GRAVENHURST — Southbound traffic on Hwy. 11 was re-routed through Gravenhurst late yesterday afternoon after a serious motorcycle accident. Police were investigating the crash that fully shut down all southbound lanes at Bethune Drive North to Bethune Drive South. The highway section between the southbound entrance to Gravenhurst and southbound exit out of the town […]
MUSKOKA — Emergency service responded late Friday afternoon to a single-vehicle collision involving a motorcycle. On Friday, September 4, at 5:30 p.m., OPP, EMS and Huntsville Fire were called out to reports of a serious collision on Brunel Road, near Hillcrest Drive. As a result, a 57-year-old male from Waterloo sustained life-threatening injuries. He was transported […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com Subscribe: E-transfer $30 to news@muskokatoday.com HUNTSVILLE — Motown Records still makes and releases music today from its headquarters in Los Angeles where new owners Universal Music Group works out of the famous Capitol Tower. The label focuses on modern hip-hop and R&B with artists like Vince Staples, Lil Yachty, and Lil Baby. […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com Subscribe: E-transfer $30 to news@muskokatoday.com TORRANCE — Labour Day doesn’t have to mean the end of summer shopping sprees for locals, tourists and cottagers. Muskoka has plenty of buying opportunities from downtowns to roadsides. Among the pop-up destinations worthwhile stopping at is French Toast Vintage.ca at Muskoka Crossing — just five kms […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com Subscribe: E-transfer $30 to news@muskokatoday.com GRAVENHURST — A new season, a new beginning for everyone from parents to hockey teams and maybe even one valuable service club. The colours aren’t in the tree — or on the ground — but the autumn changes are here and coming for others. Count the Lion’s […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com Subscribe: E-transfer $30 to news@muskokatoday.com GRAVENHURST — The streets, roads, storefronts and front yards are dotted with election signs as the race to sit on town councils across Muskoka has gone into overdrive as the gates have opened on interesting new candidates seeking seats in the Oct. 26 municipal election. With a […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com Subscribe: E-transfer $30 to news@muskokatoday.com GRAVENHURST — Whether you can sing like a bird or your preferred audience is in the shower — maybe even at a Karaoke bar — the ever popular Elderberries Choir may be your calling. They have a new website up at https://elderberrieschoir.ca/ and as they begin season’s […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com Subscribe: E-transfer $30 to news@muskokatoday.com GRAVENHURST — Donald Trump’s concerns about Canada being used a gateway for Chinese goods into the United States “are not true,” says China’s Consul General in Toronto. Speaking Saturday at the 50th anniversary of the Bethune Memorial House, Luo Weidong said: “This kind of a narrative is […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com Subscribe: E-transfer $30 to news@muskokatoday.com GRAVENHURST — A visual plan to turn a couple of blocks of Gravenhurst’s Muskoka Road main street core in to a year-round pedestrian mall has drawn instant support from readers. Five letters and comments, a day after Bob Barnes challenged council candidates here with his “Imagine” project, […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com Subscribe: E-transfer $30 to news@muskokatoday.com GRAVENHURST — Bob Barnes ought to have run for council. But the 84-year-old retired professional mechanical engineer is too busy trying to save his new adopted hometown of Gravenhurst. In addition to volunteering as an usher at the Opera House to keep the old girl alive, he […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com Subscribe: E-transfer $30 to news@muskokatoday.com GRAVENHURST — Work on a new Ontario Northlander train platform got underway here last week a sign that commuter rail is gaining track as fencing has gone up and workers are digging in now. Weeks after a large blue Northlander billboard when up on the north side […]
PHOTOS, STORY Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com Subscribe: E-transfer $30 to news@muskokatoday.com GRAVENHURST — Norman Bethune’s heritage home has outlived him — but not his legacy. The great doctor was 49 when he died on a Chinese battlefield. Saturday the “Birthplace of a Hero” turned 50. With a befitting celebration to “honour his memory,” attended by Chinese […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com ART REVIEW Subscribe: E-transfer $30 to news@muskokatoday.com TORONTO — Tariffs aside, cultural exchanges continue between Canada and the U.S. “Monet to Matisse” importantly among them, as the Art Gallery of Ontario welcomes the ‘Impressionist Revolution’ works from the collection of the Dallas Museum of Art — after no doubt years of planning […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com Subscribe: E-transfer $30 to news@muskokatoday.com GRAVENHURST — Five young adults and/or teens are being blamed for damaging the Lion’s Club’s newly adopted ‘Pet Memorial Rainbow Bridge’ here this week along the boardwalk at the Muskoka Wharf. Police investigating the mischief that took place just after midnight Wednesday. During the very early morning […]
PHOTOS Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com Subscribe: E-transfer $30 to news@muskokatoday.com GRAVENHURST — As every photographer with a cellphone — or still and SLR — knows, sunrise and sunset shots are holy grails. And each solstice it’s been a goal of this “photog” to catch those moments. Here’s a couple recent ones as we remember the going […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com Subscribe: E-transfer $30 to news@muskokatoday.com GRAVENHURST — “Birthplace of a hero.” From humble beginnings as a church minister’s son to a national hero in Canada and China, Dr. Norman Bethune’s name is recognized worldwide including in Spain. Tomorrow, 136 years after he was born in the Presbyterian manse on John Street he […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com Subscribe: E-transfer $30 to news@muskokatoday.com BRACEBRIDGE — A boy, 14, is the latest youth to be charged after police say they’ve received multiple public complaints about ongoing unsafe and “often harassing behaviour” by young people operating e-bikes and electric dirt bike style vehicles. No one under the age of 16 years is permitted to […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com Subscribe: E-transfer $30 to news@muskokatoday.com ORILLIA — An OPP emergency response team member faces two charges of illegally discharging his firearm in a training session that did not require its use. The Ontario Provincial Police professional standards unit (PSU) said Aug. 27 that it charged the officer in relation the on-duty incident that […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com Subscribe: E-transfer $30 to news@muskokatoday.com GRAVENHURST — A hulking black shell of a burned out police truck was a stark reminder this morning of a weekend fire that threatened the OPP’s Underwater Search and Rescue Unit here. A sooty smell hung over it in the parking lot here at its provincial headquarters […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com Subscribe: E-transfer $30 to news@muskokatoday.com HUNTSVILLE — A delivery driver who was assaulted — but uninjured — had his valuable package stolen mid-afternoon yesterday by a thief who made a quick getaway. Police say that on Aug. 26, at about 2:53 p.m., officers responded to the report of a robbery that had […]