Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com HUNTSVILLE — Accidents 24 hours apart yesterday and today led to one fatality this afternoon and a second person being flown to Toronto Saturday with life-altering injuries, police said tonight. They say that at 2:11 p.m. Aug. 3 officers were dispatched to a two-vehicle collision on southbound Highway 11 at Allensville […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com BEATRICE — Bales of hay glisten in the Sunday afternoon sun along bucolic Beatrice Town Line road. Where generations of Grays have farmed they belie the upsetting and tearful tragedy of a tight knit community in mourning and reeling from the deaths of three people. About a half dozen farms are […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com BRACEBRIDGE — Friday’s fatality, fire and “wanted man” has residents from Beatrice to Falkenburg, Raymond, Ufford and Windermere on edge tonight. “It’s scary” and “it’s creepy,” admitted a couple of them just 24 hours after police said Mitchell Gray, 29, of Bracebridge is wanted for “murder and arson” last night at […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com BRACEBRIDGE — A day after a death and arson last night, police continue to comb the area in search of a man suspected of a killing and fire in Beatrice north of town. They are requesting the public’s assistance in locating Mitchell Gray, 29. On Friday, August 1 shortly after 8 […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com BRACEBRIDGE — The OPP lifted a shelter-in-place order early today in the Beatrice Townline Road area of north Bracebridge after a call about an armed man “in distress” last night. Affected residents may resume their regular activities, but are encouraged to stay alert and report any suspicious activity to police, said […]
GRAVENHURST — A complaint about suspected impaired diver has led to charges. On Monday July 28, at 8:35 p.m., police responded to concerned member of the public in the area of Steamship Bay Road in Gravenhurst. An officer located the vehicle a short distance away, and conducted a traffic stop arresting and charging 34-year-old Fraser […]
GRAVENHURST — A cyclist thrown from their bike after a vehicle made contact with a tire was treated at the scene by paramedics last Friday at 1 p.m. And the driver was charged July 25 after Muskoka EMS and police responded to reports from members of the public about a collision involving a motor vehicle […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com BALA — Who knew Lucy Maud Montgomery had a spicy side to a couple of her novels. Her Blue Castle book, based in Bala, had enough blue in it to make even a pretty little, pig-tailed red-head blush. Certainly it would for Marilla Cuthbert, Anne Shirley’s adoptive mother in LMM’s classic […]