A Piping plover sighting Sunday at Sauble Beach is a hopeful sign. Don Kennedy photographed the male bird on the beach — until recently a favourite nesting area for the small, endangered shorebird after a long absence — but Monday he was gone, or so it seems. Every spring, dedicated locals keep watch for the […]
South Bruce Peninsula’s appeal of a decision recognizing Saugeen First Nation’s ownership of more beach at Sauble Beach might not go to trial May 27. Two days of negotiations are planned involving federal and provincial representatives, the town and Saugeen in the next two weeks. Saugeen Chief Conrad Ritchie and South Bruce Peninsula Mayor Jay Kirkland […]
Less beach to patrol and an onus put on education rather than enforcement significantly reduced revenue and ticketed offences at Sauble Beach this year. South Bruce Peninsula bylaw officers issued just three provincial offences notices in 2023, compared to 740 in 2022. According to the 2023 beach bylaw and paid parking year-end staff report presented […]
Bruce County councillors voted to approve a reallocation of $26,500 to fund 50 per cent of Grey Transit Route 5 from Wiarton to Owen Sound for the remainder of 2024 after Grey County cuts off funding in September. At a Feb. 22 meeting, Grey County council voted to cease operating Route 5 on Sept. 2, […]
South Bruce Peninsula council has supported the construction of a new town hall at its newly purchased property near Bluewater Park in Wiarton. At a meeting on Tuesday, council endorsed the use of the property for the town hall, utilizing the existing steel frame structure of the former grocery store on the site, which is […]
A 31-year-old man of no fixed address faces a slew of drug and weapons charges after being spotted by the owner of a Sauble Beach cottage on video surveillance. According to the Grey Bruce OPP, police responded to a report of a suspicious vehicle parked in the laneway of the property owner’s vacant seasonal residence […]
The wheels are in motion to bring a new event to Wiarton during the Civic Holiday weekend. Mike Mason and Joe Vanderzand were at South Bruce Peninsula council on Tuesday where they outlined plans for the Wiarton Homecoming Weekend 2024, filling the void left by the discontinuation of the long-running Wiarton Village Fair. “The pandemic…
While Wiarton’s Bluewater Park became a little kid magnet with fun things for them to do Saturday during Wiarton Willie weekend, the annual Lion’s Club pool tournament at Lloyd’s Smoke Shop drew different fun-seekers. Willie predicted an early spring Friday and there’s been a winter bash in his honour since 1956. But Lloyd’s has been […]
Wiarton Willie will be gently awakened from his winter slumber starting later this week. Each day, town staff will slightly raise the temperature in his enclosure so that come Friday, Feb. 2, Groundhog Day, Willie should be up and at ‘em. There is much anticipation of the albino groundhog’s annual prediction, from all corners of […]
Every Monday and Wednesday for almost a year now, volunteers have cooked meals in Wiarton for homeless people, those struggling to pay for food and elderly people who may be shut in or can no longer cook. They’ve organized themselves into groups of two or three to cook, 29 volunteers in all, and have prepared […]
One week in May is scheduled for the Appeal Court for Ontario to hear arguments in South Bruce Peninsula’s appeal of a decision which found Saugeen First Nation owns most of the north beach at Sauble Beach. The case will be heard starting May 27 in Toronto and will be available for viewing on Zoom, […]
A longtime Wiarton and District Chamber of Commerce member and insurance professional is the newest council member for South Bruce Peninsula. Councillors appointed Paul Deacon to the vacant seat during a special meeting Tuesday afternoon in which 12 applicants had the opportunity to give a three-minute pitch for the position. The applicants included Deacon, John […]
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