Category: Owen Sound
Man receives conditional sentence for aggravated assault
A 62-year-old Owen Sound man pleaded guilty to aggravated assault for pushing a 38-year-old woman down the fire escape at his apartment and he received an 18-month conditional sentence. Austin Soucoup pleaded guilty and was sentenced June 17 in Owen Sound’s Superior Court of Justice, court staff confirmed. Soucoup’s lawyer, Anya Shahabi, confirmed her client […]
Reunion for 1954 Ryerson kindergarten gang Sept. 3
A 70th anniversary gathering is planned for Ryerson Public School’s 1954 kindergarten alumni in Owen Sound on Tuesday, Sept. 3. John Christie, one of the reunion organizers, said he hopes as many classmates from that year, and students who became part of that group in later years at Ryerson, from 1954 to 1963, will be […]
Legacies live on as Bruce Grey Music Hall of Fame reopens at Owen Sound legion Sunday
Music has a funny way of distorting time. When the Ridge River Ramblers started into Van Morrison’s Brown Eyed Girl Sunday afternoon at the grand reopening of the Bruce Grey Music Hall of Fame at the Royal Canadian Legion in Owen Sound you could close your eyes and imagine a time before the fire when […]
Billy Bishop Museum to host ceremony for honoured local veterans
The Billy Bishop Museum is hosting a plaque return ceremony for the 2023 Honouring Our Local Veterans inductees. On Wednesday at 4 p.m., the honoured veterans and their families will receive the plaques that have been touring the community since the induction ceremony on Oct. 29, 2023. The plaques have made stops at Heritage Place […]
‘We’ve come a long way’ local First Nation chief says
A sunrise ceremony marked National Indigenous Peoples Day in Owen Sound Friday and next Friday there will be a flag-raising there to acknowledge the territory of the Saugeen Ojibway Nation. People gathered at the Gichi-Name Wiikwedong Reconciliation Garden, where people spoke and a sacred fire burned. “Many people are becoming aware of this day, and […]