Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Chords and cords. A cold night and a warm room, that was tonight at the Opera House. Where “singer and music maker” hosted the monthly Songs and Stories night Tuesday. Joining him on piano were 17-year-old Meeda Berg and her aunt Ruth Cassie. The trio are all from Huntsville, […]
KEARNEY — A 14-year-old snowmobiler is dead after going off a trail and hitting a tree early Sunday afternoon about 3 p.m. Provincial police at Burk’s Falls identified the teen as Mark Ramolla, of Springwater Township, Ont. The accident occurred near Rain Lake Road, on the Ontario Federation of Snowmobile Clubs’ Top D trail in Kearney. […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST – Day 2 of the Gravenhurst Winter Carnival was another opportunity to experience the outdoors at its seasonal best. And a number of people took advantage from early Sunday morning at the Muskoka Wharf. The day began with four lumberjack shows at the sports field. Over on Lake Muskoka, organizer […]
Photos by Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — There’s still a few more hours of Family Day fun to enjoy the 50th annual Gravenhurst Winter Carnival. But if you missed some or any of the events, here’s a look back on a few of the weekend moments around town, including some of the two dozen […]
LETTER TO EDITOR: Thoughts on the future of the Gravenhurst train station. The building is no longer feasible as a transportation centre. The town should continue to support the heritage building. The Trillium Court at the Opera House now is too expensive for small community groups to rent for meeting space (in the past it […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — The Muskoka Anglers have played their last game in the Canadian Premier Junior Hockey League and their owner has been “banned for life” for “not being a team player.” A league announcement Saturday night said the Gravenhurst-based team was suspended, along with the Scarborough Wexford Raiders. So it’ll be […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Meet snowboard sensation Liam Brearley Family Day. The rising Youth Olympic silver medallist will be speaking twice tomorrow in Gravenhurst — at the Muskoka Discovery Centre at 11 a.m. and at 12:30 p.m. at the YMCA. And he may be back with more medals after amazingly qualifying third among […]
GRAVENHURST — With perfect ice and weather hundreds of hockey players from across Ontario mingled and mixed it up on and off the ice at the 13th 2020 North American Cup Orginal Pond Hockey Classic. More than 80 teams finished round-robin play Saturday and Sunday, with most being eliminated or thrown in the penalty box […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Ignite and unite was the theme of last night’s Gravenhurst Winter Carnival kick-off. Carnival chair and keynote speaker Steve Mulock invited everyone to enjoy 50 events that mark the 50th year of Skokie and friends. The 18 speakers at the Ignite 4.0 event talked about what inspired them in […]
GRAVENHURST — Now’s that’s fresh. An hour after its first delivery, the new meat counter at Tiger was full. On the shelf and within minutes the first sale had gone through the cashier. The new “full-service” grocer opened at 8 a.m. yesterday with a packed four-foot cooler full of beef, chicken and chops. Much of […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MILTON — Dr. Molly Robinson has risen to top dog — litter-ally. The Gravenhurst veterinarian has received the 2020 Rising Star Award from the Ontario Veterinary Medical Association (OVMA). The award, presented in January at the OVMA Conference and Trade Show, honours a veterinarian who’s early in their career and has […]
GRAVENHURST — The Flying Fathers are coming to Gravenhurst on Monday, February 17 at 3 p,m. for a Family Day fun-draiser. Theresa Buker says come cheer the Muskoka Anglers as they take on the famed priests (“Playing and Praying for Peace) in a charity event for the entire family. Tickets for the slap-stick event are […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — Elementary students and their parents will have to fend for themselves again tomorrow. “Please do not put your elementary TLDSB child on the bus on Tuesday,” advises the local school board on its website and social media platforms. Five days after last Thursday’s information picket, teachers will be back on the […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Full-service grocery shopping is the order of the day Wednesday, March 18, when Giant Tiger expands its meat products service to include chicken, chops, steaks, roasts, ground beef and more. The popular discount department store chain at the south end of town, which draws customers from across north and […]
HUNTSVILLE — A spate of drinking and driving charges here has provincial police noting concerns. They say four out of five recent cases involved local drivers in the Huntsville OPP detachment areas. On Friday, January 24 police were called to a suspicious vehicle that was parked in the Otter Lake area of Lake of Bays […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Under a full moon on a frigid Friday night, Devon Morley’s crew of a half dozen ice makers were straightening boards, putting out nets and turning a huge patch of Lake Muskoka into 22 pristine sheets of pond hockey ice as the temperature plummeted toward minus-22. “Perfect conditions” for […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Teachers were back on the job today, after an information picket Thursday. Across the Trillium Lakelands District School Board and province classes were suspended yesterday as hundreds of elementary teachers marched around school perimeters to bring attention to their ongoing labour talks and strife in Ontario. Here at the […]
MINDEN HILLS — Provincial police and the new Provincial Animal Welfare Serivces are investigating alleged ill treatment and poor living conditions of 14 hunting dogs here. They say that on January 22 officers from the Haliburton Highlands OPP detachment were called to an address on County Road 121 in the Township of Minden Hills to […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com BRACEBRIDGE — You know your party’s in trouble when half the caucus wants to be leader. But there’s hope for Ontario Liberals with a new MPP — once a Tory — a promising poll and half a dozen contenders running to erase the tarnished legacy of Kathleen Wynne. Then there’s rebuilding […]
Melanie McLearon | Simcoe Muskoka Family Connexions Let’s talk about Child & Youth Mental Health in Muskoka. On a day that in its 10 years has become a very successful method for breaking the silence about mental health, Simcoe Muskoka Family Connexions (SMFC) wants to keep the conversation going and make sure families in Muskoka […]