BRACEBRIDGE — Pam Mulligan can use a get-away. The give-er-a-go’s spirt made her the grand prize winner of Bracebridge’s “Let’s Get Started – Try Something New” activity event at the Bracebridge Sportsplex. This week, Mayor Graydon Smith and Paul and Lea Kane, of Royal LePage, announced Mulligan had won a two-day Muskoka retreat. “It was […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — On International Women’s Day, YWCA Muskoka opens the nominations for Muskoka’s 19th annual Women of Distinction Awards. Women of Distinction is a signature fundraising event that ensures women and girls of Muskoka have access to and are provided services year-round through YWCA violence prevention and educational programs, life skills […]
BRACEBRIDGE — Irish eyes will be smiling and you’ll hear an angel sing when the Muskoka Concert Band pays tribute to Ireland Saturday afternoon at the Rene Caisse Theatre. The Saint Paddy’s Day Salute will be as lovely as a morn’ in spring. And you’ll be Dublin over with laughter at the limericks of Paul […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — If you’ve walked or driven along Muskoka Road and crossed the east-west Brock and Sharpe street accesses, you might have wondered for whom they’re named. Or who Mary and Sarah are that they, too, had streets named for them on the west side of town? The two little girls were born Browns – and […]
GRAVENHURST — Looking for fun and games Friday nights? Well, Wayne Hill has both — and more — upstairs at the legion, starting at 7 p.m. Backed by his band of drop-in musicians. He says “there’s nothing to do on a Friday night … so I wanted to have a little fun.” Hill, a longtime […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — A stellar team of GHS robotics students are in Barrie this weekend, game to help defend against an asteroid shower that is threatening their high tech teen. GryphTech Robotics 6864 members have built their ultimate weapon for the FIRST Robotics competition in this year’s game, “Infinite Recharge.” An asteroid […]
aGRAVENHRST – Your prayers may be answered tomorrow. Lord knows there’s plenty to pray for in the world today. This year’s featured country is Zimbabwe. Members of the local faith communities will be uniting here n Gravenhurst Friday, March 6, for the annual World Day of Prayer, at 1 p.m. The multi-denominational peace gathering will […]
GRAVENHURST – It is with great pride that our Gravenhurst Rotary Club highlights two active members of our community for their “Service Above Self.” The Paul Harris award, one of our highest recognitions, was presented to Judy Humphries and Marv McCabe at their Monday noon meeting this week. Both of these individuals have been instrumental […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — A company where a worker died in 2018 while installing chains on a truck tire has been fined $125,000. Plus a 25 per cent victim surcharge. Great Northern Insulation (GNI), a Woodstock-based insulation company with a location in Gravenhurst, was convicted Feb. 25, following the Nov. 23, 2018 accident. […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Pond hockey’s popularity peaked Saturday with a frozen four faceoff that raised Canada’s outdoor game to new commercial heights sponsored by Dunkin’ Donuts and Budweiser beer. Team Iceland took home the woody in the A division of the Barstool tournament, which combined best of shinny and showmanship. The Mississauga […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com BARRIE — If you’re going to leave an inheritance to a child on their 21st birthday, make sure they’re not “leapers.” Or they’ll have to wait a long time, if ever, for the money. As young pirate Frederic famously learned in “The Pirates of Penzance.” Leap year babies are more than […]
HUNTSVILLE — Infastructure help for people in Muskoka with development disabilities and vulnerable children is being provided by the province. Ontario is helping six agencies in Parry Sound-Muskoka repair and renovate vital community buildings. This morning at Community Living Huntsville, MPP Norm Miller announced the Ford government is investing $70,000 in various agencies that support […]
Dear Editor: Re: Support For Public Education I’m an educator in Bracebridge. Over the past few weeks, we have seen unprecedented support for our fight against cuts to public education proposed by the Ford government. We recognize the challenges and inconveniences that so many of our community’s families have endured as we stand up for […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Imagine a new you. Because the old you is like the old Weight Watchers — a thing of the past — if you want to get serious. The company that for more than 55 years has helped millions lose weight with the latest nutritional and behaviour change science is […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Plans for a major housing development at the south end of Gravenhurst have been fast-tracked. Major zoning and official plan amendments were approved Tuesday at a town planning council meeting. And SkyDev president Greg Jones said in an email Thursday to MuskokaTODAY.com that as a result: “All looks good […]
Story and photos by Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com BRACEBRIDGE — What do you do when the star comes down with laryngitis days just days before opening night? In the old days you’d wrap a towel around her neck, tell her to gargle with salt water, drink plenty of fluids including honey tea — and hang […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Another in the excellent series of History Lives Talks presented by Judy Humphries of the Gravenhurst Archives takes place Wednesday night at the Gravenhurst Library. It’s called: Founding Families: Who are the people who gave us our great beginnings? Brock, Brown, Cockburn, Mickle, Mowry, Marter and more…. If you […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com BRACEBRIDGE — Andi Stevenson “would do anything for a play.” Including skipping recesses to go over the script a “millions of times” to master the hundreds of lines in her starring role in Matilda The Musical. Not bad for a nine-year-old who carries the annual Bracebridge Rotary show with a cast […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — It was a great night for walkers tonight. Warm and sunny. And the temperature was nice, too. Close to 200 kids, adults, families and volunteers joined the 33 teams on the Coldest Night of the Year fundraising walk downtown for GAP. As of walk time they had pledges of […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Public protests took over the main intersection here today at noon as striking teachers united in “solidarity” with Climate Muskoka demonstrators. Amid a constant honking of horns, the corner of Bay Street and Muskoka Road was filled with dozens of placard-wearing and waving protesters calling for provincial and federal […]