Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com ORILLIA — Muskoka motorists heading south were detoured off Hwy. 11 Friday when the latest winter storm struck Simcoe County causing multiple “very serious” accidents and leading to hospitalizations as snow continued to fall. This as Environment Canada has issued a snow squall warning for Muskoka where brilliant sun shone in […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com ORILLIA — A mischievous teen was charged yesterday after emergency services responded en masse to repeated 911 call about a structure fire and a “a 13-year-old female who had been shot and was lying in the middle of the street bleeding.” Police continue to investigate the incident involving a youth making […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com PARRY SOUND-MUSKOKA — There’s another face in the race. And a formidable one for the NDP who are running Jim Ronholm, a retired Canadian Armed Forces member and an almost 28-year fulltime systems analyst computer professor at Canadore College in North Bay. “I typically tell people if it has to do […]
HUNTSVILLE — Police are looking for the public’s assistance in identifying a person who has been committing several thefts at a local downtown business. The suspect usually creates a distraction in the business and then steals items. One business is suffering losses in excess hundreds of dollars. The OPP remind the public and retail store […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com PARRY SOUND-MUSKOKA — Matt Richter and Mike Schreiner have had a list of beefs with Doug Ford and his government for years including “ignoring rural Ontario.” Today the Greens leadership team re-iterated most of them when Richter “shared” his ‘5-point plan’ for the riding that will “take action to address five […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — Waking up tomorrow without Florida orange juice is your choice. A glass of Canadian apple juice is cheaper. This as Donald Trump gave Canada a 30-day tariff reprieve this afternoon. Meanwhile this afternoon, U.S. booze and produce were still on some store shelves in Gravenhurst like the LCBO and […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST (Feb. 3) — A $29 million drug bust that netted police almost 300 kilos of cocaine included a search warrant in Gravenhurst last month. Police say five people face a dozen charges after search warrants in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) and Gravenhurst. One of the accused is a Mexican […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com Where to begin this week …. Canada and the U.S. are at odds worse than groundhogs are over the start of spring. A provincial election will come sooner than voters want. And Justin Trudeau will be gone before Donald Trump. “This is crazy,” to quote the bogeyman Nov. 5. Well it […]
ORILLIA (Feb. 2) — It may be happy trails for snowmobilers glad to find sledding conditions more conducive across Central Ontario thanks to early snowfalls. But their trails aren’t designed for cars and trucks. They say a pair of instances lately ended with no injuries, but could have turned out differently when vehicles tried out […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com BRACEBRIDGE — Down just a goal in each of the first two periods, the Muskoka Bears gave up three more in the third for a 5-2 loss here last night at home. It was the same outcome as Friday when they visited Huntsville for the first of back-to-back weekend games. Down […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com BRACEBRIDGE — The Muskoka Bears enter the home stretch of their first season tonight home to Stayner. After their busiest stretch of the season so far — with 10 games in January — they left last month with a pair of wins against the division-leading Alliston Hornets (handing them their lone […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com BRACEBRIDGE — Last weekend’s Fire & Ice Festival was more about ice than fire, but it didn’t deter thousands who flocked onto Manitoba Street for lots of fun if not sun. Saturday was more about slipin’ and slidin’. Or more prec-ice-ly You-Tubing as hundreds of them lined up down Taylor Road […]
GRAVENHURST (Jan. 31) — A driver who police say appeared to avoid a RIDE cheque has been charged with impaired operation. Last night, Thursday Jan. 30, police were on Muskoka Road South at 11 p.m. checking vehicles, when a vehicle veered off the road within site of them. Officers followed the driver and stopped her […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com ORILLIA (January 21) — A man police charged with arson for allegedly starting a devastating downtown fire here last week has been arrested again and now faces further related charges as a result of bail conditions. On Tuesday, January 28, at 5:30 p.m. OPP were dispatched to an unwanted person at […]
Third traffic light midway Hwy. 118 would help Re: Hwy. 118 barriers, Bracebridge HWY. 118 BARRIER WILL DRIVE McD BUSINESS TO HORTONS, ARGUES BRACEBRIDGE OWNER https://muskokatoday.com/2025/01/hwy-118-barrier-will-drive-mcd-business-to-hortons-argues-owner/ Seems to me they could install a light where McDonalds and CTC meet on 118. This would provide an entrance/exit from both sides and slow down the traffic as […]
MUSKOKA — Police here responded to an average of one impaired driving charge per day the past six days. In south Muskoka it was four in four days and two last night in separate accidents in north Muskoka. Yesterday, at 7:10 p.m., January 29, OPP were dispatched to a local restaurant off Howland Drive after […]
HUNTSVILLE (Jan. 29) — Highway 11 northbound is temporarily closed today and traffic rerouted onto into town to Hwy. 60 for a collision investigation between a car and transport. Police responded closing Muskoka Rd. 2 (Ravenscliffe Road) and traffic is being re-routed through town towards Highway 60. The northbound ramp onto Hwy. 11 was closed. The […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com PARRY SOUND-MUSKOKA (Jan. 29) — A provincial election call today has local Liberals running late, but still looking for a candidate to challenge MPP Graydon Smith in four weeks. “The greatest concern right now is finding candidates for the upcoming elections,” says Bill Condy, the Parry Sound-Muskoka federal party chair. “The […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com BRACEBRIDGE — Miles Hammond would have celebrated his fifth birthday next month with family and friends. “We can’t believe he would be in kindergarten this year” his mother Kate said ahead of a Feb. 22 fundraiser for OSMH in his memory. The fourth one. Miles lost his life to cancer in […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — A growing condo/retail development at near or around the Muskoka Wharf appears headed for the stars. Gravenhurst town council planning meeting members approved official plan and zoning changes that will all the Rosseau Group to proceed with plans for a second phase before shovels dig in on its first […]
