Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Business is good at McDonald’s Gravenhurst. Thirty years after opening, guest count and customer satisfaction are up. And at the busiest store in the Muskoka franchise it can only improve with the latest new look and feel in the 106-seat south Gravenhurst restaurant, says owner Alan Cumber. After a […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com PARRY SOUND-MUSKOKA —Huntsville Mayor Scott Aitchison, awash in the benevolent community spirit of a flood fighter, is ready to take on rising tides of Liberalism in Parry Sound Muskoka. The veteran town and district politician has finally declared his candidacy for the riding’s Progressive Conservative Party nomination. And with his political […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — With big changes in post secondary tuition fees and grants, some college and university students from Gravenhurst got great news from the Rotary Club with $70,000 for Rotary Student Bursaries. The Rotary Bursary Endowment Fund is now accepting applications from students heading for college, university or trade schools next […]
GRAVENHURST — Electric and driverless cars are down the road. Today, if you have domestic car or truck and you need auto repairs fast in downtown Gravenhurst there’s a new mechanic shop open this spring. Bill Talbot and Scott Baker offer Quality work at their Muskoka Road South sales and repair business near Main Street […]
GRAVENHURST — A driver who led police on a chase on Hwy. 11 drove northbound in the southbound lanes briefly before being pulled over Saturday night. Provincial police had Hwy. 11 southbound closed south of Gravenhurst for a report of a driver driving the wrong way on the highway at 11 p.m. They say an […]
GRAVENHURST — Now that boating restrictions have been lifted on Muskoka lakes and rivers following spring flooding, pleasure boaters and commercial traffic will see a large police presence in June. And it has less to do with monitoring wakes along some parts of shorelines still protected by sandbags. For the next four weeks OPP marine […]
GRAVENHURST — Lake levels are slowly coming down after the Flood of 2019. At the Muskoka Wharf in Gravenhurst, where boats are beginning to return to moor for the summer, the floating docks are back to nearer normal levels. The Wenonah II had its maiden voyage of the season, a membership cruise for Muskoka Steamship […]
GRAVENHURST — You can thank the Gravenhurst Horticultural Society for some of the great flowers and vegetable gardens you’ll see around town this summer. Over the winter, the 40 members planted, nurtured and grew more than 1,000 seedlings, which they sold at their annual spring plant and bake sale this month. More than half of […]