Tag: Bruce
New hospital funding ‘helpful’ but doesn’t cover inflation
Grey-Bruce hospital administrators welcomed $8.566 million in new permanent base funding but some said it’s not enough. The money will be distributed $5,962,500 to Brightshores Health System, $1,808,100 to South Bruce Grey Health Centre and $795,400 to Hanover & District Hospital. Brightshores will see permanent base funding go up by 3.1 per cent. It’s […]
Summer food drive needs final push to meet need on peninsula
People have answered Salvation Army Major Mary Millar’s recent food bank plea but more help is needed. “My food bank worker said when saw she the food, like she was in tears because she realized she could give to those families that extra food,” Millar said Thursday. She issued a Facebook callout on July 19 […]
Suspected drug poisonings lead to opioid alert in Grey-Bruce
Another opioid alert has been issued in Grey-Bruce after the local health unit was notified of two fatal and two-non-fatal suspected drug poisonings. The suspected drug poisonings occurred in Owen Sound and Meaford over the past seven days, with fentanyl suspected in three of the cases, including one fatality, Grey Bruce Public Health said in […]
Meaford man arrested, property seized
A Meaford man faces several charges in relation to a rash of property crimes in the Municipality of Meaford. Grey Bruce OPP announced on Wednesday that members of the Grey Bruce OPP Community Street Crime Unit executed a search warrant at a residence on Marshall Street in Meaford just before 3:30 p.m. on July 25. […]
Police ask public to stay away from area near Teeswater
Police are asking drivers to stay away from an southeast of Teeswater due to an active incident. Just before 10:30 a.m., South Bruce OPP posted on X that they were in the area of Conc. 4 around Sideroad 5 and Bruce Rd. 12 in the former Culross Township. The public was being asked to stay […]