HUNTSVILLE — Thankfully, the days of combating forest growth with deadly chemicals are a remote past. A new forest management program to ensure more reliable hydro service means Ontario Hydro will now trim trees near power lines on a three-year schedule instead of eight to 10 years. Hydro One Inc., Ontario’s primary electricity transmission and […]
BRACEBRIDGE — A small start-up business that received a $15,000 first prize in the 2019 Muskoka Founders Circle business promotion is moving to Montreal. But not before giving back the money, framed as a “pay-it-forward donation” to the private economic development fund. Sheertex recently announced plans to move its operations to Montreal. It is located […]
BRACEBRIDGE — An environmentally-friendly food drive Oct. 8 is the order of the day, as the Muskoka Oldtimers hockey team hold its annual drive by your home. The hockey team wants residents to gather non-perishable food items and set them outside their doors by 5 p.m, where Bracebridge school kids will be running door-to-door collecting […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com | Opinion PARRY SOUND-MUSKOKA — Election Day may be a month away, but the vote was Thursday. Canadians decided the next prime minister — one way or the other — after seeing multiple pictures of a young racist Justin Trudeau in black- and brown-face. Then hearing his apologies. “I’m sorry!” It’s […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Donald and Barbra Desmond didn’t pick the winner at the Kentucky Derby, but they came away with some great hats and bow ties. And they were the big winners Saturday night at the Rotary Races. The Gravenhurst Lakeshore Road residents ran away with top prize, a week’s vacation in […]
GRAVENHURST — The coroner’s office is investigating how a frail, 75-year-old 80-pound senior died after going missing Monday, Sept. 17. Provincial police say that on Wenesday, September 18, 2019, officers from the Bracebridge detachment of the OPP were called to assist with a missing person from Clipsham Road in the south end of Gravenhurst in […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Do old photos tell the whole story? While the country reels over racist school photos by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, a group of 60-year-old GHS grads were sharing their past and present on the weekend at a birthday reunion around town. Photos from more than 40 years ago were […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com HUNTSVILLE — A young Huntsville woman’s story about family upheaval amid a move is one of five finalists for a CBC nonfiction writing contest. Kathleen May’s story, “The Long Driveway,” is up for a major prize with the winner to receive $6,000 from the Canada Council for the Arts, and a […]