GRAVENHURST — What’s a pride of Lions? Proud Gravenhurst Lion’s Club members who each year run up the Canadian flag on dozens of polls in the downtown to adorn their main street. Muskoka Road has been festooned with more maple leafs than cottagers Mitch Marner and Justin Bieber could have imagined. The club’s annual signature […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — It’s going to be a long Long Weekend for drivers motoring west around the Muskoka Wharf toward Bala and Port Carling. Residents and cottagers will be happy to find the North Muldrew Lake Road intersection re-paved and contractors laying down asphalt today for the Bay & Beyond redevelopment around […]
MUSKOKA — Police are keeping a closer eye on the roads this Civic Holiday Weekend as they contend with a spate of impairments, arrests, charges and an accident. Three more incidents have led to arrests and charges against area drivers. Altercation in Huntsville leads to arrest in Gravenhurst On Monday, July 29th, at 1 a.m. […]
GRAVENHURST — Encore! Encore! This summer’s triumphant return of its noon concert series has Trinity United Church adding a fourth performance Aug. 14. “An unexpected and very welcome outcome,” says organizer Diane Harrop. It’s an evening with Gravenhurst pianist Brett Sontag, who attended the last one a week ago. And afterward asked if he could […]
BRACEBRIDGE — An attempted theft turned dangerous when a suspected shoplifter pulled an “edged weapon” Tuesday. Police are investigating after a disturbance was reported a retail store in Bracebridge July 30, at 3:50 p.m. on Depot Drive. Police responded after staff members spotted three suspected shoplifters. Witnesses reported three males and when confronted the situation […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Pavers are on standby tonight waiting to hit the road Wednesday morning at the Muskoka Wharf as the first phase of Bay & Beyond inches closer to completion. However, frustrated drivers detoured east and west on/off James Street will still have months more of wait times on the back […]
HUNTSVILLE — You can shake off police, but not security cameras. A Huntsville man accused of break and enter avoided police attempts to capture him in the building when they received a second alarm call at the same location last Tuesday. But with the assistance of the Muskoka Community Street Crime Unit (CSCU), officers eventually […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Don Ho wasn’t there, but he was present in sound and spirit Friday during a Hawaiian Luhau at Gravenhurst Manor. Residents dressed in bright shirts shouting with hues and shades of red, green, blue and orange. Women with grass skirts. Everyone draped in leis wrapped round necks. It was […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Indoors and outdoors music is alive in Muskoka. Great performers are taking to stages to entertain in Gravenhurst. Tuesday night the Baytowne Big Band, from Barrie, jazzed up the Barge with nostalgic tunes as a fill-in for Sunday night’s regular weekly concerts interrupted by the Tall Trees concerts at […]
MINETTT — Police in south Muskoka say they have noticed an increase in the number of collisions related impaired driving charges. The OPP charged yet another person with impaired driving offences after responding to a motor vehicle collision in Muskoka Lakes Township. Last night at 10:30 p.m. they responded to reports of a vehicle that […]
HUNTSVILLE — A basement electrical panel that produced sparks and smoke caused under $10,000 in damage early last night. About 7:30 p.m. Huntsville/Lake of Bays firefighters from Station One in Huntsville and Station Five in Port Sydney responded to a report on Domtar Road west of the town’s core. They discovered smoke on the ground floor […]
BRACEBRIDGE — A mischief charge has been laid against a 19-year-old Bracebridge man for vandalizing flowers on the Ecclestone Bridge 10 days ago. Police charged Ryler Smith with damaging the flower pots. On July 14, at 3:30 a.m., officers conducting patrols of the downtown core in Bracebridge received calls from residents and business owners about […]
GRAVENHURST — They’ve had an organist and a pianist. Now Trinity United Church in Gravenhurst will offer its final concert of their mini summer series on Wednesday, July 24 at noon. This time our featured artist will be Greg Ulrick from Nipissing who will be playing Bach on our organ and then move over to […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — A Norm Foster play and Muskoka getaway are like a Saturday and Sunday at the cottage — they make for a great Long Weekend. A fun play with plenty of familiar familial wisecracks that resonated with this afternoon’s audience of mature couples who know where the early exits are […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com HUNTSVILLE — As expected, last night Huntsville’s town council endorsed “strongly endorses” … “in principle” MAHC’s hospital redevelopment plan that appears to give the north Muskoka community the district edge in regional health care. After hearing presentations from various stakeholder groups and engaging a discussion regarding Muskoka Algonquin Healthcare’s “Made-in-Muskoka Healthcare” […]
MUSKOKA — Meet the doctors. With a shortage of district doctors, Muskoka Algonquin Healthcare has produced a series of Fireside Chats that introduces some of them with talks that explain more about health in general and hopefully help patients learn a bit more about their providers. In partnership with local healthcare providers, Muskoka Algonquin Healthcare […]
MACTIER — A late night accident Friday in which a boater collided with a dock has landed the operator with impaired driving charges. Police say 47-year-old Cameron Raffaele, of Mactier, was charged with impaired operation of a vessel after officers responded to a boating collision in Georgian Bay Township. On July 19, at 10:30 p.m., […]
BRACEBRIDGE — A Sunday morning collision has led to impaired driving charges after police responded to a ditched vehicle in Matthiasville, east of town here. At 8:40 a.m. police responded to Matthiasville Road, where officers commenced an investigation into the cause of the collision and subsequently arrested and charged 28-year-old Stephen Good, of Bracebridge, with […]
HUNTSVILLE — Hwy. 35, south of Seabreeze Road, was closed for five hours late Saturday afternoon following a head-on collision between a motorcycle and a passenger vehicle in Algonquin Highlands Township. On July 20, at 5 p.m., OPP, Muskoka EMS, Lake of Bays Fire, and Algonquin Highlands Fire responded. The driver of the motorcycle, a […]
MUSKOKA — Thieves came away virtually empty-handed after three of break and enters early this morning in west Muskoka. Police are investigating the pair of attempted thefts. They say that on Friday, July 19, at 2:45 a.m. officers responded to a break-in in progress at a business location on Muskoka Road 118 near Peninsula Road […]