Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com PARRY SOUND-MUSKOKA — A special weather statement warning about freezing rain starting Wednesday shows winter’s grip is cruelling hanging on. And April showers will bring more bad weather before flowers in May, prompting more warning to be very cautious around rivers, lakes, ponds and anywhere where water gathers. The Ministry of […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — The long-awaited decision on the “preferred property in Bracebridge” for the site of the new South Muskoka Memorial Hospital will be announced April 17 at 7 p.m. in Dwight. That’s the first of eight public meetings to update residents of the location after months — if not years — […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Give peace a chance. That’s what optimistic art students at GHS are painting. The Rotary Club has embarked on yet another installation at Gull Lake Rotary Park and the Grade 9 class — brushed up on their paint skills — and is all over it. When Rotarian Kay Godden […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com BALA — Some of Muskoka’s best hockey players have come out of west Muskoka — like the Mortimers, Metcalfes and McMullens. Many of the teams over the decades have been sponsored the Royal Canadian Legion branches around the lakes. So the rivalry for championships between Bala, Port Carling and MacTier can […]
BRACEBRIDGE — An Orillia man stopped for driving the wrong direction on Hwy. 11 Friday night also faces dangerous driving and two charges of impaired operation of a vehicle. Officers arrested and charged 52-year-old Garret Allison after he failed to stop for police after March 24 at 7:30 p.m. Police received numerous calls reporting a […]
GRAVENHURST — A Gravenhurst man charged with stealing a work vehicle March 19 was arrested and charged three days later with new theft and firearms violations. Police say that on March 22 officers with the Muskoka Community Street Crime Unit (CSCU), with the assistance of the Barrie Police Service, and the Orillia, Southern Georgian Bay […]
GRAVENHURST — A man charged with stealing a work vehicle also faces impaired driving and several other charges. Police say that last Sunday morning, March 19, at 7:15 a.m., a worker called police to say that while out on foot conducting maintenance work on Muskoka Road South in Gravenhurst their vehicle was stolen. A short […]
GRAVENHURST — Police and firefighters didn’t have far to go responding to single-vehicle crash early this morning. A car left the road shearing a tree in the process when it crashed into a fence next to their joint emergency services office downtown. The OPP say officers, along with Muskoka EMS, and Gravenhurst fire department were […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Two days after a fire tore through a boat rental business here, police and fire officials continue to probe and try to determine the cause. No official cause has yet been determined for Wednesday’s 4 a.m. blaze, which gutted the two-storey building on the shore of Lake Muskoka. The […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Police are sitting watch on a burned-out building at the west end of the Muskoka Wharf today, awaiting the Ontario Fire Marshal’s office after a “suspicious” early morning blaze gutted the summer boat rental business. Muskoka Boat Rentals, which has been renting pontoon boats the past few years on […]
LETTER TO EDITOR: Re: ‘Unconscionable’ condo proposal for Muskoka Wharf There is never a time as I look out my condo window (at the Muskoka Wharf) when I do not see someone walking along the boardwalk, their regular daily exercise, or walking a dog or baby carriage. Or a visitor to Muskoka who was told […]
LETTER TO EDITOR: Dear Gravehurst mayor and council: In Muskoka Bay next to the steamship docks there remains a small bit of natural habitat. The water there is shallow, the lake bottom is undisturbed and aquatic vegetation provides good fish habitat. The land near the shoreline is low, subject to flooding, has been partially cleared, […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com BALA — Two people were apparently taken to hospital here early this afternoon following a head-on collision on Hwy. 169 as winter made its return on local roads. Traffic was backed up more than a kilometre as emergency crews dealt with the aftermath of the accident between a white SUV and […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Mike Goudie hopes to double his workforce in the next couple years after the federal government gave his 24-year-old Gravenhurst company a $1,631,250 repayable loan to add 10,000 square feet of floor space for his aircraft refinishing plant at the Muskoka Airport. The president of Muskoka Aircraft Refinishing tells […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — A team of former UConn hockey players held off the Feisty Beavers yesterday to walk away with the women’s division title at this weekend’s pond hockey tournament at the Muskoka Wharf. The Huskies alumni put the boots to their opponents, 14-9, on a soggy Sunday afternoon to end the […]
BRACEBRIDGE — Police are investigating a fraud that occurred at a bank in Bracebridge Sept. 29. A person entered the bank and was able to withdraw a very large sum of money from an account that was not his. Anyone with information is asked to please call Bracebridge OPP at (888)310-1122 or call Crime Stoppers […]
GRAVENHURST — The fun of Gravenhurst’s Winter Carnival had a damper put on it even before it began. Police are investigating the theft of tools from Gull Lake Rotary Park Tuesday Feb. 14 at 8:45 a.m. A volunteer was preparing an area for the Polar Bear Dip and while at his vehicle for a moment […]
HUNTSVILLE — What birthday prize. Frank Lamb won $600,000 when he spun the big wheel in Toronto at the Ontario Lotto Gaming Centre where he went to collect his BIGGER SPIN INSTANT game prize #3150. Lamb has been playing the lotteries for about 40 years. “I like to buy BIGGER SPIN tickets because I want to win big,” he said […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — By most accounts yesterday The Rosseau Group’s bid to build a “monster” condo/commercial development on “the last undeveloped waterfront lots” at the Muskoka Wharf in Gravenhurst should be dead in the water. A planning council meeting overflowing with more than 100 mostly inquisitive residents weighed in with overwhelming opposition […]
GRAVENHURST — A fire here on Peninsula Road last night proved “difficult” for firefighters to battle in southwest Gravenhurst. “Difficult access to the property for fire apparatus and the topography of the property itself have made firefighting difficult for crews,” they tweeted. “Water supply has been established at Morrison Lake in addition to tanker shuttles […]