Category: Owen Sound
City fire dept. puts out dryer fire
A dryer fire was contained to a small area of the basement of a two-storey home in Owen Sound Sunday. The home sustained about $10,000, including minor smoke damage, in the fire which was reported about 12:30 p.m., a city fire department news release said. Owen Sound Fire and Emergency Services responded to a […]
School backpack program exceeds demand expectations, faces funding shortfall
The United Way Bruce Grey’s backpack program has already surpassed its initial estimate by handing out more than 2,500 fully-stocked backpacks to kids heading back to school in September. The 2,513 students served to date are the most in the program’s history, and the United Way expects that tally to keep ticking upwards. Last year, […]
Goldie and Team Canada will go for gold at U20 world championships
Owen Sound’s Jillian Golden and her Team Canada teammates will play for gold at the 2024 World Lacrosse Women’s U20 Championship in Hong Kong. On Thursday, Goldie and the Canadians beat Japan 17-2 in the semifinals to earn a berth into the gold-medal contest scheduled for 6:30 p.m. (6:30 a.m. EST). The Canadians went a […]
Summerfolk is a music festival embracing the joy of discovery
It’s a wet and swampy Saturday night at the Summerfolk Music Festival in the Scenic City — but the crowd is riding the wave. Whether in defiance of the atrocious weather or deference to it, the “folkies” in their tarp-covered lawn chairs push rain-matted hair out of their eyes and take in the show. Sporadic […]
City’s new downtown cameras to be installed and operational by the end of September
In the days after Owen Sound business owner Sharif Rahman was assaulted outside his downtown restaurant last summer police released grainy images of two suspects and an early-2000s-model SUV. The caucasian men, both wearing what look to be black athletic shorts with one in a light orange T-shirt and one in a light blue T-shirt, […]