Author: The London Free Press
City approves hourly transit service but there’s a mood to do more
City buses will be moving to one-hour service from half-hour service this summer as a pilot project to save money. The city’s transit system is responsible for about half of this year’s $836,000 budget levy increase over last year, council was told Monday night. Council is grappling with how to make the system more affordable. […]
Oral health screening program back on track in Grey-Bruce
After school closures related to the COVID-19 pandemic put a dent in the number of students who received in-school oral health screenings, the local program is back on track again. So far this school year the Grey Bruce Health Unit’s dental hygienists have screened almost 3,500 students in area schools, more than 2,000 more than […]
Work begins to prepare Sauble Speedway for weekend snowcross event
Preparations are underway to turn the Sauble Speedway into a snowcross track for when the sport’s national racing circuit makes a stop there this weekend. The speedway will be the site of the Canadian Snowcross Racing Association’s Royal Distributing Cup event from Saturday to Monday, the first time in more than a decade that the […]
City budget passes with recorded vote and fireworks
Owen Sound council approved its 2022 budget Monday night which will see the average residential taxpayer pay about $103 more than last year. A residential property with a 2016 assessment of $235,000 would see a total tax bill of $4,256, up from $4,153 last year. This figure includes city, county, and education taxes. The vote […]
COVID-19 hospitalizations among Grey-Bruce residents down to 9
The number of local people hospitalized due to COVID-19 has dropped to single digits. The Grey Bruce Health Unit reported on Monday that there are nine active local cases hospitalized with the virus – down from 10 on Sunday — including seven hospitalized within Grey-Bruce and two outside the region. There remained five COVID-19 outbreaks […]