Life

hub-logo-white

middle-header-life2

rooftop2Big week for Mudtown Station as the heating/cooling units and the chilling unit for the brewing equipment were placed on the roof of the former CPR Rail Station on the Owen Sound waterfront.  Insulation and electrical work are moving forward quickly and things are really progressing now that the deep freeze has ended and the snow subsided.

Brewmaster Morag Kloeze will be....

milkmaid- by Anne Finlay-Stewart, Editor

Some of the best news we've heard all winter - The Milk Maid is opening Friday and Saturday evenings until 10 p.m. in downtown Owen Sound.

 

We sat down with owner Cody Hawes to talk about the business and its growing place in our city.

Cody went to work for then-owner Jennifer Smith when The Milk Maid Fine Cheese and Gourmet Food was only a few weeks old. (For the curious - Jennifer has now...

stthomas- by Anne Finlay-Stewart, Editor
Spurred by Tess Kalinowski's front-page story in the Toronto Star before Christmas, interest is high in our former Grey County Courthouse. But the 1854 building is not your only chance to build your business in an Owen Sound heritage building.

What is now the Coach Inn at 2nd Avenue and 10th Street was once the Seldon House. According to the City's Corkscrew City tour, it was "built in 1887 as a hotel with 44 rooms, three parlours, a bar, dining room and sample rooms...

between-our-steps-01-17-18-doubleWhen a baby cries in the night, one of the parents gets up. No matter how tired they are, the parents know that the baby is hungry and needs to be fed.

I have come home from a late-night meeting, tired and in town clothes, gotten out of the car, and heard a

shoppingcart- by Anne Finlay-Stewart

For the third in our series about living on minimum wage, I interviewed a local woman who has asked us not to use her name for fear of putting her precarious work at risk.
Here is "Marie's" story.

Marie is from this area; her father worked on some of the famous lakers. She had a steady job at Edwards in Owen Sound in the 1990s, making $16 an hour – about double the minimum wage at the time – before she was laid off as the out-sourcing trend began to take hold. She moved to Cambridge to find work, and was soon making switches for...

Hub-Bottom-Tagline

CopyRight ©2015, ©2016, ©2017 of Hub Content
is held by content creators