Category Archives: Local News

Taxpayers in Saugeen Shores are looking at a 2.82 per cent tax hike this year. Treasurer Lori Sweiger says that will mean an additional $28.58 for the average home assessed at 205 thousand dollars. Ma...

Three Owen Sound police officers will be off duty for at least a week after being injured while trying to arrest a man on the weekend. It happened early Sunday morning at a townhouse unit as a woman w...

A 24 year old woman is recovering at home and Owen Sound Police have charged her boyfriend with a numerous violent offences. Police say the woman was taken to hospital by a relative on the weekend to ...

After a year and a half vacancy — Hanover has filled its Director of Parks, Recreation and Culture. After 18 years as Hanover’s Program Manager — Sherri Walden has been promoted to t...

With the March Break upon us and with the weather being so nice police are warning children that river banks and ice floes are not play areas. South Bruce OPP Constable Kevin Martin says he realizes r...

The final piece of the puzzle is now in place for the North End Sewer Project in Southampton. Saugeen Shores Council approved an agreement Monday night with the Saugeen Ojibway Nation. Southampton war...

A local winner in the latest Heart and Stroke Lottery. Patricia Silk of Wiarton had the winning ticket for a new vehicle. Patricia has the choice of a 2010 Jeep Compass Sport or a 2010 Dodge Caliber S...

Funds are being collected for the late Stewart Clark’s family of Port Elgin. He was the passenger in the vehicle that slammed into a tree at the intersection of Arlington and Mill Streets in Por...

Bruce Grey Owen Sound MPP Bill Murdoch is at it again. The outspoken Progressive Conservative wants to split Toronto off from the rest of Ontario — and make it its own province. Murdoch says rur...

Volunteer firefighters from five departments spent five hours trying to control a barn fire just east of Wingham that killed about five thousand pigs. The blaze on Monday completely destroyed the stru...