GRAVENHURST — Music on the Barge returns with a familiar play list after a two-year hiatus. The eight shows are favourites from previous seasons at Gull Lake Rotary Park. As usual it opens with the Bifocals Band, July 3 at 2 p.m. in the Rotary gazebo, and concludes with the season-ending Good Brothers on the […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — Maestro! If you please …. After two years of the sounds of silence (with all due respect to Simon and Garfunkel) it’s show time again. Concert season has already begun; but the best is yet to come starting with a busy Canada Day weekend where you’re encouraged to “Take […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — “No one knows” why Albert Sedore did what he did in dying last Tuesday. “It’s all speculation. Only he knows for sure,” says his younger sister, Karen Anderson. Sadly he took that secret to hopefully ever-lasting peace — if that’s possible. He turned 58 two days before, on June […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — “Cool car! Haven’t seen one of those for years.” At least two years to be exact. That sums up Day 1 of the Muskoka’s Father’s Day weekend car shows in Gravenhurst and Bracebridge. After COVID’s Zoom, Zoom shows chambers of commerce show off their shine one more time. In […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — A man is dead after shooting himself following a “dispute” with his next door neighbour — in which she was shot in the arm with a “rifle” in their shared front yard early last night. Detectives were on scene this morning after police received “several” 911 calls about multiple […]
LAKE OF BAYS — Police have charged a boater with impaired operation on Rebecca Lake after a boat capsized Saturday morning northwest of Huntsville. OPP say that on June 11, just before 10 a.m., officers responded to a report of a suspected impaired individual in the water after his boat capsized north of Limberlost Lodge […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — With affordable housing and worker accommodation huge election issues, are councils about to kill the goose that laid their golden tax eggs? Gravenhurst is the latest Muskoka municipality to go after cottagers, small mom and pop bed and breakfasts, local hotels and golf clubs with a plan to license […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com BALA — Housing and affordability worked hand in hand here Friday as Habitat for Humanity dug in on a duplex due for completion by Christmas. The say two families will be moving into affordable, energy-efficient, universally accessible bungalow homes at 1016 Elm St., in Bala. Each eventually with their own property […]
GRAVENHURST — Three Gravenhurst men face cocaine charges — including a man wanted on an outstanding warrant, another who failed to comply with a probation order and a third man who was also charged along with the others with cocaine possession. Police say that last night, Saturday June 11 just after 11 p.m., officers patrolling […]
Nancy Thompson | Bracebridge Horticultural Society Companion planting is simply when two types of plants are grown close together for the benefit of one or both. It can be as simple as growing nectar-rich flowers amongst crops to attract pollinators. Based on traditional and later scientific research, we know that there are certain crops which […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — COVID’s lingering effects — with 48 cases in the region this week — mean mask will remain mandatory at the two local hospitals. Today Muskoka Algonquin Healthcare said that while requirements in other high-risk areas like public transit will expire tomorrow, Saturday June 11, hospitals in Ontario Health’s Central […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Work on a large new apartment complex at the south end of the downtown here is being slowed by a carpenters’ strike, but building continues. Melissa Halford, director of development services for the Town of Gravenhurst, says she was on site last week and said otherwise construction continues with […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com PARRY SOUND-MUSKOKA — Federal loans and grants for 10 regional public and private tourism initiatives in 2022 include sewer lines for Santa’s Village and trail grooming for snowmobile trails and money to expand vacant lands at Muskoka Wharf. The more than $2 million comes at the end of National Tourism Week, […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — A revitalization and expansion plan for the Muskoka Wharf — which will see five new “pop-up” business buildings built on vacant lands — has the Gateway to Muskoka community receiving $357,000 in federal funding. The seasonal retail spaces could also include a small building in the open public space […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Mary Anne Goheen “is always thinking of others in our community first. “And those most vulnerable or at risk.” Following two tragic fires last year, Goheen was right there offering kitchen and bathrooms resources to two families in need. That’s part of the reason the Gravenhurst resident and “outstanding […]
UPDATE: Due to uncertain weather, The Muskoka Men of Song concert scheduled to be held at Annie William’s Park on Friday June 17 has been relocated to the Bracebridge United Church at 46 Dominion St., Bracebridge. Please enter at the side door. LETTER TO EDITOR: MUSKOKA — Thanks to generous donations from the public and […]
LETTER TO EDITOR: Last year 26 students from Gravenhurst were accepted at universities such as Queens, Trent, Ottawa and Toronto, and colleges such as Fanshawe, Algonquin, Seneca and Georgian. Their dreams of a higher education and a better way of life have been assisted by citizens from Gravenhurst, who over the past 13 years have […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com RAMA — When you’re 83 seniors moments happen. A word slips your mind, you have to take a step back to catch your breath. But it’s all good for Gordon Lightfoot, who can still remember and deliver memorable lyrics from his decades old hits. And while his concerts now are more […]
BAYSVILLE — An ATV driver who entered a ditch and collided with a hydro pole yesterday afternoon died, say police who are investigating the fatal single vehicle collision here. They say that on Saturday, June 4 at 3 p.m., emergency services responded to Dickie Lake Road in Lake of Bays Township, just east of Baysville. […]
BRACEBRIDGE — Annie Williams Park continues to suffer from a spate of vandalism. Frustrated police are now turning to the public to help solve these senseless crimes. They want help to identify the suspect(s) responsible for several incidents of mischief at the popular summer retreat on the Muskoka River. They say that on June 2, while […]