BRACEBRIDGE — A north end Hortons, near Walmart, was the victim of a break-in early last week in which a thief crawled in the drive-thru window in the middle of night stealing a small amount of cash. Police are investigating the B&E on Depot Drive at the intersection with Taylor Road Monday, March 18, which […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — Who made the final divisive decisions on MAHC’s new hospitals? As a jury these 12 board members weighed information and — like Easter apostles — are preaching two separate and very distinct Muskoka Algonquin Healthcare sites a decade from now. According MAHC’s website, they’re volunteers who “plays a key […]
MUSKOKA — A Gravenhurst man is among three people charged after winter drug investigation that led to $300,000 in street drugs being confiscated in drug raids Wednesday and Thursday. In early 2024 the OPP’s Muskoka Community Street Crime Unit (CSCU) conducted an investigation into drug trafficking through-out the District of Muskoka. On March 20 and 21, with the assistance of the Central Region Tactics and Rescue Unit, the […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — With winter clinging on and ice finally out, Rotarians were celebrating this week as work finally on their 85th anniversary signature community project. Rotary Rocks the Barge work began this week with the town’s Rotary Gull Lake Park cordoned off for the next few months as worker dig into […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Jenn Armishaw met her birth mother “one time.” And was “right with her at the very end of her life.” That’s how Armishaw named the “Christine’s Place” free walk-in pregnancy resource centres after her mom. Yesterday she opened a second office in Gravenhurst after 14 years in Huntsville at […]
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Last week the government warned Ontarians to be on the lookout for bears waking up from hibernation earlier than usual as a result of an extremely warm winter. Ontario’s Natural Resources Minister (and habitual climate change downplayer), Graydon Smith, said: “I’m not worried about it, but I think people should take […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — The David and Goliath battle to “get it right” has hospital opponents continuing to compete in a weekly war of words. As sure as Saturday follows Friday, those fighting to “save” south Muskoka’s hospital have issued their weekend response to MAHC’s end of week update on redevelopment plans. They […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — Still stinging from criticism about a new South Muskoka Hospital site and transparency around its selection, MAHC has doubled down in defence of a site at the north end of Bracebridge. “The Pine Street site remains the better-suited location for the project in the longer term, based on its […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — An environmental revolt has gained Winhara Road residents two more weeks make comment to the Ministry of Environment on a “contaminated non-hazardous” soil cleansing and waste disposal site that would also store soil material on 12 acres in their neighbourhood. Two dozen people who live at the north end […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Many here lament “the good old days.” Especially for a generation of Baby Boomers around when Sloan’s Restaurant was the epicentre of the main street. If TVO’s great little Main Street vignettes were to do a piece on Gravenhurst, the iconic eatery would be the focus with a photo […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com HUNTSVILLE — There’s an audience for classical music in Muskoka. Always has been. But this weekend it was a home grown orchestra that bowed to the public — twice. Saturday afternoon at Baysville’s Bethune United Church and yesterday afternoon at Trinity United Church in Huntsville. Two sold out performances of “Whimsical […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — The public push to revise plans for Muskoka’s two hospitals continues throughout South Muskoka Memorial Hospital’s catchments area. Dan and Cindy Waters, who have been championing their cause with a petition, say they presented their first list of names to MPP Graydon Smith last week. At his office in […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — Final new hospital plans won’t be submitted until the end of the year, more smaller public consultations are planned and a doctors’ alternative ‘Care Closer to Home’ model is being costed out by consultants. That’s this week’s MAHC update Friday on a publicly contentious redevelopment proposal for South Muskoka […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — International Women’s Day was a morning of celebration today as 150 women — and 10 men — marked the occasion with a breakfast of champions at the Gravenhurst Centennial Centre. Ladies noshed, nurtured and nourished each other with invigorating Muskoka tales echoing throughout the Terry Fox Auditorium. “It’s not […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — A doctor, a Rotarian, a humanitarian and huge civic supporter, Jim Goodwin was many things. Aged 93, he died at home this morning, leaving a long legacy that touched many and most of Gravenhurst. He would have been 94 in June. The retired physician — and former Canadian Navy […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — District and municipal governments are being asked to withdraw millions of dollars they’ve committed to MAHC’s “unequal” hospitals plan, until the Ministry of Health examines a counter proposal submitted by south Muskoka doctors. In its first public statement and “community report,” members of the ‘Save South Muskoka Hospital’ (SSMH) […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — As the community independently debates the state of local hospitals and its reponse to changes, Muskoka Algonquin Healthcare continues its own updates with a new release today as promised. MAHC said “our commitment to enhancing healthcare in our community is taking a significant stride forward.” And that they are […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — “Inspiring inclusion” is this year’s theme of International Women’s Day at the Terry Fox Auditorium at the arena March 8, where an all-star panel will sit down for a dockside chat. Statistics Canada (2021) pegs the median employment income for women in Muskoka at between $20,000 and $26,800, says […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com BRACEBRIDGE — Charming, witty, inspiring with great performances. That’s “Billy Elliot,” which wrapped up its first weekend run at the Rene Caisse Theatre Sunday. Community theatre at its best. Entertaining, intelligent, heartwarming and atristically true to hit movie and play’s original 2005 West End London production. The buzz about “Billy” and […]
Lois Cooper | MuskokaTODAY.com OPINION A national universal pharmacare plan is wonderful news. I let government officials at all levels know that this week. Contraception and diabetes are the first subsidized medications that will go to Parliament for approval ahead of a March 1 deadline. However, I read that the provinces will decide on what […]