Category Archives: Local News

After 7 years — Hanover and Brockton are close to expanding their shared landfill site. The technical report and the completion design for the Hanover Walkerton landfill site is now before the M...

Saputo is recalling one of its milk products sold in Ontario and Quebec because it may contain a cleaning solution. The affected product is called Neilson Trutaste two per cent Microfiltered Partly Sk...

The Chief of Police in Owen Sound is warning the public about a new designer drug known as bath salts. Chief Bill Sornberger says it’s even worse than crystal meth. Sornberger says his officers ...

The Owen Sound Crisis Pregnancy Centre hopes an expanded space will raise its profile in the community. Spokesperson Wanda Porter says they’ve been around for 13 years in a rear unit on 10th Str...

A Rally for Accountability of Ontario Children’s Aid Societies is being held today, It is on from 11 AM until 4:30 PM at the CAS Office at 1290 3rd Avenue East in Owen Sound. It is one of severa...

The Queen of the Wiarton Willie Festival will be crowned Friday night. The 2012 pageant is being held in the auditorium of the Wiarton arena at 7 PM. There are nine contestants who have already comple...

It’s been rumoured for months, and now Bayshore Broadcasting News has confirmed that the former PPG plant has been sold. The factory was shuttered about three years ago. At one time, PPG had som...

Today is Family Literacy Day — and what better way to celebrate than with a visit to your local library. South Grey Bruce Youth Literacy Council Coordinator Dyan (Dianne) Jones encourages parent...

The roof of the Harry Lumley Bayshore Community Centre in Owen Sound will be fitted for solar panels starting in the Spring. There will be about 13 hundred panels — and it will generate not only...

Big news out of Chesley this morning. Bayshore Broadcasting News has learned GRS Wood Products Incorporated of China has purchased the former Durham Furniture Plant in Chesley — and will start h...