Story and photos Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — Royal watchers will be to bed early tonight and up before dawn tomorrow to watch the crowning of King Charles III. They won’t likely see the emerald green lights brightening select locations in Gravenhurst, including its town hall and the one Huntsville this weekend. It’s the […]
HUNTSVILLE — Police are looking for witnesses here who may have seen a man who attempted to force a 12-year-old girl into his car this morning as she was walking to school. Police are investigating the attempted abduction in Huntsville, a May 4, at about 8:15 a.m. They say she was approached by a male […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — Emergency hospital visits are alone traumatic enough. And since November all patients in Muskoka attending ER with mental health challenges can receive the “immediate” help of a social worker. Muskoka Algonquin Healthcare (MAHC) has invested in mental health care through a “Mental Health Navigator” who provides “immediate support to […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Police acted fast here Tuesday to arrest and charge a Montreal teen accused in what’s called a “grandparent scam” this week. Local OPP, along with the Muskoka Community Street Crime Unit, made the arrest in connection with an “emergency fraud,” also known as the grandparent scam, investigation in Gravenhurst. […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com ORILLIA — Look for long lineups all-day Sunday at the St. Paul’s Centre as residents and old friends and fans of Gordon Lightfoot get to pay their respects to Mariposa’s most famous son. A death notice on the Mundell Funeral Home website says a public visitation for the “national treasure” takes […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — Muskoka musicians are wading in with tributes to fellow “local” legend Gordon Lightfoot, with concerts and a You Tube recording. Neil Hutchison, Sean Cotton and Peter Wainwright are all singing the Canadian folk hero’s praises. This Saturday Hutchinson continues his “Lightfoot Lunch” at Fine Thymes Bakery and Bistro, in […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — I sat on my front step today listening to Gordon Lightfoot songs and reading about his passing. And recalling a 1984 visit to my home where Canada’s folk laureate sat on the same stoop for a family photo we’re tracking down today. He had called my dad, Hugh Clairmont, […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Jeff Long planned to have the sounds of music wash over his Southgate Plaza Saturday. “The plan was to have the music outdoors,” said the vice-president of his family’s Long & McQuade music store chain — “the largest in Canada and fourth or fifth largest in the world. “Per […]