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 […]

City disbands its accessibility committee

Monday night city council voted 4-3 to disband Owen Sound’s Accessibility Advisory Committee in favour of the city joining Grey County’s Joint Accessibility Advisory Committee. The committee will remain operational until the end of January. Now the city will write to the county indicating it wants to join its accessibility committee and to ask for […]

LIVE: Nathaniel Veltman murder trial, Day 11

Follow the live blog below for up-to-the-minute coverage from the murder trial of Nathaniel Veltman, charged with killing four members of the Afzaal family in London Testimony will continue on Tuesday in Windsor at the first-degree murder trial of Nathaniel Veltman, the 22-year-old Londoner charged in the hit-and-run that killed four members of the Afzaal […]