BRACEBRIDGE — A truck driver has been charged after a collision with a motorcycle rider here Saturday morning. Police say that on May 13, at 9:50 a.m., they responded to a collision between the injured motorcyclist and the other driver on Highway 118 near Ashley Lane in Bracebridge. The biker, a 37-year-old from Bracebridge, was […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — No one expected the search for a new hospital site in South Muskoka would be easy — or fast. Now it seems after years of deliberations by Muskoka Algonquin Healthcare — and consultations with the public this winter — the answer as to its location won’t come clear until […]
BRACEBRIDGE — Two people are in hospital after rolling an ATV on a private property trail Saturday afternoon in Vankoughnet. The 30-year-old driver from Bracebridge was airlifted to a trauma centre with non-life-threatening injuries and a 37-year-old passenger was taken to a MAHC hospital with minor injuries. Police say that at 4:30 p.m. May 13 […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Judy Humphries admits she has a “bias” toward the former Ontario Fire College. A fire research librarian for 20 years before it closed in 2021; she called it her “dream job.” With deep-seated working knowledge — and as the town’s archivist and member of the Municipal Heritage Committee (MRC) […]
MUSKOKA — Traffic between Bracebridge and Gravenhurst was slowed to a crawl mid-day Thursday afternoon when a southbound dump truck veered into the median south of the Skyways gas bar and motel just south of Hwy. 118 near the Muskoka Airport Police and tow trucks were on hand and the road was fully opened about […]
HUNTSVILLE — A 67-year-old grandmother was scammed out of $7,450 last week, the same day a Gravenhurst grandfather avoided the same fate when police caught the go-between approaching his home in yet another “grandparent scam.” Police said yesterday they are investigating this second reported fraud, this one in Huntsville. A grandmother called the OPP on […]
BRACEBRIDGE — Police “fearing public safety” scrambled to one of the town’s main intersections this morning/afternoon after a caller reported a man with a handgun. OPP officers raced to Manitoba Street and Taylor Road at 10:20 a.m. Wednesday, when they received a call from a member of the public reporting that a man was standing […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com ORILLIA — Carolyn Grant can be forgiven for nodding off during Gordon Lightfoot’s funeral Monday. He kept the St. Paul’s United Church choir member up all night the night before. Grant works security every night at the church, closing up after events like Sunday’s visitation for the Orillia singer-songwriter who died […]