Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Food, glorious food. Oliver Twist couldn’t have wanted more. At 145 pounds per minute, Tuesday night’s Rotary Food Drive collected about 13,000 pounds of donations in 90 minutes. That’s hundreds of bags picked up at doorsteps around the town by dozens and dozens and dozens of volunteer drivers and […]
GRAVENHURST-BRACEBRIDGE — Don’t forget the hungry. Tonight’s the night to leave a bag or two of groceries on your doorstep for volunteers in Gravenhurst and Bracebridge to pick up for local food banks. Gravenhurst Rotarians and the Muskoka Oldtimers hockey team are both leading drives in the two towns Tuesday, Oct. 8, after 6 p.m. […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com PARRY SOUND- MUSKOKA — If the one per centers control the world, it’s one per cent of Canadians who will decide Canada’s future in two weeks. The federal election is that close. And they’ll get that chance to decide tonight. So, as national party leaders square off — at 7 p.m. […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — It’s called a “food drive,” because Rotarians and their partners will be driving around town Tuesday, Oct. 8, with student runners picking up bags of food on doorsteps and at the end of driveways. (They will also accept cash and cheques.) Everyone in the core part of Gravenhurst should […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com BRACEBRIDGE — Due to the impending schools strike, the Muskoka Oldtimers Fall Food Drive for Manna on rendezvous spot Tuesday October 8 has been moved this year to the Bracebridge Fairgrounds at 331 Fraserburg Rd. Volunteers are asked to gather there at 5 p.m. The Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — Have you read today? Have you read a newspaper? Have you read news online? Have you enjoyed reading the news? Have you read TODAY.com? Have you been in the news? Have you enjoyed reading the news? Have you paid for that privilege? Have you bought at subscription? Have you […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — If you’re a news junkie — and who isn’t these days with an election, an impeachment and climate crisis — this is your week to support the professional journalists who bring you that news. It’s National Newspaper Week Oct. 6-12 and your chance to pay it forward by subscribing […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com LINDSAY — Citing safety concerns, public elementary and high schools will be closed Monday if the province doesn’t reach a contract deal with support staff. That’s leaving parents scrambling to plan alternative arrangements for their children. The Trillium Lakelands District School Board says the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) has […]
Breyan Sinnott, Fire Prevention Officer GRAVENHURST — Oct. 6 to 12, is Fire Prevention Week across North America, and leading up to it the Gravenhurst Fire Department has been sharing information gathered from its “Have Your Say” community survey conducted in August. “The survey told us several important things about fire safety, and over the […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com BRACEBRIDGE — Climate action is taking place in Muskoka. While climate protesters were marching on his office last Friday, MPP Norm Miller was learning about a year-old effort by landowners and lake associations to protect local lakes. Miller, whose family once owned Patteron-Kaye Lodge in Bracebridge, was joined by Muskoka District […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — What’s a job without housing? Trisha Cowie says jobs are going begging in Parry Sound-Muskoka, but there aren’t enough attainable, let alone affordable, living spaces to accommodate those who want to work, live, contribute and raise a family in the riding. The federal Liberal candidate told a large audience […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com BRACEBRIDGE — “Friday and EVERY FRIDAY.” That’s the promise of the Facebook group Climate Action Muskoka, who have taken on and expanded student protests the past two weeks in Huntsville and Bracebridge with the help of another grassroots group, Muskoka Power of Many. Tamsen Tillson and Krystal Speck, of Climate Action […]
Clifford Flavell and Mary Flavell Leger | Special to MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Are you a polio survivor? Do you know someone who is? Are you interested in knowing more about this debilitating disease that is still with us from those who have survived it? Then you are encouraged to attend an informal meeting of survivors, […]
BRACEBRIDGE — The family of a missing Bracebridge man believe he may be in the Toronto area. Provincial police are trying to help the family locate him and are asking the public’s assistance. They say 31-year-old Alex Courtemanche was last seen at his temporary residence in Bracebridge Aug. 9, 2019. His family say he had […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST/BRACEBRIDGE — The great federal debates — if you can call speeches and a Q & A that — continue this week in a desperate bid to find a decent rep to send up the Ottawa River. The first is in Gravenhurst Tuesday night, at the Opera House, and is sponsored […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com ORILLIA — Every time Rusty Draper drives south from Orillia, heading down the hill on Hwy. 11 under the old Barrie Road bypass, he “rubs his wrist.” And thinks about his “Uncle Stan.” “Just to keep his memory alive.” Stan Simpson, 27, died Oct. 3, 1958 after his southbound car hit […]
MUSKOKA — It’s their future — and they want a say. And loud, too. Hundred of elementary and high school students in Bracebridge and Huntsville walked away from school Friday for their future. They held their own demonstration in small towns away from the massive crowds urban protests in Toronto and Montreal. Social media was […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com HUNTSVILLE — Conservatives criticized for not jumping on the climate strike marches today will see local CPC candidate Scott Aitchison front and centre at today’s main Muskoka protest in Huntsville. The town’s on-leave mayor will be on the front steps of town hall, this time joining an expected crowd of more […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com As Canadians in Bracebridge and Huntsville today join the global climate strike marches to fight climate change, a startling, sad story on Canada’s waste recycling is set to air tonight on the CBC. It seems a lot of our plastic is not being recycled as promised. It’s a similar story to […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com BRACEBRIDGE — Days after a frail, elderly Gravenhurst woman who wandered away from her home was found dead, Ontario’s minister for seniors and accessibility dropped into the riding today to announce funding for elder care. MPP Norm Miller welcomed Raymond Cho, Minister of Seniors and Accessibility, who announced funding for Alzheimer’s […]