Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — As emergency help pours into Muskoka, an army of amateur photographers have been flooding social media with vivid images. As of Thursday, 160 Canadian Armed Forces reservists from Toronto have arrive in Bracebridge and have spread out across the stricken Heart of Muskoka community. As well, a team of […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com BRACEBRIDGE — Military’s might was apparently no match for Mother Nature. A 10-ton Canadian Armed Forces truck delivering aid to flood victims on Golden Beach Road Monday lumbered off the road. And it was listing quite bit, said a witness who thought it might tip over — even after soldiers disembarked […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com BRACEBRIDGE — Amid the crisis and chaos of the flooding, which could yet get worse in the days ahead — especially to the west in Bala and on the Moon River — Muskoka taxpayers will be interested to learn that the government costs may not amount to as much as most […]
Photos © by Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com BRACEBRIDGE — In 1892 when entrepreneur William Shaw built Bracebridge’s first power-generating station, he never would have dreamed of the flooding today. And the immense, angry falls that has emerged in 2019. He drew his first water from a source owned Henry J. Bird. But in 1894 when […]
Photos © by Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — There was a lot of talk Tuesday about receding water levels. But the damage has been done. Here’s another look at some of the flooding so far, in around Bracebridge — just one of the communities hit hard. And which is getting a lot attention, thanks […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com QUEEN’S PARK, TORONTO — Damn the flood of torpedoes aimed at the government, it’s full speed ahead for John Yakabuski, the Minister of Natural Resources and Forestry, who continues to defend Ford government actions in the wake of record water levels again in Parry Sound-Muskoka. He said today that dams on […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — There’s no flood emergency in Gravenhurst says Todd Clapp, the town’s Community Emergency Management Coordinator. But don’t tell that to Jane and Doug Bowman, whose West Gravenhurst home has been an island for days. Twice they put in emergency calls to the town with the help of 211. Once […]
GRAVENHURST — Someone knows who hit a female pedestrian walking on Hwy. 11 south of Gravenhurst last week. The driver involved in the hit-and-run. And possibly witnesses, say police who are looking for information after a 30-year-woman was struck early Wednesday morning, April 24. Police think someone must have seen a pedestrian who was hit. […]
Photos © by Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — A look down the Muskoka Rivers Saturday saw a picture(s) of Muskokans at their best and worst coping with flooding, while continuing to carry on with their lives knowing they were helping friends and neighbours. If you have any pictures of the flooding, send them to […]
GRAVENHURST — Top-down management doesn’t appear to be helping as flood waters are reaching the bottom of the region’s catch basin with serioius consequences. As towns north and west delcare states of emergerncy, Gravenhurst is just now receiving its highest levels in a week. As the effects trickle down to the Severn River to its […]
MUSKOKA LAKES — Muskoka Lakes Township and the District of Muskoka are the latest to declare flood emergencies this weekend. Late Sunday morning, April 28, Muskoka Lakes Mayor Phil Harding declared an Emergency under the Emergency Management & Civil Protection Act, and the Township of Muskoka Lakes has activated its Emergency Plan. A release today says […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — As the army arrives to help Bracebridge, and days after Premier Doug Ford toured devastated areas of Muskoka, the MNRF is defending its actions on flood control. After the 2013 flooding the ministry faces fierce criticism for allegedly mismanaging the river and lake levels, which local resident this week […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com BRACEBRIDGE — As the armed forces arrive to help with a flood emergency here, the province is going on the defence by saying the “ministry has taken action to mitigate flooding.” Sixty Canadian Armed Forces resevists from Toronto are coming to the town’s aid after Bracebridge officials asked for their help […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — “My community is under water. That’s why I’m here.” So said Griff Ferguson, who was at the Fowler Construction yard Saturday afternoon. Along with about 100 other people, mostly volunteers and homeowners, filling or picking up sand bags as a skiff of snow remained from the night before. They […]
PARRY SOUND-MUSKKA — Heavy rains that continued into Friday night — and which could exceed 50 mm — along with a continuing snow presence in Algonquin Park have everyone fearing the worst is not over for flooded parts of Muskoka. As a result the Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry reminds residents that a Flood […]
BRACEBRIDGE-HUNTSVILLE — MP Tony Clement toured the flooded towns of Bracebride and Huntsville Friday afternoon to assess the impact of water levels, as rain continued and it was forecasted to last until late in the day. He said in a release that he is monitoring the situation, as the towns affected by the most devastating […]
GRAVENHURST — Rising water levels have all local governments on alert. A As Muskoka communities to the north have declared flooding related emergencies, officials in the Town of Gravenhurst say they are closely monitoring local waterways, just as they have been for the past six weeks. “The town’s infrastructure services staff instituted enhanced monitoring in […]
PARRY SOUND-MUSKOKA — Liberals are hoping familiarity will be help them win the federal seat about to be vacated by independent MP Tony Clement. “We are very pleased to announce that the Team Trudeau 2019 Nomination Meeting for Parry Sound-Muskoka has been called for Wednesday, May 8, 2019,” say a party release. Trisha Cowie, as the only […]
GRAVENHURST — The top down flood runoff from the water head continues to gain ground at the bottom of the Black River watershed along the Severn River. Due to flooding, Gravenhurst residents and visitors are advised of the following temporary road closure update: Severn River Road East from Municipal Address 1119 to 1133 is fully closed […]
BRACEBRIDGE — The ASHMuskoka Project kicked off this week. On Tuesday, MPP Norman Miller and Ontario Trillium Foundation (OTF) rep Patricia Arney met with the Friends of the Muskoka Watershed at Brooklands Farm to learn more about an innovative study that’s being done, thanks to a three-year, $733,600 OTF Grow grant awarded last fall. This […]