ORILLIA – A Hwy. 11 police chase this afternoon between Barrie and Orillia that saw several vehicles involved in crashes has landed a suspect under arrest and in hospital. Provincial police at Orillia say that on Friday officers, supported by Barrie Police Service, responded to a call for theft of gas on at Gasoline Alley […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — A stellar team of GHS robotics students are in Barrie this weekend, game to help defend against an asteroid shower that is threatening their high tech teen. GryphTech Robotics 6864 members have built their ultimate weapon for the FIRST Robotics competition in this year’s game, “Infinite Recharge.” An asteroid […]
GRAVENHURST – It is with great pride that our Gravenhurst Rotary Club highlights two active members of our community for their “Service Above Self.” The Paul Harris award, one of our highest recognitions, was presented to Judy Humphries and Marv McCabe at their Monday noon meeting this week. Both of these individuals have been instrumental […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — A company where a worker died in 2018 while installing chains on a truck tire has been fined $125,000. Plus a 25 per cent victim surcharge. Great Northern Insulation (GNI), a Woodstock-based insulation company with a location in Gravenhurst, was convicted Feb. 25, following the Nov. 23, 2018 accident. […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Pond hockey’s popularity peaked Saturday with a frozen four faceoff that raised Canada’s outdoor game to new commercial heights sponsored by Dunkin’ Donuts and Budweiser beer. Team Iceland took home the woody in the A division of the Barstool tournament, which combined best of shinny and showmanship. The Mississauga […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com BARRIE — If you’re going to leave an inheritance to a child on their 21st birthday, make sure they’re not “leapers.” Or they’ll have to wait a long time, if ever, for the money. As young pirate Frederic famously learned in “The Pirates of Penzance.” Leap year babies are more than […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com BRACEBRIDGE — A snowmobiler was listed in serious condition tonight after being thrown from his machine this morning. Provincial police say they were responded to a 911 call, along with Muskoka EMS and Bracebridge Fire, for assistance on a snowmobile trail about two kilometres in from Graves Road and Manitoba Street […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Imagine a new you. Because the old you is like the old Weight Watchers — a thing of the past — if you want to get serious. The company that for more than 55 years has helped millions lose weight with the latest nutritional and behaviour change science is […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Plans for a major housing development at the south end of Gravenhurst have been fast-tracked. Major zoning and official plan amendments were approved Tuesday at a town planning council meeting. And SkyDev president Greg Jones said in an email Thursday to MuskokaTODAY.com that as a result: “All looks good […]
Story and photos by Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com BRACEBRIDGE — What do you do when the star comes down with laryngitis days just days before opening night? In the old days you’d wrap a towel around her neck, tell her to gargle with salt water, drink plenty of fluids including honey tea — and hang […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Another in the excellent series of History Lives Talks presented by Judy Humphries of the Gravenhurst Archives takes place Wednesday night at the Gravenhurst Library. It’s called: Founding Families: Who are the people who gave us our great beginnings? Brock, Brown, Cockburn, Mickle, Mowry, Marter and more…. If you […]
QUEEN’S PARK — With the doors to the new Andy’s House hospice in Port Carling nearly open, the province has guaranteed annual funding of $315,000 for the first three beds. Tuesday in the Ontario legislature, MPP Norm Miller thanked the minister of health. Mr. Norman Miller: A few weeks ago, I had the honour of announcing […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — A $100-million hotel, apartments and retail proposal for the lands bordered around Sobey’s and Canadian Tire here is coming back to town council tomorrow. Guelph-based SkyDev, which bought the retail lands with the LCBO, Dollarama and Wild Wing restaurant, for $30 million last January wants to build an 89-room […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com BRACEBRIDGE — Andi Stevenson “would do anything for a play.” Including skipping recesses to go over the script a “millions of times” to master the hundreds of lines in her starring role in Matilda The Musical. Not bad for a nine-year-old who carries the annual Bracebridge Rotary show with a cast […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — It was a great night for walkers tonight. Warm and sunny. And the temperature was nice, too. Close to 200 kids, adults, families and volunteers joined the 33 teams on the Coldest Night of the Year fundraising walk downtown for GAP. As of walk time they had pledges of […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Public protests took over the main intersection here today at noon as striking teachers united in “solidarity” with Climate Muskoka demonstrators. Amid a constant honking of horns, the corner of Bay Street and Muskoka Road was filled with dozens of placard-wearing and waving protesters calling for provincial and federal […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Girls hockey — it has a good ring to it, doesn’t it. In Gravenhurst it’s the Muskoka Royals, who play in the Muskoka Ringette Association. A “team-based winter sport played on ice for all ages.” The league, formed almost 20 years ago, services the entire Muskoka area, including Bala […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Nick Vervaeke says he didn’t see it coming. He was the only one in the rink who didn’t Monday, when the Flying Fathers landed in Gravenhurst for a fundraiser for the Free Stuff for Daily Needs charity. What Vervaeke thought was an “ordination” into the famed hockey team turned […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — With another cold snap Thursday calling for an overnight temperature of -16, local organizers of the annual Coldest Night of the Year walk are bundling up for Saturday’s GAP fundraiser. And three days out, the thermometer is expected to creep up to a relatively balmy -5 by 5 p.m. […]
GRAVENHURST — Robotics students here at the local high school welcome those interested in their tech achievements to date. Gryphtech Robobitics will be hosting an open house Thursday afternoon, Feb. 20, at 5 p.m. in their classroom lab, Room #136. It’s located in the west tech wing. All adults and students are welcome free of […]