Virtual Farmers’ Week successful for a second year

The weeklong 56th-annual Grey Bruce Farmers’ Week wrapped up Tuesday and managed to broaden its audience while navigating through a surging wave of COVID-19 by going fully virtual for the second year in a row. Farmers’ Week coordinator Lorie Smith said she’s glad the planning committee decided back in September to take the conference fully […]

Grey-Bruce home prices close out 2021 on a record high

Home sales in Grey-Bruce ended 2021 by smashing the average monthly price record for a month at more than $830,000. At $830,982, the average price for December was more than $127,000 above the previous monthly average price record of $703,934 that was just set in September. The average price last month was also 48.5 per […]

Divisive nuclear waste vault is splitting community: citizens’ group

Efforts to present a petition to South Bruce council calling for a referendum on municipal election day, not after, about a proposed long-term nuclear waste storage project bogged down over privacy issues just before Tuesday’s council meeting. The referendum is supposed to decide whether South Bruce residents are willing to be host to a subterranean […]

Council to consider recommendations to improve 10th Street traffic flow

Owen Sound’s operations committee is recommending council give the green light to a series of traffic signal timing changes aimed at improving the flow of vehicles along 10th Street in the city’s downtown. The suggested changes are among those proposed by consultants Safe Roads Engineering, retained by city hall to analyze both traffic data — […]