Fire Safety Named One Of Canada's Best Managed Companies
An Owen Sound-based life-safety equipment company is being named one of Canada's Best Managed Companies. President of Troy Life & Fire Safety Ltd. Jim McCoubrey says, "It means that some confirmat...
May 31, 2025 Troy Life & Fire Safety Ltd. Owen Sound (Photo by Nathan Shubert)
Court Rules Hibou Belongs To Conservation Authority
The Ontario Superior Court has confirmed Hibou Conservation Area lands belong to the local conservation authority. The Grey Sauble Conservation Authority (GSCA) says in a release, it's pleased to anno...
May 30, 2025 Hibou. Image from Grey Sauble Conservation Authority website
SELL/SHOP ALL FOR A GOOD CAUSE IN ORILLIA
A city-wide garage sale is set for Orillia one week from tomorrow on Saturday June 7th. The initiative is aimed at supporting affordable housing in Orillia with participants being encouraged to donate...
May 30, 2025
ASSAULT AND FIREARM CHARGES FOR COLLINGWOOD MAN
A 50 year old Collingwood man is charged in connection with an incident in which the province's Special Investigations Unit invoked its mandate. Collingwood OPP were called to a disturbance at a Rhona...
May 30, 2025
Highway 21 Being Painted Today, Expect Traffic Back Ups
Highway 21 is being painted today. Trucks are heading south from Port Elgin to Kincardine as of noon, before they go back to paint the other side of Highway 21 all the way to Owen Sound. Traffic will ...
May 30, 2025 Photo by Claire McCormack
BRACEBRIDGE OPP CHARGES THREE MORE DRIVERS WITH IMPAIRED RELATED OFFENCES DURING EARLY MORNING
On May 30, 2025, at 12:30 a.m. Bracebridge OPP officers were dispatched to a single vehicle collision that occurred on Kanien'keha:ka lohatatie, formerly Muskoka Road 38, in Muskoka Lakes Township. Th...
May 30, 2025
Bruce-Grey-Owen Sound MPP Touts Investments In Ontario Budget
The Progressive Conservative MPP for Bruce-Grey-Owen Sound is talking up his government's budget. Premier Doug Ford's government introduced the 2025 Ontario budget earlier this month. The $232-billion...
May 30, 2025 Paul Vickers. (supplied photo)