BRACEBRIDGE — A 19-year-old resident here faces two pornography charges. Provincial police said today that on Tuesday the Muskoka Crime Unit, the OPP’s child sexual exploitation unit and the Bracebridge detachment arrested and charged the Bracebridge man following a child pornography investigation. They say that on April 14 officers from the OPP’s child sexual exploitation […]
PARRY SOUND-MUSKOKA — An overnight snow dump has the MNRF warning about rising water levels and dangers around melting ice. This morning, April 15, it issued a “Watershed Conditions Statement – Water Safety” advisory. It indicates high flows, melting ice or other factors could be dangerous for such users as boaters, anglers and swimmers but […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — If you see more personalized masks around Muskoka this week, they may be the handiwork of a virtual sewing bee. Barb McCabe and Pam McDivitt are just two of about 50 sewers across town who have produced almost 1,000 colouful cloth facial covers to combat “the spread of this […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com BRACEBRIDGE — Rotarians here are practising what they preach — Service Before Self. Their Rotary Youth Centre, on Wellington Street, is one of two COVID-19 assessment centres in Muskoka. And on March 21 the Bracebridge service club started a special Rotary Cares Covid-19 Assistance Fund Program to support working families in […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com BRACEBRIDGE — They said stay at home. So Dave Ramer and Michelle Harbridge got married in their driveway Tuesday. Then again in Hespeler four hours later. The next day, Wednesday, April 8, the essential workers were back on the job — he as a paramedic with Muskoka Paramedic Services and she […]
HUNTSVILLE — Five people are without a home to stay in place today after a fire forced from their apartment. The Huntsville/Lake of Bays Fire Department said this afternoon that they responded to a report of a structure fire on Meadow Park Drive in Huntsville at 9 a.m. Responding firefighters encountered heavy smoke and flames […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com PARRY SOUND-MUSKOKA — Construction companies scrambled this week to make sure Easter eggs are available this weekend for those affected by the coronavirus. In just five days the Muskoka Home Builders Association (MBA) raised more than $80,000 to help. The Relief Effort delivered $24,000 to four local food banks Wednesday to […]
HUNTSVILLE — Another targeted traffic stop here yesterday has led to the arrest of a man and woman and the seizure of $5,700 in cocaine, $994 in cash and trafficking charges. On April 9 Muskoka Community Street Crime Unit (CSCU) and members of the Huntsville OPP detachment conducted pulled over a vehicle on West Street. […]