Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — Widespread rains with weather forecasts this coming week predicting daytime highs of 3°C to 20°C and overnight lows between -4°C and 10°C — include up to 65 mm of more precipitation. The Ministry of Natural Resources has issued a “flood warning” is in effect until next Wednesday, April 22. […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Mike Eddy wants to get one thing straight first. His new Muskoka Mushroom & Plant Store is not another pot shop. “It’s got nothing to do with that. “I’m selling gourmet mushrooms” — not magic mushrooms — next to one of several cannabis shops in town. “No, it’s just […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Come for the haircut — get an earful. The Slick Back Barber is a welcome, informative — interesting — and enjoyable addition to the main street business community here. Kurtis Baker and “my girl” Amanda Burrows are the latest entrepreneurs attempting the revival and rejuvenation of Gravenhurst’s Muskoka Road […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com BRACEBRIDGE — Bob Jacob (“not Jacobs”) is two-for-two. His second million-dollar donation to the South Muskoka Memorial Hospital Foundation was celebrated this afternoon with the names of he and his late wife, Lynn, being placed in prominence over the front entrance to the hospital. “Look, they spelled my name right — […]
HUNTSVILLE — Four business break and enters March 27 and April 3-4 have police in Huntsville asking if anyone has seen the suspects caught in security camera images. According to police, on: Friday March 27: Main Street, Huntsville At 2:50 a.m. an unknown suspect broke a window and gained entry to a restaurant on Main […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com NORTH BAY — Riding the Northlander one-way from Gravenhurst to Toronto will cost adults $67, seniors/students $57 and kids $33.50. Return costs are double that for the train the still has not start date for service. That’s the word today as fares were finally announced at Ontario Northland’s headquarters in North […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com BALA — A near tragedy was averted early this morning when a fire broke out behind the Bala Falls Pub with flames just feet from the front side of the Kee to Bala. Muskoka Lakes Firefighters jumped on the flames just before 6 a.m. Monday after a 911 call about “reported […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com PHOTOS Alex Hogg | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — I’m immortalized. Photographers are often camera-shy. Not always I. But thanks to the ‘RMS Segwun Storyboard’ project unveiled last weekend, I can now say I’ve been painted into the centre of an iconic Muskoka artwork. And who doesn’t secretly want to live on on canvas? […]