Letter to editor: Although the lazy days of summer have begun, it is anything but at Orillia Soldiers’ Memorial Hospital. Summer is typically a busier time for accessing healthcare as we welcome the influx of seasonal visitors to our region in addition to our growing population. More people, more activities, more of everything it seems, […]
BRACEBRIDGE — The Rotary Club of Bracebridge Muskoka Lakes has donated $83,500 to the South Muskoka Memorial Hospital Foundation. Proceeds are from their 22nd annual fundraiser gala this spring, a black tie Academy Awards-themed soiree.
GRAVENHURST — Police were busy here Tuesday after an early morning accident and break and enter report. A 19-year-old Barrie man was charged July 16 after a single-vehicle collision Gravenhurst on Muskoka Beach Road near Old Muskoka Road. At 2:50 a.m. south Muskoka officers and Muskoka EMS responded to reports that the vehicle left the […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Rain hasn’t hampered construction much on the Bay & Beyond road re-development next the Muskoka Wharf. Swift progress should see the bottom section of Hwy. 169, says Nick Miandro. He’s the Trisan Construction community liaison person knocking on doors up-street today to tell home owners the company will be […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — At the height of summer the concept of Muskoka and what it means to be a Muskokan is falling apart as the two largest towns, their hospitals and permanent residents fight for health care supremacy and their very lives. As the weather and the battle heats up, it’s dividing […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com BRACEBRIDGE — Remember Red Fisher and Scuttlebutt Lodge: Tall Tale Capital of the World? It ran on CTV from 1968 to 1989. Guests included NHL greats Johnny Bower and Eddie Shack (Leafs), Stan Makita (Blackhawks), Gordie Howe (Wings), baseball legends Fergie Jenkins (Red Sox) — and even Slim Pickens (actor — […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Jack was jumpin’ Friday. Literally. The Bala ragtime pianist is the hare to Joe Biden’s tortoise. And if Donald Trump were within earshot of the Opera House, he would have heard ‘… Hutton and Friends’ tear up the stage “one more time.” Not bad for a nonagenarian. “91 and […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Rotary continues to rock the Barge. Their new amphitheatre seating has increased crowd numbers allowing more people to see and hear the summer shows. Sunday — on a second straight perfect night of weather — the sounds of the Doobie Brothers filled Gull Lake Rotary Park. And every new […]
MUSKOKA — Andrew Hind loves Muskoka stories past and present and has written at length about all parts as well as many interesting pioneers and people in his beloved district. Hind’s history of Muskoka goes beyond documents and dates, illustrating the unique character of a multifaceted and endlessly fascinating region, he says in a release. […]
BRACEBRIDGE —Police are investigating an incident involving an unoccupied vehicle and an older adult in Bracebridge. On Thursday, July 11, at 12:50 p.m. officers, along with paramedics and firefighters responded to reports that an 87-year-old Bracebridge woman had become pinned underneath her own unoccupied vehicle in a parking lot on Muskoka Road 118 in Bracebridge. […]
GRAVENHURST — After an “excellent” start last week, Trinity United Church continues it short noon concert series on Wednesday. Kate Ward provided a superb “tasting menu” of organ music, said church member and organizer Diane Harrop. “It was excellent and a great introduction to our three-concert series,” she said in release. This week, TUC welcomes […]
MUSKOKA LAKES TWP. — A Bracebridge woman who fled a west Muskoka collision last night has been charged with impaired driving after being found at a licensed establishment. Police responded to reports of an accident Sunday at 8:50 p.m., on Muskoka Road 169 near Hamill Point Road, after a single vehicle left the roadway and […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com BRACEBRIDGE — An attainable housing expansion at McVittie Place will add 44 district unit with rents expected to range from $550-$950/month. Fourteen of the 44 new units will be barrier-free, with an elevator and accessible parking spaces to support persons living with disabilities. Construction of the new building at 100 Pine […]
Letter to editor: MAHC hospital redevelopment plan must be subject to public accountability. The Save South Muskoka Hospital Committee (SSMHC) writes in full support of the recent efforts by municipally-elected representatives and officials on Muskoka Algonquin Healthcare’s hospital redevelopment plan to provide further public accountability through the Town of Bracebridge and the District of Muskoka. […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com PORT CARLING — Funny how life throw’s you a pass and you either run with it or get sacked. Muskoka comedian Tyler Morrison, who is performing Tuesday nights all this summer at Tulo’s by the locks, gives as good he gets when it comes to joking around. The Bracebridge-based funny man […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com HUNTSVILLE — A Muskoka MRI machine will open for patient services next spring, after today MAHC dug a hole for a 3,700 square-foot addition to its Huntsville District Memorial Hospital site. With the Huntsville Hospital Foundation, Muskoka Algonquin Healthcare held a ground-breaking this afternoon with hospital officials, MPP Graydon Smith, MP […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com ORILLIA — Who knew a baton could be so damn entertaining. In the right hands it was magic as the Old Crow Medicine Show stole the show the final night of the three-day Mariposa Folk Festival. With the mixed wizardry of an Olympic gymnast and showman, his whirling and twirling bedazzled […]
Story and photos Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com ORILLIA — Bruce Cockburn fans are still lovers of the folk legend in these dangerous times. At 79 he remains relevant to generations of followers through collective political, environmental and indigenous activism, singing and song-writing and still protesting. But it’s his association with the weekend’s Mariposa Folk Festival […]
MUSKOKA — Mark Wednesdays on your musical calendar starting tomorrow to beat the heat and cool off in the lake after. At noon enjoy exceptional pipe organ playing as Trinity United Church in Gravenhust returns to its summer recitals. Their first concert features Kate Ward, who has been playing piano since age 3 and organ since […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Call it a mini Mariposa. As Orillia’s folk festival wrapped up Sunday, north Gull Lake Rotary Park was just starting it’s summer season of Music on the Barge. With the Bifocals Band kicking things off in the afternoon, they were followed that evening by Motown in Motion. Gathered round […]