City staff recommend against returning birds to Harrison Park

Owen Sound Sun Times

Prospects look dim for restoring the exotic birds to the bird sanctuary in Harrison Park, after an outbreak of avian flu led to a mass culling of those birds in September 2022, but the city’s swans could remain. Owen Sound’s draft master plan for Harrison Park recommends not keeping exotic bird or swans and waterfowl […]

Harrison Park road closure Monday for tree work

Owen Sound Sun Times

Workers will be cutting down and removing “high priority” ash trees infested with the emerald ash borer on Monday in Owen Sound’s Harrison Park. The entrance road to the park will be closed from the entrance pillars from 5:30 a.m. until 4 p.m. on Monday, a notice from the city said. Access to the small […]