Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com BALA — Some of Muskoka’s best hockey players have come out of west Muskoka — like the Mortimers, Metcalfes and McMullens. Many of the teams over the decades have been sponsored the Royal Canadian Legion branches around the lakes. So the rivalry for championships between Bala, Port Carling and MacTier can […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Two days after a fire tore through a boat rental business here, police and fire officials continue to probe and try to determine the cause. No official cause has yet been determined for Wednesday’s 4 a.m. blaze, which gutted the two-storey building on the shore of Lake Muskoka. The […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Police are sitting watch on a burned-out building at the west end of the Muskoka Wharf today, awaiting the Ontario Fire Marshal’s office after a “suspicious” early morning blaze gutted the summer boat rental business. Muskoka Boat Rentals, which has been renting pontoon boats the past few years on […]
LETTER TO EDITOR: Re: ‘Unconscionable’ condo proposal for Muskoka Wharf There is never a time as I look out my condo window (at the Muskoka Wharf) when I do not see someone walking along the boardwalk, their regular daily exercise, or walking a dog or baby carriage. Or a visitor to Muskoka who was told […]
LETTER TO EDITOR: Dear Gravehurst mayor and council: In Muskoka Bay next to the steamship docks there remains a small bit of natural habitat. The water there is shallow, the lake bottom is undisturbed and aquatic vegetation provides good fish habitat. The land near the shoreline is low, subject to flooding, has been partially cleared, […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Mike Goudie hopes to double his workforce in the next couple years after the federal government gave his 24-year-old Gravenhurst company a $1,631,250 repayable loan to add 10,000 square feet of floor space for his aircraft refinishing plant at the Muskoka Airport. The president of Muskoka Aircraft Refinishing tells […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — A team of former UConn hockey players held off the Feisty Beavers yesterday to walk away with the women’s division title at this weekend’s pond hockey tournament at the Muskoka Wharf. The Huskies alumni put the boots to their opponents, 14-9, on a soggy Sunday afternoon to end the […]
BRACEBRIDGE — Police are investigating a fraud that occurred at a bank in Bracebridge Sept. 29. A person entered the bank and was able to withdraw a very large sum of money from an account that was not his. Anyone with information is asked to please call Bracebridge OPP at (888)310-1122 or call Crime Stoppers […]
GRAVENHURST — The fun of Gravenhurst’s Winter Carnival had a damper put on it even before it began. Police are investigating the theft of tools from Gull Lake Rotary Park Tuesday Feb. 14 at 8:45 a.m. A volunteer was preparing an area for the Polar Bear Dip and while at his vehicle for a moment […]
HUNTSVILLE — What birthday prize. Frank Lamb won $600,000 when he spun the big wheel in Toronto at the Ontario Lotto Gaming Centre where he went to collect his BIGGER SPIN INSTANT game prize #3150. Lamb has been playing the lotteries for about 40 years. “I like to buy BIGGER SPIN tickets because I want to win big,” he said […]