Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — A court date has been set for the SUV driver involved in a fatal scooter accident here last Friday. Police say a 35-year-old Gravenhurst woman charged under the Highway Traffic Act received a Part III summons, with a court date of July 20, 2023, in Bracebridge at the District of […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Pedestrians and motorists are moving and driving more carefully around town after the death of a local scooter operator here last week — and news yesterday that a woman has been charged in the fatal main street “accident.” Bill Smith, 82, died Friday, May 19, while crossing Winewood Avenue […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com ORILLIA — Gordon Lightfoot grew up listening to the Orillia Silver Band. What would have happened if he had joined the British-style brass band? When he was winning Kiwanis Music Festival prizes as young soprano in the United Church choir around the corner from the Opera House, the Silver Band was […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Friends were praying for Bill Smith, 82, who was hit Friday while riding his scooter and was in hospital in Toronto in grave condition. Sadly he passed away this morning at St. Michael’s Hospital in Toronto, after he was taken off life support when his family learned his condition […]
MUSKOKA — Rockin’ robin and some of the most popular songs from the ’60s and ’70s — including the Beatles, big bands, classical, movie and show tunes — are on the bill May 27-29 as the Muskoka Concert Band takes the stage for it annual summer music series kick-off. With the May 24 Victoria long […]
HUNTSVILLE — A man police say was involved in an earlier assault was arrested and charged last night after a vehicle he was driving landed in a ditch along Hwy. 11 just north of Hwy. 60 in Huntsville. The 30-year-old driver from Huntsville faces multiple charges including leaving the scene of a single motor vehicle […]
GRAVENHURST — An 82-year-old scooter rider was seriously injured downtown here this morning in a collision with an SUV. Police are looking for any witnesses to the two-vehicle collision in Gravenhurst Friday, May 19, shortly after 10 a.m. They say officers along with emergency services, responded to the two-vehicle collision at Winewood Avenue and Muskoka […]
ORO-MEDONTE — An arborist has died after falling from a tree this afternoon. Police say they were called to a home in Oro-Medonte where a male was pronounced dead. Shortly after 1 p.m., OPP from Orillia, Simcoe County Paramedic Service and Township of Oro-Medonte Fire, were dispatched to the residence on Huronwoods Drive in Oro-Medonte […]