GRAVENHURST — Police have made an arrest in a month-old assault that took place in a wooded area west of Muskoka Road South. They say today that the OPP and its Muskoka Crime Unit continue investigating the “serious assault” overnight on May 27. And that just before midnight officers, along with Muskoka EMS, responded to […]
GRAVENHURST — Carole King has “written some of the most beautiful music ever,” says Neil Barlow, a cornetist in the Gravenhurst Bifocals Concert Band. Like “It’s Too Late, Jazzman, You’ve Got A Friend” and “I Feel the Earth Move” … “under my feet.” You’ll feel your feet move, too, as you tap your toes along […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — A dearth of attainable housing in the downtown here has taken a huge blow; but help may be on the way. A late March apartment fire is still affecting residential and business tenants at building at Muskoka Road and Winewood Avenue. Twenty apartments and four commercial units were vacated […]
BRIEFS & notes: Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com Is it “unthinkable” Muskoka may burn up this summer? Not according to a startling front page “Toronto Star” story this week that sparked claims it conceivably could. “The idea of Muskoka disappearing in a conflagration … you just don’t want to go there…,” said John Vaillant, author of […]
GRAVENHURST — An all-day and overnight road closure here Tuesday left already re-routed traffic off Bay Street looking for alternative streets around the downtown. The Town of Gravenhurst closed multiple streets following after a transport clipped overhead wires early in the morning. Mary Street North was closed from Bay Street to Brown Street. And Hughson […]
OBITUARY: Aug. 26, 1956 ~ May 11, 2025 Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — They called us “The Bay Street Terrors” and “The Bay Street Beatles.” On a hot summer’s morn we were up early and stayed up late. Every day was the longest day of the year when Brian Whitehead, Dougie Barnes, Jeff Draper […]
HUNTSVILLE — Three impaired driving charges the past week show age makes no difference. Last Tuesday, June 17, at 10:49 p.m., the Huntsville OPP were conducting general patrol on Hanes Rd, when they observed a vehicle driving poorly. A traffic stop resulted in officers suspecting the driver to have alcohol in his body. As a result of […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com HUNTSVILLE — Emergency services here were able to track and find four people in two incidents in which they became lost on the weekend. Huntsville/Lake of Bays Fire Department says that first, on Saturday June 21 at 4:05 p.m., firefighters were dispatched to assist three individuals who had become lost on […]