NANCY THOMPSON | Bracebridge Horticultural Society Honeybee hives are under increasing destruction and stress from pests and diseases, pesticides and herbicides, genetically modified crops and lack of diversity, habitat loss and climate change. Native bees, of which there are more than 4,000 species in North America, are less susceptible to problems. Fortunately for us they […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — You betcha Barb Weismiller will be at next month’s TGIF dinner at the legion. Not just for the pork cutlet — or because she loved last night’s chicken parmesan for which she and Wayne Colton had the first two tickets. And because she wants to help the Royal Canadian […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com HUNTSVILLE — Linda McBurney and Rosemary Bolitho cherished life at their Lake of Bays cottage. So last year when McBurney was going through twice-weekly cancer treatments she wanted to still enjoy seasonal stays in Muskoka. She asked if the Huntsville Hospital had a chemo clinic where she could continue her treatment […]
GRAVENHURST — A young cyclist is lucky to have suffered only minor injuries after being “doored” by a driver parked in his car on the main street here Monday. Police say that on July 11, in the early afternoon, the cyclist was involved in the collision on Muskoka Road after a motorist, who was parked […]
GRAVENHURST — A swim advisory today for Gull Lake could affect this weekend’s Swim Ontario Open Water Championships. The town and the health unit say that based on water samples collected yesterday, July 13, the Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit is recommending that Gull Lake Rotary Park (405 Brock St.) be posted a second time […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com ORILLIA — Terry Whelan and Gordon Lightfoot didn’t make the cut for the first Mariposa Folk Festival in 1961. “They said we sounded too much like the Everly Brothers,” Lightfoot joked on the weekend as he was added to Mariposa’s hall of fame. But “We played the Barge in Gravenhurst,” Lightfoot […]
GRAVENHURST — Concerns about traffic site lines on Muskoka Road south here have been alleviated. Contractors trimmed neglected tree growth on the main street at the intersection with Main Street that had hindered southbound access bringing it in line with other stretches of the road. Neighbour Lois Cooper, who first alerted the town — and […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — Improvements in health care come at a steep cost for local hospitals. Work began Monday to improve the parking payment systems this month at Muskoka Algonquin Healthcare’s Bracebridge and Huntsville sites. To install the two new systems “the cost is approximately $420,000. That is being funded through sources of […]