ALGONQUIN PARK — Cast off for Algonquin Park this Saturday for the free Rock Bass Family Fishing Day, as Kids, Cops get ready to dip a line in the water. It marks the start of National Fishing Week, when Canadians can fish without a licence for seven glorious summer days. The event is being held […]
UPDATE: Police divers have recovered the body of a houseboat owner who tried to save a female swimmer Monday evening. Police say the victim, 40-year-old Todd Simpson, of Clarington, was recovered late Tuesday afternoon, July 3, 2018 at 5:45pm by the OPP’s Underwater Search and Recovery Unit from Gravenhurst. MUNICIPALITY OF TRENT LAKES — A […]
BRACEBRIDGE — Norm Miller has some ideas on running the province. And he plans to offer his “experience” and advice to Doug Ford, after the new premier named his his assistant. A release Tuesday said: “MPP-elect for Parry Sound-Muskoka Norm Miller was honoured to learn on Friday that he will serve as Parliamentary Assistant to […]
ORILLIA — A Bracebridge man has been arrested and charged in an eight-month crime spree here. Provincial police arrested Jacob McCallen, 32, for several thefts. On June 20, 2018, OPP officers in Orillia recognized a vehicle suspected to have been used in a rash of thefts in Central Ontario, between October 2017 and June 2018; […]
GRAVENHURST — You this summer’s weather is hot. Wait till you hear Pavlo. His sizzling guitar virtuosity will burn your ears. The brilliant performer and showman sells out wherever he goes. And the Muskoka Concert Association’s annual fundraiser July 14 is a concert you won’t want to miss. Guitar players won’t believe what he does […]
GRAVENHURST — O Canada what a scorcher of a day. If you liked it HOT! — and plenty did — July 1 was your day. The temperature topped at 37 — but with the humidity it was well over 40. And Canadians celebrated in Gravenhurst Sunday like it was the middle of winter on an […]
LETTER TO EDITOR: MUSKOKA — The Capital Plan Development Task Force met on June 14. The land use and community planning analysis was finalized having incorporated additional revisions requested by the municipalities providing feedback on the report. Task force members agreed to accept the report as final, acknowledging non-urban centre hospital sites would be not […]
LONGFORD MILLS —The Ontario Educational Leadership Centre (OELC) here, off Rama Road, is celebrating its 70th anniversary Wednesday July 4. They are a local not-for-profit educational centre, which serves more than 2,000 students in Ontario each year. In honour of this anniversary they are hosting an event where 89-year-old alumnus Alex Saunders from their first […]