Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Indoors and outdoors music is alive in Muskoka. Great performers are taking to stages to entertain in Gravenhurst. Tuesday night the Baytowne Big Band, from Barrie, jazzed up the Barge with nostalgic tunes as a fill-in for Sunday night’s regular weekly concerts interrupted by the Tall Trees concerts at […]
MINETTT — Police in south Muskoka say they have noticed an increase in the number of collisions related impaired driving charges. The OPP charged yet another person with impaired driving offences after responding to a motor vehicle collision in Muskoka Lakes Township. Last night at 10:30 p.m. they responded to reports of a vehicle that […]
HUNTSVILLE — A basement electrical panel that produced sparks and smoke caused under $10,000 in damage early last night. About 7:30 p.m. Huntsville/Lake of Bays firefighters from Station One in Huntsville and Station Five in Port Sydney responded to a report on Domtar Road west of the town’s core. They discovered smoke on the ground floor […]
BRACEBRIDGE — A mischief charge has been laid against a 19-year-old Bracebridge man for vandalizing flowers on the Ecclestone Bridge 10 days ago. Police charged Ryler Smith with damaging the flower pots. On July 14, at 3:30 a.m., officers conducting patrols of the downtown core in Bracebridge received calls from residents and business owners about […]
MUSKOKA — Two more people were charged yesterday with impaired driving and another possible suspect fled an accident scene that night as the number of similar summer incidents mounts. On Tuesday, July 23, at 5 p.m. while on patrol on Muskoka Road 118 in Muskoka Lakes Township, an OPP officer conducted a traffic stop after […]
GRAVENHURST — They’ve had an organist and a pianist. Now Trinity United Church in Gravenhurst will offer its final concert of their mini summer series on Wednesday, July 24 at noon. This time our featured artist will be Greg Ulrick from Nipissing who will be playing Bach on our organ and then move over to […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — A Norm Foster play and Muskoka getaway are like a Saturday and Sunday at the cottage — they make for a great Long Weekend. A fun play with plenty of familiar familial wisecracks that resonated with this afternoon’s audience of mature couples who know where the early exits are […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com HUNTSVILLE — As expected, last night Huntsville’s town council endorsed “strongly endorses” … “in principle” MAHC’s hospital redevelopment plan that appears to give the north Muskoka community the district edge in regional health care. After hearing presentations from various stakeholder groups and engaging a discussion regarding Muskoka Algonquin Healthcare’s “Made-in-Muskoka Healthcare” […]
MUSKOKA — Meet the doctors. With a shortage of district doctors, Muskoka Algonquin Healthcare has produced a series of Fireside Chats that introduces some of them with talks that explain more about health in general and hopefully help patients learn a bit more about their providers. In partnership with local healthcare providers, Muskoka Algonquin Healthcare […]
MACTIER — A late night accident Friday in which a boater collided with a dock has landed the operator with impaired driving charges. Police say 47-year-old Cameron Raffaele, of Mactier, was charged with impaired operation of a vessel after officers responded to a boating collision in Georgian Bay Township. On July 19, at 10:30 p.m., […]
BRACEBRIDGE — A Sunday morning collision has led to impaired driving charges after police responded to a ditched vehicle in Matthiasville, east of town here. At 8:40 a.m. police responded to Matthiasville Road, where officers commenced an investigation into the cause of the collision and subsequently arrested and charged 28-year-old Stephen Good, of Bracebridge, with […]
HUNTSVILLE — Hwy. 35, south of Seabreeze Road, was closed for five hours late Saturday afternoon following a head-on collision between a motorcycle and a passenger vehicle in Algonquin Highlands Township. On July 20, at 5 p.m., OPP, Muskoka EMS, Lake of Bays Fire, and Algonquin Highlands Fire responded. The driver of the motorcycle, a […]
MUSKOKA — Thieves came away virtually empty-handed after three of break and enters early this morning in west Muskoka. Police are investigating the pair of attempted thefts. They say that on Friday, July 19, at 2:45 a.m. officers responded to a break-in in progress at a business location on Muskoka Road 118 near Peninsula Road […]
Letter to editor: Although the lazy days of summer have begun, it is anything but at Orillia Soldiers’ Memorial Hospital. Summer is typically a busier time for accessing healthcare as we welcome the influx of seasonal visitors to our region in addition to our growing population. More people, more activities, more of everything it seems, […]
BRACEBRIDGE — The Rotary Club of Bracebridge Muskoka Lakes has donated $83,500 to the South Muskoka Memorial Hospital Foundation. Proceeds are from their 22nd annual fundraiser gala this spring, a black tie Academy Awards-themed soiree.
GRAVENHURST — Police were busy here Tuesday after an early morning accident and break and enter report. A 19-year-old Barrie man was charged July 16 after a single-vehicle collision Gravenhurst on Muskoka Beach Road near Old Muskoka Road. At 2:50 a.m. south Muskoka officers and Muskoka EMS responded to reports that the vehicle left the […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Rain hasn’t hampered construction much on the Bay & Beyond road re-development next the Muskoka Wharf. Swift progress should see the bottom section of Hwy. 169, says Nick Miandro. He’s the Trisan Construction community liaison person knocking on doors up-street today to tell home owners the company will be […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — At the height of summer the concept of Muskoka and what it means to be a Muskokan is falling apart as the two largest towns, their hospitals and permanent residents fight for health care supremacy and their very lives. As the weather and the battle heats up, it’s dividing […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com BRACEBRIDGE — Remember Red Fisher and Scuttlebutt Lodge: Tall Tale Capital of the World? It ran on CTV from 1968 to 1989. Guests included NHL greats Johnny Bower and Eddie Shack (Leafs), Stan Makita (Blackhawks), Gordie Howe (Wings), baseball legends Fergie Jenkins (Red Sox) — and even Slim Pickens (actor — […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Jack was jumpin’ Friday. Literally. The Bala ragtime pianist is the hare to Joe Biden’s tortoise. And if Donald Trump were within earshot of the Opera House, he would have heard ‘… Hutton and Friends’ tear up the stage “one more time.” Not bad for a nonagenarian. “91 and […]