Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com OPINION You can’t fight in here, this is the White House. OMG! If it wasn’t so serious it would be “Dr. Strangelove.” Trump said his showdown with ballsy Zelenskyy made great TV. And headlines, commentary and outrage — and SNL comedy. “Isn’t this crazy,” Trump said when elected. Captivating, insightful, enthralling, gripping, […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — No wonder today’s second weekend Muskoka Philharmonic concert is sold out. “The Muskoka Philharmonic has arrived,” boasted its director Alana Nuedling during a special permission piece. Notably after yesterday’s opening treat at Trinity United Church in Gravenhurst, their 4 p.m. performance at St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church will be another […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Three people from south Muskoka were in bail court yesterday after a “violent” attack early Thursday evening at the south end of Gravenhurst. Police arrested and charged the trio with multiple “serious” crimes in an incident they described in a release late yesterday afternoon as a “violent.” They say […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Three months ago today the Gateway to Muskoka was plugged with snow. People were trapped in their homes, traffic was stopped on Hwy. 11 and good Samaritans did their best to help out. Somehow with the help of plows and plow drivers, volunteers and governments’ aid we survived the […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com PARRY SOUND-MUSKOKA — T&T blew up Ontario last night. Trump and tariffs turned a Tory win in to a Green loss here in this riding even in a tiny way. Reached this morning Matt Richter for a post-election interview, he MuskokaTODAY.com that “disappointment and frustration was a better way to put […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com PARRY SOUND-MUSKOKA — Graydon Smith defied defeat tonight as local PCs came out in more numbers to hold off the improved Greens for a second time in 36 months. In the end it wasn’t even close as many locally and provincewide thought it would. The returning MPP’s loyal Conservative faithful went […]
MUSKOKA — A short hospital emergency back-up power outage from 8 p.m. to midnight in Huntsville will mean longer ER wait times at MAHC’s south Muskoka site. The four-hour planned outage is scheduled to begin at 8 p.m. and end by midnight. MAHC says the shutdown is necessary to connect the under construction MRI suite […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com OPINION PARRY SOUND-MUSKOKA — Time to definitively vote — one way or t’other. First, why would anyone in Gravenhurst vote PC after yet another government failure to secure the fates of the former Ontario Fire College and Muskoka Centre? And why vote for the Greens when they talk about helping small […]