Letter to the editor: I have been waiting for a town candidate to come forth with a plan to bombard the provincial government in Toronto, at Queen’s Park, with protests, sit-ins and other pressures to incite them to act on the two huge government properties sitting vacant in Gravenhurst: the former Ontario Hospital property and […]

Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com Subscribe: E-transfer $30 to news@muskokatoday.com MUSKOKA — If you build it they will come. That’s the Ontario Northlander trains and their new passenger platforms still under construction in Bracebridge and Gravenhurst — which may just have “temporary” shelter kiosk at first. The former is well ahead of the latter in south Muskoka, […]

Letter to Editor: We should all be smarting after receiving the scathing criticism by Mark Clairmont in the MuskpokaTODAY.COM online newspaper, regarding our apparent lack of any real vision for the future rebuilding of the Gravenhurst downtown core. See that opinion piece here. He claims we seem not to have any thought-out plan or imagination […]

Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com Subscribe: E-transfer $30 to news@muskokatoday.com GRAVENHURST — The race is on … three weeks to Halloween. And 21 days to the end of the month when the Bay and Beyond construction “will be done.” So says Nick Miandro, the community liaison for Trisan the contractor that has been working its way up […]

SEVERN TOWNSHIP — One person is dead and another driver ended up in hospital after a 4 a.m. northbound crash on Hwy. 11 yesterday morning. Police in Orillia are investigating after officers, paramedics and firefighters were called to a serious two-vehicle collision involving a pickup truck and SUV on Saturday, October 10. The accident involved […]

Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com Subscribe: E-transfer $30 to news@muskokatoday.com Seven historic whistles send the RMS Segwun into season sunset as Muskoka’s steamship season ends on a high note. A spectacular autumn farewell at Muskoka Wharf brings generations of steam heritage roaring back to life for once-in-a-lifetime celebration of steam, sound and local history. GRAVENHURST — With […]

Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com Subscribe: E-transfer $30 to news@muskokatoday.com GEORGIAN BAY TWP. — Five young GTA men aged 22 to 27 face provincial offences charges involving illegal recreation shooting after being stopped Sept. 26 in west Muskoka. The OPP say given that they are not criminal charges, they are not releasing their names. But police say they […]

BRACEBRIDGE — Suspected impaired drivers are batting 1,000 this week after three were charged with serious traffic violations this week. All of the arrests were daytime — with two of them involving more serious charges including a two-vehicle accident and one driver who struck a tree in a school zone, said police in reports today. […]