Tag: Local News

Major work on horizon at Owen Sound’s Duncan McLellan Park

Owen Sound officials are looking to make major upgrades to the ball diamonds at Duncan McLellan Park over the next three years. On Wednesday, the city’s community services committee received an information report on planned work at the east-side facility, which sees an estimated $690,000 invested over the next three years. The proposed timeline would […]

Bruce Power begins next phase of Unit 3 MCR

Bruce Power has started to remove and replace key components of its Unit 3, the second reactor unit undergoing refurbishment through its six-unit Major Component Replacement project. On Wednesday, the operator of the nuclear generating station near Tiverton, announced that workers had successfully installed protective shielding and 16 bulkheads to isolate the unit from the […]

Demolition of downtown Owen Sound building makes way for apartments

Demolition began Thursday on a two-storey building downtown, north of the St. Francis’ Place apartments, to clear the site for a 40-unit, six-story apartment building. When siding and yellow spray-foam insulation was removed from the north wall of 1043 3rd Ave. E., an old advertisement for Old Chum smoking tobacco could was revealed. The building […]