Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Pumpkin pie contest and a fashion show. That’s a nice way to ease in to Thanksgiving tomorrow. Hale Muskoka is hosting a two-day fall fest today and Friday. ‘In Autumn’ is a new afternoon and early evening seasonal celebration on Bethune Drive North at the “old Simpson barn” property […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — A Scarborough man on probation charged with two thefts at grocery stores here Wednesday will appear in bail court tomorrow after he pressed his luck yesterday Gyorgy Lakatos is also suspected of stealing thousands of dollars of goods from grocery stores in Gravenhurst on September 8 and 17. On Tuesday […]
GRAVENHURST — Fall’s magic continues here Thanksgiving weekend. A two-day celebration dubbed ‘In Autumn’ celebrates the season’s beauty and bounty at the new outdoor Hale Muskoka venue on Bethune Drive North Thursday and Friday afternoons. They say it’s a perfect way to nourish your body and mind before Thanksgiving, with a weekend full of fall-inspired food, […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Headed for home — at least Sarah Street. Slow but sure, C. Valley pavers — the ones who made quick work of James Street paving one night last year — made the turn at Bay and Greavette Street at noon today as they head up hill toward the midway […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — If there was a fly on the wall at yesterday’s celebration of life for Marion and Cyril it would have had giant ears. The kind that became synonymous in the 1970s when Cyril clowned in Gravenhurst parades — and at other times when he peddled down Muskoka Road towering […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Matt Hammersley got more than a heaping plate of great red spaghetti last night at a dinner at St. Paul’s Catholic Church. The 7-year-old Bradford boy got a big hug from his grandmother, Sonja, when he pulled her ticket on a winning door prize at the church fundraiser. She […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com BALA — They were crying in their beer here last Sunday when the last call finally came. After 75 years of it serving “the coldest beer in Bala,” it was cry-fives at the Beer Store for a “couple hundred people — at least,” who rallied around the historic west Muskoka log […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Fear not coffee lovers — another fast food restaurant is destined for Muskoka and James. When Oliver’s Coffee closes here at the end of the month — scary thought — property owner Bill Kalogripsas plans to return it to its 50-year-old Burg and Blizzard roots. But it won’t be […]