PHOTOS, STORY Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com Subscribe: E-transfer $30 to news@muskokatoday.com GRAVENHURST — Norman Bethune’s heritage home has outlived him — but not his legacy. The great doctor was 49 when he died on a Chinese battlefield. Saturday the “Birthplace of a Hero” turned 50. With a befitting celebration to “honour his memory,” attended by Chinese […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com ART REVIEW Subscribe: E-transfer $30 to news@muskokatoday.com TORONTO — Tariffs aside, cultural exchanges continue between Canada and the U.S. “Monet to Matisse” importantly among them, as the Art Gallery of Ontario welcomes the ‘Impressionist Revolution’ works from the collection of the Dallas Museum of Art — after no doubt years of planning […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com Subscribe: E-transfer $30 to news@muskokatoday.com GRAVENHURST — Five young adults and/or teens are being blamed for damaging the Lion’s Club’s newly adopted ‘Pet Memorial Rainbow Bridge’ here this week along the boardwalk at the Muskoka Wharf. Police investigating the mischief that took place just after midnight Wednesday. During the very early morning […]
PHOTOS Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com Subscribe: E-transfer $30 to news@muskokatoday.com GRAVENHURST — As every photographer with a cellphone — or still and SLR — knows, sunrise and sunset shots are holy grails. And each solstice it’s been a goal of this “photog” to catch those moments. Here’s a couple recent ones as we remember the going […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com Subscribe: E-transfer $30 to news@muskokatoday.com GRAVENHURST — “Birthplace of a hero.” From humble beginnings as a church minister’s son to a national hero in Canada and China, Dr. Norman Bethune’s name is recognized worldwide including in Spain. Tomorrow, 136 years after he was born in the Presbyterian manse on John Street he […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com Subscribe: E-transfer $30 to news@muskokatoday.com BRACEBRIDGE — A boy, 14, is the latest youth to be charged after police say they’ve received multiple public complaints about ongoing unsafe and “often harassing behaviour” by young people operating e-bikes and electric dirt bike style vehicles. No one under the age of 16 years is permitted to […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com Subscribe: E-transfer $30 to news@muskokatoday.com ORILLIA — An OPP emergency response team member faces two charges of illegally discharging his firearm in a training session that did not require its use. The Ontario Provincial Police professional standards unit (PSU) said Aug. 27 that it charged the officer in relation the on-duty incident that […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com Subscribe: E-transfer $30 to news@muskokatoday.com GRAVENHURST — A hulking black shell of a burned out police truck was a stark reminder this morning of a weekend fire that threatened the OPP’s Underwater Search and Rescue Unit here. A sooty smell hung over it in the parking lot here at its provincial headquarters […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com Subscribe: E-transfer $30 to news@muskokatoday.com HUNTSVILLE — A delivery driver who was assaulted — but uninjured — had his valuable package stolen mid-afternoon yesterday by a thief who made a quick getaway. Police say that on Aug. 26, at about 2:53 p.m., officers responded to the report of a robbery that had […]
GRAVENHURST — She’s back … tomorrow night, 6:30 p.m. Judy Humphries returns with another of her amazing and fun history talks about Gravenhurst at the Gravenhurst Library. After a postponement, local archivist and historian Humphries is back telling tales of the “The Sands,” as many locals still refer to today’s Taboo Resort. The Muskoka Sands […]
MUSKOKA — Looking ahead to Labour Day weekend police continue to charge drivers with impaired operation. Four the past week alone across Muskoka. Sunday two men were charged after single-vehicle collisions in which they left the road. On August 23, at 3:30 a.m., officers responded to a singe vehicle collision on Hwy. 141 in Muskoka […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com Subscribe: E-transfer $30 to news@muskokatoday.com GRAVENHURST — As fire investigators continue a second-day probe in to the cause of Saturday night’s blackening blaze inside the headquarters of the OPP’s Underwater Search and Rescue Unit, its provincial operations here are halted for at least the time being. Which appears to leave any calls […]
HUNTSVILLE — A small fire reported at 11 a.m. was cleared by noon today inside a public washroom at the town hall that closed the offices for the rest of the day. The cause is under investigation and no injuries were involved. The town said early this afternoon that at about 11:02 a.m., the Huntsville […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com Subscribe: E-transfer $30 to news@muskokatoday.com GRAVENHURST — Ontario Fire Marshal investigators were at the OPP’s Underwater Search and Rescue Unit base here today on a rainy Sunday, after a significant fire scorched the location here on Bethune Drive just before 7 p.m. Saturday. They expect to be here another day or two […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com Subscribe: E-transfer $30 to news@muskokatoday.com MUSKOKA — Local drivers will have to watch new speed limit signs on three area roads in Bracebridge starting this fall. Including the main downtown section of its main street. The District of Muskoka council, in one of its last acts of its elected term, has approved […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com Subscribe: E-transfer $30 to news@muskokatoday.com GRAVENHURST — A person suffered a hand injury Saturday night after using an unapproved electronic device they found in a short-term rental unit that caused a small fire. Fire officials here say the person believed the unidentified device was safe to use because it was found with […]
MUSKOKA — Police have charged three people after a trio of OPP investigations Aug. 15, 16 and 18. In Huntsville, officers charged a driver following a RIDE check Saturday, Aug. 15, shortly after midnight. They were conducting a check on Hwy. 60, near Grandview Drive, when a vehicle was stopped. As a result of the […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com Subscribe: E-transfer $30 to news@muskokatoday.com PARRY SOUND-MUSKOKA — Even “strong companies” need help sometimes, said FedNor Minister Patty Hadju today in announcing $1.7 million in federal funding for four businesses and one non-profit housing group in Muskoka. The minister of jobs and families, and minister responsible for FedNor, announced it is providing […]
PARRY SOUND-MUSKOKA — A forecast of 25-35mm of rain through Friday has the Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry (MNRF) issuing a Watershed Conditions Statement – Water Safety. It is in place until Wednesday and affects residents in the MNRF’s Parry Sound District, which includes Muskoka, Parry Sound and a north-west Haliburton. They say higher […]
PARRY SOUND-MUSOKA — Local social services can help house, feed and keep utilities on with more than $2.1 million from the province. MPP Norman Miller says in a release today that hard-hit residents suffering from COVID-19 fallout will benefit from in provincial funding to help keep vulnerable people in Parry Sound-Muskoka safe during COVID-19. The […]