Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com OPINION GRAVENHURST — I’ve often said residents new to towns like this should be obliged to take a course on its history. A few lectures and some Q&As. Town archivist and historian Judy Humphries would be the perfect professor along with the several other fine purveyors of the past on the […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — GHS robotics students, Muskoka Ringette, Hospice Muskoka and Big Brothers Big Sisters are among 11 community groups award Terence Haight grants this year. The 12-year-old program awarded them a total of $30,000 this year. Funding comes from a $1 million-plus gift to the community by the late Terence Haight, […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — It seems size does matter. Four inches, in fact. It’s the difference in extra height a new Northlander train will mean for passengers boarding in Gravenhurst. “A Hail Mary” attempt this afternoon, according to Mayor Heidi Lorenz, wasn’t enough to convince most councillors of the merit of keeping a […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — Whenever the Northlander train returns to the rails, it will be running on a stretch track it owns locally. Last Friday the provincial transportation agency announced it had bought the CN track between Washago and North Bay. Local MPP Graydon Smith told Probus members this morning, in Gravenhurst, that […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — My great aunt Mabel was a local playmate of the month — twice in 1901. I was reminded of that at the 125th Opera House celebration. She and her sister, Mae, were among dozens who performed opening night in 1901. My great grandparents, Mary and Helen, and their family […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — A 125th weekend celebration of the Opera House reminded everyone of the greatness and grandness of the venerable music and still standing old community hall. And why people still come here. An opening night Thursday, which was more Grand Ole Opry, began brilliantly with the haunting lights out radio […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — “Free” twice-daily express Air Canada buses exclusively for its passengers to its Toronto Pearson airport global flight hub “puts Muskoka on the map and on its app.” That’s District Chair Jeff Lehman on the tarmac of Muskoka Airport Thursday boasting about a three-way Muskoka partnership with the airline and […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Chad Evans may or not be run out of town here Tuesday after appearing before the town’s council with an update on the speed, progress — and timing — of Ontario Northland’s new promised return of passenger rail service. A public push for accountability on a planned shelter box […]