Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com BRACEBRIDGE — Muskoka moms and babies will be happy to hear the province is expanding funding for midwives. With more than 140,000 babies being born each year in Ontario, families are looking for more options when it comes to choosing their care, says the province. Tuesday, July 9, Parry Sound-Muskoka MPP […]
GRAVENHURST — It’s going to be a long, hot summer for swimmers looking for relief in Gravenhurst. With the splash pad at the Muskoka Wharf closed for repairs this year, cooling off is a challenge with Muskoka Beach still under a swim advisory. Now, the beach at Gull Lake Rotary Park has become the latest […]
. MUSKOKA — Circles® South Muskoka needs your help! What is Circles®? Circles® Muskoka is a community-based poverty reduction initiative that creates relationships across economic boundaries. It matches people of low-income who have graduated from our District of Muskoka and United Way funded Getting Ahead program with people of middle and upper income who have attended Bridges out of Poverty training […]
BRACEBRIDGE — The Tories have their man. As widely expected, Huntsville Mayor Scott Aitchison won the federal party’s Parry Sound-Muskoka nomination Sunday afternoon, here at the Sportsplex. He ran against Holly Thompson, Meghan Shannon and Ian Fraser. Thompson was an early leader, who appeared to have the backing of a large number of the Progressive […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Lisa MacLeod has landed in hot water again. It appears she may not be able keep her stick on the ice. And could this be a scoring opportunity for MPP Norm Miller to make cabinet as tourism minister if she heads to the penalty box? After her faux pas […]
GRAVENHURST — And then there was one …. A swim advisory for Muskoka Bay Park Beach posted on Thursday July 4, has been lifted. The town and health unit made the annoucent late Friday afternoon for the West Gravenhurst park. Earlier Friday, Port Sydney’s main beach was cleared to reopen. That just leaves Muskoka Beach […]
HUNTSVILLE — The swimming advisory for Port Sydney Beach has been lifted as of July 5. The Town of Huntsville just sent out a notice at 3 p.m. Friday. Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit has confirmed that the water is safe for swimming based on July 4, 2019 test results. Town of Huntsville swimming lessons […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com HALIBURTON — A longtime local environmentalist is being recognized for her “remarkable achievements in wildlife research, conservation and education.” Leora Berman, of Haliburton, has received the The Roland Michener Conservation Award. Berman call it “an incredible honour and very humbling not only to be chosen for this award, but to be […]
GRAVENHURST — Another swim advisory has been issued for a second beach in Gravenhurst. And it is the third one this week in Muskoka. Based on beach water samples collected by the Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit on Tuesday July 2, it has been recommended by the SMDHU that Muskoka Bay Park Beach, in West Gravenhurst, be posted with swim advisory […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com ORILLIA — Who says you can’t always get what you want? Not the Stones. And not music lovers here in “Mariposa.” If you caught the ‘No Filter Tour’ down the road Saturday at Burl’s Creek, you’re still outta your heads, because it was a gas, gas, gas. But life’s a Hwy. […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com BRACEBRIDGE — With the clock ticking on an anticipated report on restructuring municipal governments, the Ford government has approved a new 20-year Official Plan for Muskoka. On Friday, June 28 the province approved the updated Muskoka Official Plan (MOP), a document that provides the roadmap for growth and physical change in Muskoka for […]
MUSKOKA — The Gravenhurst beach where a man drown Saturday has been placed on a swim watch due to poor water quality. The Muskoka Beach becomes the second beach this week closed for same reason. In Port Sydney, it’s the same case, says the Town of Huntsville. Based on beach water samples collected by the Simcoe Muskoka […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — A mother’s frantic rescue of her drowning child may have led to the drowning death of a 37-year-old Brampton man at Muskoka Beach late Saturday afternoon. Panic ensued about 4:30 p.m. when the little girl, about three years old, was reportedly seen in the water outside the swimming buoy […]
ONTARIO — The simple pleasure of fishing is child’s play. Casting a line in the water with a plastic rod is a joy best begun as a tadpole. Grown-ups like to lay back and troll in aluminum boats, or sit in bow riders chasing bass. But the sheer joy of pulling up your first sun […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com BRACEBRIDGE — Conservatives are lining up behind their candidates for the federal nomination race Sunday July 7. The afternoon vote at the Bracebridge Sportplex starts with speeches at 1 p.m. The ranked voting will begin at 2 p.m. Results will be announced later in the afternoon. Leading candidate Scott Aitchison says […]
Photos by Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — A long shadow that has cast doubts on the Muskoka Airport’s future received a ray of sunshine Thursday, as Porter Airlines chair Robert Deluce landed his company in Muskoka for what he hopes will be more than just a one-year pilot. A small pilot himself, he brought […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — It was 30 minutes late, but the first regularly-scheduled Porter air flight landed at Muskoka Airport this afternoon to thunderous applause and a water cannon salute. It touched down from the north at 2:14 p.m., a little more than 20 minutes after leaving its Billy Bishop Airport hub on […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com BRACEBRIDGE — It was an ironic sight here in the parking lot beneath the Bracebridge Falls early this morning. Muskoka mayors and provincial MPPs gathered in a sunny idyllic summer setting on the shoreline of the Muskoka River that two months ago was several feet deep in flood water and a […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — It’s the end of June and the end of school. And the end of the latest plans for a Chinese school at the former Muskoka Centre. And an expected start of an open-market sale, with possibly less use restrictions. Gravenhurst’s planning council accepted a staff recommendation to end its […]
ORILLIA — Police want good Samaritans to call 911 when they see a person overdose. And to do it without fear of police involvement, if they want. To encourage people to seek life-saving assistance the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) is launching the Good Samaritan Drug Overdose Act (GSDOA) public awareness campaign. They say opioid overdoses are claiming the […]