Category Archives: Local News

Despite challenges that Bluewater District School Board Education Director John Bryant calls opportunities, he believes the annual report for 2011 is a glowing one. Bryant says the pillars of success ...

The Saugeen Shores Chamber of Commerce has a new president. John Kirkham, owner of Kirkham Construction of Southampton, takes over from, now, Past President Cheryl Goetz. Kirkham says he knows he has ...

Called the World’s Most extreme escape artist by Ripley’s Believe it or Not, Steve Santini of Owen Sound is putting on a show in the Scenic City. Santini plans to escape Incineration this ...

Three young men — aged, 17, 18, and 25 — are due in an Owen Sound courtroom in the new year after placing false 911 calls to police. The trio, claiming emergencies had taken place, were ca...

The Medical Officer of Health for Grey Bruce claims services should be better, once changes are fully implemented at the Walkerton health unit office. Doctor Hazel Lynn says those changes will see wor...

Eighteen local food banks are getting a 78 thousand dollar boost from Bruce Power this holiday season. The Tiverton nuclear company is donating 65 thousand dollars to local food banks from Thornbury t...

A trust fund has been set up at Meridian Credit Union for the Stryker family — the owners of Town and Country Garden Centre — after fire destroyed most of their home. The Intertownship Fir...

There is a group in Owen Sound that will meet for the first time to discuss what it will take to restore the city band shell. The band shell, across from the public library, has been closed off by cit...

Good news for a three year old boy who was seriously injured after falling off a livestock wagon. Grey County OPP tell us the boy has now been released from Victoria Hospital in London. The boy was ru...

It was standing room only at Kincardine council chambers as residents came to hear a presentation on the Armow Wind Project. The developers are apparently looking for a little leeway from Kincardine p...