PARRY SOUND — Forecasts for thunder showers and lightning the next few days could a mixed blessing in Ontario’s ongoing forest fire battles, including Parry Sound 33. Provincial efforts to contain the 8,224 hectare (8,000 football fields) still “not under control” Parry Sound 33 blaze continue. The rain could help suppress the dozens of fires, but […]
SPRINGWATER TOWNSHIP — Police are looking for an attempted transport theft. Provincial police at the Huronia West Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) are asking the public for their assistance in solving this crime. They say that at about 12:49 a.m. on July 23, unknown suspect(s) entered 2 Currie Drive, Currie Truck Center, west […]
ORILLIA — Police here are looking for suspected thief caught on a security camera. The Orillia Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) is asking for the assistance of the public with regards to a theft from a local business the City of Orillia. They say that on July 25, 2018, a female entered a […]
BRITT — Hours after burning voters in Toronto and Muskoka with electoral changes, Premier Doug Ford was in Britt Friday afternoon offering to help MNRF staff put out fires affecting Northeastern Ontario. He was joined by Parry Sound-Muskoka MPP Norm Miller and by Jeff Yurek, Minister of Natural Resources and Forestry. Parry Sound 33 is […]
BRACEBRIDGE — Residents and taxpayers hoping to elect their first District of Muskoka chair may be out of luck. Premier Doug Ford stunned Ontarians Friday, July 27, when he said intends to introduce provincial legislation that would, if passed, amend both the Municipal Act and the Municipal Elections Act to reverse changes, introduced in 2016, […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com Story & Photos HUNTSVILLE — “The Anglo Canadian Leather Company Band (ACLC), from Huntsville Ontario, was the best industrial band in North America.” That was 100 year ago. Saturday night 53 bandsmen and women channelled the brass band in the first of two weekend tribute concerts. The other sold-out show was […]
PARRY SOUND — Despite some rain, Parry Sound 33 remains a priority wildfire today, Thursday July 25 for the firefighters across a lower section of Northern Ontario. As two more fires have started up today, bringing the total now to 50 (16 of them still out of control) restricted fire zones have been expanded across […]
MUSKOKA — Muskoka has PRIDE. Gravenhurst …, Bracebridge …, Huntsville …., Georgian Bay …, Lake of Bays …, Muskoka Lakes …, and Wahta …. They all have pride in their LBGTQ+ communities. From the Muskoka Tourism centre south of Gravenhurst, and north, east and west at seven town halls across the district (except at the […]