Tag: South Bruce
Counties to make their pitch to province at ROMA conference
Grey-Bruce politicians and senior staff will hear about issues important to municipalities and present their needs to their provincial counterparts at the annual Rural Ontario Municipal Association conference which starts Sunday. They’ll be among 1,900 participants from hundreds of municipalities and organizations across Ontario attending the four-day event at the Sheraton Centre hotel in downtown […]
Georgian Bluffs apologizes for waste collection issues
Georgian Bluffs council has formally apologized to residents for waste and recycling collection headaches in the municipality in recent months, and says it is working with the service provider on the matter. That service provider — Waste Management — has also apologized to customers and says steps are being taken to “enhance” their collection efforts. […]
Kincardine teen charged following break-in, theft at downtown business
Police have charged a 14-year-old from Kincardine in connection with a break and enter at a local business in early January. According to a South Bruce OPP news release, police received a report of a break-in at a Queen Street property around 1 a.m. on Jan. 11. The OPP Canine Unit and members of the […]
4 running for PC candidacy in Bruce-Grey-Owen Sound
When members of the PC Party of Ontario vote for their candidate in the riding of Bruce-Grey-Owen Sound this weekend they will have four people to choose from. Former West Grey councillor and longtime Grey-Bruce resident Stephen Townsend was recently announced as a fourth and final candidate running for the nomination. The other candidates include Brock […]
LETTER: New year, not new community in South Bruce
The new year has begun – out with the old and in with the new. This could be true, but does it apply in the Municipality of South Bruce? Five years ago, the South Bruce community became very divided. Remember that big announcement on Jan. 24, 2020, that landowner Darren Ireland and former Nuclear Waste […]
Police arrest suspect near Chepstow after police respond in force
South Bruce OPP took someone into custody after a heavily armed police presence north of Chepstow Saturday. Police said in a release Saturday that the OPP Emergency Response Team, K-9 and Aviation units responded to and “incident” just after 2 p.m. in the area of Schmidt Lake Road, north of Chepstow in Brockton. “Officers interacted […]
Big changes coming to boys’ rep hockey in Grey-Bruce
Big changes are coming to boys’ representative hockey in Grey-Bruce next season. Beginning with the 2025-26 season, the Western Ontario Hockey Association (WOAA) will begin a two-year “A-Zone” pilot project aimed at providing local hockey players with more opportunities to develop and compete in A and B-level representative hockey closer to home. This will be […]
One person in custody following a large police response north of Chepstow
One person is in custody following a large police response north of Chepstow. According to a police media release, South Bruce Ontario Provincial Police (OPP), West Region OPP Emergency Response Team (ERT), West Region OPP K-9, and OPP Aviation Unit responded to an incident in the Municipality of Brockton in Greenock Township on Schmidt Lake […]
Grey-Bruce’s New Year’s Baby adjusting to life in the spotlight
Walter Boone Twigger-Swannell is adjusting to newfound fame and the bright lights of the outside world after becoming Grey-Bruce’s New Year’s Baby at 2:56 a.m. on Jan. 1, 2025, at the Brightshores hospital in Owen Sound. Weighing in at just over seven pounds and born to Devon Twigger and Travis Swannell of Meaford, Walter is […]
South Bruce Peninsula to seek permission to appeal Sauble case to Supreme Court
South Bruce Peninsula officials plan to ask the Supreme Court of Canada for permission to file an appeal related to its boundary dispute with Saugeen First Nation over a section of Sauble Beach. The town announced in a news release on Friday that while a recent Ontario Court of Appeal decision includes some “encouraging statements,” […]