Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MACTIER — It was a simple salute that could have gone unnoticed amid the pomp and circumstance of another legion remembrance. But a symbolic salutation that stood for all that is good about Canada and the service day to come. After taking the official salute in a parade march-past on MacTier’s […]
BRACEBRIDGE — Sale of the summer! Everything must go — to help the Gravenhurst Bifocals Band continue the sweet sounds of music this summer. Clarinetist Marjorie Hall is throwing open her whole front yard, at 3 Curling Rd., Saturday from to entertain shoppers with a wealth of goodies donated by band members. Downbeat is 8:30 […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com WINDERMERE — The new Leafs GM is a “good guy.” Take it from a player he traded this spring from Calgary to Arizona. Brett and Nick Ritchie were swapped in the first brother trade in the NHL. Sunday Brett and his long-time girlfriend Jamie Andries were enjoying a late afternoon bite […]
BRACEBRIDGE — St. Dom’s students, staff, friends and supporters of former business teacher Art Forester were up early today to raise funds for dementia. Forester, who has Alzheimer’s, was out leading the way on a walk along Cedar Lane from the Catholic school to the nearby Pines retirement home around and back this morning at […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com PARRY SOUND-MUSKOKA — It’s a year today since the last provincial election when Matt Richter had a shot at the job MPP Graydon Smith won. Sunday he will be in Gravenhurst to reflect on the past 12 months and all that has gone on with the government and his Greens. The […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MACTIER — A military battlefield tradition dating back to the 1700s takes place Sunday noon here in west Muskoka. A “Drumhead Service” — adopted by Canadian forces a century later — is a solemn celebration to “pay homage to comrades who offered their lives in defence of our country,” says Bruce […]
BRACEBRIDGE — After 39 years you’d think one of Muskoka’s oldest choirs would find singing old hat. But not the Muskoka Men — and women — of Song. The Bracebridge-based choral group, which began with a few voices in 1984, is just happy to return to its normal schedule of musical performances — including its […]
BRACEBRIDGE — Police say they are investigating a mischief at a local park in Bracebridge after officers were notified by town staff Tuesday that several “sewing-type needles” were located in the water at Kirby’s Beach area of the park. Bracebridge Mayor Rick Maloney, reacting on Facebook this afternoon, said the “town of Bracebridge Public Works […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — Kevin McKelvey is no weather forecaster. But the fire prevention officer says the chance of showers and risk of thunderstorms tomorrow won’t much affect the serious threat of brush fires that could potentially spread t like ones in eastern and western Canada. “It won’t last long” and the temperature […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Nora Brosnahan loves strolling the Muskoka Wharf. But she can’t stand the unsightly flotsam bobbing along the shoreline at one of Muskoka’s prime tourist attractions. So the Bracebridge — yes, Bracebridge — resident took it upon herself to rake in some of the debris caught up in the cattails […]