Category: Grey/Bruce
SPORTS BRIEFS: Goldie, Canada earn silver
GOLDIE, CANADA EARN SILVER Owen Sound’s Jillian Goldie and the Canadian under-20 women’s lacrosse team won silver medals at the 2024 World Lacrosse Women’s U20 Championship in Hong Kong. The Americans won back-to-back gold with a 23-6 win over its rival Canada at Mong Kok Stadium this past Saturday evening. The USA completed a dominant […]
Public health issues eighth drug alert of the summer following fatal overdose
For the eighth time this summer Grey Bruce Public Health is sounding the alarm over the local street drug supply following reports of one fatal and four non-fatal drug poisonings over three days last week. Each of the most recent overdoses took place between August 23 and 25. Three of the reported overdoses occurred in […]
Jail for man who set treehouse fire that killed teen girl sleeping inside
A young man found guilty of criminal negligence causing death for setting a treehouse on fire, killing a teenage girl who was sleeping inside it with her boyfriend, has been sentenced to 18 months in jail. After a trial, Superior Court Justice Roger Chown found an intoxicated and disgruntled Taran Hibma, then 18, of Owen […]
Speaker will share her addiction and recovery story
A woman will speak Thursday about her experience of addiction in Owen Sound and her recovery. Andrea Donaldson, who grew up in Owen Sound and spent 20 years here in active addiction, said “July 30, 2015 was either going to be my recovery date or the date on my tombstone,” a news release announcing her […]
Man jailed for fatal Sauble tree house fire four years ago
A young man found guilty of criminal negligence causing death for setting a tree house on fire while the victim slept with her boyfriend inside, was sentenced to 18 months in jail, followed by 18 months of probation. After a trial, Superior Court Justice Roger Chown found an intoxicated and disgruntled Taran Hibma, then 18, of […]
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, […]