Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com | OPINION Good morning voters. It’s Oct. 21, Election Day in your country. A day you’ll have to live with for four years. For half of it you matter. Tuesday, you’ll return to political obscurity. But for 12 hours, you’re more important than Trudeau, Trump, Ford, Scheer, Singh, May or Greta. […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com | EDITORIAL Choose forward …, In it for you …, Forward together …, It’s time for you to get ahead …. They all say the same thing, they all mean well in one way or another. But Liberals, New Democrats, Greens and Conservatives would all do it differently. Picking a party […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Business is picking up in town here — as in pick up and delivery. No Uber eats or Skip the Dishes. But talk of a new fast food outlet appears to be true. Pizza Hut is said to be moving onto the main street in Gravenhurst. The takeout and […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com BRACEBRIDGE — Lest we forget — not in your life or theirs. Muskoka author and historian Patrick Boyer has his latest book out now, appropriately for Remembrance Day. “Muskokans Fight the Great War” is the first book in his MODERN HISTORY OF MUSKOKA series. In August 1914 Muskokans rushed to enlist […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com LINDSAY — Students and parents fresh from avoiding a shutdown of schools last week could see a possible elementary school teachers’ strike if a union vote shows support tomorrow. The Elementary Teachers’ Federation of Ontario (ETFO) members from the Trillium Lakelands area will hold a confidential members’ meeting and a central […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — High housing costs that have driven people out of Muskoka and its core communities are a hot topic on the federal election campaign. If you’re lucky enough to have a job, getting to work can be a problem in a district that stretches an hour in any direction. Shoppers […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Sunday’s concert at the Gravenhurst Opera House will be a blast. A cannon blast, as the Orillia Silver Band is set to perform its Light Fantastic Concert. The afternoon concert is Oct. 20 at 2:30 p.m. Tickets are $25 for adults, $10 for students/children and are available from the Opera […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com BRACEBRIDGE — A 57-year-old Bracebridge resident is dead after vehicle hit a tree on Peterson Road. Provincial police and Muskoka EMS responded to the single vehicle collision Oct. 15 at 7:35 a.m. They say a nearby resident was awoken by the sound of the vehicle striking a tree and called for […]