Georgian College is looking for rental housing in the Owen Sound area as the need for places for students to live is expected to rise in both the short-term and further into the future. Read More
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The young man takes a seat in the back row of the city’s council chambers and prepares to make a speech about being sexually assaulted at the age of 14 in his school’s bathroom. He looks nervous. He’s delivered the speech 30 times before and, by now, he knows the reaction awaiting him. He won […]
Owen Sound residents fill over 1,200 shoeboxes for Operation Christmas Child
Owen Sound residents packed 1,215 shoeboxes as part of Operation Christmas Child this year, a 30 per cent increase from the 933 packed in 2022 according to organizers. Operation Christmas Child, a project of Samaritan’s Purse, collected 11,330,126 gift-filled shoeboxes globally in 2023—425,209 of these were packed in Canada. Each of the shoeboxes— filled with […]
Tribute highlights Black men’s fight to serve in First World War
When the federal government formally apologizes to descendants of Black men who served in the First World War’s No. 2 Construction Battalion on July 9, an Owen Sound man will be listening closely. Blaine Courtney’s great uncle, Henry Francis Courtney, served in the battalion and is buried in Greenwood Cemetery’s newly created Military Heritage Trail. […]
Snowfall may impact travel Thursday in Midwestern Ontario
While there’s just over two months until the official start of winter, snowfall is expected in parts of the region Wednesday evening and it could impact driving conditions come Thursday morning.
Owen Sound honours some of the best of 2023’s volunteers
Owen Sound’s 2023 volunteer awards were given to Carol Reaney, Parker Davis and Joan Beecroft Monday night at city council. Reaney received the Volunteer of the Year Award. She’s a retired nurse who has volunteered at Grey Bruce Health Services for more than 10 years, where she also sits on several committees. “She has a […]