Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Giving peace a chance. Inspired by protests in Minneapolis, a candle-light vigil will take place Sunday afternoon outside Trinity United Church Feb. 1. The peaceful gathering will bring together all like-minded people deeply concerned about events around the world — notably recently in the United States. The ‘Vigil of […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — “Education and good fun.” That sums up a $3.2 million reno and retro fit of the Segwun and Muskoka Discovery Centre this year. The oldest operating steamship in North America and the ever-evolving Muskoka Lakes learning centre are undergoing a stem to stern makeover and more interactive dockside entertainment […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — A morning blaze that sent a huge black plume of smoke across frigid Muskoka Lake destroyed a waterfront cottage-home at the end of Parker’s Point Road. Nobody was home at the time and there no injuries were reported, the Gravenhurst Fire Department said. Friday’s fire that was first called […]
GRAVENHURST — A weapons call here late Wednesday afternoon had police responding and closing streets around the main intersection here. Officers responded January 28, at 5:30 p.m., to a report from a member of the public on Bay Street after they believed a person had pointed a firearm at the street from an apartment near Bay […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — It was another big step today toward this summer’s new Gravenhurst Health Hub to serve south Muskoka. After fundraising $1 million, it’s now officially on to renovating the Cottage Family Health Team’s second floor into “purpose-built” medical offices “closer to home.” With a goal to provide some “half the […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE MUSKOKA — A schools and health unit crackdown next week on kids aged eight and nine spells the end of classes for them if they don’t have their vaccination records in check. On Tuesday, Feb. 3, the Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit (SMDHU) says that in accordance with the Ontario’s Immunization […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — They’ve done it again. The little service club that can and does. After tipping their fundraising scale at $1 million on Jan. 1, the Gravenhurst Rotary Club is “breaking ground” Wednesday morning — if they can first chip through the snow and ice outside for a photo-op for the […]
BRACEBRIDGE — A man whose vehicle hit snowbank here Monday Jan. 19 has been charged with impaired operation. Police say that at 9 p.m. officers responded to a report from a member of the public about a single vehicle collision at the on-ramp to Highway 11 North on Highway 118. Kalob Temple, 21, of Orilia, […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com CENTRAL ONTARIO — The cold and snow that is causing chaos for pedestrians and drivers up and down Muskoka through to Barrie yesterday continues. More accidents, including an early morning crash yesterday had police and emergency services busier than normal at this time of the new year. On Friday January 23, […]
HUNTSVILLE — Counterfeit cash is being spread around town by residents here, say police, causing businesses to lose money as a result of this criminal activity. They say that in the past few months numerous businesses and financial institutions have reported receiving counterfeit $50 and $20 bills. The suspects count on people not paying close […]
HUNTSVILLE — A Huntsville driver and his Bracebridge passenger were charged yesterday morning after the vehicle they were in ran into a snowbank. Police say that on January 22, at 9 a.m., officers were notified of a vehicle partially stuck in a snowbank at an address on King William Street in Huntsville. Muskoka EMS and […]
LETTER TO EDITOR: I think Canadians are ready for some strong medicine and solutions of action. We have 40 million people and an immense pool of resources. Remove interprovincial barriers. Build pipelines. Cut the size of government and reduce taxes. Get rid of supply side management. I think Donald Trump keeps mentioning the last, not […]
HUNTSVILLE — This week’s wintry blast yesterday led police to an early morning highway rollover on Hwy. 11. The OPP were notified Wednesday, January 21, at 7:15a.m., by a ONSTAR satellite alert after a motor vehicle collision on Highway 11 northbound near Stephenson Rd. between Bracebridge and Huntsville. Reports were the vehicle was on its […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com OPINION When Doug Ford rolled in to Deerhurst Resort this summer for Mark Carney talks, his convoy of premier vehicles was led by a GM SUV. Followed by a half-dozen other gleaming back gas guzzlers — most driven up from a Toronto fly-in. Save for Ontario’s premier who breezed in to […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com OPINION In the “new world’s” daily parlance of hyperbole, to say Donald Trump got “iced” today at Davos is no exaggeration. An irony on its own — and Golden moment — I’d both suggest. The bullying 45-47 U.S. president was shot down today in the face of allied resistance and public […]
LETTER TO EDITOR: Ed. Note: At a Township of Muskoka Lakes planning meeting Jan. 15, council directed staff to look into the possibility of a Municipal Contractor Licensing System after a resident blamed “illegal work” on a contractor he claimed told him he “didn’t need permits.” While that resident now has to take remedial action […]
BRACEBRIDGE — A collision on Hwy. 11 Southbound at the southbound ramp from Taylor Rd, Bracebridge in Bracebridge has closed all lanes this afternoon. The accident happened just before 2 p.m. as a second day of snow continued across Muskoka. The report comes after the OPP said just after 1 p.m. that there was another […]
HUNTSVILLE — A Bracebridge driver faces impaired charges after police pulled over his unlit vehicle Saturday. On January 17 at 7:45p.m., Huntsville O.P.P. officers were on patrol on Main Street West when they observed a vehicle failing to signal its turns and had no headlights on. Officers pulled over the vehicle and quickly suspected the driver […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com BRACEBRIDGE — A pair of thefts this month from the Sportsplex has police on the lookout for a suspect here. The OPP is investigating the two separate — but possibly related — incidents of theft here on Clearbrook Trail Bracebridge with odd circumstances. On Monday January 5, between 11:30 a.m. and […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com BRACEBRIDGE — Buffalo Bills fans missed most of the second period of the Bears game here last night at home as they kept one eye on the ice and the other on the NFL AFC division game on a new lobby TV behind the Bracebridge arena net. Muskoka’s Jr. C team […]