Tag: Grey County
Candidates target PC Party at Bruce-Grey-Owen Sound meeting
Doug Ford’s Progressive Conservative Party and local candidate Paul Vickers were on everyone else’s radar during a Bruce-Grey-Owen Sound all-candidates meeting in Keady on Wednesday night. Seven of the eight candidates registered in the riding took part in the event put on by the Grey and Bruce County federations of agriculture in front of about […]
For Bruce-Grey-Owen Sound provincial election candidates of lesser known parties, winning may be secondary
Some candidates enter elections with little thought of winning. While mainstream parties like the PCs, Liberals, NDP and Greens may be best known among voters in Bruce-Grey-Owen Sound, there are as many candidates for lesser-known parties running in the riding. For Ann Gillies, a candidate for the Stop the New Sex Ed Agenda, winning isn’t […]
Weather closures continue across Grey-Bruce on Tuesday
Intense snow squalls continued to result in road closures in areas of Grey-Bruce on Tuesday, while students across the two counties were home from school. Numerous municipalities, organizations and businesses closed their offices on Tuesday, while municipal services like waste pickup were delayed or cancelled. In an update from the County of Bruce on Tuesday […]
Grey County seeking funding for Grey Rd. 1, Nicol’s Gully Rd. projects
Grey County will apply for grant funding for reconstruction projects on Grey Road 1 north of Owen Sound and Grey Road 17B through Nicol’s Gully just west of the city. At its meeting on Thursday, county council gave approval to a staff recommendation to apply for federal funding through the Active Transportation Fund for […]
Grey County to begin consultation on new forest management bylaw
Grey County is putting a draft forest management bylaw out for public consultation that proposes to increase fines of up to 400 per cent for someone convicted of breaking the rules. The draft bylaw, presented to council on Thursday, proposes increasing the fines for a first conviction from the current maximum of $10,000 for individuals or […]