HUNTSVILLE — Cannabis may be legal, but now a rise in cocaine charges is keeping police busy. Provincial police say that on Saturday June 15, 2019, at 10 p.m. a member of the OPP detachment here stopped a vehicle on Main Street W. for a routine traffic stop. During the stop it was discovered that […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com PARRY SOUND — Saturday, when you did your usual Google search, you may have notice a beautiful Google Doodle of the day. Well, an Indigenous artist who spends half his year at a First Nation near Parry Sound was the man behind it. Joshua Mangeship Pawis-Steckley was asked in April to […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com NORTH BAY — Education is rewarding and humbling. One day you’re on stage telling graduates they can do anything in the world with their degree, and a day or two later life rains on your parade and you’re parking cars. Dr. Gordon Durnan knows that after receiving an honorary degree from […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — It wasn’t exactly convertible weather Saturday — though there were a couple of rag tops on hand at the Gravenhurst Chamber of Commerce Car Show. And while manager Sandy Lockhart considered throwing in the towel at 8:30 this morning, with a steady drizzle and only a couple dozen cars […]
GRAVENHURST — Start your engines. It’s the morning commute Saturday for the biggest and best traffic jam of the year in Gravenhurst as the annual Chamber of Commerce Car Show hits the roads and streets in the Gateway to Muskoka. Hundreds of cars and trucks and vintage automobiles of all ages, sizes, colours and configurations […]
GRAVENHURST — Here we go again. And we don’t mean Game 7 of the NBA Finals — thankfully that’s over and We The North are champions. No, it’s another missed opportunity (Ed. Note: there you go again, Game 5?). After a large winning ticket in Bracebridge went a year without being claimed, it’s the same […]
MUSKKOA — What a difference a day makes. Back-to-back-championships. If you’re a sports fan, it doesn’t get much better. We The North are NBA champions — only 24 hours after St. Louis ended the blues by winning the Stanley Cup. From bed to bar that’s how I celebrated the two titles. Hockey may be our […]
KILWORTHY — Kathy Cruise is a richer person today. The Kilworthy resident is celebrating after winning a $50,000 prize withINSTANT WHITE DIAMOND 7S (Game #2095). The winning ticket was purchased at Gravenhurst Variety on Bethune Drive in Gravenhurst. INSTANT WHITE DIAMOND 7S is available for $5 a play and the top prize is $77,777. Odds of winning any prize are 1 in 4.02.