Tag: Sauble Beach

New permanent dog park in the works at Sauble Beach

Sauble Beach is getting a new permanent dog park. At its regularly scheduled meeting of council Tuesday, South Bruce Peninsula councillors approved a $17,257 contract with Owen Sound’s Ottewell Fencing to build a 250 by 150-foot fence beside the Sauble Beach Community Centre parking lot. In 2021, COVID-19 public health restrictions closed the Bannister Park […]

Phone data used to analyze Sauble Beach visitors over three-year period

According to cell phone data collected from Sauble Beach visitors over a three-year period, those who visit the lakeside town are often middle-aged Facebook users with six-figure incomes, pick-up trucks and traditional views on politics and religion. The Town of South Bruce Peninsula received the Sauble Beach Geofence Project report during a delegation from employees […]

Beachgoers brave chilly weather, overcast skies for long weekend fun Saturday

The weather failed to cooperate, but it didn’t stop some defiant and determined beachgoers from celebrating the unofficial kick-off to summer at Sauble Beach Saturday. Despite a severe thunderstorm watch issued – and subsequently ended – by Environment Canada in the early morning hours Saturday, and with disregard for the overcast skies and temperatures in […]

Judge reserves in Saugeen’s claim to beach at Sauble

Final arguments ended Thursday in a 32-year-old legal dispute over ownership of part of the beach at Sauble Beach, a tourist destination the local municipality wants to keep. Superior Court Justice Susan Vella reserved her decision and no return date was set. The Toronto hearing  was broadcast on YouTube this week. Saugeen First Nation, which […]

Man concerned plovers might pass Sauble by this year

There’s still time for the endangered piping plovers to arrive and get busy at Sauble Beach, but one of their biggest allies is a little worried. Don Kennedy rises daily and checks the beach for the little winged travellers, and was surprised at the unmistakable sight of a one-footed visitor from Mexico, dubbed Nubbins, on […]

Third court loss for town in Sauble plover habitat case

Ontario’s appeal court dismissed South Bruce Peninsula’s appeal of convictions on two counts of damaging piping plover habitat at Sauble Beach — the third time a court has found against the town in this case. The municipality was convicted of damaging the beach habitat of the endangered migratory shorebird on April 13, 2017 and between […]

Third court loss for town in Sauble plover habitat case

Ontario’s appeal court dismissed South Bruce Peninsula’s appeal of convictions on two counts of damaging piping plover habitat at Sauble Beach — the third time a court has found against the town in this case. The municipality was convicted of damaging the beach habitat of the endangered migratory shorebird on April 13, 2017 and between […]

Proposed Sauble Beach lakeshore hotel nears construction phase

At Tuesday’s South Bruce Peninsula council meeting, a proposed $6.5-million four-storey luxury hotel with 21 rooms and a ground-floor cafe on Sauble Beach’s Lakeshore Boulevard inched closer to shovels in the ground. Council carried a motion directing the necessary bylaw authorizing the mayor and clerk to enter into a site plan control agreement with Lakeshore […]

Appeal court hears arguments in Sauble plover case

Ontario appeal court judges reserved their decision Friday concerning South Bruce Peninsula’s appeal of its two convictions for damaging endangered piping plover habitat. The judges in a virtual hearing heard from lawyers for the town, the provincial Crown and one shared by Environmental Defence and the Federation of Ontario Naturalists, which were granted intervenor status. […]