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 […]
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 […]