Twenty-one years after its first publication, Gas Head Willy, a detective story set in Owen Sound in the early 1920s written by local author Richard J. Thomas, will be available both on stage and on the internet.
Owen Sound Little Theatre veteran Bill Murphy has adapted the novel into a play which will premiere at The Roxy on September 22-23. Filled with boozers, brawlers and bootleggers, the stage production will take the form of a 1940s...
-by Anne Finlay-Stewart
David Salter tells me his Antique Shoppe stands today where a large mercantile building in Owen Sound burned down in the 1920s. His store was spared last week in the arsonist's blaze that badly damaged neighbouring businesses and apartments. For that he is truly grateful.
We sat in the store still cordoned off with yellow tape and spoke over the hum of industrial fans....
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On Friday, September 1, five separate fires were extinguished in the downtown area of Owen Sound. by the Owen Sound Fire and Inter-Township Fire Departments
In the early afternoon of Monday, September 4, the Owen Sound Police arrested a 42 year old Owen Sound man for Arson.
As a result of the investigation the following charges have been laid:
- by Anne Finlay-Stewart
Many young locals have found the joy in dancing with the help of Ann Milne in Owen Sound. Now one of those has come home in every sense of the word to run the Owen Sound Dance Academy.
I met Adela Cleverley and one of her classmates from the York University dance program at a local coffee shop to talk about the new adventure.
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