Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Looking for a little hope, peace and love these days? Head over to the Trinity United Church’s YouTube channel for an uplifting look at their just released new YouTube video called “With a Little Help From My Friends.” Nearly two dozen performers (children, adults and seniors) are featured in […]

Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — With its only splash pad closed for at least three more weeks and temperatures soaring, Gravenhurst is closing its largest and only decent beach on Lake Muskoka this summer for repairs. They say in a release Friday that the popular Muskoka Beach Park, located at 1141 Muskoka Beach Road, […]

Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — Two more Muskoka COVID cases are among 45 in the region Friday on the eve of the long weekend. This as Muskoka had its fifth death, reported yesterday, of a man aged 45-64 on May 13. The Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit (SMDHU) doesn’t say in which town he […]

SEVERN TOWNSHIP — A Gravenhurst man is charged with impaired driving after being stopped on Hwy. 11 early this morning. Provincial police say they’ve arrested and charged him driver after a stop in of Severn. This was the third impaired driving arrest in three days in the Orillia detachment area. They say that on May […]

Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com TORONTO — It’s open season on golf courses and at skateboard parks and for outdoor gatherings of five people Saturday of this long weekend in Ontario. And on June 14 things could open up more if vaccines bring COVID cases down. It’s all part of their three-step Roadmap to Reopen plan […]

Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Family and friends of Justin Evans are reporting that the body of the young man — who has been missing since Dec. 12 — was found by a hiker yesterday near his home in Kilworthy. His reported cousin, Marj Giordanella shared this “latest family update” post on Facebook: “On […]

Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — Consider yesterday a reprieve, respite or pre-holiday holiday. Or simple statistical anomaly. Whatever, today’s COVID numbers put to rest Wednesday’s decent descent in cases when there were 51 — all in Simcoe. So much for that. This afternoon the health unit reports 60 more (the province said it was […]

Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — The gift that keeps on giving will benefit seven of nine groups that applied for special community endowment funding. A citizen committee recommended $25,000 from the town’s Terrence Haight assistance fund go to projects for kids, mental health, GAP, Ryde Co-op and $1,000 for something called Safe Quiet Lakes. […]