Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Fans of the popular “Murdoch Mysteries” will want to tune in to the season premiere of the popular CBC detective show this fall for a glimpse of Gravenhurst. Producers, actors, crews, some 150, are at the Muskoka Wharf and Gull Lake Rotary Park this week filming segments for the […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — You’ve seen it — and heard its beautiful music. The 1911 Steinway nine-foot concert grand piano that some of the world’s great pianists including Diana Krall — and hundreds of aspiring local artists — have played and tinkled the ivories on will soon be gone from the Gravenhurst Opera […]
BRACEBRIDGE — Police are looking for a “suspicious” pickup driver who is said to have approached two girls walking along Wellington Street near Monck Public School early Saturday afternoon. They say a mom called them at 1:30 p.m. saying her two daughters were approached by a person driving a black truck attempting to talk to […]
MUSKOKA LAKES — Firefighters pulled a driver from his vehicle late yesterday afternoon after it flipped on Falkenburg Road. Taken to hospital with minor injuries, police later arrested and charged the lone occupant with impaired driving. Police say OPP, paramedics and firefighters were called to the single-vehicle collision just before 5:30 p.m., after the vehicle […]
MINETT — A late afternoon accident yesterday has claimed the life of a 29-year-old driver of a motorcycle. Police say the rider died shortly before police, fire and paramedic responders were called at 5:25 p.m., Saturday, June 10. The fatal accident happened on Peninsula Road, near Judhaven Road, in the Township of Muskoka Lakes, about […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com PARRY SOUND-MUSKOKA — A letter today to MPP Graydon Smith chastised the MNRF minister for comments he made in the legislature this week defending the massive fires affecting eastern Canada and the U.S. Smith claimed the acrid smoke is “nothing unusual,” says Christine Lauffer, a member of Climate Action Muskoka and […]
BRACEBRIDGE — Two young girls reported missing here today are being sought by police after a 15-year-old male was safely located the same day. Police had reported at noon Friday that they were notified today that the three children were missing. At 1:30 p.m. the OPP said in an updted statement that all three children […]
MUSKOKA LAKES — A prohibited driver has been charged with impaired operation of a vehicle that had unauthorized plates and that did not have an ignition interlock device as required. An open container of alcohol was also found. Police say Edward McKenzie, 31, of Gravenhurst was charged after a complaint from a member of the public […]