Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com Subscribe: E-transfer $30 to news@muskokatoday.com GRAVENHURST — If ever there was a poster boy for Canada’s toughness, imagine George Chuvalo on a $100 bill. Mark Carney could use the stand-up guy in his tariff fight. “He was one tough son of a bitch,” remembers Howie Ungerman, whose dad Irv managed the Canadian […]

MUSKOKA — Nothing really new on the roads the first two weeks of September, say police. They detachment out of Bracebridge reports another half dozen people charged with impaired operation. On Tuesday, September 1, at 11:45 a.m., an officer conducting traffic enforcement on Highway 11 North near Alpine Ranch Road in Bracebridge noticed a vehicle […]

Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com Subscribe: E-transfer $30 to news@muskokatoday.com HUNTSVILLE — Listen to any rap or hip hop song and you’ll hear a sample or influence of Motown. “A, B, C. Easy as 1, 2, 3.” Last night’s Motown Gold concert here at the Algonquin Theatre had both. The original Jackson Five song and snippets of […]

Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com Subscribe: E-transfer $30 to news@muskokatoday.com MUSKOKA — Simu Liu, David Beckham, Mark Wahlberg, Ryan Reynolds, Blake Lively, Marky Mark, Cindy Crawford, Shaquille O’Neill, Jimmy Fallon, Ella Rubin, Harry Styles, Tom Hanks, Stephen Spielberg, Goldie, Kurt Russell, Kate Hudson, Justin Beiber … and the hit list goes on. And that doesn’t include NHLers […]

MUSKOKA — Two free films this week hit home in Muskoka. Housing and seniors life. The first is Sunday, Sept. 13, at the Rene Caisse Theatre in Bracebridge, exploring housing followed by an in-person Q&A with the film’s director Dr. Brian Doucet. YWCA Muskoka executive director, Hannah Lin says “this is especially timely with municipal […]

Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com Subscribe: E-transfer $30 to news@muskokatoday.com GRAVENHURST — A late August fire at its headquarters that forced the OPP’s Underwater Search and Rescue out of its provincial dispatch centre has led the demolition of the metal-clad garage facility attached at the back. By early next week the final girders will be down on […]

HUNTSVILLE — A woman driving an e-scooter — which is illegal in Huntsville — was charged with impaired operation following an accident late yesterday afternoon. On Friday, September 11, at 5:30 p.m., officers responded to a report of a single e-scooter collision on Earls Road in Huntsville. Responding officers began an impaired driving investigation. As […]

Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com Subscribe: E-transfer $30 to news@muskokatoday.com GRAVNHURST — Not to be confused with the TV show “Still Standing” with Johnny Harris, a play on tomorrow (Saturday) afternoon at the Opera House still has many similarities. The former is about struggling towns — the latter is about people with Alzheimer’s who are also still […]