Tag: Owen Sound
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 […]
Former Owen Sound teacher sentenced for sexual exploitation
A former Owen Sound teacher and coach of girls hockey and gymnastics pleaded guilty Monday to sexual exploitation involving a female student and was sentenced to 22 months in jail, followed by three years probation. Kristopher Brian Seaman, now 46, of Owen Sound when charged in 2019, appeared in person in the Superior Court of […]