BRACEBRIDGE — It’s hard to find a parking spot here on Manitoba Street some days. On Father’s Day if you have a classic or antique car or truck you’ve got reserved spot. Bracebridge BIA officials will act as your valet director and park you on the main street for all your friends to see, as […]
Lois Cooper | Gravenhurst Horticultural Society GRAVENHURST — The Gravenhurst Horticultural Society invites you to take up painting and try on being an artist this month. On Tuesday, June 18, Nancy Hunter, a well known local artist will teach how to do a floral water colour. Hunter is fun and fantastic at leading paint parties. All […]
ORILLIA — Zoe Dhillon’s is graduating Saturday from Lakehead University in Orillia. And she wants to come back. Not to take graduate studies, but to teach. She will be “the Voice” of the Class” at convocation ceremonies June 8 here at Rotary Place. In an advance copy of remarks she is giving, Dhillon will “focus […]
ORILLIA — Provincial police here are looking for a mischief suspect who spray painted graffiti on a building, on Atherley Road, Monday June 3 reported to police. The suspect was caught on camera in the act spraying the side of the building. The Orillia OPP is releasing a picture of the suspect in hopes someone can identify this […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com BALA — Muskoka Lakes is more than a flood. It’s the envy of everyone, for its lifestyle, its people, it’s food and beverages. Savour it all Thursday June 20 at the annual Spotlight on Muskoka Lakes at The Kee. Experience a taste of what it’ll be like here this summer. The […]
BALA — With moving early morning ceremonies marking the 75th anniversary of D-Day on Juno Beach today, Canadians are marking the historic turning point in the Second World War. Muskoka veterans, their families and friends will no doubt be pausing to remember and take note. Though there are no formal occasions to pay respects, at […]
GRAVENHURST — Twenty-five years ago this week Second World War veteran George Swerbrick talked to Hugh Clairmont about D-Day and his role June 6, 1944 in the historic beach-storming invasion Canadians and Westerners are marking today and tomorrow. See our cover story below, from our second edition of MuskokaTODAY, June 3, 1994, Vol. 1 No. […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Today’s 30th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre may be repressed in China, but it brought back vivid memories for me of my trips there the past two years. To visit the Chinese capital of Beijing you’d never know its powerful seat of government was anything but a national […]