Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Efforts by friends and emergency services to save a young man boating on Lake Muskoka were unsuccessful late this afternoon. The unidentified man died after being rushed to shore at the Muskoka Wharf public boat launch around dinner time Sunday, June 21, on Father’s Day the first day of […]

Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Muskoka history books are often pleasantly predicated on old photographs. Patrick Boyer — “literary and historical legend:” to quote author Cheryl Cooper — knows the power of art and imagery. Many of the books he has written and published feature cover photos that mirror juxtaposed pictures on the back […]

Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Police confirmed early Saturday morning that the undidentifed 21-year-old man who died in a Gravenhurst Parkway motorcycle accident at Reay Road yesterday afternoon was from Brampton. The two-vehicle mid-afternoon accident Friday that closed the road for four hours was reported at 3:40 p.m. Individuals in the second automobile sustained […]

Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — A 21-year-old man has died in a mid-afternoon collision today with another vehicle on the Gravenhurst Parkway near the Reay Road. Police say they are still investigating the Friday, June 19, accident reported at 3:40 p.m. not far from the Muskoka Airport and Beaver Creek federal prisons. Although emergency […]

Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — At 11 p.m., March 28, 2024, Chance Kay was last seen leaving a Hwy. 11 motel between Gravenhurst and Bracebridge. The 35-year-old Muskoka Lakes Township man hasn’t been seen in more than two years that anyone knows of or will admit. Twelve hours later police responded after a family […]

Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com “I tell you what I want “What I really, really want ….” Spice Girls, ‘Wannabe’ HUNTSVILLE — North Muskokans “really, really want” a new big new hospital here. While south Muskokans remain embroiled in debate over the location and uses of MAHC’s controversial other site — both yet but a decade […]

Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — An Emsdale woman was arrested and charged yesterday afternoon in Bracebridge with theft from the Gravenhurst LCBO by using “technology,“ which also led police to locate the suspect where they also charged him with impaired driving. They say that on Tuesday, June 16, at 1:20 p.m., officers responded to […]

Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com BRACEBRIDGE — A couple years ago, Muskoka author Cheryl Cooper had the idea that fellow writer, novelist, columnist and local historian Patrick Boyer should gather his many diverse feature articles, published in various Muskoka publications over the past 20 or more years between the covers of a book making them easily […]