Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com Subscribe: E-transfer $30 to news@muskokatoday.com GRAVENHURST — “Birthplace of a hero.” From humble beginnings as a church minister’s son to a national hero in Canada and China, Dr. Norman Bethune’s name is recognized worldwide including in Spain. Tomorrow, 136 years after he was born in the Presbyterian manse on John Street he […]

Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com Subscribe: E-transfer $30 to news@muskokatoday.com BRACEBRIDGE — A boy, 14, is the latest youth to be charged after police say they’ve received multiple public complaints about ongoing unsafe and “often harassing behaviour” by young people operating e-bikes and electric dirt bike style vehicles. No one under the age of 16 years is permitted to […]

Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com Subscribe: E-transfer $30 to news@muskokatoday.com ORILLIA — An OPP emergency response team member faces two charges of illegally discharging his firearm in a training session that did not require its use. The Ontario Provincial Police professional standards unit (PSU) said Aug. 27 that it charged the officer in relation the on-duty incident that […]

Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com Subscribe: E-transfer $30 to news@muskokatoday.com GRAVENHURST — A hulking black shell of a burned out police truck was a stark reminder this morning of a weekend fire that threatened the OPP’s Underwater Search and Rescue Unit here. A sooty smell hung over it in the parking lot here at its provincial headquarters […]

Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com Subscribe: E-transfer $30 to news@muskokatoday.com HUNTSVILLE — A delivery driver who was assaulted — but uninjured — had his valuable package stolen mid-afternoon yesterday by a thief who made a quick getaway. Police say that on Aug. 26, at about 2:53 p.m., officers responded to the report of a robbery that had […]

GRAVENHURST  — She’s back … tomorrow night, 6:30 p.m. Judy Humphries returns with another of her amazing and fun history talks about Gravenhurst at the Gravenhurst Library. After a postponement, local archivist and historian Humphries is back telling tales of the “The Sands,” as many locals still refer to today’s Taboo Resort. The Muskoka Sands […]

MUSKOKA — Looking ahead to Labour Day weekend police continue to charge drivers with impaired operation. Four the past week alone across Muskoka. Sunday two men were charged after single-vehicle collisions in which they left the road. On August 23, at 3:30 a.m., officers responded to a singe vehicle collision on Hwy. 141 in Muskoka […]

Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com Subscribe: E-transfer $30 to news@muskokatoday.com GRAVENHURST  — As fire investigators continue a second-day probe in to the cause of Saturday night’s blackening blaze inside the headquarters of the OPP’s Underwater Search and Rescue Unit, its provincial operations here are halted for at least the time being. Which appears to leave any calls […]