Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com Subscribe: E-transfer $30 to news@muskokatoday.com MUSKOKA — Another Sunday and another week with no phone call. Steven Readman loved his family, his parents — and his motorcycle. “He always called me on Sunday,” his mom, Linda, said the night before bidding him a fond, final farewell Friday afternoon at his full funeral […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com Subscribe: E-transfer $30 to news@muskokatoday.com LAKE ROSSEAU — An unusual $30,000 cottage theft shows you never know where the thieves come and go from. The OPP report that on Friday, August 7, at 10:45 p.m., officers responded to a report of a break and enter and theft that had occurred at approximately […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com Subscribe: E-transfer $30 to news@muskokatoday.com WINDERMERE — This week’s meteor shower wasn’t the only dark sky attraction this week. Muskoka Chautauqua’s 16th annual festival — with roots a century old — wrapped another successful two weeks of arts and culture here on Lake Rosseau. And it ended with shooting stars of its […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com Subscribe: E-transfer $30 to news@muskokatoday.com GRAVENHURST — Police have charged two people in relation to a shooting at a public housing unit in Gravenhurst last winter, in which a woman suffered a gunshot wound. With one of them in bail court today. On February 9, at 9:30 p.m., officers, along with Muskoka […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com Subscribe: E-transfer $30 to news@muskokatoday.com GRAVENHURST — A man police say interrupted a baseball tournament last evening has been charged with a driving offence. Police say that on Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 5:30 p.m., officers responded to reports of a possible impaired driver after two men became argumentative with families enjoying […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com Subscribe: E-transfer $30 to news@muskokatoday.com BRACEBRIDGE — An early afternoon highway accident today has two people in hospital. Hwy. 11 NB has reopened between Hwy. 117 and High Falls Rd. in Bracebridge, the OPP reported early tonight. With one lane of Hwy. 11 SB closed and soon to open, police said about […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com Subscribe: E-transfer $30 to news@muskokatoday.com GRAVENHURST — You’ve seen the Walking Dead. Wait till you hear the singing dead. “The Plaid” — high school buddies Sparky, Trudge, Jinx and Frankie — “were,” “are” a 1950s four-part harmony group on their way up in more ways than one. February 9, 1964, driving to […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com Subscribe: E-transfer $30 to news@muskokatoday.com GRAVENHURST — Out of the frying pan into the fire. A woman who rolled her vehicle Tuesday landed upside down. But was able to get out of her car with the assistance of paramedics and police. OPP and Muskoka EMS responded quickly to a crash notification August […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com Subscribe: E-transfer $30 to news@muskokatoday.com MACTIER — A couple out canoeing last night here on Stewart Lake — “without life jackets” — capsized just feet from shore, with a man drowning and his “girlfriend” being rescued by two local men and their friends who witnessed the tragedy before they “hauled ass” to […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com Subscribe: E-transfer $30 to news@muskokatoday.com TORRANCE — A 22-year-old vehicle driver was in bail court this morning charged with dangerous operation causing death, after a 52-year-old Lake of Bays man died in a head-on collision last night while riding his motorcycle on Hwy. 169. Police are investigating the fatal collision near Torrance, […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com Subscribe: E-transfer $30 to news@muskokatoday.com WINDERMERE — From the ‘’30s and ’40s to the ’80s to today, Muskoka Chautauqua is back for another exciting 10 days of arts and culture, music and summer entertainment as the cultural hub of Muskoka from Aug. 7-16. See list of events here. After last night’s opening […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com Subscribe: E-transfer $30 to news@muskokatoday.com MUSKOKA — Being the No. 1 overall NHL draft pick in 20210 had to be a thrill of lifetime. But it’s a long way away compared to carrying the Stanley Cup of the Wenonah II onto the dock at your Muskoka cottage. Taylor Hall did that yesterday […]
BRACEBRIDGE — Firefighters assisted police last month in a major illegal cannabis raid on a grow site here on Little Road. The Muskoka Community Street Crime Unit charged a North York man after a spring investigation was begun by the Muskoka Community Street Crime Unit (CSCU) investigators. On July 16 they executed two search warrants […]
BRACEBRIDGE — Early this morning police on patrol here spotted two teens they accuse of attempting to break-in to a vehicle overnight. The OPP say that on Friday, August 7, at 2:45 a.m., officers in the area of Armstrong Street when they came upon two young people allegedly attempting to break into a construction vehicle […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com Subscribe: E-transfer $30 to news@muskokatoday.com MUSKOKA — Call it the “Cottage Cup.” Or maybe the “Baby Cup.” Taylor Hall brought the Stanley Cup to Muskoka today and hoisted it just six weeks after doing likewise June 14 when he scored the winning Carolina goal at home in Game 6 over Vegas to […]
GRAVENHURST — During the summer the Muskoka Community Street Crime Unit (CSCU) investigators began an investigation in to suspected drug trafficking at an apartment complex here. July 10 they say they charged two people after conducting three search warrants at a public housing apartment complex on Bethune Drive South in Gravenhurst. They were assisted by […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com Subscribe: E-transfer $30 to news@muskokatoday.com BRACEBRIDGE — You needn’t wonder what Eva Olsson thought of the recent rise in anti-Semitism. She spoke about it every day: “Her message of acceptance and tolerance, and the devastating impact that hate can have on the world if left unchallenged, touched every single person she met.” […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com Subscribe: E-transfer $30 to news@muskokatoday.com MUSKOKA — An overnight crime spree that led police on a seven-house hunt that went from Huntsville to Port Carling to Georgian Bay led to four teens being charged a week ago. OPP in Bracebridge made the final arrests after police calls began late Tuesday and lasted […]
MUSKOKA — A District of Muskoka plan to build its own robotic pre-fab public housing factory is drawing considerable debate and opposition as the upper tier local government ends a quick public survey this Friday Aug. 7. (See story link bottom for full details on it.) One longtime leading Muskoka business person who has given […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.comSubscribe: E-transfer $30 to news@muskokatoday.com HUNTSVILLE — Another vehicle theft here has police once again asking the public’s help in locating it. After a car-jacking here last week, in which a suspected was arrested and charged within 45 minutes down in Gravenhurst, police now say they are investigating a second unrelated theft. Some […]