One person has died following a collision between a pickup truck and a moped north of Flesherton on Wednesday morning. Grey Bruce OPP, Grey County paramedics and the Grey Highlands Fire Department responded to the collision at the intersection of Hwy. 10 and Grey Rd. 32 at 11:40 a.m. As a result of the crash […]
Grey County Warden Brian Milne said Grey County council’s approval of another 391 homes in Dundalk can’t happen fast enough. The phased development includes approval for 292 single detached homes, 24 semis and 75 townhouses, plus land for a new elementary school, which a study found must accommodate 735 pupils. Milne is also Southgate’s mayor […]
A retired local financial advisor warned Grey County council Thursday that the Meaford pumped storage project makes no financial sense without huge government subsidies and so it “should be shelved.” Two weeks ago, Grey County council supported the Ontario Pumped Storage project, subject to impact assessments. The project is proposed by TC Energy in potential […]
West Grey Mayor Kevin Eccles told Grey County council Thursday that he has apologized for telling the CEO and president of South Bruce Grey Health Centre “to keep her hands off the Durham hospital and I’ll promise to keep my hands off of your throat.” Hospital board chair Jim Bagshaw sent a letter addressed to […]
One person has died following a collision involving a pedestrian and a vehicle on Highway 21 west of Owen Sound. Just before 10 p.m. on Tuesday, Grey Bruce OPP, Grey County Paramedics and the Inter Township Fire Department responded to a report of a serious collision on Highway 21 in Georgian Bluffs. The pedestrian was […]
A motorcyclist was airlifted to hospital with serious injuries following a collision in downtown Owen Sound on Monday morning. At about 9:45 a.m., police were called along with the Owen Sound Fire Department and Grey County Paramedic Services to the scene of the collision at the intersection of 9th Street West and 2nd Avenue West, […]
A high school agricultural program’s move to Grey Roots Museum and Archives is being hailed as the start of an “exciting new chapter” for both Grey County and the Bluewater District School Board. On Thursday, an open house was held at Grey Roots west of Rockford, where students, current and former staff, trustees, dignitaries, community […]
A group of Durham residents and the Grey Bruce Health Coalition are fighting to save the Durham hospital as they know it. In a move that stunned residents and some county politicians, the South Bruce Grey Health Centre board of directors and CEO Nancy Shaw announced that the 10 in-patient beds at the Durham hospital […]
A plaque marking the historical Negro Creek settlement, off Highway 6 in the Williamsford area south of Owen Sound, should be erected this summer. That’s the plan, if a place can be found to put it, said Ben Heywood-MacLeod, a member of a committee working to raise the prominence of this mid-19th century Grey County Black […]
Construction of a new, bigger Rockwood Terrance long-term care home in Durham should start in mid-June and be completed in January 2027. Grey County councillors picked a general contractor Thursday, Melloul-Blamey Construction Ltd., whose $59,230,000 bid, excluding HST, is about $5.8 million less than the county had budgeted. That 5.8 per cent variance offers a […]
With assurances from Ontario’s health minister that free well water testing will continue, Grey County council took no action on a local source water protection resolution Thursday. Instead, the county received for information a letter signed by Carl Kuhnke, chair of the Saugeen, Grey Sauble, Northern Bruce Peninsula Source Protection Committee, and another letter from […]
Grey County council conditionally supported TC Energy and Saugeen Ojibway Nation to proceed with their 1,000-megawatt Meaford pumped storage project, subject to getting required approvals, including from SON itself. Six Save Georgian Bay protestors with signs and information cards waited at an entrance to the county building before sitting on one side of the council […]