Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com BRACEBRIDGE — The middle ground between MAHC and south Muskoka doctors remains an unrelenting battle ground. After another attempt at a resolution last week, presented by some mayors, the impasse remains. Bracebridge Mayor Rick Maloney, who hosted the meeting, couldn’t bridge the growing gulf. Dr. Rohit Gupta, who was only there […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com BRACEBRIDGE — Kim King sat in the middle of Memorial Park this afternoon, with rain drizzling around her — an old umbrella in one hand, a thumbs up in the other and a big grin on her face. She sat only a few feet from the band shell to hear the […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — “Quality patient care” — always at the heart of hospital discussions — was again the primary focus of south Muskoka doctors in another round of talks with Muskoka Algonquin Healthcare this week. It’s at least some healthy progress in the stubborn stalemate with physicians that not long ago had […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SOUTH MUSKOKA — A march down main street Bracebridge Sunday afternoon will coincide with a rally by the Save South Muskoka Hospital committee. Ontario Green Party co-deputy leader Matt Green has been invited to speak at Memorial Park at 1 p.m. after meeting at 12:45 p.m. outside MPP Graydon Smith’s Manitoba […]
Bob Pomerantz, Special to MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — The 31st annual Chamber of Commerce car show provided plenty of eye candy — like the 1957 Ford Fairlane 500 Skyliner Retractable hardtop convertible; or the ’68 Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow; or the R.E.O. (for company founder Ransom Eli Olds) Speed Wagons or even the odd, amphibious cars wading […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — It’s not the heat, but the rain that’s postponed Thursday’s 2 p.m. Rotary Rocks the Barge grand opening. The much anticipated new summer seating by the service club and town was rescheduled at the last minute after sudden “untimely” torrential rains overnight Monday made final landscaping impossible. Flooding and […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Jim Bravo had an idea for Gravenhurst’s main street. And the Toronto muralist is realizing it on the north side of the Bethune Bistro. A 15- x 30-foot canvas wall that’s been ripe for the painting for years. A prized commission from District of Muskoka commission for the award-winning […]
MUSKOKA — Three break-ins in Huntsville and Baysville have police asking for help in their investigations. On Friday June 7 the OPP learned a break-in on West Road in Huntsville was broken into overnight in which cash was stolen. The same day — between 2 p.m. and 7 a.m. Friday morning — another business was […]