Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com BRACEBRIDGE — Dan Brooks and I were reminiscing this morning about being defence partners 55 years ago at the Roger Crozier-Ron Ingram summer hockey school here. We were on the same ice with Mayor Rick Maloney for the final regular public skate two days before the Bracebridge Memorial Arena closes. The […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com BRACEBRIDGE — Chub Downey would be proud and impressed. His cup is going to the Lakeland Blacks a deserved U15 Local League champion — even though it probably could have/have been shared with their Muskoka Chrysler Red opponents. On the second last night of hockey at the Bracebridge Memorial Arena Wednesday, […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — Within hours credentialed staff at Muskoka’s two hospitals will face off with MAHC management in life and death talks on neutral ground in Port Sydney. That’s the ironic halfway point between Huntsville and Bracebridge where once there could have been a mega hospital. An announced willingness on both sides […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com BRACEBRIDGE — As the clock ticks down to Saturday’s final two public skates at the Bracebridge Memorial Arena, the last figure skating carnival takes to the ice tonight. After 75 years the Bracebridge Figure Skating Club presents its last show, which over the decades has thrilled residents, families and provided a […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — Public pressure has forced MAHC to re-consider its hospitals redevelopment plan and numbers, which would have taken beds and obstetrics away from south Muskoka in 2031-32 moving them to Huntsville. They are now willing to consider more “inpatient beds and labour delivery” at their site in south Muskoka. No […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — What’s best for Muskoka and/or its two hospital host communities? That’s a new strategy opponents of MAHC’s redevelopment plan are pondering as they’ve formalized efforts to fight for two independent hospitals. Call it divide and conquer. That’s all in their latest update Monday. Over the weekend they had representation […]
BRACEBRIDGE — Police are asking the public’s help in changing the pattern of drivers continuing to risk safety by choosing to drive under the influence of drugs or alcohol after five people were charged March 16-23 in south Muskoka. On Friday March 16 at 5:15 p.m. officers responded to reports of a two-vehicle collision on […]
HUNTSVILLE — A beer bust has a local man facing several suds charges. OPP at Huntsville have laid multiple charges following an investigation into stolen beer kegs early last week. On Monday March 14, at 2:30 p.m., police were called regarding a suspicious male trying to return kegs to a local brewery. Officers began an […]
BRACEBRIDGE — A north end Hortons, near Walmart, was the victim of a break-in early last week in which a thief crawled in the drive-thru window in the middle of night stealing a small amount of cash. Police are investigating the B&E on Depot Drive at the intersection with Taylor Road Monday, March 18, which […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — Who made the final divisive decisions on MAHC’s new hospitals? As a jury these 12 board members weighed information and — like Easter apostles — are preaching two separate and very distinct Muskoka Algonquin Healthcare sites a decade from now. According MAHC’s website, they’re volunteers who “plays a key […]
MUSKOKA — A Gravenhurst man is among three people charged after winter drug investigation that led to $300,000 in street drugs being confiscated in drug raids Wednesday and Thursday. In early 2024 the OPP’s Muskoka Community Street Crime Unit (CSCU) conducted an investigation into drug trafficking through-out the District of Muskoka. On March 20 and 21, with the assistance of the Central Region Tactics and Rescue Unit, the […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — With winter clinging on and ice finally out, Rotarians were celebrating this week as work finally on their 85th anniversary signature community project. Rotary Rocks the Barge work began this week with the town’s Rotary Gull Lake Park cordoned off for the next few months as worker dig into […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Jenn Armishaw met her birth mother “one time.” And was “right with her at the very end of her life.” That’s how Armishaw named the “Christine’s Place” free walk-in pregnancy resource centres after her mom. Yesterday she opened a second office in Gravenhurst after 14 years in Huntsville at […]
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Last week the government warned Ontarians to be on the lookout for bears waking up from hibernation earlier than usual as a result of an extremely warm winter. Ontario’s Natural Resources Minister (and habitual climate change downplayer), Graydon Smith, said: “I’m not worried about it, but I think people should take […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — The David and Goliath battle to “get it right” has hospital opponents continuing to compete in a weekly war of words. As sure as Saturday follows Friday, those fighting to “save” south Muskoka’s hospital have issued their weekend response to MAHC’s end of week update on redevelopment plans. They […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — Still stinging from criticism about a new South Muskoka Hospital site and transparency around its selection, MAHC has doubled down in defence of a site at the north end of Bracebridge. “The Pine Street site remains the better-suited location for the project in the longer term, based on its […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — An environmental revolt has gained Winhara Road residents two more weeks make comment to the Ministry of Environment on a “contaminated non-hazardous” soil cleansing and waste disposal site that would also store soil material on 12 acres in their neighbourhood. Two dozen people who live at the north end […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Many here lament “the good old days.” Especially for a generation of Baby Boomers around when Sloan’s Restaurant was the epicentre of the main street. If TVO’s great little Main Street vignettes were to do a piece on Gravenhurst, the iconic eatery would be the focus with a photo […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com HUNTSVILLE — There’s an audience for classical music in Muskoka. Always has been. But this weekend it was a home grown orchestra that bowed to the public — twice. Saturday afternoon at Baysville’s Bethune United Church and yesterday afternoon at Trinity United Church in Huntsville. Two sold out performances of “Whimsical […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — The public push to revise plans for Muskoka’s two hospitals continues throughout South Muskoka Memorial Hospital’s catchments area. Dan and Cindy Waters, who have been championing their cause with a petition, say they presented their first list of names to MPP Graydon Smith last week. At his office in […]