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Owen Sound mayor highlights 2024 accomplishments

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Owen Sound Mayor Ian Boddy says the city has made some huge decisions in 2024, including important deals with its neighbouring municipalities, new services for its own ratepayers and renewed agreements with its community partners.  Boddy gave his year-end update during the city’s last regular council meeting on Monday (Dec. 16), where he outlined dozens […]

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Grey Bruce OPP welcome new police dog and handler

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The Grey Bruce OPP has a new canine on the force. A three-year-old Belgian malinois/Dutch shepherd named Siebe and handler Const. Dean Ferris have joined the Grey Bruce OPP’s Canine Unit. Ferris is a five-year veteran of the OPP who served as a frontline officer before becoming a canine handler. Siebe’s qualifications include tracking lost, […]

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OSHaRE struggles to meet need as it sets new record for meals served

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Owen Sound’s soup kitchen reached a new high — 200,000 meals served this year as of last week, breaking last year’s 146,000 meal total, executive director Colleen Trask Seaman said Saturday, shortly before opening the kitchen doors for take-out meals.  It’s one local organization which is struggling to meet increasing demands this holiday season. The […]

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Engineering job awarded for potential Pottawatomi watermain extension

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Georgian Bluffs has awarded the engineering contract for a proposed watermain extension that would supply water from Owen Sound to the residents of the small municipal water system in Pottawatomi Village.  At its committee of the whole meeting on Dec. 4, Georgian Bluffs council awarded the contract for engineering services to WT Infrastructure Solutions Inc, […]