Category: Owen Sound
Crime severity index data for Grey-Bruce, by police service
Statistics Canada’s annual crime severity index and weighted clearance rates for police services in Ontario include data for Grey-Bruce. The conventional crime rate is a measure of crime volume. It adds up all crimes reported by police and divides that total by the population for the area. This means a murder has the same impact […]
Owen Sound’s violent crime severity index two-thirds higher in 2023
Owen Sound’s violent crime severity index soared in 2023 over the year before. Unlike the conventional crime rate, the violent crime severity index is weighted, with more serious but less frequent offences, like first-degree murder, given a CSI rating 280 times greater than property theft, for instance. The city’s crime severity index was 123.41 in […]
Work to restart appliances after Alpha Street natural gas leak begins
Enbridge Gas confirmed Tuesday it could take two days for it to relight appliances for all 700 natural gas customers affected by Monday’s gas leak. Construction damaged a gas line Monday about 11:30 a.m., part of work on the Alpha Street reconstruction project. Residents in the area were evacuated from their homes, with help from […]
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 […]