RAMA — Gamblers are back at the tables and machines in Casino Rama as of 6 p.m. Wednesday. An anonymous bomb threat to OPP in Orillia at 2 p.m. today forced Casino Rama to evacuate the casino early Wednesday afternoon. A spokesperson said just now that they are back in business “as if nothing happened,” […]
Story and photos by Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com BRACEBRIDGE — What do you do when the star comes down with laryngitis days just days before opening night? In the old days you’d wrap a towel around her neck, tell her to gargle with salt water, drink plenty of fluids including honey tea — and hang […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Another in the excellent series of History Lives Talks presented by Judy Humphries of the Gravenhurst Archives takes place Wednesday night at the Gravenhurst Library. It’s called: Founding Families: Who are the people who gave us our great beginnings? Brock, Brown, Cockburn, Mickle, Mowry, Marter and more…. If you […]
QUEEN’S PARK — With the doors to the new Andy’s House hospice in Port Carling nearly open, the province has guaranteed annual funding of $315,000 for the first three beds. Tuesday in the Ontario legislature, MPP Norm Miller thanked the minister of health. Mr. Norman Miller: A few weeks ago, I had the honour of announcing […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — A $100-million hotel, apartments and retail proposal for the lands bordered around Sobey’s and Canadian Tire here is coming back to town council tomorrow. Guelph-based SkyDev, which bought the retail lands with the LCBO, Dollarama and Wild Wing restaurant, for $30 million last January wants to build an 89-room […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com BRACEBRIDGE — Andi Stevenson “would do anything for a play.” Including skipping recesses to go over the script a “millions of times” to master the hundreds of lines in her starring role in Matilda The Musical. Not bad for a nine-year-old who carries the annual Bracebridge Rotary show with a cast […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — It was a great night for walkers tonight. Warm and sunny. And the temperature was nice, too. Close to 200 kids, adults, families and volunteers joined the 33 teams on the Coldest Night of the Year fundraising walk downtown for GAP. As of walk time they had pledges of […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Public protests took over the main intersection here today at noon as striking teachers united in “solidarity” with Climate Muskoka demonstrators. Amid a constant honking of horns, the corner of Bay Street and Muskoka Road was filled with dozens of placard-wearing and waving protesters calling for provincial and federal […]