Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com OPINION HUNTSVILLE — The tug of war for Mike Schreiner takes centre stage here tomorrow. The Ontario Green leader will be at the Active Living Centre Tuesday morning, where more than 150 party members have signed up to attend the event scheduled long before the Liberals tried to recruit him. And […]
GRAVENHURST — Budget season begins with cold reminders of the cost of running towns and townships. At Wednesday’s special council meeting, Gravenhurst town councillors approved the 2023 Budget, which will result in a 2.9% increase to the town share of the tax rate. It’s the first budget since they were elected last fall. A town release says after publication of the budget materials Jan. […]
GRAVENHURST — A weekend police call in which several people were assaulted in a south end home here has led to two people being charged. OPP say that on Jan. 28, at 9:15 p.m., officers responded to an emergency call from a resident on First Street South. They say the caller fled after a person […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — It’s hard enough for adults and families to find homes. Try being a young person couch surfing. Now the YMCA of Muskoka and Simcoe is offering CAS kids helping hands. As part of $4 million in funding from Canada’s Support for Students Learning program (SSLP), the Y has announced […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com BRACEBRIDGE — Months of protests and requests for a sit-down with MPP Graydon Smith finally paid off for climate activists in Parry Sound-Muskoka last week. After more than a year of public protests and demonstrations across the district — including outside his constituency office in Bracebridge, Climate Action Muskoka (CAM) members […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — MAHC officials say they can live with any of the three recommended new hospital sites proposed in Bracebridge. All of which they say meet the province’s basic requirement for a 40-acre health-care campus in the next decade. South Muskoka Memorial Hospital currently sits on 11 acres. Hospitals CEO and […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Family and friends today are mourning the passing of former town and district councillor and real estate agent Terry Pilger this morning. The 67-year-old native of the old Ryde Township in Gravenhurst died Tuesday of a heart attack after a having the flu, His wife, Wendy, posted his passing […]
Lois Cooper | MuskokaTODAY.com OPINION MUSKOKA — Today I joined the Zoom presentation on choosing a new site for the new hospital in Bracebridge. I was unable to make a comment and so I write it here. First, let me say to the residents of Gravenhurst, you must speak up. Don’t be complacent. I never heard […]