Lois Cooper | MuskokaTODAY.com BRACEBRIDGE — Rocks or water — which takes priority in your daily life? Bracebridge’s town council has passed an amendment to zoning bylaw 2016-088 to allow a Fowler Construction pit and quarry below water. However, there is a short time to have it reviewed. The council believes: It won’t affect the […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — It’s home work again. School’s out again tomorrow as Muskoka students will be stuck back at home — or the caregiver’s — a second straight school day. An educational standoff has CUPE workers holding out for a better “imposed” contract after Friday’s walkout, protest, demonstration, strike or whatever either […]
Lois Cooper | MuskokaTODAY.com The Town of Gravenhurst pays for a full-page of advertising in the Toronto Star-owned Gravenhurst Banner each week. One might expect this would be used for important announcements like inviting the public to apply to sit on committees. In a notice emailed to those of us signed up to the town’s email portal, […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — Hundreds of CUPE educational workers were off work today to fight for more than wage increases. And they could be out Monday if not longer depending. He said as of late Friday afternoon that’s the plan according to the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) And TLDSB, too, is […]
MUSKOKA LAKES — Thieves are sitting on a load of Muskoka chairs. Police are investigating the theft of an enclosed trailer filled with Muskoka chairs, from an address on Henshaw Lake Road in Muskoka Lakes Township. They say the theft occurred sometime overnight on Monday, Oct. 31. The OPP estimate the combined value of the […]
Lois Cooper | MuskokaTODAY.com OPINION MUSKOKA — The District of Muskoka says the changes to our waste system on Nov. 7 are: “Working together towards a better waste system for Muskoka.” Yet it includes trucking all of our recycling (blue boxes) to Toronto for sorting and whatever comes next. How is trucking our recycling to […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — As strike talks continue a confirmed CUPE walk-out Friday means no school for students and classes by teachers. In a letter today to parents and families, Wes Hahn, TLDSB director of Education, writes the following: Dear TLDSB families: On Oct. 31, the government of Ontario announced Bill 28, Keeping […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — A “gallant” Gravenhurst soldier — twice wounded while leading his men across “no man’s land” into an enemy trench in 1917 before dying — is among local war heroes being remembered next Tuesday. Sergeant Frederick Smith, 26, was in charge of a party of Canadian soldiers attacking the Germans from […]