Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com After a morning of mourning — it’s E-II-R.I.P. Canadians who got up five hours early today shared a memorable TV spectacle. Queen Elizabeth’s funeral was a fitting celebration of life full of pomp and pageantry as only the British can muster with centuries of empiricism. Including a 96-gun salute. For six […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com BRACEBRIDGE — Dan Brooks knows his way around Bracebridge. So the former Dura Automotive executive, Bracebridge Bear hockey player, well-known Muskoka musician and former local politico should have little difficulty helping tap residents and cottagers for financial resources for the South Muskoka Memorial Hospital. At Wednesday’s Sept 14 board of directors […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com BRACEBRIDGE — Lions Club members here have been donating money to keep their local hospital healthy since at least 2000. During those two decades their efforts have raised more than $150,000. This week they made their single largest donation ever. In a “proud moment for all members,” they presented a cheque […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com DORSET — Chuck McClelland knows Lake of Bays like the back of his hand. A good thing for the captain of the S.S. Bigwin as he peeks from behind the big wooden wheel steering port to starboard. McClelland grew up on Muskoka’s second largest lake. His grandparents became cottagers before the Second […]
BRACEBRIDGE — A “suspicious’ fire here early Monday has the Muskoka Crime Unit investigating the structure fire on Cedar Lane. And they are asking the public if they have any information. They say shortly after 2 a.m. Sept. 12 the Bracebridge Fire Department and OPP responded to a fully engulfed fire. The structure was unoccupied […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE MUSKOKA — The new norm kicking in sees residents and staff at LTCs and those 70+ among those receiving another round of COVID protection this fall. The Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit (SMDHU) says it is now offering the bivalent COVID-19 booster to priority groups who are at greatest risk of hospitalization, severe […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — There may be a national holiday Monday to mark the Queen’s passing. And a day of mourning in Ontario. But at the Royal Canadian Legion here the monarch’s death means no branch events till after Elizabeth’s funeral. That’s led to the postponement of Thursday night’s billiards downstairs and bingo […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com PARRY SOUND-MUSKOKA — MP Scott Aitchison may have an office next to Pierre Poilievre, but it seems he’s not that close to his new CPC leader. Not only was the Parry Sound-Muskoka member of Parliament last in Saturday’s Conservative Party of Canada race with just 1.06 per cent of the vote […]