ORILLIA — Police here charged a 20-year-old driver with impaired driving yesterday as the annual RIDE season begins. On November 18, at about 6:10 p.m., officers from Orillia OPP responded to traffic complaint in the area of Highway 12 in Severn Township heading towards the City of Orillia. Officers patrolled the area and located a […]
Photos Alex Hogg and Lois Cooper Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com BALA — ’Tis the season for you know who and who and what he stands for one way and the other. Kim Barlow calls this “N12” — as in the 37 days after Remembrance Day. Between now and Christmas expect to see jolly St. Nick […]
REVIEW Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com BRACEBRIDGE — Rodgers and Hammerstein, Sondheim and Webber are to Broadway what the Bridle sisters, Tracy Kilgour and Emma Grimstead are to Bracebridge and Theatre Muskoka. Musical geniuses of the local stage. Tonight with Donna Hollands, Eddy Palileo, Ginny Metcalfe, Kaleigh Adie, Nicole Moore, Niki Cutting-McLean, Paul Feist — and […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — With still no word on a new hospital location for south Muskoka, Muskoka Algonquin Health (MAHC) said Friday it is receiving $14 million in provincial funding to cover the operating costs of 22 additional beds. This “will enhance the care provided to patients in Muskoka and the surrounding areas,” […]
HUNTSVILLE — A cab owner here has been charged with harassment by a pair of his employees. The workers accused Shawn Bouillon, who owns Independent Taxi with his husband Reuben Pyette-Bouillon, in a report to police. He was arrested Tuesday Nov. 14. Police charged Shawn Bouillon with: Criminal Harassment – repeatedly follow – two counts […]
HUNTSVILLE — A break and enter at a popular downtown restaurant last Thursday has police looking for a black-hooded suspect. The OPP) are investigating a break and enter at the Family Place Restaurant on King William Street at about 10:30 p.m. November 9. At 11:10 p.m., police were called and began investigating. Officers discovered a […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — You know Ontario Northland is getting serious about the return of the Northlander train in “2026” when they start asking passengers what colour cars they want to ride in between Cochrane and Toronto. At the second last open house in Gravenhurst — along the 16 train stops — people […]
GRAVENHURST — The Gravenhurst Legion would like to thank these many community businesses, service clubs and private individuals listed below for their continued support with donations received for our Remembrance Day service and Poppy campaign. Those include the hundreds of others locally who donated when handed free poppies the week before and in the leadup […]
Jack Cline, Special to MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — What started out 29 years ago as a simple Christmas celebration by an eager group of church choristers has emerged into one of the most anticipated concert series of the season. In 1994 the Muskoka Advent Choir assembled in the Baptist Church here under the direction of former […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — If anyone needed a reminder that COVID isn’t “over,” “done with,” and “gone” Muskoka Algonquin Healthcare reports at “facility-wide COVID-19 outbreak” at their south Muskoka hospital site. They say in a release late Tuesday afternoon that: “In collaboration with the Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit, a facility-wide COVID-19 outbreak […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — Lest we forget war when it’s all around us daily. Services last week reminded us again how fragile time between conflicts is. “The Long Peace” (1945-1991) is long gone. Salutes from the youngest to the oldest marked with solemnity and humour the lingering sadness and sometimes joys that emerged […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com Photos Lois Cooper | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Wars are hell — remembering them can be hellish. COVID is over, crowds swelled, the band was back while veterans were in short supply, but a Legion Remembrance Day salute to fallen comrades Saturday went off solemnly and almost seamlessly. At the 11th hour, […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — A crime wave sweeping through Gravenhurst this summer has come to a halt. More than 100 thefts and break-ins that have “frustrated” merchants robbing them of their livelihoods are the work of just two suspects, say police. And one of those officers behind the apprehension of one of those […]
GRAVENHURST — Let the bidding begin — to help your Rotary Club help our community. With an exceeding 200 items ringing up a retail value of more than $30,000, every bid you make will go to assist someone or a charity organization you probably know in town. This of course thanks in large part, also, […]
Story and photos Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — The chalet where generations of golfers and skiers picked up their first clubs and skis is but a memory today. The gorgeous little green, twin-peaked cedar clubhouse came down on an icy November day — between the two seasons at the Taboo Resort’s old nine-hole golf […]
GRAVENHURST — “Frustrated” shop owners are happy to see a suspect charged with multiple thefts here appeared in court this morning. Police say they charged a Gravenhurst man accused of multiple thefts at local stores. They say that between June 2023 and November officers responded to 99 separate incidents of theft and shoplifting from the […]
LAKE OF BAYS — In what the fire department is calling a complete loss, a home in east Muskoka was destroyed early this morning. There was no one home at the time of the blaze. Just before 1 a.m. Wednesday, November 8, the Huntsville/Lake of Bays Fire Department responded to a structure fire on 1005 […]
GRAVENHURST — Northland’s bid to return passenger rail service to the north in 2016 rolls into Gravenhurst today from noon to 4 p.m. An open house information centre at the Centennial Centre will update the public on its news that the province has bought three trains to carry residents between Toronto and Cochrane. Sixteen of […]
Photos and story Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Traffic was snarled through town here again this afternoon after another transport spilled its load of prime two-by-four lumber on Hwy. 11 under the south-end bypass and entrance to Gravenhurst. It’s the second similar roll-over in the past year at the same location where over the […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Marlyn Goodwin turned 90 today. And she had three of her sons in town for the weekend celebration, including Tom who returned today to his Nova Scotia whale-watching business, while brothers Greg and Bill headed home to the Ottawa Valley (after an AC/DC concert at the OP). Brother Randy, […]