Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Rotarians honoured a couple of very deserving community supporters with their major international honour Thursday. Mallory Silver and Jesse Grimes received Paul Harris award named in honour of the worldwide service club’s founder recognizing them for demonstrating Rotary’s principles of “Service Above Self.” The pins and certificate presentations were […]

MuskokaTODAY.com ARCHIVES Ed. note: Town archivist Jack Cline found this decades old piece in our files from former MuskokaTODAY.com owner/publisher, Hugh Clairmont, who celebrated the to oft-times unheralded work of Local Journalism scribes on the daily rural beat. It’s from a 1950 Toronto Star piece, among many clippings he kept on in a scrap book […]

GRAVENHURST — Police have made an arrest in a month-old assault that took place in a wooded area west of Muskoka Road South. They say today that the OPP and its Muskoka Crime Unit continue investigating the “serious assault” overnight on May 27. And that just before midnight officers, along with Muskoka EMS, responded to […]

GRAVENHURST — Carole King has “written some of the most beautiful music ever,” says Neil Barlow, a cornetist in the Gravenhurst Bifocals Concert Band. Like “It’s Too Late, Jazzman, You’ve Got A Friend” and “I Feel the Earth Move” … “under my feet.” You’ll feel your feet move, too, as you tap your toes along […]

Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — A dearth of attainable housing in the downtown here has taken a huge blow; but help may be on the way. A late March apartment fire is still affecting residential and business tenants at building at Muskoka Road and Winewood Avenue. Twenty apartments and four commercial units were vacated […]

BRIEFS & notes: Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com Is it “unthinkable” Muskoka may burn up this summer? Not according to a startling front page “Toronto Star” story this week that sparked claims it conceivably could. “The idea of Muskoka disappearing in a conflagration … you just don’t want to go there…,” said John Vaillant, author of […]

GRAVENHURST — An all-day and overnight road closure here Tuesday left already re-routed traffic off Bay Street looking for alternative streets around the downtown. The Town of Gravenhurst closed multiple streets following after a transport clipped overhead wires early in the morning. Mary Street North was closed from Bay Street to Brown Street. And Hughson […]

OBITUARY: Aug. 26, 1956 ~ May 11, 2025 Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — They called us “The Bay Street Terrors” and “The Bay Street Beatles.” On a hot summer’s morn we were up early and stayed up late. Every day was the longest day of the year when Brian Whitehead, Dougie Barnes, Jeff Draper […]