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Owen Sound mayor highlights 2024 accomplishments
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 […]
Grey Bruce OPP welcome new police dog and handler
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, […]
Crime Stoppers of Grey Bruce continuing operations despite funding woes
Crime Stoppers of Grey Bruce says it won’t be shutting down operations. “Despite a lack of funding from the majority of Ontario Provincial Police serviced municipalities at this time, Crime Stoppers is still here to take the public’s tips anonymously as it has since 1987,” the organization said in a Dec. 19 news release. On […]
OSHaRE’s preparing special Christmas meals
Free Christmas meals over the holidays start Monday, with a roast beef dinner with all the trimmings at Owen Sound Hunger and Relief Effort soup kitchen. There will be stockings for their guests and special desserts, executive director Colleen Trask Seaman said. On Christmas Eve, the SOS market will be at OSHaRE. The Grey Bruce […]
Three U.K. men charged in Owen Sound restaurant owner’s death: Police
OWEN SOUND â Three men from the United Kingdom are charged in the 2023 death of an Owen Sound restaurant owner who was assaulted outside his business in a dispute over an unpaid bill. The charges were announced at a news conference Wednesday afternoon in Owen Sound by Owen Sound police and the Ontario Provincial […]
Suspects named in Sharif Rahman death investigation
Three citizens of the United Kingdom have been charged in connection with the death of Owen Sound restaurant owner Sharif Rahman in August of 2023. Owen Sound police and members of the Ontario Provincial police announced the charges at a news conference in Owen Sound Wednesday afternoon, when they also explained why information about the […]
Woman not criminally responsible in infant death
A woman has been found not criminally responsible in the death of an infant. Nancy Brubacher, 31, of Grey Highlands had originally been charged with attempted murder and aggravated assault, which was updated to murder when the child succumbed to related injuries, Grey Bruce OPP said in a news release at the time. On Dec. […]
Pedestrian dies in collision south of Owen Sound
A pedestrian has died after being struck by a vehicle on the highway south of Owen Sound. Just before 9 p.m. on Tuesday, Grey Bruce OPP responded along with the Inter Township Fire Department and Grey County Paramedic Services to the scene of the collision on Highway 6 and 10. Police determined that a pedestrian […]
Family moves into new Habitat for Humanity home at Neyaashiinigmiing
Keys to a new house are in the hands of its new owner, the 20th Habitat for Humanity Grey Bruce home built at Neyaashiinigmiing since 2018. “This has allowed me to give my son housing security and allows me to continue to raise him in this loving community,” said Shaelyne, a member of the Chippewas of […]
It’s Festive RIDE time and police are charging impaired drivers
Police laid 12 impaired driving charges in the first 21 days of the 2024 OPP Festive RIDE campaign in Grey-Bruce, compared with 19 impaired charges in the same period last year. Eight impaired charges were laid in the South Bruce OPP detachment after 69 RIDE or Reduce Impaired Driving Everywhere spot checks in the current […]