Category Archives: Local News

Juno Award winner and former drummer of the Crash Test Dummies, Mitch Dorge, is in Owen Sound today. He is presenting the second prize of a national contest. Dorge will be at West Hill secondary schoo...

Bruce Power is not interested in buying Atomic Energy of Canada’s nuclear reactor business. AECL’s business is up for sale. The federal government now says the Crown company is being put o...

What a day for the 13th annual Cops for Cancer campaign. About 30 people participated in the downtown Owen Sound shave off today — and raised about 25 thousand dollars. That tops the totals rais...

Two local municipalities are saving money on life insurance for their employees. Councils in Saugeen Shores and Arran-Elderslie have followed the recommendations of their brokers and have decided to s...

Students at Sacred Heart High School in Walkerton are holding their own Relay for Life event tonight. The 12 hour event to raise money for cancer research begins at 7 PM. Student Aven Hoffarth says th...

A report on Kincardine’s future indoor recreation needs says the municipality’s existing facilities should meet the requirements for a few years to come, but some changes will be necessary...

A task force has been set up to deal with the problem of Crystal meth in Grey Bruce. Co-chair of the task force Sandy Stockman says she is overwhelmed by the positive response from different community...

Hard work has certainly paid off for 16 year old Megan Schlorff. The Walkerton Sacred Heart High School student has just returned from the Canada Wide Science Fair with two gold medals, a 10 thousand ...

An Owen Sound woman is counting down they days until she begins a marathon bicycle ride across Canada to raise money for Children’s Cancer Research. Kathy Pecjak is one of 36 people chosen to ta...

The Grey Bruce Health Service will continue to bleed red ink for a little while longer. That is the assessment in an external review of the Hospital operations requested by the South West Local Health...