Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Doris Higgins has used the local food bank here “a few times.” So the Bethune Co-op resident decided last year to host the town’s first “Witches Walk.” The fun-draiser is a growing phenom that’s sweeping the world as covens gather to pitch in for good causes in the weeks […]
GRAVENHURST — Rotarians here are the latest group rallying behind the Salvation Army Food Bank. Their community services committee donated $4,000 on Thursday for the Sally Ann to purchase food items after a busy Thanksgiving giveaway last week. Last weekend Lions Club members collected a truckload of food at Sobeys. And last night a couple […]
MUSKOKA — Thanksgiving and this weekend’s Cranberry Festival are just the beginning of the food and fun in Muskoka this month. Wednesday Oktoberfest Muskoka adds music, entertainment and kegs of beer. So dust off your dirndl and hike up your lederhosen for a kick-off bash at Sawdust City Brewing in Gravenhurst. While most festival events […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Long before Nabob (1896) and Canada Dry (1904) became iconic Canadian drinks, Dugald Brown was quenching thirsts in Gravenhurst for soda pop. His Muskoka Dry Ginger-Ale was the taste of Muskoka and beyond beginning in 1873. Only Molson (1786) has been in the brewing business longer. This afternoon the […]
GRAVENHURST — Police are looking for surveillance video from yesterday after a charity donation box was stolen from a downtown business. OPP are investigating the theft, which took place Tuesday, October 10. They say they received a call from the owner of a business on Muskoka Road South after the merchant realized that the container […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — “Rising rates of respiratory illness” have led Muskoka Algonquin Healthcare (MAHC) to return to mandatory masking requirements in most areas of the hospitals in response. Muskoka’s hospitals president and CEO Cheryl Harrison says in a release today that: “It is with carefulness and caution that we reinstate masking requirements […]
GRAVENHURST — Two men here face assault charges after a complaint at a local rooming house. Provincial police charged the Gravenhurst men with an assault on a local woman. OPP say officers responded to a call from a concerned member of the public reporting that a woman had been assaulted at a the residence at […]
GRAVENHURST — A cab company owner here faces a charge of sexual assault after an alleged incident in one of his taxis in late July. Police say Mark Sethi, 57, who operates Gravenhurst Taxi, was arrested on Aug. 10, 2023. Officers along with members of the Muskoka Crime Unit have charged the Gravenhurst resident with […]