Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Apologies first, to my GAP customers. If I was a few minutes late today with my food deliveries. I have a good excuse — I was at the noon Brown Bag reunion. And you know how everyone likes to talk at these things. For a reporter who’s stock and […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Hockey, hockey, hockey. School, school, school. Kids keen on improving their skills — in the ever-ending all-year quest for improvement — are back in school for what to some players and families seems like an ever-ending cycle now as they seek the cutting edge for next season whatever town […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com HUNTSVILLE — The Huntsville Fire Department has concluded a lengthy enforcement process involving a multi‑unit residential rental property where a landlord failed to comply with an order issued under the Ontario Fire Code. Over a period of 10 months, Fire Prevention Officers worked with the property owner to address unsafe combustible […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Summer means fun times for most and always more emergencies for paramedics who often have to call in air support. Last evening was such a case. The skies around Muskoka Airport are routinely filled with float planes landing on the lake and even helicopters. But when the distinctive whirring […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — The last time Ross Wooldridge was in town he was backing up “Jack Hutton and Friends” — for the amazing Bala pianist’s always popular ragtime concert. Friday “Canada’s greatest jazz clarinettist” (according to Jack) is back at the Opera House here leading his 10-piece band for “Being Frank.” That’s […]
MUSKOKA LAKES — Public concerns about the behaviour of a pair of late night drivers on Muskoka Road 169 near Bala sent police on a lookout for the vehicles Sunday. On July 19, at 1:40 a.m., officers responded to a report another driver about the condition of the two vehicle operators. They were subsequently found […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — Fire danger remains “high” as wildfires are still choking people locally — especially farther north where some community evacuations continue. However, a complete ban on fires was lifted today, Monday July 20 after rain in some parts of the district during the weekend and cooler temperatures forecast for Tuesday. […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Who says there arn’t big fish in Muskoka’s big and small lakes? Not Jason Xu who is used to pulling bass out of the Gravenhurst bay and beyond. He says the fish are jumpin’ — if you know where to drop your line. He’s fished the the local waters […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Thieves went relatively cheap when they drove off with a newish boat valued at $100,000 the same weekend as the annual Antique and Classic Boat Show. But they didn’t get far with the watercraft after their comically clumsy attempt, say neighbours. Though the black 24-foot, 2023 Sea Ray was […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Old friends, good time — and hopefully good weather. That’s the forecast for a Thursday, July 23, noon reunion of Gravenhurst and Bracebridge high school students at Gull Lake Rotary Park gazebo. In fact all students are welcome at 11:30 a.m. no matter what district school they attended. The […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA LAKES — A Markham man who was boating near Walker’s Point late yesterday afternoon is the third drowning victim of the summer in Muskoka. Police investigating in incident in the Township of Muskoka Lakes — west of Gravenhurst and close to Bala They say that on Saturday, July 18, at […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — On another oppressive day of heat — that a day earlier had a pall of yellow smog blanketing Muskoka — a “town hall” meeting left a further bitter taste in the mouths of some 200 opposing the Cliff Bay resort and housing proposal. As protests go it wasn’t that […]
MUSKOKA — Put out those fires — if you’ve got one. And if you don’t — don’t even think about starting one if you live anywhere in Muskoka. Fire chiefs this morning at 11 a.m. in the six municipalities issued a complete ban on any types of outdoor open fire burning in Gravenhurst, Bracebridge, Huntsville, […]
MUSKOKA — The theft of a $70,000 skid steer over the weekend and a charge of stunt driving last Friday top today’s police calls in south Muskoka. Police say that July 10, at 3 p.m., an officer was doing speed enforcement on Muskoka Road 169 in Torrance and stopped a vehicle for travelling considerably higher […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GERMANIA — A 150th anniversary of the Lutheran Church here Sunday, July 19, will be as much a family reunion as a service of celebration. Each year, families in Germania gather twice in the summer to keep alive the original tiny Nazareth Lutheran Church — known in the small west Muskoka […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — Summer’s lazy days on the docks and beaches are heating up talks about: “What’s happening with the Muskoka Centre property in Gravenhurst?” An ambitious “mixed use” tourism, commercial and residential plan from a year ago — which appears as laid back as a Muskoka chair — continues to undergo […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — Surgical services have fully resumed at South Muskoka Memorial Hospital and patients can once again access scheduled surgical care at the south Muskoka site in Bracebridge. The resumption follows an almost two-week down period after Muskoka Algonquin Healthcare had announced on Wednesday July 1 that those services and CT […]
Bob Pomerantz — Special to MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — It’s fascinating to know Gravenhurst was home to a Prisoner of War camp during the Second World War. But the real delight is in the details and local archivist and historian Judy Humphries presented some juicy ones during her talk last Wednesday at Gravenhurst Library on the […]
After nearly 50 years of flying Canadian flags through the summer, the Gravenhurst Lions Club has ended the tradition over safety and liability concerns. Now the service club is looking to new community projects — including a Rainbow Pet Bridge memorial — as it searches for volunteers and replacement fundraising. Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com HUNTSVILLE — A young driver was stopped last night speeding at nearly double the Hwy. 11 traffic limit. On Thursday, July 9, at 9:50 pm, an officer conducting traffic enforcement near Greer Road in Huntsville stopped a northbound vehicle after it clocked by radar travelling at 197 km/h in a posted […]