MUSKOKA — At 12:05 p.m. EDT, Environment Canada meteorologists are tracking a severe thunderstorm capable of producing strong wind gusts, pea to dime size-hail and heavy rain as it moved north through Muskoka. The rain fell before 12:30 p.m. and dark skies persisted throughout the early afternoon as the Environment Canada says in its noon […]
Story and photos Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Thomas Craig is happy to be back in Canada and particularly Muskoka. The London-based actor — a star of the Murdoch Mysteries — has a “mate with a cottage on Muldrew Lake.” And his character, Inspector Thomas Brackenreid, has returned to Toronto from Yorkshire for the […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com BRACEBRIDGE — Ontario’s first new all-season, full-service, overnight camping provincial park in more than 40 years will be in east Bracebridge, off Hwy. 118. Bigwind Lake Provincial Park — which is now a 5,000 acre day park for hiking — will offer overnight and electrified campgrounds, backcountry camping, and a variety […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — What’s everybody’s talkin’ ’bout. “Talkin’ ’bout Iran, Pakistan, Afghanistan, South Sudan, Russia, Ukraine, genocide, femicide … “Let’s put killing aside ….” Those are a few of the opening words of a reworked version of John Lennon’s “Give Peace a Chance.” GHS guitarist Dakota Clifford and student vocalists Leah Church […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — When Louise Jardine walks onto the Opera House stage tonight to conduct the Elderberries Choir in their 30th anniversary performance, they will be accompanied by Carolyn Grant on their small electric Yamaha keyboard. The music director would like to have seen and heard their pianist playing the “Jardine piano,” […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Fans of the popular “Murdoch Mysteries” will want to tune in to the season premiere of the popular CBC detective show this fall for a glimpse of Gravenhurst. Producers, actors, crews, some 150, are at the Muskoka Wharf and Gull Lake Rotary Park this week filming segments for the […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — You’ve seen it — and heard its beautiful music. The 1911 Steinway nine-foot concert grand piano that some of the world’s great pianists including Diana Krall — and hundreds of aspiring local artists — have played and tinkled the ivories on will soon be gone from the Gravenhurst Opera […]
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 […]
BALA — There’s no easy way of getting around the Muskoka Lakes the next five days. If you live in Bala or Port Carling you’ll get the run-around till Friday night. So expect backups all over west Muskoka and beyond. That’s because a section of road between the neighbouring communities is now closed, as of […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com ORILLIA — Gordon Lightfoot grew up listening to the Orillia Silver Band. What would have happened if he had joined the British-style brass band? When he was winning Kiwanis Music Festival prizes as young soprano in the United Church choir around the corner from the Opera House, the Silver Band was […]
MUSKOKA — Rockin’ robin and some of the most popular songs from the ’60s and ’70s — including the Beatles, big bands, classical, movie and show tunes — are on the bill May 27-29 as the Muskoka Concert Band takes the stage for it annual summer music series kick-off. With the May 24 Victoria long […]