GRAVENHURST — If you live in the core of town and you smell smoke — call 911 immediately. Remind your neighbours far and wide that that acrid taste filling your mouth and nostrils at dusk must stop — now. It’s “zero tolerance” — or it will cost you hundreds of dollars. With major forest fires […]
BRACEBRIDGE — Neil Barlow and the Muskoka Concert Band pick up the baton Thursday night where they left it last week on the Dwight Beach. The second in a series of five evening performances takes place at the Bracebridge Bandshell, at 7 p.m., on the main street. The annual summer concerts, by the 40-piece brass […]
HUNTSVILLE — A South Portage Road cottage undergoing renovations was severely damaged early Sunday morning. The Huntsville/Lake of Bays Fire Department responded to an address on South Portage Rd. in Lake of Bays for a reported structure fire early this morning at approximately 2:30 a.m. Fire prevention officer Mike Vadlja reports the first arriving crews […]
GRAVENHURST — Residents and drivers from West Muskoka who take a short cut up Bay Street heading north are reminded that the lower Brown Street hill will undergo an almost year-long water and sewer work starting today. Orange cones are out along the sides of Brown and Greavette Streets as preparation begins this summer and […]
BARRIE — Passionate about cooking, eating, entertaining and music? Well, Barrie’s revitalized waterfront is the place for you July 20-22. The Medley Food & Drink Festival is a three-day experience for Ontarians looking to rediscover time together. Launching this year on the shores of Lake Simcoe in Barrie, this food and drink festival is packed […]
GRAVENHURST — Boat builder Paul Brackley was scrambling this week to get ready for Saturday’s Antique & Classic Boat Show at the Muskoka Wharf. With dozens of beautiful boats to be showcased at the annual Toronto chapter’s show, he was still re-installing the engine on one of the better boats he’s been working to restore. […]
BRACEBRIDGE — Woodchester Villa has been reinvented again. After years as an active museum, it is now the town’s newest event centre. Open for rental parties. On Thursday, July 12, join Mayor Graydon Smith and council as they officially reopen its doors from 3 to 7:00 p.m., with the ribbon cutting at 6 p.m. Enter […]
WINDERMERE – Celebrate the end of the First World war with this theatre take on iconic Canadian pilot Billy Bishop, at The New Baldwins Resort here starting July 6. The dinner and show is a Muskoka Chautauqua presentation and runs every Friday night in July.
MUSKOKA — A “total ban” on all types of outdoors fires has been issued for Muskoka. Fire chiefs have ordered the ban until further notice. It comes as an “extreme” fire rating has also been issued. The joint statement from the fire officials in all six municipalities says no type are permitted. That includes a […]
HUNTSVILLE — Got a noisy neighbour, or you hate the sound of loud motorcycles and trucks with mufflers that sound like tanks? Then the Town of Huntsville wants to hear from you. One of the most taxing and challenging irritants to the bylaw department are noise complaints. As part of their regular bylaw review process, […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — Opioids are killing our present and future. Last year, 74 people died from overdoses in Simcoe-Muskoka, a “devastating” number that is above the provincial average. Is this the “new normal?” So, what are health officials doing? Today (July 4) the Simcoe Muskoka Opioid Strategy (SMOS) Steering Committee released a […]
BRACEBRIDGE — Norm Miller has some ideas on running the province. And he plans to offer his “experience” and advice to Doug Ford, after the new premier named his his assistant. A release Tuesday said: “MPP-elect for Parry Sound-Muskoka Norm Miller was honoured to learn on Friday that he will serve as Parliamentary Assistant to […]
ORILLIA — A Bracebridge man has been arrested and charged in an eight-month crime spree here. Provincial police arrested Jacob McCallen, 32, for several thefts. On June 20, 2018, OPP officers in Orillia recognized a vehicle suspected to have been used in a rash of thefts in Central Ontario, between October 2017 and June 2018; […]
GRAVENHURST — You this summer’s weather is hot. Wait till you hear Pavlo. His sizzling guitar virtuosity will burn your ears. The brilliant performer and showman sells out wherever he goes. And the Muskoka Concert Association’s annual fundraiser July 14 is a concert you won’t want to miss. Guitar players won’t believe what he does […]
GRAVENHURST — O Canada what a scorcher of a day. If you liked it HOT! — and plenty did — July 1 was your day. The temperature topped at 37 — but with the humidity it was well over 40. And Canadians celebrated in Gravenhurst Sunday like it was the middle of winter on an […]
LETTER TO EDITOR: MUSKOKA — The Capital Plan Development Task Force met on June 14. The land use and community planning analysis was finalized having incorporated additional revisions requested by the municipalities providing feedback on the report. Task force members agreed to accept the report as final, acknowledging non-urban centre hospital sites would be not […]
LONGFORD MILLS —The Ontario Educational Leadership Centre (OELC) here, off Rama Road, is celebrating its 70th anniversary Wednesday July 4. They are a local not-for-profit educational centre, which serves more than 2,000 students in Ontario each year. In honour of this anniversary they are hosting an event where 89-year-old alumnus Alex Saunders from their first […]
CENTRAL ONTARIO — Welcome to summer — for real. No more mixed bag weather, the heat is on baby. The first good long stretch of hot weather is here just in time for the end of school and start of vacations for many. So, grab your beach towel, sun screen, water bottle and map. It’s […]
BRACEBRIDGE — Police are looking for an intruder who entered a home here overnight and sexually assaulted a resident Sunday. Provincial police and the Muskoka Crime Unit are investigating an intrusion to a home in Bracebridge that occurred at approximately 1 a.m., June 24, 2018 during which an unknown male suspect entered the dwelling and […]
PORT SYDNEY — With summer campers just days away from arriving, Camp Mini-Yo-We is turning to staff to prepare them for the excited kids. They are hosting a new, premier summer leadership conference, exclusive for their summer staff made up of high school and college aged students. They say in a release this week that […]