Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com HUNTSVILLE/BRACEBRIDGE — Hospital funding that solidified Tory support in Muskoka may be a moot point after all. That is if you believe the latest numbers from the Muskoka Algonquin Healthcare (MAHC). They claim, rather erroneously alone, to having “achieved its sixth balanced budget in the last seven years.” In fact, they […]
HALIBURTON — The soaring popularity of pickup has police here on the hunt for a truck thief. On Sunday June 24, Haliburton Highlands OPP got a report of a stolen vehicle from a driveway on Duck Lake Road in the Township of Minden Hills. Overnight or the night before someone stole a dark grey 2015 […]
ORILLIA — There’s a new sign to watch for here on Hwy. 11. ( Thursday, the bridge at Burnside Line/West Street overpass was officially dedicated in honour of OPP Const. George Bennett, 38 years after he died while on duty. Bennett joined the Ontario Provincial Police in 1975. He was posted to the Brechin Detachment before […]
GRAVENHURST — Dennis Thain thinks the deaths of any firefighter are worth remembering. In 1988 the Fire Fighters’ Association of Ontario (FFAO) raised money to build a monument in their memory here at the Ontario Fire College (OFC). With then Ontario lieutenant governor general Lincoln Alexander on hand, 600 firefighters, families and friends from Muskoka […]
GRAVENHURST — The Muskoka Crime Unit is investigating an assault that landed a Mississauga man in hospital in a case of road rage. The 58-year-old suffered non-life-threatening injuries. On Tuesday June 19, between 6:30 and 8:00 a.m., there was an altercation between the operator of a grey Hummer and occupants of a second vehicle on […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com KILWORTHY — If Bruce Schulz were to walk you through the little Lutheran Cemetery, it would take you “all day.” “I know all the people. I could tell you stories about each one,” he says. The Lehmans, the Jarricks, the Sophers, the Middlebrooks’, the Sewells, the Kocks and the Cox’s … the […]
GRAVENHURST — June is an exciting time for high school grads. The exhilaration of ending one educational chapter and beginning another in two months can be tempered by the adult realization of paying for post-secondary studies. Especially now that government plans for free schooling have ended. Luckily, a six-year-old Rotary Club of Gravenhurst initiative is […]
WINDERMERE — Worshippers are in a for a treat this summer at the Christ Church here. Martin Luther Wayne Strongman, one of Canada’s most distinguished music directors, will bring his talent and vast musical experience to Muskoka throughout July and August. Strongman has held major church music director positions and is currently at Rosedale United […]