HUNTSVILLE — Summer’s official start kept local police busy here last week. A week before Canada Day weekend Huntsville OPP detachment officers responded to 309 calls for service between Sunday June 19 and Saturday June 25. They included traffic complaints and road enforcement, with 82 investigations. Seven RIDE (Reduce Impaired Driving Everywhere) lanes were set […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com PARRY SOUND-MUSKOKA — Three weeks after winning his seat — and a day after being sworn in as MPP — Graydon Smith was named Ontario’s minister of natural resources and forestry today. Premier Doug Ford appointed the Progressive Conservative parliamentarian to cabinet this morning on the steps of Queen’s Park in […]
GRAVENHURST — The heat is on — swimmers. A few days of hot weather has the first swim advisory of the season issued. Based on beach water samples collected by the Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit (SMDHU) June 22, they’ve recommended that Muskoka Bay Beach be posted with swim advisory signs. The beach is in West Gravenhurst […]
HUNTSVILLE — A motorcyclist who was in hospital with life-threatening injuries after colliding with an SUV last night has died. Police say that on Thursday June 23, shortly after 8 p.m., OPP, along with emergency services, responded to a two-vehicle collision involving a motorcycle and Sports Utility Vehicle (SUV) on Centre Street North near Dairy […]
MUSKOKA — District fire chiefs have set the Fire Danger Rating for They say extreme caution must be taken with all open flames. Small fires are permitted in most rural areas of Muskoka. But keep in mind that no daytime burning is allowed. They say you must have adequate tools and water to extinguish the fire […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — “No one knows” why Albert Sedore did what he did in dying last Tuesday. “It’s all speculation. Only he knows for sure,” says his younger sister, Karen Anderson. Sadly he took that secret to hopefully ever-lasting peace — if that’s possible. He turned 58 two days before, on June […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — A man is dead after shooting himself following a “dispute” with his next door neighbour — in which she was shot in the arm with a “rifle” in their shared front yard early last night. Detectives were on scene this morning after police received “several” 911 calls about multiple […]
LAKE OF BAYS — Police have charged a boater with impaired operation on Rebecca Lake after a boat capsized Saturday morning northwest of Huntsville. OPP say that on June 11, just before 10 a.m., officers responded to a report of a suspected impaired individual in the water after his boat capsized north of Limberlost Lodge […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — With affordable housing and worker accommodation huge election issues, are councils about to kill the goose that laid their golden tax eggs? Gravenhurst is the latest Muskoka municipality to go after cottagers, small mom and pop bed and breakfasts, local hotels and golf clubs with a plan to license […]
GRAVENHURST — Three Gravenhurst men face cocaine charges — including a man wanted on an outstanding warrant, another who failed to comply with a probation order and a third man who was also charged along with the others with cocaine possession. Police say that last night, Saturday June 11 just after 11 p.m., officers patrolling […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — COVID’s lingering effects — with 48 cases in the region this week — mean mask will remain mandatory at the two local hospitals. Today Muskoka Algonquin Healthcare said that while requirements in other high-risk areas like public transit will expire tomorrow, Saturday June 11, hospitals in Ontario Health’s Central […]
BAYSVILLE — An ATV driver who entered a ditch and collided with a hydro pole yesterday afternoon died, say police who are investigating the fatal single vehicle collision here. They say that on Saturday, June 4 at 3 p.m., emergency services responded to Dickie Lake Road in Lake of Bays Township, just east of Baysville. […]
BRACEBRIDGE — Annie Williams Park continues to suffer from a spate of vandalism. Frustrated police are now turning to the public to help solve these senseless crimes. They want help to identify the suspect(s) responsible for several incidents of mischief at the popular summer retreat on the Muskoka River. They say that on June 2, while […]
Danielle Hynes | Special to MuskokaTODAY.com When you call 911, we are the individuals who arrive. We are Muskoka’s paramedics. We respond when the unthinkable happens and what some would describe as the worst day of their lives. We start our shift at the crack of dawn or at dusk and travel to one of […]
GRAVENHURST — A Huntsville man was in bail court this morning after two people were arrested when police spotted a vehicle broken down at the south end of town here last night. Provincial police say officers were conducting general patrol when they observed a broken down vehicle on Talisman Drive in the Town of Gravenhurst Monday, […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com HUNTSVILLE — A day after being here to announce his party’s housing strategy for the riding, Greens leader Mike Schreiner said last night he’s tested positive for COVID. Also Thursday, NDP Leader Andrea Horwath also said today she has the coronavirus. Both are are vaccinated and self-isolating. Schreiner, who says he […]
PARRY SOUND-MUSKOKA — Candidates face voter questions tonight in an all candidates online forum put on by Muskoka’s four chambers of commerce. The chambers in from Bracebridge, Gravenhurst, Muskoka Lakes and Huntsville/Lake of Bays solicited public questions the past two weeks and will be asking the party representatives in the June 2 election to answer […]
GRAVENHURST — A woman faces charges after police say she assaulted a youth at a public park and threw his bike in Muskoka Lake. The OPP report that on Sunday May 15, at 3:30 p.m., officers responded to a complaint about a youth who they say had been assaulted by an adult at Ungerman Park […]
MUSKOKA — A few days of rain with more on the way later in the week has Muskoka fire chiefs downgrading its total fire ban across the district issued last week. They said Tuesday that fire danger rating is now at moderate. That means small fires are permitted keeping in mind that no daytime burning […]
BRACEBRIDGE — A man who escaped an apartment fire last night above the main street was treated in hospital for smoke inhalation. Bracebridge Fire Department and Muskoka Paramedics helped rescue him about 9 p.m., Sunday, off Manitoba Street in the building south of the Royal Bank. He was in one of four apartments. The tenants […]