MUSKOKA LAKES — Thieves are sitting on a load of Muskoka chairs. Police are investigating the theft of an enclosed trailer filled with Muskoka chairs, from an address on Henshaw Lake Road in Muskoka Lakes Township. They say the theft occurred sometime overnight on Monday, Oct. 31. The OPP estimate the combined value of the […]
Lois Cooper | MuskokaTODAY.com OPINION MUSKOKA — The District of Muskoka says the changes to our waste system on Nov. 7 are: “Working together towards a better waste system for Muskoka.” Yet it includes trucking all of our recycling (blue boxes) to Toronto for sorting and whatever comes next. How is trucking our recycling to […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — As strike talks continue a confirmed CUPE walk-out Friday means no school for students and classes by teachers. In a letter today to parents and families, Wes Hahn, TLDSB director of Education, writes the following: Dear TLDSB families: On Oct. 31, the government of Ontario announced Bill 28, Keeping […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — A “gallant” Gravenhurst soldier — twice wounded while leading his men across “no man’s land” into an enemy trench in 1917 before dying — is among local war heroes being remembered next Tuesday. Sergeant Frederick Smith, 26, was in charge of a party of Canadian soldiers attacking the Germans from […]
GRAVENHURST — A haunting good Halloween. Wild and wet. Fun and sweet. That was last night all over Muskoka. A week that began with its 30th Gravenhust High School haunted Opera House — and included several nights of ghoulish play-acting tales in a cemetery about locally deceased — ended with sweet-toothed trick o’ treaters going […]
GRAVENHURST — From the Butcher’s Daughters to a mother and daughter. That’s the essence of the Essence of Spice, a new restaurant and takeaway on the main street here. Akansha Singh and her mom, Poonam, have opened across from the Opera House where for the last three years Kim Barnes ran her deli, after moving […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Joshua Both was a Canadian Armed Forces reserve who is considering a return to service. Meanwhile he started Buds by Cannilux in Gravenhurst and has donated a portion of his business’ profit to Veterans house as an ongoing effort to support the 4-pillar program of rehabilitation and reintegration of […]
GRAVENHURST-HUNTSVILLE — As red poppies begin appearing over hearts, Remembrance Day services are being planned across Muskoka at legions, in schools, churches and community halls. One of the first is Nov. 6 when Muskoka Concert Band conductor Fran Harvey brings down the baton for MCB’s first indoor concert in more than two years. Join them […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com BRACEBRIDGE — The fight to stop a “mega quarry” isn’t just about NIMBYism. It’s about climate change and the future of kids riding school buses on Bonnie Lake Road, critics also charge. Objectors to the project, which with a second licence would double the size of an existing Fowler’s Construction pit […]
BRACEBRIDGE — Tractors are a familiar site in Muskoka. But if you seen this bright orange one, call police. It’s missing and police say it was stolen sometime this past week. They are investigating the theft of a 2018 Kubota L6060 tractor stolen on South Muskoka Falls Road, in Bracebridge, sometime between Tuesday last week […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Finding firefighters is always a chore. Tyler Theriault is the kind Chief Jared Cayley loves to get. The young recruit who just passed the one-year mark as a volunteer with the Gravenhurst Fire Department is proving a poster guy for the brigade. In August, when he was 10 months […]
MUSKOKA — Impaired drivers kept police busy four of the last days. On Oct. 21, at 7:23 a.m., police were dispatched to attend the parking lot of a commercial building on Winhara Road, Gravenhurst, where employees noticed a Jeep parked in their lot with a person passed out at the steering wheel. Officers attended and […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com OPINION MUSKOKA — A day after the election it’s like “déjà vu all over again” — merci beaucoup, Yogi Berra. A few new faces, too many familiar faces — and as Muskoka as a cavalcade of coloured leaves. Which is odd for all the brilliance and diversity of the past month, […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — A new political landscape took shape tonight with three new mayors and dozens of new councillors in Muskoka. In towns across the district, Gravenhurst, Huntsville and Muskoka Lakes Township will now be led, respectively, by Heidi Lorenz, Nancy Alcock and Peter Kelley. Voter turnout mostly reflected the lack lustre […]
CAROLYN MARGARET (TOMPSETT) HOLMES May 24, 1953 ~ Oct. 21, 2022 (age 69) Died peacefully at Hospice Simcoe, Barrie, on Friday, Oct. 21, 2022, at age 69. She was the beloved wife of Brian Holmes of Oro-Medonte. Loving mother of Jennifer (Chester) Romanek of Oro-Medonte and Nathan (Crystal) Holmes of Bracebridge. Cherished grandmother of Dexter and Louisa Romanek […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com BRACEBRIDGE — Opponents of the Muskoka Royale private school proposal are claiming “a major victory for environmentalists” after Bracebridge’s town planner reversed course at an Ontario Land Tribunal (OLT) hearing this week. In a release Friday, the South Bracebridge Environmental Protection Group (SBEPG) (“Bracebridge Wetlands”) is calling the about face “a […]
Lois Cooper | MuskokaTODAY.com BRACEBRIDGE — Fowler Construction’s application to increase the size of it’s quarry licence along Bonnie Lake Road, in Macaulay Township, from 580 acres to 983 acres; with an extraction license for 852.8 acres gained approval by the Bracebridge town council last week (Oct. 12, 2022). It was rezoned to “Extractive Industrial […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — Spring forward or fall back? Monday’s election is a chance to hire councils with real vision and guts. So where are they? The local labour pool has long had a painfully thin bench for qualified workers in all fields at all levels. Witness the hospitality and trades sectors. For […]
GRAVENHURST — A traffic stop that led to drug charges also included a charge of possession of break and enter tools Tuesday. Police say that Oct. 18 officers were conducting general patrols when they stopped a motor vehicle on Veteran’s Way for a Highway Traffic Act violation. As a result of an investigation, Branden Reed, […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — Local police were stretched on Muskoka roads for today’s snowstorm as many were seconded for this morning’s funeral for slain constables Devon Northrup, left, and Morgan Russell. OPP officers from Muskoka marched and helped cover for the South Simcoe Police Service area in Innisfil and in Barrie where hundreds […]