Fri Aug 15 – Top Stories & What's Happening This Weekend
Plus: News updates on Grey Bruce Public Health, Community Foundation Grey Bruce, Southampton Arts Centre, and more
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We’re already heading into another August weekend, and back-to-school time will be here before you know it. In the meantime, these were your top stories of the week:
Read on for a major update on the Grey Bruce Public Health saga as the province announces it has taken over the board. We have additional news updates involving Grey County, City of Owen Sound, Southampton Arts, Owen Sound Agricultural Society, Summerfolk 50, Grey Bruce OPP, MPP Paul Vickers, and more.
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Public Notices
From the afternoon of Thursday, August 14th, through the end of day Monday, August 18, traffic lanes will be reduced on both sides of the road north of the bridge on the Eddie Sargent Parkway to accommodate The Georgian Bay Folk Society’s 50th Summerfolk Music & Craft Festival. - City of Owen Sound
Opinion
Following yesterday’s Letter to the Editor from Carol Merton, Owen Sound resident Sasha Fernando responds that the City’s July 28 downtown safety meeting was “engagement theatre” — a closed-door session that avoided hard questions about enforcement, accountability, and timelines, despite ongoing public safety concerns in the core.
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