Man sentenced for manslaughter in Owen Sound hotel death

A man charged in the stabbing death of a young man at an Owen Sound hotel two years ago has been sentenced to more than seven years in prison. Mackenzie Paterek, 24, was sentenced to 88 months in prison for manslaughter in the death Kody Hunter, 22, on May 16, 2021 at the Quality Inn […]

Audit ordered into South Bruce Peninsula mayor’s election finances

There will be an independent audit of South Bruce Peninsula Mayor Garry Michi’s election finances and a court prosecutor is to be hired to pursue what “appears” to be a breach of the Municipal Elections Act, the town’s compliance audit committee has ordered. The committee made those orders, detailed in the minutes of the committee, […]

Four years prison for impaired driver in fatal Southgate crash

A Huron-Kinloss man was sentenced to four years in prison for his role in a fatal pickup truck rollover almost four years ago in Southgate. John Franken, who was 25 at the time, was sentenced in the Superior Court of Justice in Owen Sound on June 9. He pleaded guilty to impaired driving causing death […]

Man pleads guilty to manslaughter in Owen Sound hotel death

A third person has pleaded guilty to charges related to the death of a young man at an Owen Sound hotel two years ago. Mackenzie Paterek, 23, of no fixed addressed when arrested, pleaded guilty over Zoom from jail Wednesday in the Superior Court of Justice to manslaughter in the death of Kody Hunter, 22, […]