Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — The Salvation Army Thrift Shop is taking donations. Just not like this — a dump-and-run. They prefer food instead. Dozens of bags of clothing and furniture was dumped at the front door of the main street family services store on the weekend. Then came two days of rain — […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com I have a t-shirt that says ‘I played hockey with Bobby Orr….’ Though he is seven years older than me, our paths didn’t cross on the ice in Parry Sound or Muskoka. But my brother Paul did in a famous early 1960s exhibition game in Bracebridge between the Gravenhurst Braves Jr. […]
MUSKOKA LAKES — Emergency services had to mobilize vast resources and come to the rescue twice last Sunday night after hikers got lost on Hardy Lake trails. No one was injured but great efforts were made to find the people, say the OPP. This after an elderly couple were lost for days in north Muskoka […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com PARRY SOUND — Legendary Parry Sound NHL Hall of Famer Bobby Orr is stick-handling like never before after his scary endorsement of U.S. President Donald Trump. As has golf legend Jack Nicklaus. The Boston Bruins all-star took out a full page ad in today’s Friday Oct. 30 edition of the New Hampshire […]
GRAVENHURST — Thanksgiving may be over — and shelves may be pretty well stocked with many items — but if you’re providing food for the hungry there’s never enough of everything in the old pantry to go around. So the Salvation Army is stocking up for winter just like you — this Wednesday Nov. 4 […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — A suspect wanted in one robbery and three attempted robberies this week is being bars tonight. This morning, Friday Oct. 30, OPP Tactics and Rescue Unit (TRU) officers found and arrested the man who was wanted for an ATM robbery in Coboconk early Sunday, an attempted morning robbery at […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Traffic, property buffers and pedestrian safety were among a number of concerns raised in a public hearing Tuesday to deal with a proposed “local” gas bar on Bethune Drive. A small in-person town planning and development committee meeting at the Opera House late in the afternoon convened to consider […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — Good and bad news to end the week in Simcoe and Muskoka. Nine new COVID cases, but one new death since yesterday. Again their were none in Muskoka today. Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit reports today 2 people each in Barrie, Bradford-West Gwillimbury and New Tecumseth; and 1 each […]