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 […]
GRAVENHURST — A 911 call about men banging and attempting to get into an apartment has police looking for two suspects here. Police are asking the public’s help identifying the attempted break and enter Wednesday, Sept. 18, at 10:45 p.m. Officers responded to a residence in an apartment building on Muskoka Road North near Winewood […]
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 […]
HUNTSVILLE — CCTV cameras caught vandals running amuck downtown Sunday as full moons began arising this week. And police are looking for images and identities to capture the pot planter punks gone wild. On Sept. 15, about midnight, five individuals damaged flowers and planters outside a local business on Main Street East, throwing them onto […]
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 — Three people — including two from Gravenhurst — face weapons charges, including possession of a loaded prohibited or restricted gun after a police executed a search warrant yesterday on home at the south end of Gravenhurst. A North York man was in bail court today facing the same charges. […]
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 […]
GRAVENHURST — After a summer hiatus, Rotary TV Bingo returns to Cogeco tonight, Wednesday Sept. 18, with $2,000 on offer as usual. Technical issues that left bingo players out of the loop have been resolved and the service club is on the air at the cable TV station from 7-8 p.m. With five games — […]
PORT CARLING — A Port Carling man who fled a fiery stolen vehicle, which crashed overnight today east of Port Carling, faces multiple charges after eventually being apprehended. Police said this morning they are investigating a small grey vehicle fire in Muskoka Lakes Township. On Sept. 16, at 2:30 a.m., officers, along with Muskoka Lakes […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com ORILLIA — Of the countless versions of Rhapsody in Blue, the one last night by Kyung-A Lee and a quintet from the Orillia Silver Band ranks respectfully up there with some of the scaled down best. In the dozen hands of a half dozen immensely talented Simcoe and Muskoka musicians, the […]