Category Archives: Local News

The Grey County Kiwanis Festival of Music is off to a good start — and experiencing some growth this year. The festival gives a chance for school students and classes around the region to showca...

About 35 hundred people attended the 28th annual Midwestern Ontario Agri Fair in Chesley. The two day event at the Chesley Community Centre wrapped up on Wednesday night. Organizer Bill Gardhouse says...

It’s ‘Archive Awareness Week’ in Ontario. The Bruce County Museum and Cultural Centre in Southampton is celebrating the week with a number of activities — including free admiss...

The Owen Sound Little Theatre is getting some star power in its next production. Tom Albrecht, a professional actor with the Stratford and Blyth Shakespeare Festivals will play the lead role in MacBet...

The Owen Sound Artists’ Co-op is celebrating four years of funding for its Youth Arts program. The Co-op has received almost 104 thousand dollars ($103,800) from the Ontario Trillium Foundation ...

Georgian Bluffs hopes to hire a new chief administrative officer sometime in the next couple of months. Former CAO Bill White has now departed the job, having taken the same position with the town of ...

Grey Bruce Health Services is working to enhance its efforts in quality, accountability and transparency. It’s all part of a province wide effort under the “Excellent Care for All” l...

The Tiverton Agricultural Society is celebrating its 150th anniversary this year and have some big plans for special events leading up to the Tiverton Fall Fair in October. They had recently applied f...

Owen Sound Council has not approved the Downtown Improvement Area budget. Council instead tabled the document on Monday and issued an invitation to the Chair of the DIA board of management to attend t...

The Mayors of Owen Sound and Walkerton have a long battle ahead of them to save the jails in their communities from closing. Deb Haswell and David Inglis met Wednesday morning with Jim Bradley —...