Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — What’s everybody’s talkin’ ’bout. “Talkin’ ’bout Iran, Pakistan, Afghanistan, South Sudan, Russia, Ukraine, genocide, femicide … “Let’s put killing aside ….” Those are a few of the opening words of a reworked version of John Lennon’s “Give Peace a Chance.” GHS guitarist Dakota Clifford and student vocalists Leah Church […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — How do you tell if an old car is authentic — and not the sum of its bionic bumpers and headlamps? It has the original white walls. That was the running joke Saturday at the Gravenhurst Chamber of Commerce Car Show. An auto erotic delight for dads on Father’s […]
PORT CARLING — A second motorcyclist in a week has died on Peninsula Road after another accident late Saturday afternoon. The 41-year-old rider died a week to the day after a 29-year-old succumbed to injuries on the same road in Muskoka Lakes. Both were late afternoon accidents. Police are investigating the latest death after the […]
BRACEBRIDGE — A morning driver was charged with impaired operation of a vehicle following a single-vehicle collision on Highway 118 East in Bracebridge Saturday. Police received a call, at 7:30 a.m. on June 17, from a member of the public reporting a vehicle had left the roadway and settled into a swamp area on Hwy. […]
BRACEBRIDGE — A man driving with a flat tire early Saturday led police to charge him with assaulting the investigating officer after a call from the public. OPP say that at 2 a.m. they received a report that a vehicle with a blown a tire was continuing to drive on Ecclestone Drive in Bracebridge. Officers […]
GRAVENHURST — A driver who hit a utility pole last Thursday afternoon, on David Street in Gravenhurst, faces a couple of impaired driving charges. Police say a member of the public called 911, June 15 at 5:30 p.m., out of concern for a driver who had collided with the utility pole near Bethune Drive. Investigating […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — “Dan Kean is the cop you hope you get when you call 911.” So says his boss, Insp. Jason Nickle. Pretty high praise for a constable who’s only been on the job a few months. Kean is no rookie, however, having joined the OPP from the Toronto police service […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — When Louise Jardine walks onto the Opera House stage tonight to conduct the Elderberries Choir in their 30th anniversary performance, they will be accompanied by Carolyn Grant on their small electric Yamaha keyboard. The music director would like to have seen and heard their pianist playing the “Jardine piano,” […]