MUSKOKA — Police charged three people with impaired driving offences over the weekend. Early this morning, January 28, at 2 a.m. a member of the public called police to express their concerns about a person’s ability to drive after they left an address in Bracebridge. Police conducted patrols and located and stopped the vehicle on […]
HUNTSVILLE — Thieves hungry for cash — and chocolate — made off with both in three recent break and enters here. The overnight shopping sprees last week leave police investigating separate incidents — second and third a half hour apart. On Tuesday January 16 at 12:30 a.m., a male suspect forced entry to a restaurant […]
EDITOR/PUBLISHER’S NOTE: Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — District and municipal governments are grappling with ways to provide legally-required notices — particularly around planning issues — now that the last hard-copy newspaper is no longer being dropped in driveways. After a major town and district mix-up this month on the public announcements regarding proposed changes […]
HUNTSVILLE — One person suffered smoke inhalation treatment in hospital last night after a $500,000 fire destroyed a home here. Just after 6:30 p.m. Thursday January 25, Huntsville/Lake of Bays Fire Fighters responded to the structure fire on Lengra Hollows in Huntsville. Fire crews from Station 1 Huntsville, Station 5 Port Sydney and Station 4 […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — Former MPP Dan Waters claims Muskoka’s two new hospitals “won’t be equal.” Both will have ERs, but Huntsville will have most of the beds at 139 and Bracebridge with just 14 beds would make it a “satellite,” he charges. “It’s like they did to Burk’s Falls’ hospital.” It “doesn’t […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com BRACEBRIDGE — Hwy. 118 east was closed for several hours at suppertime last night after two vehicles collides leaving one person in hospital and another airlifted to Toronto with serious, life-altering injuries. Police are investigating the collision that occurred on Highway 118 East in Bracebridge on January 24. They say that […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Long days aren’t unusual for small business owners like Tara and Ian McNaughton. But when you start the day with a 4 a.m. call to police about a store break-in, you know it’s the beginning of another 18-hour day. The McNaughtons’ day began very early yesterday when a thief […]
GRAVENHURST — An early morning downtown business break-in today netted a thief some cash here. Police say that just after 4 a.m. Wednesday January 24 officers were dispatched to a break and enter at a retail store on Muskoka Road South near Sharpe Street. The owner was alerted to the event and called 911 immediately. […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Parkland, sightlines and dock length objections will be considered by the Ontario Land Tribunal in a one day hearing Feb. 28 at 10 a.m. for the huge Starboard condo project proposed here at the Muskoka Wharf in Gravenhurst. In an hour-long OLT case management conference this morning, lawyers for […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — You gotta wonder when a guy from “Wamco” shows up at your doorstep in the middle of winter. Is he some kind of pitch man with a bag of Frisbees, Hacky Sacks and Hula Hoops? Like a morning-after late night TV shiller for the Veg-O-Matic slicer and dicer. No, apparently […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com HUNTSVILLE — An explosion at one of Muskoka’s largest factories at noon Saturday resulted in no injuries but significant damage to a two-storey exterior wood dryer. On January 20, firefighters from the Huntsville/Lake of Bays Fire Department responded to a report of a fire at Panolam Industries Ltd. at 61 Domtar […]
BAYSVILLE — As the latest cold snap continues, an early Christmas 911 call has firefighters reminding the public about the importance of wood stoves and carbon monoxide alarms. At 5 a.m. Huntsville/Lake of Bays Fire Fighters from Station 4 in Baysville responded to a 911 call reporting an activated carbon monoxide alarm inside a home […]
Letter to the Editor: I, for one, have benefited from social media. It has brought into my life old friends that perhaps I’d never see or talk with again if it were not for this new avenue of communication. Our daughter and her family live in Kansas, and oh how we miss having her cheery […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — An 11th hour deal announced may yet allow a major condo/retail development to proceed a step further here at the Muskoka Wharf as it was last proposed in August when it was rejected by council in a tie vote over waterfront woes. After turning down the proposal in late […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — A Quebec man faces several charges after contraband was found within the perimeter of the federal prison here last Thursday night. Provincial police called in to investigate say he was charged after responding to a concern from Beaver Creek Institution in Gravenhurst. They say that on January 11, at […]
GRAVENHURST — Judy Talks are the Ted Talks of Gravenhurst. Better still … they’re the talks of the town. Join Gravenhurst archivist Judy Humphries at Gravenhurst Public Library or on Zoom January 16 at 6:30 p.m. for her first history talk of the year — Four Sanatoria and a Joss House: What was the effect […]
HUNTSVILLE — A driver spotted speeding through a parking lot has been charged after police pulled the vehicle over Monday. The OPP charged the driver with impaired operation after conducting a traffic stop on Forbes Hill Road in the Town of Huntsville. On January 8 at 2:45 p.m., officers conducted a traffic stop, after observing […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — A fatal train accident here yesterday has claimed the life of a local auto industry worker. Don Edghill, 55, of Bracebridge, died when his pickup truck collided with the CN Rail train as he drove southbound on Winhara Road and turned right onto Jones Road. The accident occurred shortly […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Police are investigating a fatal train accident just after noon here this afternoon. They say the collision between a train and a vehicle was the north intersection on the Jones Road along Winhara Road in Gravenhurst. Police say Winhara Road is currently closed this afternoon between Jones and Crawford […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — Finalists for the Muskoka Founders Circle awards have been announced. The fifth annual contest attracted a record number of entrepreneurs across Muskoka, says a release. The Circle is a group of Muskoka-based business promoters working to boost economic development. Seven finalists were chosen from a record number of 50 […]