Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — A company where a worker died in 2018 while installing chains on a truck tire has been fined $125,000. Plus a 25 per cent victim surcharge. Great Northern Insulation (GNI), a Woodstock-based insulation company with a location in Gravenhurst, was convicted Feb. 25, following the Nov. 23, 2018 accident. […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Pond hockey’s popularity peaked Saturday with a frozen four faceoff that raised Canada’s outdoor game to new commercial heights sponsored by Dunkin’ Donuts and Budweiser beer. Team Iceland took home the woody in the A division of the Barstool tournament, which combined best of shinny and showmanship. The Mississauga […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com BARRIE — If you’re going to leave an inheritance to a child on their 21st birthday, make sure they’re not “leapers.” Or they’ll have to wait a long time, if ever, for the money. As young pirate Frederic famously learned in “The Pirates of Penzance.” Leap year babies are more than […]
HUNTSVILLE — Infastructure help for people in Muskoka with development disabilities and vulnerable children is being provided by the province. Ontario is helping six agencies in Parry Sound-Muskoka repair and renovate vital community buildings. This morning at Community Living Huntsville, MPP Norm Miller announced the Ford government is investing $70,000 in various agencies that support […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com BRACEBRIDGE — A snowmobiler was listed in serious condition tonight after being thrown from his machine this morning. Provincial police say they were responded to a 911 call, along with Muskoka EMS and Bracebridge Fire, for assistance on a snowmobile trail about two kilometres in from Graves Road and Manitoba Street […]
Dear Editor: Re: Support For Public Education I’m an educator in Bracebridge. Over the past few weeks, we have seen unprecedented support for our fight against cuts to public education proposed by the Ford government. We recognize the challenges and inconveniences that so many of our community’s families have endured as we stand up for […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Imagine a new you. Because the old you is like the old Weight Watchers — a thing of the past — if you want to get serious. The company that for more than 55 years has helped millions lose weight with the latest nutritional and behaviour change science is […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Plans for a major housing development at the south end of Gravenhurst have been fast-tracked. Major zoning and official plan amendments were approved Tuesday at a town planning council meeting. And SkyDev president Greg Jones said in an email Thursday to MuskokaTODAY.com that as a result: “All looks good […]