GRAVENHURST — Budget season begins with cold reminders of the cost of running towns and townships. At Wednesday’s special council meeting, Gravenhurst town councillors approved the 2023 Budget, which will result in a 2.9% increase to the town share of the tax rate. It’s the first budget since they were elected last fall. A town release says after publication of the budget materials Jan. […]
GRAVENHURST — A weekend police call in which several people were assaulted in a south end home here has led to two people being charged. OPP say that on Jan. 28, at 9:15 p.m., officers responded to an emergency call from a resident on First Street South. They say the caller fled after a person […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — It’s hard enough for adults and families to find homes. Try being a young person couch surfing. Now the YMCA of Muskoka and Simcoe is offering CAS kids helping hands. As part of $4 million in funding from Canada’s Support for Students Learning program (SSLP), the Y has announced […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com BRACEBRIDGE — Months of protests and requests for a sit-down with MPP Graydon Smith finally paid off for climate activists in Parry Sound-Muskoka last week. After more than a year of public protests and demonstrations across the district — including outside his constituency office in Bracebridge, Climate Action Muskoka (CAM) members […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — MAHC officials say they can live with any of the three recommended new hospital sites proposed in Bracebridge. All of which they say meet the province’s basic requirement for a 40-acre health-care campus in the next decade. South Muskoka Memorial Hospital currently sits on 11 acres. Hospitals CEO and […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Family and friends today are mourning the passing of former town and district councillor and real estate agent Terry Pilger this morning. The 67-year-old native of the old Ryde Township in Gravenhurst died Tuesday of a heart attack after a having the flu, His wife, Wendy, posted his passing […]
Lois Cooper | MuskokaTODAY.com OPINION MUSKOKA — Today I joined the Zoom presentation on choosing a new site for the new hospital in Bracebridge. I was unable to make a comment and so I write it here. First, let me say to the residents of Gravenhurst, you must speak up. Don’t be complacent. I never heard […]
GRAVENHURST — Last week had to be some kind of record for the number of impaired driving charges in south Muskoka. A sixth case was reported Friday — the second that day, Jan 20. Police say that just before 11 p.m. another concerned citizen called 911 when they saw a vehicle hit a parked car […]
MUSKOKA — Three more people face impaired driving charges in what police are calling an unsettling week, after police tracked them down today, Monday and Tuesday. The OPP are calling it an “unsettling trend” as officers arrested and charged their fifth driver with Impaired Driving in as many days just after 10 a.m. today, Jan. […]
GRAVENHURST — Two drivers here were arrested within an hour late last night charged with separate drug and impaired driving offences. Police say that on Thursday Jan. 19, at 11 p.m., an officer was on patrol along Hwy. 11 in Gravenhurst when a driver lost control of their vehicle ahead of him and came to […]
MUSKOKA LAKES — Police arrested a driver who fled officers late yesterday morning, charging him with impaired operation of a vehicle. They say officers attempted to stop David Grand, 63, at 11:30 p.m., when his driving behaviour appeared of concern to them. Officers were on general patrol, Jan. 18, on Muskoka Road 169 in Muskoka […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURT — When the MP and MPP fought over a new hospital for Muskoka, Graydon Smith stunned Scott Aitchison by offering free land on Hwy. 11. The former mayors of Bracebridge and Huntsville came to terms splitting their differences — and thus was born the “one hospital” concept in Port Sydney. […]
BRACEBRIDGE — Police have identified the driver who died in a collision here yesterday afternoon. They say Lawrence Tomblin, of Gravenhurst, died Monday after emergency crews were called to a two-vehicle collision on Winhara Road at Ecclestone Drive in Bracebridge Jan. 17 at 1:40 pm. Tomblin, 77, was transported to hospital, however life saving efforts […]
Ed. note: The province’s latest “fix” to the ailing health-care system, by opening it up to even more privatized surgeries, has drawn widespread criticism for its hatchet approach to the surgical backlog with private clinics — rather than using a scalpel. Columnist Lois Cooper, a senior, shares her recent optical personal experiences, which many others […]
BRACEBRIDGE — Police are investigating a two-vehicle collision early this afternoon that claimed the life of a driver, just off the south-west Hwy. 11 entrance to Bracebridge. They say emergency crews responded after two vehicles collided on Winhara Road at Ecclestone Drive at 1:40 p.m. Monday. One person was transported to hospital, however life saving […]
LETTER TO THE EDITOR : The Government of Ontario may have finally taken its first real tangible step forward to make the return of passenger rail service in the northeast a reality. The associate Minister of Transportation, Stan Cho, and his ministerial colleagues — Victor Fedeli (MPP for Nipissing), George Pirie (Timmins) and Graydon Smith (Parry Sound-Muskoka) […]
GRAVENHURST — Rotarians are looking to recognize a valued community member who provides ‘Service Above Self.’ That’s the motto of the Gravenhurst service club, celebrating its 85th year in 2023. As part of its major celebration — including new Rotary Rocks the Barge amphitheatre seating at Gull Lake Rotary Park — the Rotary Club is […]
MUSKOKA LAKES — A careless operation of a vessel charge has been laid against a Huntsville man after another man out for an early morning swim last summer died after being struck on Lake Rosseau. Police said today that after a “thorough investigation into the collision” they have now charged 26-year-old Zavier Foyston with Operating […]
BRACEBRIDGE — A good Samaritan who turned in money found at a bank still has police looking for the owner. They say that on Sept. 5, 2022, a member of the public attended a bank in Bracebridge and while conducting their business located a significant amount of money. The finder brought the money to the […]
GRAVENHURST — A radar check has led to an impaired driving charge against a Bracebridge driver Saturday. Police say that on Jan. 7, just after 5 p.m. an officer with the Central Region Traffic team was conducting speed enforcement on Hwy. 11 north in Gravenhurst and stopped a vehicle near Doe Lake Road. An investigation led […]
