Dec 10 - Local News & Events + Community Poll

Plus: We kick off our 2024 Year in Review with a popular column from master gardener Jennifer Deeks

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An American Tree Sparrow in the snow in our backyard, December 5, Owen Sound. Photo by Rob Wray. Explore more of the natural world in John Dickson’s OSFN Updates below.

City of Owen Sound budget meetings continue today, picking up where they left off with their Special Meeting agenda.

You can watch the meeting live beginning at 9 a.m. on Rogers Cable TV, the Rogers TV website, or by selecting the meeting from the calendar on this page of the City’s website.

Community Poll: Emergency Services

For our part, The Owen Sound Current’s work continues on our Midterm Council Report.

We’re looking at how they’re doing through various lenses, one of those being electorate satisfaction with the decisions they’ve made and quality of services overall. Today, we’d like to know:

2024 Year in Review

As the year winds down, we’ll be highlighting some of the most thoughtful, interesting, and unique columns published this year. Some will make you think, some will offer perspectives you may not have considered, and some are just plain fun.

We’re bringing these selections out of the Owen Sound Current archive for your pre-holiday reading enjoyment. (Our articles and columns automatically archive four weeks after publication—but don’t forget, full subscribers always have unlimited access.)

A heartfelt thank you to our Founding & Sustaining Supporters, whose contributions fuel our writers’ fund and make it possible to share more stories and experiences from every corner of our community.

We’re looking forward to introducing you to some more local columnists in 2025, too. Stay tuned for that! Without further ado, we’ll kick things off with a walk down memory lane at a Bruce Peninsula cottage, courtesy of Jennifer Deeks:

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Keep reading for our original reporting + curated local news updates, plus upcoming event listings. Today, you’ll find updates from the Owen Sound Field Naturalists, a decision from the Court of Appeals on the contested Sauble Beach land ruling, the latest in climate action news from Grey County, new coverage of the Lisa Maas case, and a lot more.

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