City votes to tighten planned short-term rental bylaw

Owen Sound council limited short-term rentals to 90 nights a year during final deliberations on regulating these sometimes-problematic rentals Monday night. Coun. Melanie Middlebro’, vice-chair of the corporate services committee, pulled the STR recommendations from the committee’s minutes for council to consider separately, then she proposed capping the nights at 90 annually. “We want this […]

Pumpkinfest returns to Port Elgin this weekend

In 2020, three pumpkin growers joined forces to try and break the 2,000-pound mark at the Port Elgin Pumpkinfest. Chris Lyons along with Phil and Jane Hunt broke the Port Elgin site record with their 1,939.5-pound pumpkin but failed to tip the scales with a pumpkin weighing over a ton. It’s been a good year […]