Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com BALA — Some of Muskoka’s best hockey players have come out of west Muskoka — like the Mortimers, Metcalfes and McMullens. Many of the teams over the decades have been sponsored the Royal Canadian Legion branches around the lakes. So the rivalry for championships between Bala, Port Carling and MacTier can […]
BRACEBRIDGE — An Orillia man stopped for driving the wrong direction on Hwy. 11 Friday night also faces dangerous driving and two charges of impaired operation of a vehicle. Officers arrested and charged 52-year-old Garret Allison after he failed to stop for police after March 24 at 7:30 p.m. Police received numerous calls reporting a […]
GRAVENHURST — A Gravenhurst man charged with stealing a work vehicle March 19 was arrested and charged three days later with new theft and firearms violations. Police say that on March 22 officers with the Muskoka Community Street Crime Unit (CSCU), with the assistance of the Barrie Police Service, and the Orillia, Southern Georgian Bay […]
GRAVENHURST — A man charged with stealing a work vehicle also faces impaired driving and several other charges. Police say that last Sunday morning, March 19, at 7:15 a.m., a worker called police to say that while out on foot conducting maintenance work on Muskoka Road South in Gravenhurst their vehicle was stolen. A short […]
GRAVENHURST — Police and firefighters didn’t have far to go responding to single-vehicle crash early this morning. A car left the road shearing a tree in the process when it crashed into a fence next to their joint emergency services office downtown. The OPP say officers, along with Muskoka EMS, and Gravenhurst fire department were […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Two days after a fire tore through a boat rental business here, police and fire officials continue to probe and try to determine the cause. No official cause has yet been determined for Wednesday’s 4 a.m. blaze, which gutted the two-storey building on the shore of Lake Muskoka. The […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Police are sitting watch on a burned-out building at the west end of the Muskoka Wharf today, awaiting the Ontario Fire Marshal’s office after a “suspicious” early morning blaze gutted the summer boat rental business. Muskoka Boat Rentals, which has been renting pontoon boats the past few years on […]
LETTER TO EDITOR: Re: ‘Unconscionable’ condo proposal for Muskoka Wharf There is never a time as I look out my condo window (at the Muskoka Wharf) when I do not see someone walking along the boardwalk, their regular daily exercise, or walking a dog or baby carriage. Or a visitor to Muskoka who was told […]
LETTER TO EDITOR: Dear Gravehurst mayor and council: In Muskoka Bay next to the steamship docks there remains a small bit of natural habitat. The water there is shallow, the lake bottom is undisturbed and aquatic vegetation provides good fish habitat. The land near the shoreline is low, subject to flooding, has been partially cleared, […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com BALA — Two people were apparently taken to hospital here early this afternoon following a head-on collision on Hwy. 169 as winter made its return on local roads. Traffic was backed up more than a kilometre as emergency crews dealt with the aftermath of the accident between a white SUV and […]