Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — South Muskoka doctors are all calling for “at least 54” acute care beds in south Muskoka and 62 in Huntsville, which could bring local hospitals closer to the “equal” status many call for. “Gains” “headway” and “negotiated” improvements are fine, but MAHC’s 40 per cent cut in beds in […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Scouting is the “whole package” when it comes to helping boys and girls grow and learn outside of school. “We like to think it offers a bit of everything,” says Craig Armstrong 1st Gravenhurst assistant group commissioner. “Fun, education, sports, outdoors, camping and good citizenship. “Other groups have their […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Mary Jane Reid has grown up with hundreds of Cubs, Beavers, Scouts and Venturers who are today leading productive lives and in many cases now are leading members of this community. In more than half a century of scouting, the Group Commissioner has learned as much about life and […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com HUNTSVILLE — With the first carbon rebate cheques being cashed in rural Canada, Ontario Greens are offering free “simple choices” on how to reduce your carbon footprints Saturday at the Active Living Centre in Huntsville. The free, public climate conference is on from 1 to 4:30 p.m. and is presented by […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Amy Dodington “loves Bach.” But the soprano songstress is delighted to solo on Myroslav Skoryk’s “Melodia” April 28 when the Muskoka Concert Association presents the Elmer Iseler Singers at the Opera House in a Sunday night return engagement. Skoryk was a Ukrainian composer and teacher whose contemporary music style […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Keeping tabs on Rotary community projects (all thanks to donors like you) is a like predicting the weather. It’s always changing. Last month in Bracebridge they raised $29,000 for Ukrainians and to bring another Syrian family to the Heart of Muskoka. Here in Gateway to Muskoka the big news […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — There was excitement in the air and on the ground this afternoon as goggly-eyed solar eclipse fans looked up — way up — to see for some a once in a lifetime phenomena. It was a sight for sore eyes unless you had special pupil protection. And many did […]
BAYSVILLE, ON — The end of curling and beginning of bocce season sees good news for the Baysville Curling and Bocce Club. Saturday MPP Graydon Smith met members at their AGM where he congratulated them on receiving a $23,100 grant from the province’s Ontario Trillium Foundation (OTF). Awarded in January it will help with website […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — Those needing any more excuses for the fight of their lives need only add 200+ to the count. That’s the number of frontline staff MAHC expects to add when Muskoka’s new hospitals open. “Predominantly unionized positions,” they say. That’s critical for municipal development in Huntsville, Bracebridge — and emerging […]
Photos and story Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com BRACEBRIDGE — Most people came for the last skate or to regale in the glory days of the Memorial Arena — and Community Centre as it was first known in 1949. Jim Hammond came hunting souvenirs this morning. With his screw driver he found what he wanted. A […]
Photos and story Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com BRACEBRIDGE — The last league and shinny games at the Memorial Arena last night were as stark a difference as dreams of making the NHL one day. One minute you’re on top of the world like the U18 Local League champions and the next you’re a beer leaguer […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com BRACEBRIDGE — “Through the Eras” was an apt description for Skate Muskoka’s 75th and final figure skating show at the Bracebridge Memorial Arena. And Diane Lloyd and her daughter Susan were with them all the way. The former skating coaches — Diane 30 years starting in 1969 and Susan in the […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — There may be at least some key movements on the hospitals front. A closed meeting Wednesday night in Utterson between the MAHC board and credentialed staff associations members indicates the two opposing sides may yet find more middle grounds, several sources tell MuskokaTODAY.com. Doctors in south Muskoka said this […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com BRACEBRIDGE — Dan Brooks and I were reminiscing this morning about being defence partners 55 years ago at the Roger Crozier-Ron Ingram summer hockey school here. We were on the same ice with Mayor Rick Maloney for the final regular public skate two days before the Bracebridge Memorial Arena closes. The […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com BRACEBRIDGE — Chub Downey would be proud and impressed. His cup is going to the Lakeland Blacks a deserved U15 Local League champion — even though it probably could have/have been shared with their Muskoka Chrysler Red opponents. On the second last night of hockey at the Bracebridge Memorial Arena Wednesday, […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — Within hours credentialed staff at Muskoka’s two hospitals will face off with MAHC management in life and death talks on neutral ground in Port Sydney. That’s the ironic halfway point between Huntsville and Bracebridge where once there could have been a mega hospital. An announced willingness on both sides […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com BRACEBRIDGE — As the clock ticks down to Saturday’s final two public skates at the Bracebridge Memorial Arena, the last figure skating carnival takes to the ice tonight. After 75 years the Bracebridge Figure Skating Club presents its last show, which over the decades has thrilled residents, families and provided a […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — Public pressure has forced MAHC to re-consider its hospitals redevelopment plan and numbers, which would have taken beds and obstetrics away from south Muskoka in 2031-32 moving them to Huntsville. They are now willing to consider more “inpatient beds and labour delivery” at their site in south Muskoka. No […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — What’s best for Muskoka and/or its two hospital host communities? That’s a new strategy opponents of MAHC’s redevelopment plan are pondering as they’ve formalized efforts to fight for two independent hospitals. Call it divide and conquer. That’s all in their latest update Monday. Over the weekend they had representation […]
HUNTSVILLE — A beer bust has a local man facing several suds charges. OPP at Huntsville have laid multiple charges following an investigation into stolen beer kegs early last week. On Monday March 14, at 2:30 p.m., police were called regarding a suspicious male trying to return kegs to a local brewery. Officers began an […]