Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Another attempted business break-in downtown here early this morning has the latest victim angry and dejected. Sang Park was awoken this morning above his Anne’s Variety store when he heard a thief smash the front door of his popular convenience shop on the main street. “I’m mad — it’s […]
GRAVENHURST — The Muskoka Concert Association is offering up Christmas bonuses for true music lovers Sunday afternoon at the Gravenhurst Opera House. Not only will you be overjoyed to hear one of Canada’s finest electric trios accompanied by one of the country’s equally celebrated singers. It’s only half the festive fun starting at 2:30 p.m. […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — The district is a creature of the province, says councillor Don Smith — who gets to vote for himself at next Monday’s election of a new council chair. So it’s no surprise that at this afternoon’s “debate” there were more than a half dozen priorities among the six contenders, […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — As district councillors prepare for a secret vote Dec. 5 on a new district chair, the province is tabling legislation to appoint chairs in Peel, York, Durham, Halton, Niagara and Waterloo. Will Muskoka be next in 2026? Who knows? Premier Doug Ford back-tracked on an announced promise of a […]
GRAVENHURST — Great weather — and no snow — didn’t stop Santa from arriving on a gorgeous day today here in Gravenhurst. St. Nick was in jolly spirits “Ho, hoing …,” and riding high down main street, the sun over his shoulders — his eight reindeer dancing and prancing over the pavement merry as care […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — The “Greenbelt” stretches north. A ribbon of trees and farmland surrounding Toronto is at risk says the Ontario Green Party (GPO). And that affects far more than the provincial capital, which is why they are planning a day of action Saturday to protest the province’s environmentally unfriendly changes. The […]
GRAVENHURST — Live — tomorrow — and on the air Sunday afternoon on YourTV Cable 10. It’s the annual Gravenhurst Rotary Online & TV Christmas Auction, which kicks off Tuesday on a computer or cellphone nearest to you … slow but sure. With 318 locally-donated business items and experiences available — valued at $45,000 — […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — Peter Cowan was “meticulously careful, rarely, if ever, taking any risk,” says his family. But Monday he fell from a tree and died while working on the job in Bracebridge. “Very tragic,” said a member of the family, which is deeply devastated by the workplace accident Nov. 14. A […]
Photos by Alex Hogg | MuskokaTODAY.com BALA — Santa arrived extra early in Bala today. It was almost balmy as the jolly gent toured through town bringing up the rear of a fun parade that’s always his first parade sighting. Hundreds lined Hwy. 169 this afternoon welcoming him and a stream of trucks and trekkers […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — War isn’t what it once was. Remembrance Day, however, is. An hour of simple solemnity steeped in shared memories past and present. Charles Mortimer, 90, and Robert Nix, 77, were among more than 100 members of the public who gathered on the roadside grade overlooking the legion cenotaph and […]
“Life is worth living as long as there’s a laugh in it.” Anne Shirley From Anne of Green Gables, by LM Montgomery Frances Hammond Our beautiful, strong, adventurous, funny, trailblazing mother has left us to dance again with our father. She died peacefully, surrounded by her family at The Pines Long Term Care Home in […]
GRAVENHURST — A pair of smash and grabs here yesterday and today may be linked. Police are investigating after the Currie Brothers music store was hit overnight Wednesday when a hooded thief broke a large front window on Muskoka Road and stole three guitars. They say the theft occurred about 5:10 a.m. Now the police […]
Lois Cooper | MuskokaTODAY.com OPINION The world is on the “highway to climate hell,” meanwhile the Ford government adds fuel. Third party appeals on municipal amendments — like the one the Town of Bracebridge gave for a mega quarry on Bonnie Lake Road — are set to be eliminated by Ontario’s Bill 23. This as […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — Schools will be open Tuesday, buses will run, students will be in class, teachers will be at white boards — and CUPE staff will be doing their jobs supporting them. This after the province backed down and the union celebrated a “huge win” as both agreed to return to […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — It’s home work again. School’s out again tomorrow as Muskoka students will be stuck back at home — or the caregiver’s — a second straight school day. An educational standoff has CUPE workers holding out for a better “imposed” contract after Friday’s walkout, protest, demonstration, strike or whatever either […]
Lois Cooper | MuskokaTODAY.com The Town of Gravenhurst pays for a full-page of advertising in the Toronto Star-owned Gravenhurst Banner each week. One might expect this would be used for important announcements like inviting the public to apply to sit on committees. In a notice emailed to those of us signed up to the town’s email portal, […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — Hundreds of CUPE educational workers were off work today to fight for more than wage increases. And they could be out Monday if not longer depending. He said as of late Friday afternoon that’s the plan according to the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) And TLDSB, too, is […]
MUSKOKA LAKES — Thieves are sitting on a load of Muskoka chairs. Police are investigating the theft of an enclosed trailer filled with Muskoka chairs, from an address on Henshaw Lake Road in Muskoka Lakes Township. They say the theft occurred sometime overnight on Monday, Oct. 31. The OPP estimate the combined value of the […]
Lois Cooper | MuskokaTODAY.com OPINION MUSKOKA — The District of Muskoka says the changes to our waste system on Nov. 7 are: “Working together towards a better waste system for Muskoka.” Yet it includes trucking all of our recycling (blue boxes) to Toronto for sorting and whatever comes next. How is trucking our recycling to […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — As strike talks continue a confirmed CUPE walk-out Friday means no school for students and classes by teachers. In a letter today to parents and families, Wes Hahn, TLDSB director of Education, writes the following: Dear TLDSB families: On Oct. 31, the government of Ontario announced Bill 28, Keeping […]