Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com Subscribe: E-transfer $30 to news@muskokatoday.com GRAVENHURST — Whether you can sing like a bird or your preferred audience is in the shower — maybe even at a Karaoke bar — the ever popular Elderberries Choir may be your calling. They have a new website up at https://elderberrieschoir.ca/ and as they begin season’s […]

Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com Subscribe: E-transfer $30 to news@muskokatoday.com GRAVENHURST — Donald Trump’s concerns about Canada being used a gateway for Chinese goods into the United States “are not true,” says China’s Consul General in Toronto. Speaking Saturday at the 50th anniversary of the Bethune Memorial House, Luo Weidong said: “This kind of a narrative is […]

Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com Subscribe: E-transfer $30 to news@muskokatoday.com GRAVENHURST  — A visual plan to turn a couple of blocks of Gravenhurst’s Muskoka Road main street core in to a year-round pedestrian mall has drawn instant support from readers. Five letters and comments, a day after Bob Barnes challenged council candidates here with his “Imagine” project, […]

Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com Subscribe: E-transfer $30 to news@muskokatoday.com GRAVENHURST — Bob Barnes ought to have run for council. But the 84-year-old retired professional mechanical engineer is too busy trying to save his new adopted hometown of Gravenhurst. In addition to volunteering as an usher at the Opera House to keep the old girl alive, he […]

Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com Subscribe: E-transfer $30 to news@muskokatoday.com GRAVENHURST — Work on a new Ontario Northlander train platform got underway here last week a sign that commuter rail is gaining track as fencing has gone up and workers are digging in now. Weeks after a large blue Northlander billboard when up on the north side […]

PHOTOS, STORY Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com Subscribe: E-transfer $30 to news@muskokatoday.com GRAVENHURST — Norman Bethune’s heritage home has outlived him — but not his legacy. The great doctor was 49 when he died on a Chinese battlefield. Saturday the “Birthplace of a Hero” turned 50. With a befitting celebration to “honour his memory,” attended by Chinese […]

Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com ART REVIEW Subscribe: E-transfer $30 to news@muskokatoday.com TORONTO  — Tariffs aside, cultural exchanges continue between Canada and the U.S. “Monet to Matisse” importantly among them, as the Art Gallery of Ontario welcomes the ‘Impressionist Revolution’ works from the collection of the Dallas Museum of Art — after no doubt years of planning […]

Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com Subscribe: E-transfer $30 to news@muskokatoday.com GRAVENHURST — Five young adults and/or teens are being blamed for damaging the Lion’s Club’s newly adopted ‘Pet Memorial Rainbow Bridge’ here this week along the boardwalk at the Muskoka Wharf. Police investigating the mischief that took place just after midnight Wednesday. During the very early morning […]