Owen Sound Owen Sound Sun Times

City’s new downtown cameras to be installed and operational by the end of September

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In the days after Owen Sound business owner Sharif Rahman was assaulted outside his downtown restaurant last summer police released grainy images of two suspects and an early-2000s-model SUV. The caucasian men, both wearing what look to be black athletic shorts with one in a light orange T-shirt and one in a light blue T-shirt, […]

Owen Sound Sun Times

Owen Sound, Hanover granted funding for water projects

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The Ontario government has announced grant funding of more than $3.7 million for municipal water and wastewater projects in Owen Sound and Hanover that will help support growth in those communities.  On Wednesday, the province revealed the applications for the two projects had been approved as part of the first round of investments under the Housing-Enabling […]

London Free Press

Watchdog slams rural mayor over remarks about hospital CEO: ‘Gun is fully loaded’

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A rural mayor has received a formal reprimand from his political colleagues for comments an integrity commissioner labelled as threatening and potentially incendiary Kevin Eccles is in his fourth term holding the top political office in West Grey, a municipality of roughly 13,000 located near Hanover in Grey County. He leads a seven-person council. In […]

Books Entertainment London Free Press

Book sheds new light on London’s ‘Mayor of Richmond Row’

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London-born author Lynda Curnoe has published a new book about the late poet and downtown fixture Roy McDonald, which contains facts she says may surprise those who knew the man nicknamed “the Mayor of Richmond Row.” Recognized for his long beard, rumpled second-hand clothes and a suit jacket covered in buttons, McDonald became something of […]

Grey County Owen Sound Sun Times

New ambulance base proposed for Feversham expected to cut response times in southeast corner of county

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Grey County paramedics will work with county staff to secure suitable land in the Feversham area for the construction of a new ambulance base. The Feversham base will join a new larger base in Durham and new bases proposed for Ayton (2026), Thornbury (2027), and Cobble Beach (2028) all in an effort to keep up […]