Tag: Owen Sound
BRIEFS: Wolves keep winning
Wolves keep winning (rugby) The Owen Sound District Secondary School Wolves improved to 3-0 on the year with a 41-0 shutout victory over the Kincardine Knights Monday afternoon at Victoria Park in Owen Sound in senior girls rugby action. Grace Vokes had two tries as did Sydney Cowan. Hailey Frizzell added a try and two […]
Owen Sound briefs: boat launch food trailer, Pride, councillor recall provisions
Owen Sound council is permitting a food trailer and licenced patio to be located at the city’s West Side Boat Launch. The city contracts with a company called Experience Grey Bruce to run its boat launches on the east and west sides of the harbour. The company approached the city for permission to add the […]
Owen Sound mayor touts green energy opportunities
Owen Sound Mayor Ian Boddy confirmed in an interview Friday he will be seeking re-election as mayor. But the subject didn’t arise during his keynote remarks at an Owen Sound & District Chamber of Commerce luncheon Friday, or in questions people there asked, at what was billed as a State of the City address. Boddy […]
Fundraising to bring back Big Brothers, Sisters to Georgian Triangle
When the Georgian Triangle chapter of Big Brothers Big Sisters folded in 2020 due to financial pressures, about 270 kids were left without any support. Big Brothers Big Sisters of Grey-Bruce stepped in for some of them but more money is needed to meet the need. The charitable organization has drawn up a plan to […]
The Ginger Press celebrates Independent Bookstore Day with serial signing
Owen Sound’s longstanding hyper-local independent bookstore and publisher The Ginger Press celebrated Independent Bookstore Day with a serial signing Saturday. Ten local authors of books published during the pandemic were in the downtown store to meet their readers and sign copies of the works for the first time. “We really had our legs pulled out […]