Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Hot rodders hangin’ out on main street. Bet you haven’t seen that since … well — the ’50s. If you were alive then — or maybe on TV or in the movies. Certainly not streaming. But here it was — back again — Saturday night on Muskoka Road. Dave […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — Three Muskoka cases reported over the Canada Day weekend shows COVID stubbornly hanging on. With two of three locals vaccinated and one in three double vaxxed the corona risk is close to third base — if not headed home like maybe the Jays at the end of the month. […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — While the return of the Northlander train may be years away, starting today Ontario Northland is making stops at the Union Station Bus Terminal and King City Go Station for travellers to Toronto. That’s in addition to several stops at top hospitals in province’s capital city and heath hub. […]
RUSTY DRAPER | Chewin’ the Fat I’m starting to question my senses — while most of you have been questioning them for years. It all happened the other day while driving down the street. The day I’m speaking of was a beautiful, warm sunny day. There was perfect reason that every man, woman and child […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com BRACEBRIDGE — The body of a swimmer who drowned last night was found this morning in the Muskoka River. He is the fourth drowning victim this week in Muskoka waters. Provincial police divers recovered the 18-year-old man who went into the water shortly after 7 p.m. Saturday night and didn’t surface, […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com BRACEBRIDGE — A hydro worker who died on the job last month was hit “in a ditch” while pushing a broken-down UTV — but he was not driving it on the road — say his grieving parents. Nathan Reynolds, 27, died June 15 on Hwy. 11 when he was struck by […]
BRACEBRIDGE — Police divers are searching for a swimmer who may have drowned here on the Muskoka River tonight. Emergency services were called Saturday, July 3, shortly after 7 p.m. The OPP and Bracebridge Fire responded to a swimmer in distress on the south branch of the river off Golden Beach Road. Police say the […]
HUNTSVILLE — A man here faces four charges of “historical” sexual assault following a complaint and joint local police investigation. Provincial police say today that officers from the Huntsville OPP detachment and Muskoka Crime Unit conducted an investigation into a complaint that a series of sexual assaults occurred in the years between 2001-2003 involving a […]
GEORGIAN BAY — A search for a swimmer who went missing early this afternoon has ended tragically with his death. Police from Bracebridge were dispatched at 1:10 p.m. Friday July 2 after a call about a possible drowning in Arnolds Bay near Moon Basin Marina. They say members of the public saw a man having […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — While Canada Day celebrations were reserved, some Muskoka musicians still managed to “make a little (respectful) noise.” Albeit muted. In an annual tradition at the home of Muskoka Concert Association president Diane Harrop in Gravenhurst, “O Canada” was heard loud, proud clear across town. Members of the Gravenhurst Bifocals […]
CENTRAL ONTARIO — Tourism is taking off again. With Stage 2 of Ontario’s re-opening plan underway this week Explorers’ Edge is again offering permanent and seasonal residents in the region a “Cottage Country Spirit Package” to explore your own backyard — and to shop local. “There’s no catch,” says James Murphy, executive director of Explorers’ Edge (RTO12), […]
GEORGIAN BAY — Police divers this afternoon are searching Arnolds Bay near Moose Deer Point after a report of a possible drowning. OPP at Bracebridge say they were called at 1:10 p.m. today, July 2, after members of the public saw a man having difficulty in the water. They say he slipped under the surface […]
GRAVENHURST — A Severn township man already in custody — for leading police on a mobility scooter foot chase last week — faces new separate charges involving an altercation between a transport truck driver and pedestrian at the end of May. Police were called to the first incident on Bethune Drive near Violet Street in […]
HUNTSVILLE —A local man released by police Tuesday afternoon for uttering death threats was re-arrested just over two hours later and faces more similar charges after a second incident. Police who aren’t releasing more details of the incidents — “to protect the victim’s safety” — say Scott Mitchell, 47, of Huntsville, was arrested and charged […]
GRAVENHURST — The Rotary Club of Gravenhurst is extending the deadline on applications for its bursary grants to July 10. The fund provides a grant of money to an individual in financial need. To qualify for a Rotary Bursary Endowment Fund grant the applicant must: Be a resident of Gravenhurst (even if attending school such […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — O Canada! What a year this has been. Looking back … the pandemic. policing and patriotism have shown this country the good, the bad and the ugly of being Canadians. It’s been about who we were and are. Preferably more of the latter as we use our 154 years […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Brett Reynolds has followed in his great-uncle’s footsteps. Jack Vincent was an outstanding high school athlete who — astoundingly — twice broke the world record in the 100-yard dash in the 1940s. A track record that lasted at GHS until after his death in 1981. “Jack was an outstanding […]
Tara Collum | Special to MuskokaTODAY.com We’re a nation that often defines ourselves by what we aren’t. Our Canada Day isn’t a huge spectacle with parades; it’s usually a barbecue and fireworks if anything. Gord Downie of the Tragically Hip once remarked, “It’s not Canada Day, it’s just Friday.” Downie was a tireless advocate for […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — It’s one step forward for Ontario and 8 back in the region today as the health unit is reporting 1 COVID case in Bracebridge and 7 in Simcoe. The Muskoka man is between the ages of 18 and 24. He had close contact before being reported to public health […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — On the eve of Ontario’s Step 2 recovery it’s Muskoka 1, Simcoe 2 today as regional cases plummet. A Bracebridge woman, aged 18-34, is under investigation as the latest Muskoka case, after being reported to the health unit June 25 following a first episode the day before. At midnight […]