HUNTSVILLE — One person suffered smoke inhalation treatment in hospital last night after a $500,000 fire destroyed a home here. Just after 6:30 p.m. Thursday January 25, Huntsville/Lake of Bays Fire Fighters responded to the structure fire on Lengra Hollows in Huntsville. Fire crews from Station 1 Huntsville, Station 5 Port Sydney and Station 4 […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — Former MPP Dan Waters claims Muskoka’s two new hospitals “won’t be equal.” Both will have ERs, but Huntsville will have most of the beds at 139 and Bracebridge with just 14 beds would make it a “satellite,” he charges. “It’s like they did to Burk’s Falls’ hospital.” It “doesn’t […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com BRACEBRIDGE — Hwy. 118 east was closed for several hours at suppertime last night after two vehicles collides leaving one person in hospital and another airlifted to Toronto with serious, life-altering injuries. Police are investigating the collision that occurred on Highway 118 East in Bracebridge on January 24. They say that […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Long days aren’t unusual for small business owners like Tara and Ian McNaughton. But when you start the day with a 4 a.m. call to police about a store break-in, you know it’s the beginning of another 18-hour day. The McNaughtons’ day began very early yesterday when a thief […]
GRAVENHURST — An early morning downtown business break-in today netted a thief some cash here. Police say that just after 4 a.m. Wednesday January 24 officers were dispatched to a break and enter at a retail store on Muskoka Road South near Sharpe Street. The owner was alerted to the event and called 911 immediately. […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Parkland, sightlines and dock length objections will be considered by the Ontario Land Tribunal in a one day hearing Feb. 28 at 10 a.m. for the huge Starboard condo project proposed here at the Muskoka Wharf in Gravenhurst. In an hour-long OLT case management conference this morning, lawyers for […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — You gotta wonder when a guy from “Wamco” shows up at your doorstep in the middle of winter. Is he some kind of pitch man with a bag of Frisbees, Hacky Sacks and Hula Hoops? Like a morning-after late night TV shiller for the Veg-O-Matic slicer and dicer. No, apparently […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com HUNTSVILLE — An explosion at one of Muskoka’s largest factories at noon Saturday resulted in no injuries but significant damage to a two-storey exterior wood dryer. On January 20, firefighters from the Huntsville/Lake of Bays Fire Department responded to a report of a fire at Panolam Industries Ltd. at 61 Domtar […]