Author: Owen Sound Sun Times
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 […]
Owen Sound Business Outlook 2022
February 24, 2022
Walkerton District school locked down after reported threat
A person has been taken into custody after a reported threat made towards a school in Walkerton on Monday morning. Just before 9 a.m., South Bruce OPP received a report of a threat made towards an unspecified school in Walkerton, it said in a news release. Police have taken an individual into custody and there […]
Patience and persistence pays off as Team Howard punches ticket to Brier
Team Howard is heading back to the Brier. Skip Scott Howard stole points in the ninth and 10th ends to beat Leaside Curling Club representative John Epping 5-3 and win the Port Elgin ’22 Ontario Tankard Sunday at The Plex. Scott took the Howard rink reins while his father Glenn, dealing with a knee injury, […]