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 […]
MUSKOKA — Here’s cheers to King Charles III. Coronation streets in Muskoka Saturday stretched from Gravenhurst to Bracebridge to Huntsville as unapologetic monarchists waved the Union Jack as Britannia ruled the day from London to Ottawa and around the Commonwealth to varying degrees. At The Old Station pub and restaurant in Bracebridge, Town Crier Bruce […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com ORILLIA — Following his funeral today, some time at a later date Gordon Lightfoot will be buried in his family’s plot with his parents and sister. St. Andrew’s and St. James’ Cemetery overlooks his childhood home, in the northwest end of Orillia, where he grew up and lived until about 1959-60. […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com ORILLIA — “I can say I shared a stage with Gordon Lightfoot.” Dan Moses was among 2,000 fans and friends from Kingston to Kentucky who lined up this afternoon and evening to pay their respects to Lightfoot “came home” to rest in his hometown. The music teacher at Base Borden was […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com BRACEBRIDGE — A Montreal teen accused of a “grandparent scam” is out on $2,000 bail today after police say he attempted to defraud a Gravenhurst grandfather of $7,125 this week. Reda Ahaouaze, 19, had someone post the bail money after he appeared virtually in the Ontario Court of Justice in Bracebridge […]