Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — It’s not the heat, but the rain that’s postponed Thursday’s 2 p.m. Rotary Rocks the Barge grand opening. The much anticipated new summer seating by the service club and town was rescheduled at the last minute after sudden “untimely” torrential rains overnight Monday made final landscaping impossible. Flooding and […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Jim Bravo had an idea for Gravenhurst’s main street. And the Toronto muralist is realizing it on the north side of the Bethune Bistro. A 15- x 30-foot canvas wall that’s been ripe for the painting for years. A prized commission from District of Muskoka commission for the award-winning […]
MUSKOKA — Three break-ins in Huntsville and Baysville have police asking for help in their investigations. On Friday June 7 the OPP learned a break-in on West Road in Huntsville was broken into overnight in which cash was stolen. The same day — between 2 p.m. and 7 a.m. Friday morning — another business was […]
Ed. note: Roma Kassian, of Port Carling, made the following submission Tuesday at the Ontario Health Coalition meeting and provided it to MuskokaTODAY.com when asked. Discussion around proposals for two new hospitals for Muskoka have often been misrepresented as a competition between the communities of Bracebridge and Huntsville, as in a recent Toronto Star headline […]
Letter to the editor: We attended the meeting at the Bracebridge Legion Tuesday morning. I didn’t speak. However, if I did, my point is this: The plan to truck patients from Bracebridge to Huntsville is not practical. When we get out to Hwy. 11 our vehicles turn south only. If we are needing medical attention […]
Lois Cooper | MuskokaTODAY.com OPINION The Ontario Health Coalition held a public hearing in Bracebridge on Tuesday at the Bracebridge Legion, in its work to develop recommendations for the future of our local hospitals, including in small, rural and northern communities. Several residents made presentations. Presenters referred to the promise made during the 2018 provincial […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Greg Poole grew up with a camera in one hand and a hockey stick or bat in the other. He’s a fourth generation photographer who has opened “Portraits in the Park” in Gull Lake Rotary Park. His great-grandfather, Herbert, had a photo shop on corner of Toronto’s Queen Street […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Summer is about to sizzle — heating up this week. With temperatures expected to return to 30+ degrees the next couple of months. That means more Muskoka outdoor events. Including this weekend at the Gravenhurst Legion, which is hosting two days of food and music day and night respectively. […]
Lois Cooper | MuskokaTODAY.com BRACEBRIDGE — The Ontario Health Coalition held a public hearing here today as it develops recommendations for the future of local hospitals — including small, rural and northern communities like Muskoka. Several residents made presentations. Also in attendance were Green Party Leader Mike Schreiner; France Gélinas, NDP MPP for Nickel Belt […]
Greg Hammond, Special to MuskokaTODAY.com WAHTA — This morning MAC artist Greg Hammond presented his piece “Honouring Herman Stock” to Chief Phillip Franks of Wahta First Nation. “Honouring Herman Stock” is a tribute that captures the spirit, valour and legacy of a young man from the Wahta First Nation, who was killed 80 years ago […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Police have charged a local man with several offences related to ongoing investigations into break and enters in Gravenhurst. OPP, with the assistance of the Muskoka Community Street Crime Unit (CSCU), have been investigating several break and enters into business locations that have occurred in the town of Gravenhurst […]
WAHTA — Yesterday’s 80th D-Day anniversary will be marked tomorrow at Wahta, where 22-year-old war hero Herman Stock was born. The native son died June 6, 1944, in Normandy as part of the Juno Beach invasion that began the march toward victory and the end of the Second World War. The rifleman with the Queen’s […]
BAYSVILLE — A missing man has police asking the public to help locate a Baysville resident. “Robert” was last spoken to at 8:30 p.m., Tuesday June 4, at which time he was in the Lake of Bays Township in Muskoka. Huntsville OPP with the assistance of Central Region Emergency Response Team (ERT), Canine Unit (K9), […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Trisan Construction wasted no time getting to road work today. That’s good news for drivers, businesses and homeowners at the west end of Bay Street. A 100-metre long stretch of Hwy. 169 — in front of the Muskoka Wharf — was already torn up by crews eager to get […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Traffic was stop and go here this morning. Or least in the case of Bay Street stop — and turn around. It’s been like that since 1:30 p.m. yesterday when Hwy. 169 was closed at North Muldrew Lake Road heading into West Gravenhurst. The same backups have already been […]
GRAVENHURST — Firefighters from across south Muskoka are battling a large house fire this morning. All stations from Gravenhurst were called in for a structure fire on McKenzie Street in Gravenhurst, off the Muskoka Beach Road. Mutual aid has been requested from fire services in Bracebridge and Muskoka Lakes.
Lois Cooper | MuskokaTODAY.com D-Day June 6, 1944: Today, as I listen to the BBC broadcast of the weather report that delayed D-Day from June 5th to the 6th, I remember Uncle Ernie Kennedy. He was on that landing 80 years ago today — on the shores of Normandy. And although he did not talk […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Barb McCabe may be Senior of the Year. But the town should either re-define name of the award or the meaning of senior. Because “Barb” defies her age, being one of the busiest “young” volunteers in Gravenhurst. This afternoon she was “very, very humbled” at receiving the recognition at […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — It was a hard day’s night for pavers on James Street. Last night and this morning C Valley Paving put a hard top of 45 millimetres on the road detour around Bay Street. Workers were out in the dark with the street closed a dozen hours from 7 p.m. […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — As the start of major Bay & Beyond road work begins today on James Street and with the closing of the main east-west artery through town here Wednesday, the closure and ensuing confusion and chaos about to erupt has commuters still concerned. Bay Street (Hwy. 169) is closing Wednesday […]