Mark Clairmont

Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com Subscribe: E-transfer $30 to news@muskokatoday.com BRACEBRIDGE — After damaging a day care playground Canada Day weekend, police say vandals were back a little more than three weeks later targetting the year-round kids school for a second time just days ago. “It’s frustrating,” Bracebridge Children’s Place managing director Sarah McKay said this afternoon. […]

Police say recent arrests across Muskoka underscore dangers of impaired driving as enforcement continues in busy summer By Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com Subscribe: E-transfer $30 to news@muskokatoday.com MUSKOKA — Five suspected impaired drivers were charged across Muskoka in the past week, including three within a 24-hour period over the weekend, prompting the Ontario Provincial Police to […]

By Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com Subscribe: E-transfer $30 to news@muskokatoday.com SPARROW LAKE — For a hundred years, the shores of Sparrow Lake have been a backdrop for summer memories, lasting friendships, and the quintessential cottage life. This weekend, the water babies of generations past and present, along with their families, will gather to mark a full […]

Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Like father, like son; like me and my dad. Hugh heard Frank Sinatra at Maple Leaf Gardens; I heard his son at Casino Rama. My dad loved to play Nancy Sinatra’s “These Boots are Made for Walkin’ in his Sandsmen gigs.” Our Muskoka Concert Band played “Crooner’s Serenade” Wednesday […]

Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Unattached residents with health care anxiety can rest assured “hope” isn’t far off. And coming here closer to home. The Gravenhurst Health Hub (GHH) is well on its way to building space for three new nurse practioners, two nurses and comprehensive family wellness services from birth to death. And […]

Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com BRACEBRIDGE — Three people police suspect of break and enter the night before last has the OPP seeking the public’s help in identifying them. They say that on yesterday at 8 a.m., officers responded to the complaint about the incident that occurred in the old Foundary building on Entrance Drive near […]

Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Apologies first, to my GAP customers. If I was a few minutes late today with my food deliveries. I have a good excuse — I was at the noon Brown Bag reunion. And you know how everyone likes to talk at these things. For a reporter who’s stock and […]

Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST  — Hockey, hockey, hockey. School, school, school. Kids keen on improving their skills — in the ever-ending all-year quest for improvement — are back in school for what to some players and families seems like an ever-ending cycle now as they seek the cutting edge for next season whatever town […]

Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com HUNTSVILLE — The Huntsville Fire Department has concluded a lengthy enforcement process involving a multi‑unit residential rental property where a landlord failed to comply with an order issued under the Ontario Fire Code. Over a period of 10 months, Fire Prevention Officers worked with the property owner to address unsafe combustible […]

Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Summer means fun times for most and always more emergencies for paramedics who often have to call in air support. Last evening was such a case. The skies around Muskoka Airport are routinely filled with float planes landing on the lake and even helicopters. But when the distinctive whirring […]

Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — The last time Ross Wooldridge was in town he was backing up “Jack Hutton and Friends” — for the amazing Bala pianist’s always popular ragtime concert. Friday “Canada’s greatest jazz clarinettist” (according to Jack) is back at the Opera House here leading his 10-piece band for “Being Frank.” That’s […]

MUSKOKA LAKES — Public concerns about the behaviour of a pair of late night drivers on Muskoka Road 169 near Bala sent police on a lookout for the vehicles Sunday. On July 19, at 1:40 a.m., officers responded to a report another driver about the condition of the two vehicle operators. They were subsequently found […]

Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — Fire danger remains “high” as wildfires are still choking people locally — especially farther north where some community evacuations continue. However, a complete ban on fires was lifted today, Monday July 20 after rain in some parts of the district during the weekend and cooler temperatures forecast for Tuesday. […]

Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Who says there arn’t big fish in Muskoka’s big and small lakes? Not Jason Xu who is used to pulling bass out of the Gravenhurst bay and beyond. He says the fish are jumpin’ — if you know where to drop your line. He’s fished the the local waters […]

Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Thieves went relatively cheap when they drove off with a newish boat valued at $100,000 the same weekend as the annual Antique and Classic Boat Show. But they didn’t get far with the watercraft after their comically clumsy attempt, say neighbours. Though the black 24-foot, 2023 Sea Ray was […]

Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Old friends, good time — and hopefully good weather. That’s the forecast for a Thursday, July 23, noon reunion of Gravenhurst and Bracebridge high school students at Gull Lake Rotary Park gazebo. In fact all students are welcome at 11:30 a.m. no matter what district school they attended. The […]

Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA LAKES — A Markham man who was boating near Walker’s Point late yesterday afternoon is the third drowning victim of the summer in Muskoka. Police investigating in incident in the Township of Muskoka Lakes — west of Gravenhurst and close to Bala They say that on Saturday, July 18, at […]

Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — On another oppressive day of heat — that a day earlier had a pall of yellow smog blanketing Muskoka — a “town hall” meeting left a further bitter taste in the mouths of some 200 opposing the Cliff Bay resort and housing proposal. As protests go it wasn’t that […]

MUSKOKA — Put out those fires — if you’ve got one. And if you don’t — don’t even think about starting one if you live anywhere in Muskoka. Fire chiefs this morning at 11 a.m. in the six municipalities issued a complete ban on any types of outdoor open fire burning in Gravenhurst, Bracebridge, Huntsville, […]

MUSKOKA — The theft of a $70,000 skid steer over the weekend and a charge of stunt driving last Friday top today’s police calls in south Muskoka. Police say that July 10, at 3 p.m., an officer was doing speed enforcement on Muskoka Road 169 in Torrance and stopped a vehicle for travelling considerably higher […]