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 […]
GRAVENHURST — An explosive fire at an auto repair shop Sunday morning destroyed a vehicle and sent clouds of dark oily smoke spewing across Hwy. 11 South. Gravenhurst firefighters from Stations 1 and 2 had their hands full May 26 at Dave’s Auto Repair in Kilworthy, after a passerby saw smoke billowing from the shop […]
BRACEBRIDGE — Call it catch-as-catch-can. And what goes down, must come up. A debris catcher? Or something like that. This week, Bracebride public works staff were able to finally remove the snowmobile bride that crosses the Muskoka River near Kerr Park. After a busy spring trying to tame the river effect, they got around to […]
BRACEBRIDGE — Music for Everyone couldn’t be better name for their annual Muskoka Men of Song spring concert June 7 at the Rene Caisse Theatre. The 36 voices in the choir will not only be pleasing as always to your ear, with tuneful numbers from their own repertoire; but this year they welcome back the […]