Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com BRACEBRIDGE — Marnie Smyth loved the Bracebridge Seniors Citizens’ Club. She and her late husband, Dick, were regulars working with friends and sharing good times always with a smile and a helping hand On July 2 the club received a $10,000 donation from the Marilyn Smyth estate. It was presented to […]
HUNTSVILLE — A “bomb threat” had emergency services surrounding a commercial building here this morning. Police say that at 11:23 a.m. officers responded to a bomb threat on Old North Road at Fanotech solid waste and enviromental services. OPP and Huntsville Lake of Bays Fire Department were on scene and had the road closed for […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Peter Moore’s 1955 Shepherd was not the oldest boat in the water. But the big brute was the latest and one of the greatest at Saturday’s Antique and Classic Boat Society (ASBS) show at the Muskoka Wharf. Nomad’s Barrie boat owner said he’d had it out only once before, […]
GRAVENHURST — A break-in here the past two days netted thieves $15,000 in tools. Police are investigating a theft at a commercial business near the corner of Industrial Drive and Progress Drive sometime overnight July 10 and 11. They say thieves made off with approximately $15,000 worth of tools. The OPP are seeking assistance from […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com ORILLIA — Gordon Lightfoot has a host of awards — including more than a dozen Junos, the Order of Canada and a stamp. He was first recognized in 1951 at the Toronto Kiwanis Festival — a first place plaque in the under-13 category and third place in unchanged voices. Since then […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Sarah Nash and her family of four had just bought a new home and were suppose to move in later this month just a short distance away. But early yesterday they lost their residence in an early morning fire that also destroyed the other half of the duplex they […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com ORILLIA — Folk, rock and “down home blues” highlighted the 61st Mariposa Folk Festival here this weekend. The venerable music fest that began in Stephen Leacock’s fictional Mariposa in 1961 lived up to the city’s Sunshine City nickname with a lot of hot acts and cool names on bill around the […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Want to float your boat? Muskoka Wharf is the place to do it — in style. As in the Antique and Classic Boat Show. For going on four decades the Toronto chapter has held a display and for most of it it’s been at the docks in Gravenhurst Bay. […]