GRAVENHURST — A haunting good Halloween. Wild and wet. Fun and sweet. That was last night all over Muskoka. A week that began with its 30th Gravenhust High School haunted Opera House — and included several nights of ghoulish play-acting tales in a cemetery about locally deceased — ended with sweet-toothed trick o’ treaters going […]
GRAVENHURST — From the Butcher’s Daughters to a mother and daughter. That’s the essence of the Essence of Spice, a new restaurant and takeaway on the main street here. Akansha Singh and her mom, Poonam, have opened across from the Opera House where for the last three years Kim Barnes ran her deli, after moving […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Joshua Both was a Canadian Armed Forces reserve who is considering a return to service. Meanwhile he started Buds by Cannilux in Gravenhurst and has donated a portion of his business’ profit to Veterans house as an ongoing effort to support the 4-pillar program of rehabilitation and reintegration of […]
GRAVENHURST-HUNTSVILLE — As red poppies begin appearing over hearts, Remembrance Day services are being planned across Muskoka at legions, in schools, churches and community halls. One of the first is Nov. 6 when Muskoka Concert Band conductor Fran Harvey brings down the baton for MCB’s first indoor concert in more than two years. Join them […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com BRACEBRIDGE — The fight to stop a “mega quarry” isn’t just about NIMBYism. It’s about climate change and the future of kids riding school buses on Bonnie Lake Road, critics also charge. Objectors to the project, which with a second licence would double the size of an existing Fowler’s Construction pit […]
BRACEBRIDGE — Tractors are a familiar site in Muskoka. But if you seen this bright orange one, call police. It’s missing and police say it was stolen sometime this past week. They are investigating the theft of a 2018 Kubota L6060 tractor stolen on South Muskoka Falls Road, in Bracebridge, sometime between Tuesday last week […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Finding firefighters is always a chore. Tyler Theriault is the kind Chief Jared Cayley loves to get. The young recruit who just passed the one-year mark as a volunteer with the Gravenhurst Fire Department is proving a poster guy for the brigade. In August, when he was 10 months […]
MUSKOKA — Impaired drivers kept police busy four of the last days. On Oct. 21, at 7:23 a.m., police were dispatched to attend the parking lot of a commercial building on Winhara Road, Gravenhurst, where employees noticed a Jeep parked in their lot with a person passed out at the steering wheel. Officers attended and […]