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Lois Cooper | MuskokaTODAY.com BRACEBRIDGE — The Ontario Health Coalition held a public hearing here today as it develops recommendations for the future of local hospitals — including small, rural and northern communities like Muskoka. Several residents made presentations. Also in attendance were Green Party Leader Mike Schreiner; France Gélinas, NDP MPP for Nickel Belt […]

Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Trisan Construction wasted no time getting to road work today. That’s good news for drivers, businesses and homeowners at the west end of Bay Street. A 100-metre long stretch of Hwy. 169 — in front of the Muskoka Wharf — was already torn up by crews eager to get […]

Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Traffic was stop and go here this morning. Or least in the case of Bay Street stop — and turn around. It’s been like that since 1:30 p.m. yesterday when Hwy. 169 was closed at North Muldrew Lake Road heading into West Gravenhurst. The same backups have already been […]

Lois Cooper | MuskokaTODAY.com D-Day June 6, 1944: Today, as I listen to the BBC broadcast of the weather report that delayed D-Day from June 5th to the 6th, I remember Uncle Ernie Kennedy. He was on that landing 80 years ago today — on the shores of Normandy. And although he did not talk […]

Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — It was a hard day’s night for pavers on James Street. Last night and this morning C Valley Paving put a hard top of 45 millimetres on the road detour around Bay Street. Workers were out in the dark with the street closed a dozen hours from 7 p.m. […]

Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — As the start of major Bay & Beyond road work begins today on James Street and with the closing of the main east-west artery through town here Wednesday, the closure and ensuing confusion and chaos about to erupt has commuters still concerned. Bay Street (Hwy. 169) is closing Wednesday […]

Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com HUNTSVILLE — Joe Bellissimo “could talk medicine all day.” Lucky for Muskoka the first-year medical student did that on a sort of summer vacation. But over lunch Friday he admitted that — like his dad — he’s a huge Blue Jays fan and is “frustrated” with the Leafs. He’s only 23 […]

Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Public speaking is easy. If you’re Anna Gage and you’re doing political studies this fall — in the States. It helps if you’re the 2024 World Individual Debate and Public Speaking Champion. Gage was in her element yesterday speaking to Rotarians yesterday, where her grandmother Barb is a past […]

Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — Save South Muskoka Hospital supporters are boarding a bus tomorrow for a rally and march to Queen’s Park in protest of MAHC’s hospital downsizing. Protester are leaving the Sportsplex in Bracebridge at 8:30 a.m. headed for Nathan Phillips Square in Toronto, where they will joined other Ontarians concerned about […]