Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com ORILLIA — New sounds — and a new look. The sunlight shone brightly last night on the Orillia Concert Band and the Rotary Aqua Theatre as their annual outdoor concert season series kicked on beautiful summer’s eve. The band and its bandstand on Lake Couchiching were together again after COVID and […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Pollinators is the new buzz word for the environment, your gardens, your backyards — and even for front lawns that are now passé. So when Wayne McGill says “mind your own bees” he really means it. The avid gardener practises what he preaches. And while he has several queen […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Construction of the new Alexander retirement home has become quite an attraction for local walkers — and hikers. The site overlooking Muskoka Bay has drawn a lot of attention around town as it rises up at the end of Isaac Street west. But it’s a little known public pathway […]
HUNTSVILLE — Summer’s official start kept local police busy here last week. A week before Canada Day weekend Huntsville OPP detachment officers responded to 309 calls for service between Sunday June 19 and Saturday June 25. They included traffic complaints and road enforcement, with 82 investigations. Seven RIDE (Reduce Impaired Driving Everywhere) lanes were set […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com PARRY SOUND-MUSKOKA — Three weeks after winning his seat — and a day after being sworn in as MPP — Graydon Smith was named Ontario’s minister of natural resources and forestry today. Premier Doug Ford appointed the Progressive Conservative parliamentarian to cabinet this morning on the steps of Queen’s Park in […]
GRAVENHURST — The heat is on — swimmers. A few days of hot weather has the first swim advisory of the season issued. Based on beach water samples collected by the Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit (SMDHU) June 22, they’ve recommended that Muskoka Bay Beach be posted with swim advisory signs. The beach is in West Gravenhurst […]
HUNTSVILLE — A motorcyclist who was in hospital with life-threatening injuries after colliding with an SUV last night has died. Police say that on Thursday June 23, shortly after 8 p.m., OPP, along with emergency services, responded to a two-vehicle collision involving a motorcycle and Sports Utility Vehicle (SUV) on Centre Street North near Dairy […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — One of Gravenhurst’s most beloved citizens has died. Cyril Fry passed away yesterday, Tuesday June 22, at Andy’s Place hospice in Port Carling. He was 96 and to many admirers he seemed ageless. His daughter Jill Fry said he “just faded away.” She said her dad had been in […]
MUSKOKA — District fire chiefs have set the Fire Danger Rating for They say extreme caution must be taken with all open flames. Small fires are permitted in most rural areas of Muskoka. But keep in mind that no daytime burning is allowed. They say you must have adequate tools and water to extinguish the fire […]
GRAVENHURST — Music on the Barge returns with a familiar play list after a two-year hiatus. The eight shows are favourites from previous seasons at Gull Lake Rotary Park. As usual it opens with the Bifocals Band, July 3 at 2 p.m. in the Rotary gazebo, and concludes with the season-ending Good Brothers on the […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — Maestro! If you please …. After two years of the sounds of silence (with all due respect to Simon and Garfunkel) it’s show time again. Concert season has already begun; but the best is yet to come starting with a busy Canada Day weekend where you’re encouraged to “Take […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — “No one knows” why Albert Sedore did what he did in dying last Tuesday. “It’s all speculation. Only he knows for sure,” says his younger sister, Karen Anderson. Sadly he took that secret to hopefully ever-lasting peace — if that’s possible. He turned 58 two days before, on June […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — “Cool car! Haven’t seen one of those for years.” At least two years to be exact. That sums up Day 1 of the Muskoka’s Father’s Day weekend car shows in Gravenhurst and Bracebridge. After COVID’s Zoom, Zoom shows chambers of commerce show off their shine one more time. In […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — A man is dead after shooting himself following a “dispute” with his next door neighbour — in which she was shot in the arm with a “rifle” in their shared front yard early last night. Detectives were on scene this morning after police received “several” 911 calls about multiple […]
LAKE OF BAYS — Police have charged a boater with impaired operation on Rebecca Lake after a boat capsized Saturday morning northwest of Huntsville. OPP say that on June 11, just before 10 a.m., officers responded to a report of a suspected impaired individual in the water after his boat capsized north of Limberlost Lodge […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — With affordable housing and worker accommodation huge election issues, are councils about to kill the goose that laid their golden tax eggs? Gravenhurst is the latest Muskoka municipality to go after cottagers, small mom and pop bed and breakfasts, local hotels and golf clubs with a plan to license […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com BALA — Housing and affordability worked hand in hand here Friday as Habitat for Humanity dug in on a duplex due for completion by Christmas. The say two families will be moving into affordable, energy-efficient, universally accessible bungalow homes at 1016 Elm St., in Bala. Each eventually with their own property […]
GRAVENHURST — Three Gravenhurst men face cocaine charges — including a man wanted on an outstanding warrant, another who failed to comply with a probation order and a third man who was also charged along with the others with cocaine possession. Police say that last night, Saturday June 11 just after 11 p.m., officers patrolling […]
Nancy Thompson | Bracebridge Horticultural Society Companion planting is simply when two types of plants are grown close together for the benefit of one or both. It can be as simple as growing nectar-rich flowers amongst crops to attract pollinators. Based on traditional and later scientific research, we know that there are certain crops which […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — COVID’s lingering effects — with 48 cases in the region this week — mean mask will remain mandatory at the two local hospitals. Today Muskoka Algonquin Healthcare said that while requirements in other high-risk areas like public transit will expire tomorrow, Saturday June 11, hospitals in Ontario Health’s Central […]