Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Who’s gotta ticket? Who’s got single? Not Ken Little. But you never know tonight. The Muskoka Real Estate Services Inc. Broker told Rotarians a humourous story yesterday about how he scalped two Jays tickets when they won their first World Series in 1992 against Atlanta. On a whim he […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Picking strawberries for 25 cents an hour was a dream job for thousands of teenage girls intent on skipping exams early in the Second World War. However those first, long summer days of sunburns and back-braking harvesting were unexpected hard work that sent a few packing home — at […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — Everywhere you look there’s beauty — in the trees and on the ground. Maple leaves and all the colours that compose the natural palette of Muskoka’s rainbow remain on display — muted, yes, but filtered they’re still states of beauty. Which is why Dr. Sophie Sun, of Toronto, brought […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — OK Blue Jays! You want it all — you’re halfway there. Fans glued to TVs last night watched wherever they could. And the band played on in Utterson. Fran Harvey, a huge fan and conductor of the Muskoka Concert Band, made sure last night that her musicians didn’t miss […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com BRACEBRIDGE — A ‘Father’s Day’ road trip was a winner for Alliston who stung the Muskoka Bears 6-1 at home Sunday afternoon. With new management teams and several new players on both sides of the ice it was the undefeated Hornets who easily dominated. Bears goalie Kyle Downey, who faced 68 […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Hundreds of clients were shocked Friday by the “abrupt” closing of Crunch Fitness. When they turned up for their workout they found the doors locked and its equipment cleaned out. Among them was the morning manager who arrived at 5:30 a.m. Apparently he was one of those who “failed” […]
GRAVENHURST — They called this a short week. But the real reason for this week’s delay in re-doing Bay Street from Greavette to Muskoka Steamship Bay Road is Bala’s Cranberry Festival. The just completed three-block stretch of from Greavette Street to Sarah Street opened for the weekend. However the full route only Sarah to Steamship […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Marion Fry got out of algebra classes to become a “Farmerette.” The Severn Bridge Farm Divas made light the other night of rural life. But during the Second World War working longer than “9-5” on the farm for the war effort was serious, big business. The largely forgotten chapter […]