Category Archives: Local News

Local MPP Bill Murdoch is still on the outside looking in at the Legislature. A meeting yesterday with Speaker Steve Peters to see if the Bruce Grey Owen Sound MPP would be allowed back in the chamber...

Former Federal Health Minister and Liberal MP Doctor Carolyn Bennett will be in Owen Sound on Thursday to take part in a special meeting dealing with women’s rural issues. The meeting is being o...

A new restaurant on the site of the former Burger King on the Sunset Strip is another step closer to reality. Owen Sound Bar BQ and Grill received site plan approval from Georgian Bluffs council on We...

Changes are coming to South Bruce Grey Health Centre. A total of 14.6 full time equivalents in the Dietary Department are going to be cut to save five hundred thousand dollars following a benchmarking...

Still some minor tweaking by the treasurer but Saugeen Shores council has completed preliminary budget talks. Vice Deputy Mayor Doug Gowanlock says they met again on Wednesday and whittled away at an ...

When people picture child poverty, areas such as Grey Bruce likely don’t come to mind. But according to Grey Bruce Children’s Alliance — poverty is a very real problem in this area. ...

It looks like the Hanover and District Hospital is going to end the 2009 -2010 fiscal year on a high note. Officials are projecting a surplus by the Hospital’s year end on March 31st. The Hospit...

The Bruce Grey Catholic School Board will soon have its own Reading Specialist. The board has received a 15 thousand scholarship to send one of its teachers back to school. Superintendent of Education...

The C. Difficile outbreak at the Hanover and District Hospital is over. The Hanover and District Hospital is breathing a sigh of relief. After battling the super bug since November, the Grey Bruce Hea...

Owen Sound will have a new transit operator — Miller Transit Limited of Markham, a division of the Miller Group headed by city native Leo McArthur. Not everyone is happy with the decision to com...