MUSKOKA — Muskoka lakes and rivers waters are safe to navigate again in time for the May 24 Victoria long weekend. While levels remain high in some areas, Transport Canada has lifted a ban issued April. The interim order prohibiting navigation on Lake Muskoka, the north and south Branches of the Muskoka River and Moon […]
Lois Cooper | Gravenhurst Horticultural Society GRAVENHURST — The Gravenhurst Horticultural Society’s annual plant and bake sale takes place this Saturday, May 18. The fundraiser will take place at the Opera House Square from 8:30 a.m. to noon — rain or shine. Partial list of plants for sale: Tomatoes: Beefsteak, Mini Yellow Pear, Starfire, Earliana, Cherry and Tiny Tim. The tomato […]
PORT SYDENY — Embers from a barrel fire ignited combustibles next to shed, which caught fire — then spread to a second shed — causing $30,000 damage here Sunday evening. The Huntsville/Lake of Bays Fire Department responded to a report of the sheds on fire on Hughes Road in Port Sydney shortly before 6 p.m., […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com TORONTO, QUEEN’S PARK — Say what you will about Doug Ford, the premier is on the flooding file. With waters still running high in Muskoka — and now Pembroke in particular — his PC government is acting fast to at least understand what went wrong. In the legislature today (Monday, May […]
ORILLIA — Provincial police are looking for witnesses after an 11-month-old infant was found on the way to school suffering from “severe” injuries. They are seeking the public’s assistance to help piece together the odd events that led to the baby boy’s injuries in Orillia back on Wednesday, March 20. The say someone call 911 […]
KINGSTON — A review of flood management in Ontario should begin with the premier “undoing the damage his government has done to the environment by cutting flood management programs.” NDP MPP Ian Arthur said in a release Friday from Kingston that “Doug Ford has cut funding to flood management programs by half, and forced Conservation Authorities […]
BRACEBRIDGE — The province is funding more than half a million dollars in mental health, drug and Indigenous services for Parry Sound-Muskoka. The $564,000 includes $320,000 for opioids addiction treatment and services, $100,000 for early psychosis intervention, and $52,000 for programs for priority populations including First Nations. MPP Norman Miller announced the support in a […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com ORILLIA — A small cemetery marking the resting place of a number of Huronia Regional Centre deceased — including many who died at it’s Muskoka Centre in Gravenhurst — is getting overdue recognition. A meeting Friday afternoon with provincial Infrastructure Ontario officials should clear up timing of the project for a […]