Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com BRACEBRIDGE — Months of protests and requests for a sit-down with MPP Graydon Smith finally paid off for climate activists in Parry Sound-Muskoka last week. After more than a year of public protests and demonstrations across the district — including outside his constituency office in Bracebridge, Climate Action Muskoka (CAM) members […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — MAHC officials say they can live with any of the three recommended new hospital sites proposed in Bracebridge. All of which they say meet the province’s basic requirement for a 40-acre health-care campus in the next decade. South Muskoka Memorial Hospital currently sits on 11 acres. Hospitals CEO and […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Family and friends today are mourning the passing of former town and district councillor and real estate agent Terry Pilger this morning. The 67-year-old native of the old Ryde Township in Gravenhurst died Tuesday of a heart attack after a having the flu, His wife, Wendy, posted his passing […]
Lois Cooper | MuskokaTODAY.com OPINION MUSKOKA — Today I joined the Zoom presentation on choosing a new site for the new hospital in Bracebridge. I was unable to make a comment and so I write it here. First, let me say to the residents of Gravenhurst, you must speak up. Don’t be complacent. I never heard […]
GRAVENHURST — Last week had to be some kind of record for the number of impaired driving charges in south Muskoka. A sixth case was reported Friday — the second that day, Jan 20. Police say that just before 11 p.m. another concerned citizen called 911 when they saw a vehicle hit a parked car […]
MUSKOKA — Three more people face impaired driving charges in what police are calling an unsettling week, after police tracked them down today, Monday and Tuesday. The OPP are calling it an “unsettling trend” as officers arrested and charged their fifth driver with Impaired Driving in as many days just after 10 a.m. today, Jan. […]
GRAVENHURST — Two drivers here were arrested within an hour late last night charged with separate drug and impaired driving offences. Police say that on Thursday Jan. 19, at 11 p.m., an officer was on patrol along Hwy. 11 in Gravenhurst when a driver lost control of their vehicle ahead of him and came to […]
MUSKOKA LAKES — Police arrested a driver who fled officers late yesterday morning, charging him with impaired operation of a vehicle. They say officers attempted to stop David Grand, 63, at 11:30 p.m., when his driving behaviour appeared of concern to them. Officers were on general patrol, Jan. 18, on Muskoka Road 169 in Muskoka […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURT — When the MP and MPP fought over a new hospital for Muskoka, Graydon Smith stunned Scott Aitchison by offering free land on Hwy. 11. The former mayors of Bracebridge and Huntsville came to terms splitting their differences — and thus was born the “one hospital” concept in Port Sydney. […]
BRACEBRIDGE — Police have identified the driver who died in a collision here yesterday afternoon. They say Lawrence Tomblin, of Gravenhurst, died Monday after emergency crews were called to a two-vehicle collision on Winhara Road at Ecclestone Drive in Bracebridge Jan. 17 at 1:40 pm. Tomblin, 77, was transported to hospital, however life saving efforts […]