Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — An evening with Brett Sontag Thursday is a whirlwind of musical influences covering 17 countries since he performed last summer at Trinity United Church in their Wednesday concert series. This week they dim the lights for another candle light concert as the Gravenhurst native welcomes family and friends for […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — The judges have spoken — twice — and the “Best Burger” at yesterday’s Hale Muskoka opening is a local sear-ious smash-up success. Chef Melanie Robinson’s slider was a play on two dishes: a traditional Bahn Mi sandwich and a bowl of noodles. The Orillia Eclectic Cafe owner says she […]
Bob Pomerantz | Special to TODAY.com GRAVENHURST — You might know that Gravenhurst was home to a German prisoner-of-war camp between 1940 and 1946. But did you know that, ironically in 1949 the camp was repurposed as a Jewish summer resort with kosher-style food and stand-up comics like a young Dave Broadfoot? That’s just one […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — A “Smash and Sear” burger competition today was as much about the searing heat as the beef. Hale Muskoka’s all-you-can-eat opening was the hottest ticket in town as hundreds lined up in the heat to sample and vote. Five chefs and five judges were on the hot seat as […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — I went to a concert last night and a party broke out. A birthday party — for The BOMB Retro ’80s Live super band fan Cathy, who danced her way across the Opera House stage. She and a couple hundred of her close friends and fans of the Whitby […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — A new ‘Marketplace Flavours Venue’ at the north entrance to Gravenhurst opens Sunday with a “Smash & Sear: Best Burger Competition.” After months of nice renovations to the old “Simpson Barn” property on Bethune Drive North at Hwy. 11, Hale Muskoka is hosting its first outdoor culinary event. A […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Family and friends are mourning the passing of a Gravenhurst man in Tuesday’s car accident at Pine Lake. Michael Sutcliffe died in an apparent head-on collision on Hwy. 169 at about 6:30 p.m. Aug. 5. He was the lone driver in a black Subaru. “Really great guy,” said Robert […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — “Less than a minute” before a fatal two-car crash claimed two Muskoka men in front of Pine Lake Cottages last evening, Yulia Syniavska and her family of five had just pulled off Hwy. 169 into the driveway of their holiday cabin. “It was just terrible, terrible.” Police say the […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com BEATRICE — A tragic end for family here last Friday has police confirming the deaths of a son and his parents. Mitchell Gray, 29, and Paul Gray, 60, and Anita Gray, 59, died in a shooting and fire on Beatrice Town Line shortly after 8 p.m. Aug. 1. All were from […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com HUNTSVILLE — Police in Huntsville were busy before and during the Civic Holiday long weekend looking for impaired drivers. Four drivers were taken of the roadway since July 30. Including a Huntsville woman picking up a child at a day camp. On August 2, at 10:32 p.m., police were dispatched to a disturbance […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com HUNTSVILLE — Accidents 24 hours apart yesterday and today led to one fatality this afternoon and a second person being flown to Toronto Saturday with life-altering injuries, police said tonight. They say that at 2:11 p.m. Aug. 3 officers were dispatched to a two-vehicle collision on southbound Highway 11 at Allensville […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com BEATRICE — Bales of hay glisten in the Sunday afternoon sun along bucolic Beatrice Town Line road. Where generations of Grays have farmed they belie the upsetting and tearful tragedy of a tight knit community in mourning and reeling from the deaths of three people. About a half dozen farms are […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com BRACEBRIDGE — Friday’s fatality, fire and “wanted man” has residents from Beatrice to Falkenburg, Raymond, Ufford and Windermere on edge tonight. “It’s scary” and “it’s creepy,” admitted a couple of them just 24 hours after police said Mitchell Gray, 29, of Bracebridge is wanted for “murder and arson” last night at […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com BRACEBRIDGE — A day after a death and arson last night, police continue to comb the area in search of a man suspected of a killing and fire in Beatrice north of town. They are requesting the public’s assistance in locating Mitchell Gray, 29. On Friday, August 1 shortly after 8 […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com BRACEBRIDGE — The OPP lifted a shelter-in-place order early today in the Beatrice Townline Road area of north Bracebridge after a call about an armed man “in distress” last night. Affected residents may resume their regular activities, but are encouraged to stay alert and report any suspicious activity to police, said […]
GRAVENHURST — A complaint about suspected impaired diver has led to charges. On Monday July 28, at 8:35 p.m., police responded to concerned member of the public in the area of Steamship Bay Road in Gravenhurst. An officer located the vehicle a short distance away, and conducted a traffic stop arresting and charging 34-year-old Fraser […]
GRAVENHURST — A cyclist thrown from their bike after a vehicle made contact with a tire was treated at the scene by paramedics last Friday at 1 p.m. And the driver was charged July 25 after Muskoka EMS and police responded to reports from members of the public about a collision involving a motor vehicle […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com BALA — Who knew Lucy Maud Montgomery had a spicy side to a couple of her novels. Her Blue Castle book, based in Bala, had enough blue in it to make even a pretty little, pig-tailed red-head blush. Certainly it would for Marilla Cuthbert, Anne Shirley’s adoptive mother in LMM’s classic […]
MUSKOKA LAKES TWP. — A fail to remain accident suspect sought by police has them asking for public help in locating a white pickup truck last seen Thursday past in the late afternoon. The OPP is seeking assistance after the accident July 24, at 6 p.m. Officers responded to several complaints from motorists travelling on […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — “One long … and two short.” That was my advice from Captain Dave Sutherland as we came through the Narrows last night and I tooted my own horn on my 70th birthday. Actually it was the whistle on the Wenonah II. I wanted everyone to know I was celebrating […]