Mon June 22: Owen Sound & Bruce-Grey News

News and updates involving Owen Sound Council, Brightshores Health System, Saugeen Ojibway Nation, REACH, an update on 2026 municipal election candidates, and more

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Sunrise as seen from the ceremony held Sunday morning at the Gichi-Name Wiikwedong Reconciliation Garden at Kelso Beach in Nawash Park, to mark National Indigenous Peoples Day. Photo credit: Rebecca Raynsford

With two months left for candidates to file, the ballots for the October 26 municipal election are filling in across Owen Sound and Grey-Bruce — though several council and deputy mayor seats still sit empty, and Northern Bruce Peninsula has yet to draw a single name.

Here's who has stepped forward since our late-May count, municipality by municipality.

And so we’re curious…

Public Notice

• The City of Owen Sound is notifying motorists of a two-day full closure of 9th Avenue East from 8th Street East to 9th Street East on Monday, June 22 and Tuesday, June 23

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Keep Reading

Today’s edition includes our report on a vehicle fire in Hanover, how Owen Sound’s intersections safety talks came to a halt, a big scratch ticket win for a Chatsworth woman, a CBC feature on a local mental health and addictions initiative, a local musician’s cool summer gig aboard VIA Rail, and a lot more. Keep reading.

Miranda Miller
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