Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com ORILLIA — Fred Penner may know your kids better than you. He certainly understands what makes them tick — talk, sing, jump and shout. And he did all that at the Mariposa Folk Festival, along with fellow iconic Canadian kids entertainers Sharon Hampson and Bram Morrison. The three starred back-to-back Saturday […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com BRACEBRIDGE — Muskoka moms and babies will be happy to hear the province is expanding funding for midwives. With more than 140,000 babies being born each year in Ontario, families are looking for more options when it comes to choosing their care, says the province. Tuesday, July 9, Parry Sound-Muskoka MPP […]
GRAVENHURST — It’s going to be a long, hot summer for swimmers looking for relief in Gravenhurst. With the splash pad at the Muskoka Wharf closed for repairs this year, cooling off is a challenge with Muskoka Beach still under a swim advisory. Now, the beach at Gull Lake Rotary Park has become the latest […]
. MUSKOKA — Circles® South Muskoka needs your help! What is Circles®? Circles® Muskoka is a community-based poverty reduction initiative that creates relationships across economic boundaries. It matches people of low-income who have graduated from our District of Muskoka and United Way funded Getting Ahead program with people of middle and upper income who have attended Bridges out of Poverty training […]
MUSKOKA — Climate-concerned Canadians can expect a break now. Environment Canada says after a great start to summer — including Saturday’s sizzler — a return to more seasonal temperatures is here. In their monthly wrap-up, they say July is climatologically the warmest month of the year. So, inevitably, it will be warm, understated Gerald Chang […]
BRACEBRIDGE — Police are tight-lipped after a male was airlifted to hospital in Toronto with life-threatening injuries late Sunday afternoon following a 911 call. They say that on July 7, shortly before 6 p.m., provincial police and Muskoka Paramedic Services were dispatched to an address on Alice Street in Bracebridge. The male was transported to […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA LAKE — Lake watchers will see a familiar but rarely seen sight on Lake Muskoka Saturday. Dozens of sailboats in a friendly race. On July 13, around noon, the 11th annual Chancery Regatta sets sail. It’s a fun gathering of sailing enthusiasts who go out looking for great gusts of […]
GRAVENHURST — And then there was one …. A swim advisory for Muskoka Bay Park Beach posted on Thursday July 4, has been lifted. The town and health unit made the annoucent late Friday afternoon for the West Gravenhurst park. Earlier Friday, Port Sydney’s main beach was cleared to reopen. That just leaves Muskoka Beach […]
HUNTSVILLE — The swimming advisory for Port Sydney Beach has been lifted as of July 5. The Town of Huntsville just sent out a notice at 3 p.m. Friday. Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit has confirmed that the water is safe for swimming based on July 4, 2019 test results. Town of Huntsville swimming lessons […]
GRAVENHURST — Another swim advisory has been issued for a second beach in Gravenhurst. And it is the third one this week in Muskoka. Based on beach water samples collected by the Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit on Tuesday July 2, it has been recommended by the SMDHU that Muskoka Bay Park Beach, in West Gravenhurst, be posted with swim advisory […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com ORILLIA — Who says you can’t always get what you want? Not the Stones. And not music lovers here in “Mariposa.” If you caught the ‘No Filter Tour’ down the road Saturday at Burl’s Creek, you’re still outta your heads, because it was a gas, gas, gas. But life’s a Hwy. […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com BRACEBRIDGE — With the clock ticking on an anticipated report on restructuring municipal governments, the Ford government has approved a new 20-year Official Plan for Muskoka. On Friday, June 28 the province approved the updated Muskoka Official Plan (MOP), a document that provides the roadmap for growth and physical change in Muskoka for […]
MUSKOKA — The Gravenhurst beach where a man drown Saturday has been placed on a swim watch due to poor water quality. The Muskoka Beach becomes the second beach this week closed for same reason. In Port Sydney, it’s the same case, says the Town of Huntsville. Based on beach water samples collected by the Simcoe Muskoka […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — A mother’s frantic rescue of her drowning child may have led to the drowning death of a 37-year-old Brampton man at Muskoka Beach late Saturday afternoon. Panic ensued about 4:30 p.m. when the little girl, about three years old, was reportedly seen in the water outside the swimming buoy […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com BRACEBRIDGE — Conservatives are lining up behind their candidates for the federal nomination race Sunday July 7. The afternoon vote at the Bracebridge Sportplex starts with speeches at 1 p.m. The ranked voting will begin at 2 p.m. Results will be announced later in the afternoon. Leading candidate Scott Aitchison says […]
GRAVENHURST — A 37-year-old Brampton man is dead after a swimming accident here Saturday afternoon at the Muskoka Beach. Provincial police say that just after 4 June 29, emergency services from the OPP, Gravenhurst Fire Department and Muskoka Paramedic Service were called to a public beach in Gravenhurst, in response to a report of three […]
BRACEBRIDGE — It’s a sad fact that over the past nine months, police from the Bracebridge OPP detachment have investigated more than seven sudden death occurrences they believe are linked to opioid use the past nine months. That’s one every 38.5 days. Provincial police hope they can change that. It’s possible, they suspect, that some […]
Photos by Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — A long shadow that has cast doubts on the Muskoka Airport’s future received a ray of sunshine Thursday, as Porter Airlines chair Robert Deluce landed his company in Muskoka for what he hopes will be more than just a one-year pilot. A small pilot himself, he brought […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — It was 30 minutes late, but the first regularly-scheduled Porter air flight landed at Muskoka Airport this afternoon to thunderous applause and a water cannon salute. It touched down from the north at 2:14 p.m., a little more than 20 minutes after leaving its Billy Bishop Airport hub on […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com BRACEBRIDGE — It was an ironic sight here in the parking lot beneath the Bracebridge Falls early this morning. Muskoka mayors and provincial MPPs gathered in a sunny idyllic summer setting on the shoreline of the Muskoka River that two months ago was several feet deep in flood water and a […]