Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — It’s full steam ahead for the Muskoka Steamships tomorrow as it return to cruising the Muskoka Lakes with the Wanda II first to weigh ancho after being forced by COVID-19 to remain in its home port here in July. An on the eve of her maiden voyage, MPP Norm […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — This summer it’s refuse they can refuse. With a dearth of jobs — and more unemployed receiving CERB and EI — it’s hard to believe a company can’t find workers to pick up recycling and waste for $20 an hour. It’s seems a waste of talent. The District of […]
GRAVENHURST — It’s sill a waiting game. As Stage 3 openings continue, many barriers to active living are slowly returning to new norms. Fences are down on some public facilities and a few remain. Like the splash pad in Gravenhurst, where with swim advisories at beaches sun-drenched kids eager to cool off love running through […]
UPDATE: The OPP would like to thank the public for their assistance in safely locating Chase Wilton-Watson. MUSKOKA LAKES TWP. — Police are helping to look for a missing young man last seen yesterday. They are asking members of the public for assistance in locating 22-year-old Chase Wilton-Watson, of Muskoka Lakes Township. He is described […]
WEST GRAVENHURST — A motorcyclist was taken to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries early this afternoon. Police raced out Muskoka Road 169 to a collision between a motorcycle and another vehicle, both apparently travelling west on the road near Hill Street Tuesday July 28, 2020 at 12:45 p.m. The driver of the motorcycle was taken to hospital […]
PORT SEVERN — You can briefly water your lawn and garden — but other water uses such as filling the kiddy pool are restricted here. Effective immediately, watering restrictions are in effect for the west Muskoka community of Georgian Bay until further notice. The District of Muskoka says restrictions have been recommended by the Ministry […]
MUSKOKA — Finding a safe beach to swim at this summer is becoming a daily challenge. Off and on swim advisories from the health unit are popping up each day causing scorched residents to wonder why. Other beaches in Simcoe-Muskoka are also affected. Tuesday, July 28, Port Sydney Beach and two more in Gravenhurst came under […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Norman Bethune would be amused if not bemused. The good doctor’s statue is the latest effigy embroiled in a social unmasking of the world. Never one fearful from expressing his personal, political and professional beliefs, the Gravenhurst native and surgeon revered in China is at the heart of COVID-19 […]