Story and photos Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Thomas Craig is happy to be back in Canada and particularly Muskoka. The London-based actor — a star of the Murdoch Mysteries — has a “mate with a cottage on Muldrew Lake.” And his character, Inspector Thomas Brackenreid, has returned to Toronto from Yorkshire for the […]
GRAVENHURST — A stolen pickup recovered across town yesterday has police still looking for the thief who cleaned out contents in the cab. They are looking for witnesses who may have seen the truck taken on the Jones Road near Progress Road in Gravenhurst. The theft occurred between 11:30 a.m. and noon on Thursday, June 22. The […]
BRACEBRIDGE — The District of Muskoka proudly commemorated the dedication of Alex’s Place, a transformative transitional housing facility designed to support at-risk and homeless youth, located at 49B Pine St. in Bracebridge. “Better access to mental health services in our community is so important. It helps those who are struggling navigate everyday problems they may […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com BRACEBRIDGE — Ontario’s first new all-season, full-service, overnight camping provincial park in more than 40 years will be in east Bracebridge, off Hwy. 118. Bigwind Lake Provincial Park — which is now a 5,000 acre day park for hiking — will offer overnight and electrified campgrounds, backcountry camping, and a variety […]
BRACEBRIDGE — A driver who went off the road last night has been charged with impaired driving. Police charged him after investigating a single-vehicle collision on Hwy. 11 south in Bracebridge just before midnight. Emergency services responded at 11:52 p.m. to reports that the vehicle went down a slight embankment, but the driver was not […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — What’s everybody’s talkin’ ’bout. “Talkin’ ’bout Iran, Pakistan, Afghanistan, South Sudan, Russia, Ukraine, genocide, femicide … “Let’s put killing aside ….” Those are a few of the opening words of a reworked version of John Lennon’s “Give Peace a Chance.” GHS guitarist Dakota Clifford and student vocalists Leah Church […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — How do you tell if an old car is authentic — and not the sum of its bionic bumpers and headlamps? It has the original white walls. That was the running joke Saturday at the Gravenhurst Chamber of Commerce Car Show. An auto erotic delight for dads on Father’s […]
PORT CARLING — A second motorcyclist in a week has died on Peninsula Road after another accident late Saturday afternoon. The 41-year-old rider died a week to the day after a 29-year-old succumbed to injuries on the same road in Muskoka Lakes. Both were late afternoon accidents. Police are investigating the latest death after the […]
BRACEBRIDGE — A morning driver was charged with impaired operation of a vehicle following a single-vehicle collision on Highway 118 East in Bracebridge Saturday. Police received a call, at 7:30 a.m. on June 17, from a member of the public reporting a vehicle had left the roadway and settled into a swamp area on Hwy. […]
BRACEBRIDGE — A man driving with a flat tire early Saturday led police to charge him with assaulting the investigating officer after a call from the public. OPP say that at 2 a.m. they received a report that a vehicle with a blown a tire was continuing to drive on Ecclestone Drive in Bracebridge. Officers […]
GRAVENHURST — A driver who hit a utility pole last Thursday afternoon, on David Street in Gravenhurst, faces a couple of impaired driving charges. Police say a member of the public called 911, June 15 at 5:30 p.m., out of concern for a driver who had collided with the utility pole near Bethune Drive. Investigating […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — “Dan Kean is the cop you hope you get when you call 911.” So says his boss, Insp. Jason Nickle. Pretty high praise for a constable who’s only been on the job a few months. Kean is no rookie, however, having joined the OPP from the Toronto police service […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — When Louise Jardine walks onto the Opera House stage tonight to conduct the Elderberries Choir in their 30th anniversary performance, they will be accompanied by Carolyn Grant on their small electric Yamaha keyboard. The music director would like to have seen and heard their pianist playing the “Jardine piano,” […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Fans of the popular “Murdoch Mysteries” will want to tune in to the season premiere of the popular CBC detective show this fall for a glimpse of Gravenhurst. Producers, actors, crews, some 150, are at the Muskoka Wharf and Gull Lake Rotary Park this week filming segments for the […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — You’ve seen it — and heard its beautiful music. The 1911 Steinway nine-foot concert grand piano that some of the world’s great pianists including Diana Krall — and hundreds of aspiring local artists — have played and tinkled the ivories on will soon be gone from the Gravenhurst Opera […]
BRACEBRIDGE — Police are looking for a “suspicious” pickup driver who is said to have approached two girls walking along Wellington Street near Monck Public School early Saturday afternoon. They say a mom called them at 1:30 p.m. saying her two daughters were approached by a person driving a black truck attempting to talk to […]
MUSKOKA LAKES — Firefighters pulled a driver from his vehicle late yesterday afternoon after it flipped on Falkenburg Road. Taken to hospital with minor injuries, police later arrested and charged the lone occupant with impaired driving. Police say OPP, paramedics and firefighters were called to the single-vehicle collision just before 5:30 p.m., after the vehicle […]
MINETT — A late afternoon accident yesterday has claimed the life of a 29-year-old driver of a motorcycle. Police say the rider died shortly before police, fire and paramedic responders were called at 5:25 p.m., Saturday, June 10. The fatal accident happened on Peninsula Road, near Judhaven Road, in the Township of Muskoka Lakes, about […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com PARRY SOUND-MUSKOKA — A letter today to MPP Graydon Smith chastised the MNRF minister for comments he made in the legislature this week defending the massive fires affecting eastern Canada and the U.S. Smith claimed the acrid smoke is “nothing unusual,” says Christine Lauffer, a member of Climate Action Muskoka and […]
BRACEBRIDGE — Two young girls reported missing here today are being sought by police after a 15-year-old male was safely located the same day. Police had reported at noon Friday that they were notified today that the three children were missing. At 1:30 p.m. the OPP said in an updted statement that all three children […]