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 […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Remembrance Day is every day at Mickle Cemetery, where a section just inside the old front gate is known as the “Legion Cemetery.” Graves are reserved for Canadian veterans who served and died. For decades hundreds of plots have been an honoured place to rest in peace and where […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — It may be Summer in the pool, but it’s lacrosse all summer for Jared Allen. All-year — actually. And it’s getting busier for the Grade 8 GPS graduate, who’s no X-Box, couch potato-playing layabout. The fine, fit young 14-year-old recently made Team Ontario’s U15 field lacrosse team in May. […]
HALIBURTON — Three people suffered minor injuries after their boat ran ashore on island here Saturday. Police charged the female driver with impaired operation after responding to a boating collision on Kennisis Lake. They say that in the early hours of July 27 officers responded after three individuals sustained non-life-threatening injuries. As a result of […]
MUSKOKA LAKES TOWNSHIP — Police continue to investigate a boating accident 10 days ago in which a swimmer was injured on Skeleton Lake. The OPP are seeking witnesses to the incident Saturday, July 19, just before 5 p.m. Emergency services responded near Skeleton Lake Road 5. A 22-year-old Georgina man was transported to hospital with […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com BALA — Another blow to this west Muskoka village today. The Beer Store said today it is closing its Bala retail store Sept. 28. The iconic log landmark and cottage stop is one of 11 announced by the independent operator and is among 80 closures since May 2024. Word sent shock […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Another attempted break-in at the corner of Muskoka Road and James Street last night has resulted in the arrest of a Gravenhurst man suspected of break-ins and thefts at another business at the intersection in recent months. Police charged Connor McQuain, 34, with Break and Enter, Mischief and Fail […]
GRAVENHURST — An ATV driver who was pinned under his vehicle Saturday morning had it lifted off him when he rolled into a ditch. Police charged Evan Beausoleil, 27, of Gravenhurst, with Impaired Operation and Over 80 after responding July 26 at 10:30 a.m., along with Muskoka EMS and the Gravenhurst Fire Department. The collision […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — A woman’s idea of a mate is not the same as a man’s ideal woman. Or is it? Norman Foster’s second go at The Love List is the XY version of his first XX rated comedy that made fun of the shallow male obsession. A Woman’s Love List is […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — It’s game on with some the biggest and best NHL players in Muskoka for a pair of charitable sports events in a couple weeks. While he won’t be packing the Stanley Cup in his golf bag the Edmonton Oilers’ super star will be back at the Muskoka Bay Golf […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com BRACEBRIDGE — A two-day celebration of life and hockey last weekend began with a few tears and ended with a few more beers. The Bracebrige Bears Jr. C Alumni group (1970-’83) got together Friday and Saturday at the South Muskoka Curling and Golf Club to mark the end of “Coach” Danny […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — It was a bit like an old home week for Greg and Colleen Knapp Saturday as they held an end of business social and sale. After 76 years Knapp’s Furniture and Appliances is closing at the end of the month. And the store was busy all day with “a […]
MUSKOKA — Police have made a couple more charges after an accident in Bracebridge and traffic infraction in Gravenhurst. They charged a man with impaired operation early Sunday this week. On July 20, at 2 a.m., an officer conducting patrols on Muskoka Road South near Phillip Street in Gravenhurst observed a traffic infraction. The officer conducted […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com HUNTSVILLE — International anxieties aside today — if ever — premiers tackled other pressing national domestic issues on Day 3 of Council of Federation talks with immigration top of political minds. While Doug Ford’s bail reforms fizzled beyond the provincial and territorial table . A day after Prime Minister Mark Carney […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com BALA — If Lucy Maud Montgomery were still alive, she’d have written a touching love story about Anne (with an E) meeting the owners of Bala’s Museum. Jack Hutton and Linda Jackson would star as themselves in the TV and stage musical. They might even have appeared somewhere in Stephen Leacock’s […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com HUNTSVILLE — Who in Muskoka hasn’t sat around the fireplace in to the wee early hours “solving all the problems of the world?” Doug Ford and Mark Carney did that last night at the premier’s Port Sydney “shack.” The fate of the country’s trade, tariffs and Trump conundrum may well have […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com HUNTSVILLE — In a town made famous by Tom Thomson’s views of Canada, a meeting room here bearing his name is where a new vision of the country will be drawn today and tomorrow with new Prime Minister Mark Carney sitting at the head of the talks table. It starts this […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com HUNTSVILLE — Canada’s premiers arrived in Muskoka today united and hungry for peace with Donald Trump. And tonight on the menu at Doug Ford’s Port Sydney cottage BBQ with first ministers — and possibly the prime minister — are tough talks on trade and tariffs by the end of July. Ontario’s […]