Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — Some gotta dance, some gotta sing. If you’re the latter, this is your weekend to sing it, sing it loud. Or at least sing to along to your heart’s content — non-stop because there’s no intermission. Because the Rock Singers of Muskoka will have you belting out all the […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — A Gravenhurst woman was arrested today and charged with failing to provide necessaries of life in the death of a child in early January 2023. This after the arrest yesterday of Tyler Phillip Whale, 24, of Brampton, who was charged with second degree murder. Both accused were remanded into […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — A change of time this Sunday night has a special combined concert with the Gravenhurst Bifocals Concert Band and the GHS Senior Band performing at 7 p.m. at Trinity United Church. That’s a band of more than 40 brass, woodwind and percussion players. A scheduling error moved the concert […]
PORT SYDNEY — Massive damage to a home here has police looking for the person or persons who went wild smashing a building, dock and pond. Officers from the Huntsville Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) are currently investigating a break and enter and are requesting the public’s assistance to identify suspect(s). On Monday […]
ORILLIA — Police seek suspect in fraud activity at Home Depot here. On March 6 the OPP began investigating after being called by an individual reporting fraudulent activity on a credit card. As part of the ongoing investigation, Home Depot surveillance footage was obtained, seen below. They ask if anyone has information in relation to […]
MUSKOKA — Police say impaired driving continues to be a significant factor impacting the safety of Muskoka roads following two more arrests and charges this past weekend. They follow a pair of local drivers charged also charged Friday and Saturday. See that story here. On Friday, May 17, just before midnight officers had Highway 11 […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.comMUSKOKA — Don’t look for Justin Bieber at a Cup party in Walker’s Point this summer. Muskoka’s most famous summer pop star won’t be visiting his Mitch Marner’s Gravenhurst cottage to hoist Stanley for a taste of NHL victory. Not after last night’s home-iliation. Who knows which of the Panthers, Hurricanes, Oilers […]
MUSKOKA — Victoria Day weekend got off to a quick start with two local drivers charged with impaired driving. Friday night, May 16, at 8:40 p.m., officers along with officers from the Central Region Traffic Incident Management Enforcement (T.I.M.E.) team were conducting a RIDE program on Kanien’keha:ka lohatatie — formerly Muskoka Road 38 — near […]
WINDERMERE — Talk about hitting the links early, a driver left the road at the Windermere Golf & Country Club Saturday and their pickup truck landed on their tennis courts. Police are investigating the collision at the golf course in Muskoka Lakes Township that caused significant damage to the 106-year-old popular private Muskoka golf course […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — “When I’m 92!” Jack Hutton knows that tune all too well. A decade older than Paul McCartney — one half of the Beatles still performing — the “cute” Liverpool lad made “When I’m 64” a goal to live for. Hutton has surpassed that milestone by 28 years ago and […]
DEATH NOTICE Judith “Jude” Hart, 1956 ~ 2025 Judith A. Hart passed away on May 10, 2025, in the Campbell Howe Hospice in Collingwood, Ont. Born April 14, 1956, Jude was in her 69th year. Raised in Parry Sound, Ont., Jude also lived in B.C. and Quebec for many years, before returning in recent years […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Another LCBO theft here cost the provincial supplier at least $5,000 in bottles of booze. The walk-away Wednesday involved a huge amount of expensive scotch. At least an estimated $5,000 and maybe up to $6,000 worth. This week’s take out is the most recent incident at the Muskoka store […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Gordon Sloan would have loved Miranda Yang. She’s a chip off the old centre block. The chipper, glad-handing new owner (last year) of The Old Mill — town’s legendary Sloan’s Restaurant — is undergoing a facelift of the family’s iconic business building. “It’s still open” and she’s intent on […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.comMUSKOKA — Another long weekend … after a long, long winter.Don’t don those trunks just yet if you plan to be first into the lake for your annual spring ritual plunge as the weekend looks a little cool and damp with much the same the rest of the week. While a few […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Momentum is building fast with a third major partner joining a community fundraiser to create a new community “Health Hub” here. The Town of Gravenhurst unanimously committed $200,000 this week at council to the project to top up the vacant second floor of the Cottage Family Health Team’s offices […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — Call it Karaoke on steroids or shower power — times 80 voices. Rock on! Canada strong. Canada first. They are Canadians! A mighty new 80-voice choir that looms as large on stage as the audience their singing for hits the local boards next weekend for a really rockin’ good […]
HUNTSVILLE — A driver and passenger ran in to memorable police in the middle of the night last Monday. On May 5 at 3:26 a.m., officers were conducting a R.I.D.E. checkpoint on Main Street West in Huntsville. A vehicle drove up and he was recognized as being a suspended driver and a male passenger who […]
HUNTSVILLE — A mysterious blaze that lit up downtown Huntsville Friday night Hunter’s Bay and Avery Beach was not a grass fire as originally reported but railway ties on fire. Huntsville/Lake of Bays firefighters received the 911 call at 9 p.m., May 9, next to the tracks in the area of Avery Beach on Yonge […]
MUSKOKA — Summer is shaping up to be another busy season for police taking impaired drivers off the road that could total more than 100 charges this year alone by Labour Day. With six charges the first 11 days in May in south Muskoka they bring the number to 42 since January. If the trend […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — You know it’s a great hotel when the owner sits on the bed and declares it “very comfy, very nice.” Muhammad Akram — who wouldn’t dare put his feet up on the new pristine white duvet cover to not spoil it for a guest last night — gave the […]
