HUNTSVILLE — CCTV cameras caught vandals running amuck downtown Sunday as full moons began arising this week. And police are looking for images and identities to capture the pot planter punks gone wild. On Sept. 15, about midnight, five individuals damaged flowers and planters outside a local business on Main Street East, throwing them onto […]
LETTER TO EDITOR: A Barrie doctor recently shared her colleague’s experience in a Winnipeg hospital, of the fallout from the attempted consolidation of hospital services among Winnipeg hospitals in 2017. The Winnipeg Free Press headlines read: “Tories’ ER consolidation a catastrophic gift that keeps on giving; Streamlined’ system’s disastrous, blundered rollout chased away critically needed […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Three people — including two from Gravenhurst — face weapons charges, including possession of a loaded prohibited or restricted gun after a police executed a search warrant yesterday on home at the south end of Gravenhurst. A North York man was in bail court today facing the same charges. […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — A local man accused of plaguing a section of Hwy. 11 between Kilworthy and Hwy. 118 E. north in Gravenhurst appeared in bail court today, charged with three counts of gas bar robbery as well as three break and enters in August and September. Police, with the assistance of […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com BRACEBRIDGE — Golfers are happy with this week’s weather. And many former Bracebridge Bears are even gladder that as a result of their annual summer tournament at South Muskoka Curling and Golf Club they raised close to $8,000, which they continue to donate to local charities and causes. Chair Greg Crozier […]
Photos and story Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Labour Day is done and gone. But like workers, the hardest jobs are never done. In Canada Labour Day has its roots in an 1872 printers’ strike in Toronto. Fighting for a nine-hour work day, the strikers’ victory was a major milestone in the changing relations between […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — Does Muskoka need Lake of Bays? It seems, at least on the issue of hospitals redevelopment, the district’s eastern flank is one in the same as parenting Huntsville. Mayor Terry Glover and council were parroting the northern half of Muskoka last week at their council meeting disparagingly claiming that […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com BRACEBRIDGE — A sad day — weeks — as 75 years of hockey history is ending here on James Street with the demolition of the Bracebridge Memorial Arena. “The rink” as its best known, is but a pile of cinder blocks today with the original east end ice sheet reduced to […]
GRAVENHURST — After a summer hiatus, Rotary TV Bingo returns to Cogeco tonight, Wednesday Sept. 18, with $2,000 on offer as usual. Technical issues that left bingo players out of the loop have been resolved and the service club is on the air at the cable TV station from 7-8 p.m. With five games — […]
PORT CARLING — A Port Carling man who fled a fiery stolen vehicle, which crashed overnight today east of Port Carling, faces multiple charges after eventually being apprehended. Police said this morning they are investigating a small grey vehicle fire in Muskoka Lakes Township. On Sept. 16, at 2:30 a.m., officers, along with Muskoka Lakes […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com ORILLIA — Of the countless versions of Rhapsody in Blue, the one last night by Kyung-A Lee and a quintet from the Orillia Silver Band ranks respectfully up there with some of the scaled down best. In the dozen hands of a half dozen immensely talented Simcoe and Muskoka musicians, the […]
Photos and story Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com BRACEBRIDGE — The crowd was ready to rock ’n’ roll. So were the Muskoka Bears when they were announced — and then there were their opponents. But more than luck was on the side of Alliston who dominated the opening 10 minutes with a 3-0 lead and only […]
Photos and story Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com BRACEBRIDGE — A crowd of 777 wasn’t lucky for the Muskoka Bears last night who were unlucky to draw a top PJHL opponent the Alliston Hornets in their season opener. Friday the 13th was downright scary in an 11-0 drubbing by one of the best over the first-year […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — A pair of highway robberies this week along Hwy. 11 north and south of Gravenhurst has police asking the public’s surveillance help. The latest incident, last night, occurred south of the business core at the One Stop gas bar. And according to the clerk they believed the man had […]
BRACEBRIDGE — A 21-year police officer was charged last week with assault after an altercation involving a teen at Santa’s Village last June. The OPP say that officer Heather Claridge, 45, was arrested and charged Wednesday, Sept. 4 as a result of an altercation at the amusement park with another visitor last June 8. Members […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — Is time really running out on a hospitals submission? Is there a “breach of the public’s trust” in MAHC’s board of directors? Why does MAHC have “confidence” in its proposal? Why was the Save South Muskoka Hospital Committee not included in hospital working groups studying all options — and […]
Photos and story Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Two springs ago Leonard Ojha stood atop a pile of beach sand overlooking Lake Muskoka and said: “All this can be yours.” In May he and his wife Marie made good on that promise, posing on the balcony of The Alexander with that same spectacular view […]
HUNTSVILLE — The students made it home safely yesterday afternoon — but the “bears” remained out of hibernation. And they were back in the schoolyard here at Spruce Glen Public School this morning. A hold and secure was put in place again Tuesday — a second day in a row — shortly after classes resumed. […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com ORILLIA — Rhapsody in Blue: One more time. That’s Kyung-A Lee and Neil Barlow “Take Two.” The celebrated Huntsville musicians who played to a sold-out concert last month with their celebration of George Gershwin’s century old classic returns for an encore in Orillia at St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, Saturday Sept. 14 […]
HUNTSVILLE — Police were called to escort students onto buses and leave Spruce Glen Public School this afternoon after a hold and secure due to a bear in the schoolyard. All students and staff are safe and the OPP were called. Families have received communication. In a hold and secure, exterior doors are locked and […]