Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Kyra Reed, 17, graduates tonight from Twin Lakes Secondary School in Orillia. Hours before she attended the Grade 12 graduation of her grandfather Mitchal Thorne — aged 64. The 47 years is their difference between her starting out and him retiring. She’s apprenticing to be a mechanic; he’s ended […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com LAKE OF BAYS — Premier Doug Ford spoke about the $1 billion earmarked for Muskoka’s two new hospitals and the $800K for MRI service yesterday, while teeing off at the Huntsville Hospital Foundation’s annual golf tournament on Bigwin Island Golf Club. He also emphasized MPP Graydon Smith’s role in securing the […]
BRACEBRIDGE — A disturbing message painted over students support of Pride Month has police investigating what they are calling “mischief” to a building at a Monck Public School in Bracebridge. School officials at Monck Public School, on Wellington Street, called police to report that students had painted the side of their equipment shed on Friday, […]
MUSKOKA — Canada Day Saturday kicks off a busy day, weekend and summer of music across Muskoka. Tilt your head, raise an ear and you’ll pop, rock, classical and more. July 1 the Muskoka Concert Band, led by Fran Harvey, kicks off a busy day a 9 a.m. at the opening of Heritage Village in […]
MUSKOKA — At 12:05 p.m. EDT, Environment Canada meteorologists are tracking a severe thunderstorm capable of producing strong wind gusts, pea to dime size-hail and heavy rain as it moved north through Muskoka. The rain fell before 12:30 p.m. and dark skies persisted throughout the early afternoon as the Environment Canada says in its noon […]
GRAVENHURST — A Muskoka drug investigation has led to two women from Huntsville being charged in a police stop in Gravenhurst Thursday in which an estimated $20,000 worth of cocaine was seized by police. OPP say that this month the Muskoka Community Street Crime Unit (CSCU) has been conducting an investigation into drug-trafficking in the […]
Story and photos Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Thomas Craig is happy to be back in Canada and particularly Muskoka. The London-based actor — a star of the Murdoch Mysteries — has a “mate with a cottage on Muldrew Lake.” And his character, Inspector Thomas Brackenreid, has returned to Toronto from Yorkshire for the […]
GRAVENHURST — A stolen pickup recovered across town yesterday has police still looking for the thief who cleaned out contents in the cab. They are looking for witnesses who may have seen the truck taken on the Jones Road near Progress Road in Gravenhurst. The theft occurred between 11:30 a.m. and noon on Thursday, June 22. The […]