Category: Owen Sound
Emancipation festival this weekend in Owen Sound
The 162nd Emancipation Festival features a speakers’ forum Friday, a community celebration Saturday and gospel music Sunday. Cyrus Sundar Singh will speak at Grey Roots Museum Friday night. He’s an assistant professor at the University of Toronto, a musician and filmmaker who was born and raised in India. He’ll talk about Nova Scotia’s Africville, a one-time […]
City digs deeper to fix skate park after problem arises
It will cost about $100,000 more than budgeted to fix Owen Sound’s Sk8 and Bike Park’s concrete pad, which has been partly fenced off for more than a year because sections were crumbling and considered unsafe to use. Owen Sound council voted Monday morning, during a special meeting to discuss this issue, to withdraw an additional […]
Brightshores announces senior leadership appointments
Brightshores Health System announced two senior leadership appointments Friday. Beth Morris, vice-president Clinical Services & Quality, chief nursing executive, will join Brightshores on Sept. 30, and Tim Pemberton, vice-president, Digital Health & Technology, CIO, CPO, will join the hospital corporation on Sept. 9. A hospital news release said Morris brings a wide range of […]
County staff exploring low-cost home energy efficient retrofit loans
Twenty EV chargers are to be installed at Grey County facilities over this year and next, subject to funding approval from the federal Zero Emission Vehicle Infrastructure Program. That’s one of the details shared with county council by Rebecca Danard, the county manager of climate change initiatives, during a review of climate change initiatives over […]
Grey County council agrees to pay local share of court security cost
Grey County council voted Thursday to start paying court security and transportation expenses not covered by the province that for years have been borne solely by Owen Sound taxpayers. This year, those costs will be about $230,000. Once the actual amount is known, it will be included in the 2025 county budget, once the agreement […]