BRACEBRIDGE — What’s eight letters for winning a quarter-million dollars? “Shocking,” says Janet Dawson. And Instant, says the 54-year-old regular lottery player with OLG, whose go-to game is INSTANT CROSSWORD who is now celebrating a recent big win, courtesy of the classic word game. “While playing my ticket, I was checking how many words I […]
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 […]