MUSKOKA — As promised, local homebuilders are building on their promise to help area residents cope with COVID-19. In less than two weeks, the Muskoka-Parry Sound Relief Fund reached its first goal, raising more than $100,000 led by team leaders with the Muskoka Builders Association. After donating to food banks the frist week, Thomas Cowden, […]
MUSKOKA — Cooped up kids have yet another place online to call home. SafeSpot.ca www.safespot.ca. — a new free anonymous webchat service — went live yesterday for the Parry Sound and Nipissing districts. It is available twice daily — three days a week — from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. and 3-5 p.m. The chat service […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — A day of mourning here for victims of the Nova Scotia shootings began this afternoon and concluded this evening with a virtual hug and TV tribute. Karen Ramer heard last night about the idea of stopping to remember at 1 p.m. today. She said she has no personal connection […]
HALIFAX – A shooting scare here Friday afternoon proved false, the RCMP said after a few hours. CBC and other media were reporting another shooting Friday afternoon about 3:30 p.m. ET in Halifax. That after an official emergency alert went out and one report said it’s an active shooter and shots had been fired. Residents […]
GRAVENHURST – Mayor Paul Kelly said today that this is the third day without a case of COVID-19. In his seventh pandemic report Friday, April 24, he also spoke of a number of local groups that received funds from the province, including GAP, the Salvation Army, the United Church, the Catholic Church and the Bukers’ […]
GRAVENHURST — Financial help for local COVID-19 sufferers is reaching closer to home with a special fund by the town. The town is also seeking a slice of upper tier relief funds as it deals with the municipal fallout that could cost it an estimated $1.2 million in staffing and lost revenue. Gravenhurst is also […]
GRAVENHURST — A North York man suspected of multiple shoplifting sprees here at a Shopper’s Drug Mart was arrested and charged yesterday early afternoon. Provincial police said today that on Thursday April 23, at 1:35 p.m., officers were dispatched to a complaint of a shoplifting at the store on Muskoka Road in Gravenhurst. Police said […]
BRACEBRIDGE — A wide-open community fund to help groups that are supporting pandemic assistance programs has been established by the town. Yesterday, council created the COVID-19 Community Relief Fund (CRF) to offer grants to impacted organizations in specific areas. An initial $40,000 is available in the first intake period until May 8, but could be […]