Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — Star Wars to the Sheepdogs and of course Gordon Lightfoot make this week’s start of summer a musical merry go round for vocal, orchestral and hard core music lovers of all genres and tastes. The Barge season opened Sunday in Gravenhurst with the Bifocals Band soaring to celestial heights […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Ken Adams took a three-hour drive from Welland to Gravenhurst to meet his brother, Ron, at the Brown Bag Reunion. But it was the last leg of his journey that nearly did him in this afternoon. With his faithful dog Jersey as his co-pilot he barely got out from […]
HUNTSVILLE — Police charged a young male with stunt driving Monday night. They say that at 10:30 p.m. June 30 officers observed a vehicle performing a stunt in the parking lot of 70 King William Street. The vehicle was observed spinning (drifting/burnout) without control and a traffic stop was conducted. As a result Stefan Preiner, […]
BRACEBRIDGE — Police are looking for a vehicle and the driver who caused significant damage at a public park here over the weekend. The OPP is investigating the mischief and theft at Annie Williams Park and seeking assistance from the public. Police believe the suspect(s) drove over items left overnight following the weekend event. They […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com HUNTSVILLE — Tuesday’s terrifying police pursuit along Highway 11 has led to six GTA residents being charged in connection with a home invasion in the Hillside area, east of Huntsville. A day later all the accused were in custody for a bail hearing Wednesday before the Ontario Court of Justice in […]
GRAVENHURST — After the resounding success last year of their Tribute to Gordon Lightfoot in aid of Rotary Rocks the Barge, Steve Rae and The Pony Man Band are returning with an all-new show entitled Threads and Icons. Tomorrow night’s Rotary Club concert, July 3, is to help promote the planned Gravenhurst Health Hub. It’s a near sell-out, with a few […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — When one thinks of a “Brown Bag Reunion,” it could conger up a range of memories — many stemming from trips to the government store where paper bags and brown wrapping paper were a part. Fortunately tomorrow’s GHS Brown Bag Reunion at Gull Lake Rotary Park is no longer […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com CITY OF KAWARTHA LAKES — Police are looking for three professional-looking thieves who tried to rob a business in Kinmount late yesterday afternoon. The OPP responded June 30 at 5 p.m. on County Road 121 for reports of an attempted robbery. The suspects fled the scene before police arrived. Preliminary investigation […]
GRAVENHURST — A mid-summer’s noon concert series returns to Trinity United Church here this week. The five concerts commence July 2 with an Orillia Silver Band ensemble, a collection of musicians comprised of members of the popular pre-eminent concert orchestra to the south. Under the direction of Neil Barlow, Muskoka’s leading conductor. Kylan Haffie, July […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — It’s almost all over … but for the many fireworks at dusk, which will wrap up another fun day in Canada. And Muskoka. Sunrise to sunset it’s been a colourful — red and white — celebration of who we are and what we stand up for . There were […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — An armed home invasion east of Huntsville early Canada Day led to the arrest of six people following a chases down Highway 11 — with additional suspects at large in a silver Honda CRV with an Ontario plate of CZFE 895. The OPP urges the public to remain vigilant […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — It’s going to be great day tomorrow. And not just because we turn 158 — but the weather will be more comfortable making all the events easier to enjoy. No matter what town, village, park or event you plan to attend it’s ‘Elbows Up! And time to break out […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Rotarians honoured a couple of very deserving community supporters with their major international honour Thursday. Mallory Silver and Jesse Grimes received Paul Harris award named in honour of the worldwide service club’s founder recognizing them for demonstrating Rotary’s principles of “Service Above Self.” The pins and certificate presentations were […]
MuskokaTODAY.com ARCHIVES Ed. note: Town archivist Jack Cline found this decades old piece in our files from former MuskokaTODAY.com owner/publisher, Hugh Clairmont, who celebrated the to oft-times unheralded work of Local Journalism scribes on the daily rural beat. It’s from a 1950 Toronto Star piece, among many clippings he kept on in a scrap book […]
GRAVENHURST — Police have made an arrest in a month-old assault that took place in a wooded area west of Muskoka Road South. They say today that the OPP and its Muskoka Crime Unit continue investigating the “serious assault” overnight on May 27. And that just before midnight officers, along with Muskoka EMS, responded to […]
GRAVENHURST — Carole King has “written some of the most beautiful music ever,” says Neil Barlow, a cornetist in the Gravenhurst Bifocals Concert Band. Like “It’s Too Late, Jazzman, You’ve Got A Friend” and “I Feel the Earth Move” … “under my feet.” You’ll feel your feet move, too, as you tap your toes along […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — A dearth of attainable housing in the downtown here has taken a huge blow; but help may be on the way. A late March apartment fire is still affecting residential and business tenants at building at Muskoka Road and Winewood Avenue. Twenty apartments and four commercial units were vacated […]
BRIEFS & notes: Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com Is it “unthinkable” Muskoka may burn up this summer? Not according to a startling front page “Toronto Star” story this week that sparked claims it conceivably could. “The idea of Muskoka disappearing in a conflagration … you just don’t want to go there…,” said John Vaillant, author of […]
GRAVENHURST — An all-day and overnight road closure here Tuesday left already re-routed traffic off Bay Street looking for alternative streets around the downtown. The Town of Gravenhurst closed multiple streets following after a transport clipped overhead wires early in the morning. Mary Street North was closed from Bay Street to Brown Street. And Hughson […]
OBITUARY: Aug. 26, 1956 ~ May 11, 2025 Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — They called us “The Bay Street Terrors” and “The Bay Street Beatles.” On a hot summer’s morn we were up early and stayed up late. Every day was the longest day of the year when Brian Whitehead, Dougie Barnes, Jeff Draper […]