Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — With winter clinging on and ice finally out, Rotarians were celebrating this week as work finally on their 85th anniversary signature community project. Rotary Rocks the Barge work began this week with the town’s Rotary Gull Lake Park cordoned off for the next few months as worker dig into […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — The David and Goliath battle to “get it right” has hospital opponents continuing to compete in a weekly war of words. As sure as Saturday follows Friday, those fighting to “save” south Muskoka’s hospital have issued their weekend response to MAHC’s end of week update on redevelopment plans. They […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — Still stinging from criticism about a new South Muskoka Hospital site and transparency around its selection, MAHC has doubled down in defence of a site at the north end of Bracebridge. “The Pine Street site remains the better-suited location for the project in the longer term, based on its […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — An environmental revolt has gained Winhara Road residents two more weeks make comment to the Ministry of Environment on a “contaminated non-hazardous” soil cleansing and waste disposal site that would also store soil material on 12 acres in their neighbourhood. Two dozen people who live at the north end […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Many here lament “the good old days.” Especially for a generation of Baby Boomers around when Sloan’s Restaurant was the epicentre of the main street. If TVO’s great little Main Street vignettes were to do a piece on Gravenhurst, the iconic eatery would be the focus with a photo […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com HUNTSVILLE — There’s an audience for classical music in Muskoka. Always has been. But this weekend it was a home grown orchestra that bowed to the public — twice. Saturday afternoon at Baysville’s Bethune United Church and yesterday afternoon at Trinity United Church in Huntsville. Two sold out performances of “Whimsical […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — The public push to revise plans for Muskoka’s two hospitals continues throughout South Muskoka Memorial Hospital’s catchments area. Dan and Cindy Waters, who have been championing their cause with a petition, say they presented their first list of names to MPP Graydon Smith last week. At his office in […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — Final new hospital plans won’t be submitted until the end of the year, more smaller public consultations are planned and a doctors’ alternative ‘Care Closer to Home’ model is being costed out by consultants. That’s this week’s MAHC update Friday on a publicly contentious redevelopment proposal for South Muskoka […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — International Women’s Day was a morning of celebration today as 150 women — and 10 men — marked the occasion with a breakfast of champions at the Gravenhurst Centennial Centre. Ladies noshed, nurtured and nourished each other with invigorating Muskoka tales echoing throughout the Terry Fox Auditorium. “It’s not […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — As the community independently debates the state of local hospitals and its reponse to changes, Muskoka Algonquin Healthcare continues its own updates with a new release today as promised. MAHC said “our commitment to enhancing healthcare in our community is taking a significant stride forward.” And that they are […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — “Inspiring inclusion” is this year’s theme of International Women’s Day at the Terry Fox Auditorium at the arena March 8, where an all-star panel will sit down for a dockside chat. Statistics Canada (2021) pegs the median employment income for women in Muskoka at between $20,000 and $26,800, says […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com BRACEBRIDGE — Charming, witty, inspiring with great performances. That’s “Billy Elliot,” which wrapped up its first weekend run at the Rene Caisse Theatre Sunday. Community theatre at its best. Entertaining, intelligent, heartwarming and atristically true to hit movie and play’s original 2005 West End London production. The buzz about “Billy” and […]
Ed. note: Gravenhurst has recently lost a doctor and Port Carling has lost the only physician in Muskoka Lakes. Both belonged to the Cottage Family Health Team, which sufferered a further blow when the Ministry of Health turned down a proposal to expand services in the two communities. CCFHT is asking why surrounding communities received […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — A biting wind was no match for the sun and shinny on Lake Muskoka this weekend for another annual hockey fest. This year’s winter lite didn’t stop hundreds of slap-happy puck purists who gathered under the sun for a glorious game of what makes us Canadian. The battle for […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — This week’s coldest nights of the year were capped with another “Coldest Day of the Year” walk yesterday. Hundreds of walkers and volunteers raised more than $173,000 in the annual Gravenhurst Against Poverty trek through town for food security. The 336 who registered gathered at the Lion’s Pavilion on […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — No final decision on the fate of Muskoka’s hospitals is forthcoming. Muskoka Algonquin Healthcare said today that talks continue widely and that its board of directors will not be approving a recommendation on a future model of care at its next scheduled meeting in March. This follows meetings this […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com HUNTSVILLE — MPP Graydon Smith, under weeks of pressure in south Muskoka to help its hospital, gave more than $1.26 million to Family Health Teams (FHT) in Huntsville, Sundridge, Burk’s Falls and Wasauksing First Nation today. At two Ford government announcements he attended in the morning and afternoon on Friday in […]
HUNTSVILLE — Two Severn Bridge residents face charges involving a $680,000 fake GIC investment. OPP in Huntsville charged the pair in relation to an investigation just over a month before Christmas. On November 18, 2023, members of the Huntsville Detachment along with Muskoka Crime Unit and Anti-Rackets Branch of the OPP commenced a fraud investigation […]
“Solidarity, solidarity, solidarity forever.” “Maggie, Maggie, Maggie. Out, out, out!” Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com BRACEBRIDGE — Coal mining, we know today, causes global warming. In 1984-85 when the fossil fuel still powered global industrial growth, Britain’s “Iron Lady” prime minister Maggie Thatcher took on northeast England miners in a bid to close collieries and strike […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com BRACEBRIDGE — The ball’s back in MAHC’s court after its ninth hospitals model meeting, as they decide how to respond to public outcry about two unequal hospital sites in the coming months before submitting the “proposal” to the province. Or whether they should alter it after hearing from residents and patients. […]