Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — From four wheels to four wheels, by-law officers here will be getting out of vehicles and getting on mountain bikes this summer to patrol parks and trails to cruise through town more effortlessly handing out parking tickets. A pilot project — possibly the first in Muskoka — will see […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com PARRY SOUND-MUSKOKA — The local Liberal brand has taken another hit three weeks from the June 2 provincial election. Four days after Ontario Liberals in the riding acclaimed him as the only nominee to run Saturday afternoon in a Zoom election, provincial party Leader Steven Del Duca fired Barry Stanley Wednesday. […]
MUSKOKA — Temperatures in the high 20s have led to a no fire order from Muskoka fire chiefs. They say in a release this morning that due to quickly accelerating dry conditions and multiple fire starts, they’ve issued a the total fire ban for all of Muskoka, effective 12:01am on Thursday, May 12. The fire […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com BRACEBRIDGE — Comedy’s about “how you tell it and sell it.” That’ll will win you a Juno — hopes Bracebridge-based comedian Tyler Morrison. The comedic producer and talent has his second nomination up this week for comedy album of the year with Hisham Kelati’s Tigre King. The 38-year-old creative director of […]
HUNTSVILLE — A man on probation was in bail court this morning after being arrested and charged after a robbery here yesterday in which an air pistol was used, say police. They say that on Sunday, May 8 at 5:20 p.m., a 911 call had them responding for a robbery in progress at a business […]
HUNTSVILLE — Police are still investigating a serious motor vehicle collision Friday. They say that on May 6, at 5:30 p.m., officers got a 911 call about a head-on crash on Hwy. 60 westbound near Harp Lake. The collision involved two SUVs. The highway was closed in both directions as OPP Technical Collision Investigators and […]
ORILLIA — The Orillia Silver Band celebrates the warming spring season with a special ‘Walkabout Spring Concert’ Sunday, May 15 at 2 p.m, Orillia Opera House. Tickets are $25 for adults and $10 for students/children. They are available from the Opera House Box Office. This is the band’s first full-group public concert since Christmas of […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Comrades in arms. There’s a reason Legions still exist. They take care of their own — no man or woman left behind. Laura Hoffman-Steiger, a retired Canadian Armed Forces veteran, wondered whatever happened to Ralph Scales after he died sometime late last November. She’d heard nothing of a funeral, […]