HUNTSVILLE — It didn’t take police long to track down $60,000 in stolen construction material. Officers were called Monday after a report of a theft from a local business in Huntsville. On Sept. 30 they began an investigation. A local business identified an employee they accuse of stealing the lumber. Two days later, on Oct. […]
Photos and story Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com BRACEBRIDGE — Matthews on point, season on the line, Leafs a scream. A week out from the puck drop in Montreal, school was in and out on Toronto’s most important season in maybe decades. A screaming crowd of 450 students — mostly from Monck — witnessed an intense […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com BRACEBRIDGE — A coaching change didn’t help the Muskoka Bears yesterday. Before Saturday night’s 6-2 loss in Orillia and another 11-0 home embarrassment Sunday to Stayner, the new PJHL team had already fired ex- NHLer Jason Dawe. Team president Dave Veitch called it a “mutual” parting of the ways around “commitment” […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com BALA — A 25-year-old man died early this morning in downtown Bala following accident involving an OPP cruiser. Police say the pedestrian was struck and killed shortly before 6 a.m. Sunday, Sept. 29, on Muskoka Road 169 in Muskoka Lakes Township. He was transported to hospital where he later died from […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — How long does it take to trickle charge the Lady of the Lakes? That’s a question I pondered last evening while touring the Muskoka Discovery Centre. I’ll find out for sure tomorrow on the Segwun when I sail on one of its only two cruises this season. Muskoka Steamships […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Like the ‘Last Spike’ that brought the country together, the “last rock” brought Gravenhurst together today for Rotary Rocks the Barge. The unveiling of the donor stone this afternoon was the completion of a two-year club anniversary project for amphitheatre seating overlooking the iconic music venue at Gull Lake […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Seagulls basking on The Barge in the late afternoon sun today were thoroughly enjoying themselves. Sitting and watching from shore as they danced and squawked was like being entertained by a troupe of fluttering ballerinas. Swan Lake on Gull Lake. Carefree and alone. Not an audience to behold. Just […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Bingo dabbers love their Rotary Club. And they’re glad the service club was back with their Wednesday. Last week nine people were particularly happy the first week back after a summer hiatus. They were recipients of $2,000 in prize money — two of them splitting the big final game […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — Sunrise to sunset Scott Turnbull and Gavin Hammond cycled 10 times around Lake Rosseau one weekend last month in support of MiND-AID, a local charity that provides mental health help for youth in Muskoka. Starting on Friday, Aug. 16 at 6 a.m., they pedalled 658 kms. before finishing Saturday […]
MUSKOKA — Boat and motor vehicle charges were laid by police Sunday in two First Nations communities Sunday. Police said Monday that on Sept. 22 just before 1 a.m., OPP along with Muskoka EMS, responded to a crash of a vehicle on Kanien’kehá:ka Iohatátie (formerly Muskoka Road 38) on Wahta Mohawk First Nation. They have […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com BRACEBRIDGE — It was a win the Bears and Otters desperately wanted after an uneven 0-3 start to the Provincial Junior Hockey League season. A penalty shot goal by Muskoka’s Jacob Budney at 8:05 of the second period — which left the score tied at 2-2 for almost the next half […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA LAKES TWP. — A Port Carling man and a Barrie woman were in bail court today charged with more than two dozen counts after a police stop near Acton Island Road just after midnight early Saturday morning. Most of the charges were firearms and drug related as well as Highway […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Christie Buckley is a savvy business woman. She’s created a “co-working centre” offering “business support services.” The new “Savvy Community” is an “office building” that caters to daily, weekly and monthly rental spaces for small independent business owners. She has in mind private contractors or cottagers on the go […]
BRACEBRIDGE — What’s eight letters for winning a quarter-million dollars? “Shocking,” says Janet Dawson. And Instant, says the 54-year-old regular lottery player with OLG, whose go-to game is INSTANT CROSSWORD who is now celebrating a recent big win, courtesy of the classic word game. “While playing my ticket, I was checking how many words I […]
LETTER TO EDITOR: A Barrie doctor recently shared her colleague’s experience in a Winnipeg hospital, of the fallout from the attempted consolidation of hospital services among Winnipeg hospitals in 2017. The Winnipeg Free Press headlines read: “Tories’ ER consolidation a catastrophic gift that keeps on giving; Streamlined’ system’s disastrous, blundered rollout chased away critically needed […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — A local man accused of plaguing a section of Hwy. 11 between Kilworthy and Hwy. 118 E. north in Gravenhurst appeared in bail court today, charged with three counts of gas bar robbery as well as three break and enters in August and September. Police, with the assistance of […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com BRACEBRIDGE — Golfers are happy with this week’s weather. And many former Bracebridge Bears are even gladder that as a result of their annual summer tournament at South Muskoka Curling and Golf Club they raised close to $8,000, which they continue to donate to local charities and causes. Chair Greg Crozier […]
Photos and story Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Labour Day is done and gone. But like workers, the hardest jobs are never done. In Canada Labour Day has its roots in an 1872 printers’ strike in Toronto. Fighting for a nine-hour work day, the strikers’ victory was a major milestone in the changing relations between […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — Does Muskoka need Lake of Bays? It seems, at least on the issue of hospitals redevelopment, the district’s eastern flank is one in the same as parenting Huntsville. Mayor Terry Glover and council were parroting the northern half of Muskoka last week at their council meeting disparagingly claiming that […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com BRACEBRIDGE — A sad day — weeks — as 75 years of hockey history is ending here on James Street with the demolition of the Bracebridge Memorial Arena. “The rink” as its best known, is but a pile of cinder blocks today with the original east end ice sheet reduced to […]
