MUSKOKA — Two free films this week hit home in Muskoka. Housing and seniors life. The first is Sunday, Sept. 13, at the Rene Caisse Theatre in Bracebridge, exploring housing followed by an in-person Q&A with the film’s director Dr. Brian Doucet. YWCA Muskoka executive director, Hannah Lin says “this is especially timely with municipal […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com Subscribe: E-transfer $30 to news@muskokatoday.com GRAVENHURST — A late August fire at its headquarters that forced the OPP’s Underwater Search and Rescue out of its provincial dispatch centre has led the demolition of the metal-clad garage facility attached at the back. By early next week the final girders will be down on […]
HUNTSVILLE — A woman driving an e-scooter — which is illegal in Huntsville — was charged with impaired operation following an accident late yesterday afternoon. On Friday, September 11, at 5:30 p.m., officers responded to a report of a single e-scooter collision on Earls Road in Huntsville. Responding officers began an impaired driving investigation. As […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com Subscribe: E-transfer $30 to news@muskokatoday.com GRAVNHURST — Not to be confused with the TV show “Still Standing” with Johnny Harris, a play on tomorrow (Saturday) afternoon at the Opera House still has many similarities. The former is about struggling towns — the latter is about people with Alzheimer’s who are also still […]
GRAVENHURST — After another successful fundraising dinner and auction, Legacy for Alex Kerswell is donating $16,000 in Alex’s memory. The local charity, named after the son of Leanna and Shawn Kerswell, who died by suicide, in 2019, at the age of 17 is an annual event dedicated to raising funds for grassroots charities committed to […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com Subscribe: E-transfer $30 to news@muskokatoday.com ALGONQUIN PARK — A joint weekend safety inspection in Algonquin Park had the OPP and Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry checking drivers and laying charges. The traffic enforcement initiative Friday, September 4, mostly along Hwy. 60 included 417 vehicles in a focus on traffic safety, vehicle […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com Subscribe: E-transfer $30 to news@muskokatoday.com GRAVENHURST — Look … up in the sky! Is it a bird, is it a plane … ? It was both … the Snowbirds just after noon today. The famed flyers were spotted by several people in town who did all of a sudden look up — […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com Subscribe: E-transfer $30 to news@muskokatoday.com GRAVENHURST — What started as a simple group chat between local bands who wanted to create something together and help build a stronger independent music scene in the area, has grown into a new three-day “DIY” festival Sept. 18-20 featuring 23 bands and artists from across the alternative music […]
Susan P. Kelly — Special to MuskokaTODAY.com The stories connected to Canadians and 9/11 are deeply personal. There are stories of loss, final phone calls, survival and extraordinary kindnesses that occurred during the days that followed the 9/11 attacks. Windows on the World is one of those stories. It is Maureen Basnicki’s story as written […]
GRAVENHURST — Southbound traffic on Hwy. 11 was re-routed through Gravenhurst late yesterday afternoon after a serious motorcycle accident. Police were investigating the crash that fully shut down all southbound lanes at Bethune Drive North to Bethune Drive South. The highway section between the southbound entrance to Gravenhurst and southbound exit out of the town […]
MUSKOKA — Emergency service responded late Friday afternoon to a single-vehicle collision involving a motorcycle. On Friday, September 4, at 5:30 p.m., OPP, EMS and Huntsville Fire were called out to reports of a serious collision on Brunel Road, near Hillcrest Drive. As a result, a 57-year-old male from Waterloo sustained life-threatening injuries. He was transported […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com Subscribe: E-transfer $30 to news@muskokatoday.com HUNTSVILLE — Motown Records still makes and releases music today from its headquarters in Los Angeles where new owners Universal Music Group works out of the famous Capitol Tower. The label focuses on modern hip-hop and R&B with artists like Vince Staples, Lil Yachty, and Lil Baby. […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com Subscribe: E-transfer $30 to news@muskokatoday.com TORRANCE — Labour Day doesn’t have to mean the end of summer shopping sprees for locals, tourists and cottagers. Muskoka has plenty of buying opportunities from downtowns to roadsides. Among the pop-up destinations worthwhile stopping at is French Toast Vintage.ca at Muskoka Crossing — just five kms […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com Subscribe: E-transfer $30 to news@muskokatoday.com GRAVENHURST — A new season, a new beginning for everyone from parents to hockey teams and maybe even one valuable service club. The colours aren’t in the tree — or on the ground — but the autumn changes are here and coming for others. Count the Lion’s […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com Subscribe: E-transfer $30 to news@muskokatoday.com GRAVENHURST — The streets, roads, storefronts and front yards are dotted with election signs as the race to sit on town councils across Muskoka has gone into overdrive as the gates have opened on interesting new candidates seeking seats in the Oct. 26 municipal election. With a […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com Subscribe: E-transfer $30 to news@muskokatoday.com GRAVENHURST — Whether you can sing like a bird or your preferred audience is in the shower — maybe even at a Karaoke bar — the ever popular Elderberries Choir may be your calling. They have a new website up at https://elderberrieschoir.ca/ and as they begin season’s […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com Subscribe: E-transfer $30 to news@muskokatoday.com GRAVENHURST — Donald Trump’s concerns about Canada being used a gateway for Chinese goods into the United States “are not true,” says China’s Consul General in Toronto. Speaking Saturday at the 50th anniversary of the Bethune Memorial House, Luo Weidong said: “This kind of a narrative is […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com Subscribe: E-transfer $30 to news@muskokatoday.com GRAVENHURST — A visual plan to turn a couple of blocks of Gravenhurst’s Muskoka Road main street core in to a year-round pedestrian mall has drawn instant support from readers. Five letters and comments, a day after Bob Barnes challenged council candidates here with his “Imagine” project, […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com Subscribe: E-transfer $30 to news@muskokatoday.com GRAVENHURST — Bob Barnes ought to have run for council. But the 84-year-old retired professional mechanical engineer is too busy trying to save his new adopted hometown of Gravenhurst. In addition to volunteering as an usher at the Opera House to keep the old girl alive, he […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com Subscribe: E-transfer $30 to news@muskokatoday.com GRAVENHURST — Work on a new Ontario Northlander train platform got underway here last week a sign that commuter rail is gaining track as fencing has gone up and workers are digging in now. Weeks after a large blue Northlander billboard when up on the north side […]