Category: Owen Sound
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 […]
Fundraising run in memory of Tyson Downs to raise money for genetic heart condition research
Balmy Beach brain cancer survivor Jesse Walker is running to raise money this summer in memory of his friend Tyson Downs and support of research into devastating genetic heart conditions. Downs died unexpectedly a year ago at age 18. The gifted athlete with plans to study civil engineering at Conestoga College played with the Owen […]
Woman reportedly poked in eye, punched with brass knuckles
Owen Sound police charged two people after a woman reportedly was poked in the eye and punched repeatedly by someone wearing brass knuckles on July 16 in Owen Sound. All were passengers in the same car and all were associated with each other when the assaults took place in the area of 16th Street East […]