HUNTSVILLE — Two teenage girls face assault, theft, weapon and forcible confinement charges after a physical altercation occurred between students at a high school in Huntsville this week. On Wednesday, May 24, at about 1:45 p.m., police were called by school staff to report a possible assault. Officers began an investigation into the allegations and […]
GRAVENHURST — A theft in progress call led to police to spring in to action here Tuesday morning. The OPP are investigating a string of thefts May 23 between 8:30 a.m. and noon in a commercial area in Gravenhurst. Officers responded to the initial complaint where it was reported that suspects had stolen hanging baskets […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — A court date has been set for the SUV driver involved in a fatal scooter accident here last Friday. Police say a 35-year-old Gravenhurst woman charged under the Highway Traffic Act received a Part III summons, with a court date of July 20, 2023, in Bracebridge at the District of […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Pedestrians and motorists are moving and driving more carefully around town after the death of a local scooter operator here last week — and news yesterday that a woman has been charged in the fatal main street “accident.” Bill Smith, 82, died Friday, May 19, while crossing Winewood Avenue […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com ORILLIA — Gordon Lightfoot grew up listening to the Orillia Silver Band. What would have happened if he had joined the British-style brass band? When he was winning Kiwanis Music Festival prizes as young soprano in the United Church choir around the corner from the Opera House, the Silver Band was […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Friends were praying for Bill Smith, 82, who was hit Friday while riding his scooter and was in hospital in Toronto in grave condition. Sadly he passed away this morning at St. Michael’s Hospital in Toronto, after he was taken off life support when his family learned his condition […]
MUSKOKA — Rockin’ robin and some of the most popular songs from the ’60s and ’70s — including the Beatles, big bands, classical, movie and show tunes — are on the bill May 27-29 as the Muskoka Concert Band takes the stage for it annual summer music series kick-off. With the May 24 Victoria long […]
HUNTSVILLE — A man police say was involved in an earlier assault was arrested and charged last night after a vehicle he was driving landed in a ditch along Hwy. 11 just north of Hwy. 60 in Huntsville. The 30-year-old driver from Huntsville faces multiple charges including leaving the scene of a single motor vehicle […]
GRAVENHURST — An 82-year-old scooter rider was seriously injured downtown here this morning in a collision with an SUV. Police are looking for any witnesses to the two-vehicle collision in Gravenhurst Friday, May 19, shortly after 10 a.m. They say officers along with emergency services, responded to the two-vehicle collision at Winewood Avenue and Muskoka […]
ORO-MEDONTE — An arborist has died after falling from a tree this afternoon. Police say they were called to a home in Oro-Medonte where a male was pronounced dead. Shortly after 1 p.m., OPP from Orillia, Simcoe County Paramedic Service and Township of Oro-Medonte Fire, were dispatched to the residence on Huronwoods Drive in Oro-Medonte […]
BRACEBRIDGE — A truck driver has been charged after a collision with a motorcycle rider here Saturday morning. Police say that on May 13, at 9:50 a.m., they responded to a collision between the injured motorcyclist and the other driver on Highway 118 near Ashley Lane in Bracebridge. The biker, a 37-year-old from Bracebridge, was […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — No one expected the search for a new hospital site in South Muskoka would be easy — or fast. Now it seems after years of deliberations by Muskoka Algonquin Healthcare — and consultations with the public this winter — the answer as to its location won’t come clear until […]
BRACEBRIDGE — Two people are in hospital after rolling an ATV on a private property trail Saturday afternoon in Vankoughnet. The 30-year-old driver from Bracebridge was airlifted to a trauma centre with non-life-threatening injuries and a 37-year-old passenger was taken to a MAHC hospital with minor injuries. Police say that at 4:30 p.m. May 13 […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Judy Humphries admits she has a “bias” toward the former Ontario Fire College. A fire research librarian for 20 years before it closed in 2021; she called it her “dream job.” With deep-seated working knowledge — and as the town’s archivist and member of the Municipal Heritage Committee (MRC) […]
MUSKOKA — Traffic between Bracebridge and Gravenhurst was slowed to a crawl mid-day Thursday afternoon when a southbound dump truck veered into the median south of the Skyways gas bar and motel just south of Hwy. 118 near the Muskoka Airport Police and tow trucks were on hand and the road was fully opened about […]
HUNTSVILLE — A 67-year-old grandmother was scammed out of $7,450 last week, the same day a Gravenhurst grandfather avoided the same fate when police caught the go-between approaching his home in yet another “grandparent scam.” Police said yesterday they are investigating this second reported fraud, this one in Huntsville. A grandmother called the OPP on […]
BRACEBRIDGE — Police “fearing public safety” scrambled to one of the town’s main intersections this morning/afternoon after a caller reported a man with a handgun. OPP officers raced to Manitoba Street and Taylor Road at 10:20 a.m. Wednesday, when they received a call from a member of the public reporting that a man was standing […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com ORILLIA — Carolyn Grant can be forgiven for nodding off during Gordon Lightfoot’s funeral Monday. He kept the St. Paul’s United Church choir member up all night the night before. Grant works security every night at the church, closing up after events like Sunday’s visitation for the Orillia singer-songwriter who died […]
MUSKOKA — Here’s cheers to King Charles III. Coronation streets in Muskoka Saturday stretched from Gravenhurst to Bracebridge to Huntsville as unapologetic monarchists waved the Union Jack as Britannia ruled the day from London to Ottawa and around the Commonwealth to varying degrees. At The Old Station pub and restaurant in Bracebridge, Town Crier Bruce […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com ORILLIA — Following his funeral today, some time at a later date Gordon Lightfoot will be buried in his family’s plot with his parents and sister. St. Andrew’s and St. James’ Cemetery overlooks his childhood home, in the northwest end of Orillia, where he grew up and lived until about 1959-60. […]