Tag: Owen Sound
Earth Day event in the city ‘more of a celebration’ Saturday
Hundreds came out to a lively celebration of Earth Day Saturday afternoon in downtown Owen Sound. It offered a mix of entertainment, information and a chance for the community to gather, which COVID-19 restrictions haven’t permitted much in the last two years. Kids drew coloured chalk drawings and joined tug-of-war challenges and people packed the […]
St. Mary’s High School to be replaced in Owen Sound
Grey-Bruce Catholic schools are bursting with students and so the province has agreed to replace St. Mary’s in Owen Sound with a new Grade 9-12 high school, rather than build an addition onto it. An extra $16.3 million for the school was announced Friday by Bruce-Grey-Owen Sound MPP Bill Walker, on top of almost $20 […]
Owen Sound changing traffic light timing to improve flow in the core
Changes to traffic light timing are underway on 10th Street to improve traffic flow and reduce travel time. A traffic consultant’s calculations are being used to change the signal timing on 10th Street, from 4th Avenue East to 3rd Avenue West. Motorists may experience delays while the changes are made over the next several days, […]
Scone’s 1881 schoolhouse to be demolished
Scone’s one-room schoolhouse will soon be demolished, one of three old Chatsworth Township buildings facing that fate. “It’s probably the last original one-room schoolhouse that still has not been touched,” said Adam Watson, whose Owen Sound company, Roy-Mar Demolition, won the contract to take it down. He said he’s doing the work reluctantly. “I mean, […]
Owen Sound theatre ready for next act thanks to Trillium grant
A $100,000 grant to Owen Sound Little Theatre from the Ontario Trillium Foundation is welcome after two years with next to no income due to pandemic health restrictions, the theatre company’s executive director said. There were bills to pay while the theatre sat mostly dark, Marcia Cunningham said after a ceremonial cheque presentation on the […]
Car strikes Nortowne Plaza Tuesday afternoon
No charges were laid after a car jumped a parking barrier and hit a downtown Owen Sound building Tuesday afternoon. Owen Sound Police Services investigated the crash, which was reported just after 1:30 p.m., and learned a Priceville woman was attempting to park when the car struck the brick wall and window of a business […]
Watch for Pokémon Go players in Harrison Park Saturday
A Pokémon Go augmented reality event taking place Saturday could attract hundreds of players to Harrison Park, while fundraising to support United Way programs, executive director Francesca Dobbyn said Tuesday. Pokémon Go is an augmented reality mobile game based on the popular Japanese anime series. It allows “trainers” to “catch” wild Pokémon, hatch eggs, battle […]
Winter wasn’t kind to Owen Sound’s roads
This past winter was “hellish” on city roads. The repeated freeze-thaw cycle and penetration of water within the asphalt layer through road defects and beneath it has taken its toll, city engineering services manager Chris Webb said. It’s been about 10 years since the last bad winter with so many freezing and thawing events like […]
Owen Sound schools come through in crosstown challenge
In a friendly crosstown food-drive challenge, Owen Sound’s eastside elementary schools were victorious over their westside counterparts this year. Students at Alexandra, St. Dominique-Savio and East Ridge collected the most food and other items, based on a point system, than their rivals at Hillcrest, Keppel-Sarawak and St. Basil’s. This was the second year of the […]
City crews in spring cleaning mode
It’s spring cleaning time in Owen Sound and the city invites anyone to report areas that need some attention this spring. City crews have a work plan and Thursday a crew worked along the 6th Street East hill, where a sidewalk sweeper and road sweeper worked in tandem to sweep up wintertime grit. Other crews […]