STEPHEN RICHARDS | Special to MuskokaTODAY.com FICTION Bart’s Place, Basement of Musicians Friend The apartment is spartan. There is a door to a room containing a retrofitted combination toilet/shower, with a privacy curtain salvaged from an RV. Sundry cleaning supplies, hanging clothes and a pair of boots. The main room is demarcated into zones using […]
BRACEBRIDGE – Police continue to look for the whereabouts of a man reported missing from Bracebridge on Saturday. The OPP reported today that James Gamble, 48, has since been seen in the Orangeville area. They say that on Jan. 15 at 10:30 a.m. police received a missing person report that the Bracebridge resident left home […]
HUNTSVILLE — Police are looking for black GMC Sierra pickup after an ATV was stolen on a trailer here Sunday. They say that on Jan. 16 at 3 p.m. an unknown person or persons stole an ATV trailer loaded with an ATV from 741 Muskoka Rd. #3, in Huntsville. The ATV and trailer are described […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — Sunshine greeted local students today as schools finally reopened a day late — but with some fanfare. High schoolers in Gravenhurst got to see a ‘Welcome Back Gryphons’ electronic billboard on their way into classes — even if it was meant for yesterday’s snow day. Teachers, staff and students […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — So much for a return to in-person learning in much of Ontario. School buses in Muskoka were cancelled this morning by local school boards due to snowfalls and students were offered remote learning on the first day of the much anticipated — and debated — end of the Christmas […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Golf club owner Don MacKay is moving up in the world local aviation. The man behind Bracebridge’s Muskoka Highlands course is the new chair of the Muskoka District Airport in Gravenhurst. He trades places with Bud Purves, who will remain, along with Robin Garret who will also stay on […]
BRACEBRIDGE — A man who left work in his truck yesterday has not been since. Provincial police are investigating a report of the missing 48-year-old from the Bracebridge. The say this morning at 10:30 a.m. police received a report that James Gamble had left his residence Friday on his way to work. After arriving he left […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — Days before schools reopen, locally reported COVID cases climbed slightly today to 362 as concerns grow among most Canadians about Omicron’s chilling effect. Winter of discontent no doubt. Both federal and regional health officials forecast ever more cases in to early February. Simoce Muskoka District Health Unit (SMDHU) said […]
UTTERSON — Conroy Bissonette had to do a double-take after looking at his lotto ticket. “I played my ticket in my car and when I saw I won I couldn’t believe it. “Tears started running down my cheeks and I kept wondering if it was real,” he said after picking up the $100,000 Instant 21 […]
STEPHEN RICHARDS | Special to MuskokaTODAY.com FICTION 101 Entrance Drive, North Falls: March 10, 1912 Over the past nine years, scrutchers, weavers, warpers, menders and finishing experts arrived via the Sagamo steamer, departing from places such as Ulster, Lisburn and Belfast. Each seeking opportunities free from famine and hoping for improved working conditions. And, if […]
GRAVENHURST — Police are looking for a suspect in a gas bar cash and dash earlier this month on Hwy. 11. They say that on Jan. 3 officers were dispatched to a report of a break and enter at the Shell Gas Station located northbound on Hwy. 11 south of Gravenhurst at the Kahshe Lake […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — Almost 60 more regional COVID cases are being reported today than yesterday — but where they are and when they were remains a closely guarded secret by the province through its local public health unit. All it’s safe to assume it that Omicron is omnipresent in everyday life. As […]
Letter to Editor: Continuing to publish only raw data regarding the number of daily vaccinated infections compared with infections in unvaccinated people paints a false picture of the efficacy of COVID vaccines, and seems to support the dangerous myth that vaccines are ineffective. A quick look at the Ontario Science Table’s online data reveals that, […]
PARRY SOUND-MUSKOKA — Four community centres will receive more than $1,272,000 from the province for facility upgrades. The funding is a part of the Community Building Fund’s Capital stream, administered by the Ontario Trillium Foundation. In Parry Sound-Muskoka, the local recipients are as follows: The Township of Lake of Bays is receiving $500,000 over 12 […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — There are more COVID cases than the government, health units and public know, but you’ll never know who are where and in what communities they live. As of today the municipal locations of cases will no longer be disclosed by the health unit and province. The reason, claims Dr. […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — As Ontario families ready to return to kids to school Monday amid ever-increasing COVID cases, Quebec has taken the first bold step in proposing a health care contributing tax on those unvaccinated without medical exemptions. Today Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit (SMDHU) reports 364 cases — including 26 in […]
GRAVENHURST — Police are looking for a man wearing a balaclava in a home invasion here Sunday night. Police say officers responded to a 911 call from an address on the Gravenhurst Parkway January 9 at 11:45 p.m. They say the caller reported an unknown man entered their residence with a weapon and demanded cash. The […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — After almost 3,000 COVID cases last week in the region, Simcoe-Muskoka starts the week with 337 — including 66 in Muskoka over the weekend. The 2,988 cases to start off the first week of 2022 was down 16 per cent from the first week after Christmas. They are among […]
MUSKOKA — Two boys born Saturday are Muskoka’s first of 2022. The Gravenhurst and Huntsville residents arrived eight hours apart on Jan. 8. At South Muskoka Memorial Hospital, Andy Couling was born at 5:13 a.m., to first-time parents Melissa Switzer and Matt Couling, of Gravenhurst. Andy arrived at 8 pounds, 6 ounces. At the Huntsville District Memorial Hospital baby […]
STEPHEN RICHARDS | Special to MuskokaTODAY.com FICTION A man and a woman sit facing, knee to knee, in a dim lit room. Each holds a glass of Johnston’s Cranberry Splash Spritzer. The vintage Ronco vinyl phonograph plays “What a Wonderful World” and it’s skipping on the song’s title. The two are engrossed in conversation. Moonlight […]