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Sharing food at Thanksgiving makes OSHaRE leader thankful
Six people worked briskly filling orders from people who lined up at the OSHaRE counter on Saturday afternoon of this Thanksgiving weekend. Colleen Trask Seaman greeted each guest with a smile, usually by name, and asked them what each wanted. “Do you like cranberries?” she must have asked 150 times through a plastic divider in […]
Grey County task force seeks to make some busy rural roads safer
A Grey County task force proposes to transfer more than 50 kilometres of its urban county roads, bridges and sewers to municipalities and assume and make safer certain increasingly busy rural municipal roads roads in exchange for other county rural roads. County council decided Thursday to receive a report which provided lists of affected roads, […]
Big Rig Konnor Smith nets hat-trick as Bears battle back in St. Kitts
If you had a Konnor Smith hat-trick on your Owen Sound Attack 2024-25 bingo card, well, congratulations. The Big Rig turned into the Big Rip Friday night as the Attack captain netted three goals to help Owen Sound (2-3-1-0) come from behind and hand the Niagara IceDogs (4-1-0-0) their first loss of the season, 6-4, […]
Bruce County council gets first look at 2025 draft budget
Bruce County‘s draft budget is calling for a 6.81 per cent tax levy increase next year. County staff on Thursday presented the proposed 2025 capital and operating budgets to council. The proposed 6.81 per cent increase, which includes a 1.5 per cent growth assumption would result in an $82 increase in county taxes for the […]
Former Blue Mountains mayor filing complaint about Grey County meeting
Former Blue Mountains mayor Alar Soever said he will file a formal closed-meeting complaint against Grey County for conducting a joint meeting with its nine municipal councils behind closed doors. He sent a letter Sept. 19 to the county outlining his concerns about a joint planning services meeting held Aug. 8 and waited to see […]