Greg Cowan

There's a playful glint in Ed Maxwell's blue eyes.On Saturday afternoon, he's seated with three other white-beards at a table inside the Wiarton and District Curling Club. A man who calls himself "Parts Unknown" cuts up a dried crystalline cannabis nug with a pair of small pink scissors.

Big changes are coming to boys' representative hockey in Grey-Bruce next season.Beginning with the 2025-26 season, the Western Ontario Hockey Association (WOAA) will begin a two-year "A-Zone" pilot project aimed at providing local hockey players with an opportunity to develop and compete in A and B-level representative hockey closer to home.

The elephant in the room made an appearance about 30 minutes into Mark Hamel's Dairy Farmers of Ontario update Thursday afternoon during Dairy Day at Grey Bruce Farmers' Week.

The Owen Sound North Stars added a prolific junior scorer and champion-pedigree defenceman as part of this week's Major Series Lacrosse draft.

Owen Sound Attack goaltender Carter George spent some time at the REACH Centre in Owen Sound Wednesday afternoon to talk hockey, and the World Juniors, and to sign autographs for some of the city's biggest Attack fans.Since 2014, the REACH Centre has provided programming for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

A new report details how 28 volunteers helped Grey-Bruce locals file nearly 1,000 income tax and receive 3.3 million in refunds and benefit entitlements thanks to free local tax clinics.

The elephant in the room made an appearance about 30 minutes into Mark Hamel's Dairy Farmers of Ontario update Thursday afternoon during Dairy Day at Grey Bruce Farmers' Week.

That much was evident as the Attack scored four unanswered goals and stormed back to beat the Brampton Steelheads 5-4 in overtime Friday night inside the CAA Centre and in front of 2,125 fans — a good number of them Bears fans.

The shoe was on the other foot for the Owen Sound Attack Saturday night . . . and full of self-inflicted wounds.

Nine local eateries will battle for soup supremacy in the third-annual Soup's On competition in support of Alzheimer Society Grey-Bruce Saturday at the Bayshore.