Tag: City council
Owen Sound voters return Ian Boddy as mayor, promote Greig to deputy
Voters returned Owen Sound Mayor Ian Boddy to the head of council and promoted Scott Greig to deputy-mayor Monday night. Boddy received 3,372 votes to two-term city councillor Richard Thomas’s 2,697 votes. Boddy got 55.7 per cent of the vote in that race to Thomas’s 44.4 per cent. Greig defeated incumbent Deputy-mayor Brian O’Leary 3,717 […]
Bill Twaddle remembered for his integrity, hard work, dedication
Former Sun Times editor and city councillor Bill Twaddle died of colon cancer Monday in Owen Sound hospital. He was 74. No funeral arrangements are set at this time. Mr. Twaddle worked at The Sun Times for more than 25 years, first as a reporter in 1968. In 1969 he moved to the Windsor Star […]
Owen Sound briefs: boat launch food trailer, Pride, councillor recall provisions
Owen Sound council is permitting a food trailer and licenced patio to be located at the city’s West Side Boat Launch. The city contracts with a company called Experience Grey Bruce to run its boat launches on the east and west sides of the harbour. The company approached the city for permission to add the […]
Trio of city councilors push for reinstatement of mask bylaw
Councillors Jesse Helmer, Stephen Turner, and Maureen Cassidy are calling for a mask bylaw to be temporarily reintroduced in London.
Grey-Bruce death toll due to COVID: 44
Grey-Bruce has suffered its 44th death due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The news was included in the Grey Bruce Health Unit’s daily situation report Thursday. This victim was a hospitalized patient in old age with underlying medical conditions, Dr. Ian Arra said by text response to Sun Times questions. Of all the COVID-related local fatal […]