Photos by Alex Hogg | MuskokaTODAY.com BALA — Santa arrived extra early in Bala today. It was almost balmy as the jolly gent toured through town bringing up the rear of a fun parade that’s always his first parade sighting. Hundreds lined Hwy. 169 this afternoon welcoming him and a stream of trucks and trekkers […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — War isn’t what it once was. Remembrance Day, however, is. An hour of simple solemnity steeped in shared memories past and present. Charles Mortimer, 90, and Robert Nix, 77, were among more than 100 members of the public who gathered on the roadside grade overlooking the legion cenotaph and […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — A number of recent break-ins here the past few months capped with a pair of smash and grabs downtown this week has led to two Gravenhurst men being charged. Police arrested and charged the two with multiple offences relating to several incidents in October and November. On Monday and […]
“Life is worth living as long as there’s a laugh in it.” Anne Shirley From Anne of Green Gables, by LM Montgomery Frances Hammond Our beautiful, strong, adventurous, funny, trailblazing mother has left us to dance again with our father. She died peacefully, surrounded by her family at The Pines Long Term Care Home in […]
GRAVENHURST — A pair of smash and grabs here yesterday and today may be linked. Police are investigating after the Currie Brothers music store was hit overnight Wednesday when a hooded thief broke a large front window on Muskoka Road and stole three guitars. They say the theft occurred about 5:10 a.m. Now the police […]
Lois Cooper | MuskokaTODAY.com OPINION The world is on the “highway to climate hell,” meanwhile the Ford government adds fuel. Third party appeals on municipal amendments — like the one the Town of Bracebridge gave for a mega quarry on Bonnie Lake Road — are set to be eliminated by Ontario’s Bill 23. This as […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — Schools will be open Tuesday, buses will run, students will be in class, teachers will be at white boards — and CUPE staff will be doing their jobs supporting them. This after the province backed down and the union celebrated a “huge win” as both agreed to return to […]
Lois Cooper | MuskokaTODAY.com BRACEBRIDGE — Rocks or water — which takes priority in your daily life? Bracebridge’s town council has passed an amendment to zoning bylaw 2016-088 to allow a Fowler Construction pit and quarry below water. However, there is a short time to have it reviewed. The council believes: It won’t affect the […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — It’s home work again. School’s out again tomorrow as Muskoka students will be stuck back at home — or the caregiver’s — a second straight school day. An educational standoff has CUPE workers holding out for a better “imposed” contract after Friday’s walkout, protest, demonstration, strike or whatever either […]
Lois Cooper | MuskokaTODAY.com The Town of Gravenhurst pays for a full-page of advertising in the Toronto Star-owned Gravenhurst Banner each week. One might expect this would be used for important announcements like inviting the public to apply to sit on committees. In a notice emailed to those of us signed up to the town’s email portal, […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — Hundreds of CUPE educational workers were off work today to fight for more than wage increases. And they could be out Monday if not longer depending. He said as of late Friday afternoon that’s the plan according to the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) And TLDSB, too, is […]
MUSKOKA LAKES — Thieves are sitting on a load of Muskoka chairs. Police are investigating the theft of an enclosed trailer filled with Muskoka chairs, from an address on Henshaw Lake Road in Muskoka Lakes Township. They say the theft occurred sometime overnight on Monday, Oct. 31. The OPP estimate the combined value of the […]
Lois Cooper | MuskokaTODAY.com OPINION MUSKOKA — The District of Muskoka says the changes to our waste system on Nov. 7 are: “Working together towards a better waste system for Muskoka.” Yet it includes trucking all of our recycling (blue boxes) to Toronto for sorting and whatever comes next. How is trucking our recycling to […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — As strike talks continue a confirmed CUPE walk-out Friday means no school for students and classes by teachers. In a letter today to parents and families, Wes Hahn, TLDSB director of Education, writes the following: Dear TLDSB families: On Oct. 31, the government of Ontario announced Bill 28, Keeping […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — A “gallant” Gravenhurst soldier — twice wounded while leading his men across “no man’s land” into an enemy trench in 1917 before dying — is among local war heroes being remembered next Tuesday. Sergeant Frederick Smith, 26, was in charge of a party of Canadian soldiers attacking the Germans from […]
GRAVENHURST — A haunting good Halloween. Wild and wet. Fun and sweet. That was last night all over Muskoka. A week that began with its 30th Gravenhust High School haunted Opera House — and included several nights of ghoulish play-acting tales in a cemetery about locally deceased — ended with sweet-toothed trick o’ treaters going […]
GRAVENHURST — From the Butcher’s Daughters to a mother and daughter. That’s the essence of the Essence of Spice, a new restaurant and takeaway on the main street here. Akansha Singh and her mom, Poonam, have opened across from the Opera House where for the last three years Kim Barnes ran her deli, after moving […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Joshua Both was a Canadian Armed Forces reserve who is considering a return to service. Meanwhile he started Buds by Cannilux in Gravenhurst and has donated a portion of his business’ profit to Veterans house as an ongoing effort to support the 4-pillar program of rehabilitation and reintegration of […]
GRAVENHURST-HUNTSVILLE — As red poppies begin appearing over hearts, Remembrance Day services are being planned across Muskoka at legions, in schools, churches and community halls. One of the first is Nov. 6 when Muskoka Concert Band conductor Fran Harvey brings down the baton for MCB’s first indoor concert in more than two years. Join them […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com BRACEBRIDGE — The fight to stop a “mega quarry” isn’t just about NIMBYism. It’s about climate change and the future of kids riding school buses on Bonnie Lake Road, critics also charge. Objectors to the project, which with a second licence would double the size of an existing Fowler’s Construction pit […]
