Tag: Sauble Beach
South Bruce Peninsula approves 3.9% budget hike
South Bruce Peninsula council approved its 2025 operating and capital budgets with a 3.9 per cent municipal levy increase. The 2025 budget will cover total net operating expenses of $12,825,099, compared to $12,343,860 in 2024. The figure squares with the prediction made by the director of financial services and treasurer Tracey Neifer in mid-October when […]
Fire destroys ‘large portion’ of house at Saugeen
No injuries were reported in a late-night house fire south of Sauble Beach which caused “significant” damage at Saugeen First Nation. Saugeen Fire & Emergency Services and Sauble Beach firefighters responded to reports of structure fire with flames showing in the area of the Southampton Parkway and Edison Circle about 11:40 p.m., a Saugeen department […]
Ontario announces a dozen new EV charging stations in Grey-Bruce
The Ontario government has announced it will build a dozen new electric vehicle charging stations in areas of Grey and Bruce counties. On Tuesday, Bruce-Grey-Owen Sound MPP Rick Byers issued a news release announcing the 12 new EV charging stations in his riding. The new chargers, part of the government’s $63-million EV ChargeON Program Community […]
Doctor who spoke out against vaccine mandates will turn over records
Former Owen Sound emergency room doctor Rochagné Kilian said she will turn over COVID vaccine exemption and other patient records after a recent Supreme Court of Canada decision. Kilian became the subject of a College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario investigation three years ago over COVID-19 vaccine exemptions. She said she will turn over […]
Sauble Beach luxury hotel welcoming guests
A luxury hotel in Sauble Beach has opened to guests. It was announced on Monday that the four-storey, 21-room Sands Hotel at 119 Lakeshore Blvd. N. had opened in time for the Thanksgiving weekend on Oct. 12-14. The hotel’s restaurant is scheduled to open in late November. “We had a delightfully busy Thanksgiving Weekend, and […]
Staff say Sauble Beach parking fees will fall short of budgeted target this year
Staff provided South Bruce Peninsula council with an overview of the municipality’s paid-parking program for 2024 and suggested minor changes for 2025 at its regular meeting on Tuesday. SBP budgeted $749,930 in revenue from the paid parking program in 2024 with a projected parking pass revenue of $574,180, resident and student season pass revenue of […]
Strategy helps duo win local Amazing Race Sunday
It takes teamwork to win The Amazing Race Bruce Grey. That’s how Manny Bonilla of Grimsby and teammate Gil Broza or Toronto took on a particularly tough task and beat nine other teams of two at fun challenges across Grey-Bruce. They built a fire, shot pool, played nine rounds of Frisbee golf, tried orienteering […]
Former classmates at Ryerson school reminisce at 70th reunion
As the kids headed back to the classroom on Tuesday, a group of former classmates were back where their school journeys all began for them exactly 70 years ago. Close to 25 members of the 1954 morning and afternoon kindergarten classes at Ryerson Public School descended on their old stomping grounds at the base of […]
Ritchie returns as Saugeen chief
Chippewas of Saugeen First Nation members re-elected Conrad Ritchie as chief for a second consecutive term. Ritchie faced seven others, including former chief Lester Anoquot, who declined to run for chief in the last election. Anoquot was elected as councillor last time and again this election. Eight ran for chief and 40 for councillor. Six […]
Changes at the top heading into final weekend at Salmon Spectacular
The bell at the McDonald’s Owen Sound Salmon Spectacular weigh station was put to good use on the morning of Day 8 at the big fishing derby. Donated by longtime derby volunteer and photographer and Sydenham Sportsmen Association member Rob Cameron, the bell reverberates through the big tent at the Georgian Shores Marina each time […]