ROSSEAU — An early morning boating accident has left a 48-year-old swimmer dead after he was struck. Police say today, Monday July 25, at 6:45 a.m. OPP and Muskoka EMS, along with Muskoka Lakes Fire Department, responded to a 911 call on Lake Rosseau near Shamrock Lodge west of Port Carling. Several callers report the […]
LAKE OF BAYS — A large fire early Sunday avoided injuries after smoke detectors alerted the occupants. Firefighters from Huntsville-Lake of Bays and Algonquin Highlands responded to the blaze Sunday July 24 shortly before 6:30 a.m. Crews from the Baysville Station #4, with assistance from Algonquin Highlands, put out the structure fire east of Baysville […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — The local Catholic bishop will be joining the Pope this week in apologizing to Indigenous Canadians. Bishop Daniel Miehm said he will be in Quebec Wednesday, Thursday and Friday as part of the historic occasions after Pope Francis arrived in Edmonton today. The bishop was in Gravenhurst Sunday as […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — John Gammon came “home” to get away from the Hells Angels. And he thinks he saw a gang of them pass him by this afternoon at the Boomers Reunion at Gull Lake Rotary Park gazebo. The Brooklin resident lives a half mile from the bikers’ clubhouse where they have […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — John McMechan will do anything to get out in his 1931 Model A. Like taking extra bottles and cans generated by the grandkids to the recycling centre on a Saturday morning. Or taking a reporter on a wild goose chase for a gang of elusive Hells Angels gassing up […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — When I was a young I was asked to keep company an immobile teen. He was reading the Encyclopaedia Britannica; I was a know-it-all high-schooler who would have preferred more pictures. His parents were out for dinner and in short time returned. The intervening hours were marked mostly by […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Hells Angels gassed up here and were gone in minutes. This morning about 15-20 bikers roared in to the Petro-Can gas bar at the south end of the town’s main street here for a quick fill-up. Gas jockey Donna Wood said they came and went “no problem.” They were […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — The tragic shooting and death last month that left a community housing neighbourhood marred has been compounded by an “appalling” state of disrepair at the scene say neighbours. The messy aftermath at the entrance to the Lofty Pines District of Muskoka seniors and low-income housing units is a “sad” […]