TARA COLLUM | Contributing columnist My Aunt Pearl left New Brunswick for Toronto in search of better job opportunities. She found factory work and a job bagging sugar at the Red Path refinery. My dad followed in her footsteps, leaving his home province for adventures in Montreal and Scarborough before eventually settling in Muskoka. The […]
GRAVENHURST — Restrictions liftings means enjoying the great …. Forget the apple a day; a healthy lifestyle after two years of lockdowns means walk, run, skate or snowmobile. Whatever you choose you don’t lose Motion is the potion this winter — no matter the weather. Rain or shine Canadians are making the best of the February […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — Amid the fallout in courts, Parliament and the Senate from Ottawa protests, local public health reports 67 COVID cases today. That’s more than twice the 32 Public Health Ontario (PHO) reported on its website Tuesday morning — including 43 Monday, 85 Sunday, 129 Saturday and 164 as we reported […]
MUSKOKA — Another overnight snowmobile accident has led to a death in Georgian Bay Township Sunday. Provincial police say that early yesterday morning two men were snowmobiling in Georgian Bay Township. The OPP received a 911 call shortly before 2 a.m., Feb. 20, after the single-vehicle collision on Six Mile Lake at the west shoreline […]
Millions of people Canada-wide practise this safe, economical way to reduce stress, eat better and get more exercise. No matter how chaotic the world around us is, this simple remedy can help bring a sense of calm and accomplishment into our lives. We are told that adding more fruits and fresh vegetables to our diets […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — What do you do if you’ve got 40,000 pounds of potatoes and nowhere to put them all? Or at least 5,000 pounds extra. Well, if you’re Rotarians your basement is also fair game. That was the happy problem that club members and Gravenhurst Against Poverty members faced today as […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — John Kirchonpf says he is “so proud of our Canadian truckers” who were arrested in Ottawa today. He was hoping to join the “Freedom Convoy” this weekend, but that’s unlikely now that it’s almost all but over. The unvaccinated Gravenhurst resident said yesterday he was thinking of driving his […]
MUSKOKA — An overnight smash and grab at a Port Carling grocery store was followed two hours later in Wahta where police claim the same suspect broke into a First Nations convenience store. The OPP are investigating the thefts Friday and ask the public’s help identifying the male suspect and his vehicle. They say that […]