Category Archives: Local News

Two bridges are now closed for the winter in Chatsworth and one may never re-open. Mayor Bob Pringle says money is the problem right now. He says Chatsworth has 49 bridges, and the aging infrastructur...

The president of the Ontario Medical Association is meeting with local doctors tonight near Owen Sound. Doctor Stewart Kennedy says his trip to Stone Tree Golf and Fitness is part of his provincewide ...

An elaborate plan to sneak Moammar Gadhafi’s son into the Mexico was apparently hatched by a Mount Forest woman. Mexican authorities say a son of the late Libyan dictator and three relatives had...

The head of Minor Hockey in Durham says the screening of people involved in coaching or working with young players on a team, is much better than it was 15 years ago. Rob Nixon is the President of Dur...

Residents in Hanover may want to think twice before they take that extra long hot shower in the morning. As of the new year — it’s going to cost Hanover residents a little more every time ...

A fire Wednesday morning just outside of Owen Sound destroyed a significant portion of a home beside the Town & Country Garden Centre. Inter Township Fire Chief Carl Linthorne estimates damage is ...

The Bluewater District School Board has a new chair and vice-chair for the coming year. Kincardine/Huron-Kinloss trustee Jan Johnstone defeated incumbent Owen Sound trustee Marg Gaviller in a vote amo...

There’s a new warden in Grey County, and it’s Duncan McKinlay. The Deputy Mayor of The Blue Mountains was acclaimed at a meeting of County Council on Tuesday night and his one-year term be...

Owen Sounds’ Mayor took the fight to keep the old LCBO location open, right to the head office of the organization in a 90 minute meeting in Toronto. Mayor Deb Haswell says although they agreed ...

A former Owen Sound psych nurse is going to jail for a year after pleading guilty to sexual assault involving a young female patient. 61 year old Randy Leslie pleaded guilty to the charge in November ...