HUNTSVILLE — A small fire reported at 11 a.m. was cleared by noon today inside a public washroom at the town hall that closed the offices for the rest of the day. The cause is under investigation and no injuries were involved. The town said early this afternoon that at about 11:02 a.m., the Huntsville […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com Subscribe: E-transfer $30 to news@muskokatoday.com GRAVENHURST — Ontario Fire Marshal investigators were at the OPP’s Underwater Search and Rescue Unit base here today on a rainy Sunday, after a significant fire scorched the location here on Bethune Drive just before 7 p.m. Saturday. They expect to be here another day or two […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com Subscribe: E-transfer $30 to news@muskokatoday.com MUSKOKA — Local drivers will have to watch new speed limit signs on three area roads in Bracebridge starting this fall. Including the main downtown section of its main street. The District of Muskoka council, in one of its last acts of its elected term, has approved […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com Subscribe: E-transfer $30 to news@muskokatoday.com GRAVENHURST — A person suffered a hand injury Saturday night after using an unapproved electronic device they found in a short-term rental unit that caused a small fire. Fire officials here say the person believed the unidentified device was safe to use because it was found with […]
MUSKOKA — Police have charged three people after a trio of OPP investigations Aug. 15, 16 and 18. In Huntsville, officers charged a driver following a RIDE check Saturday, Aug. 15, shortly after midnight. They were conducting a check on Hwy. 60, near Grandview Drive, when a vehicle was stopped. As a result of the […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com Subscribe: E-transfer $30 to news@muskokatoday.com PARRY SOUND-MUSKOKA — Even “strong companies” need help sometimes, said FedNor Minister Patty Hadju today in announcing $1.7 million in federal funding for four businesses and one non-profit housing group in Muskoka. The minister of jobs and families, and minister responsible for FedNor, announced it is providing […]
LETTER TO EDITOR: Eds. note: One reader who is keenly following Gravenhurst’s proposed Cliff Bay development at the former Muskoka Centre is Torontonian Elizabeth Kalinowski, who grew up there for a time in the 1950s when her father was a doctor at the “San.” She was born in 1939 and her family, who were Holocaust […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com Subscribe: E-transfer $30 to news@muskokatoday.com MUSKOKA — Another Sunday and another week with no phone call. Steven Readman loved his family, his parents — and his motorcycle. “He always called me on Sunday,” his mom, Linda, said the night before bidding him a fond, final farewell Friday afternoon at his full funeral […]