Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — It was a scary triple-triple day for Oliver’s customers as the doors closed at 6 p.m. Friday. The last free cuppa coffee came the same day as Halloween and the Blue Jays looked for their first World Series Championship tonight since 1993. That’s two years after Oliver’s opened in […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com BRACEBRIDGE — A year from now drivers should be close to crossing the Silver Bridge again by car. That’s the dream of town and District of Muskoka staff as they finalize contract details with Clearwater Construction to repair — rather than replace the iconic 1920 three-span bridge closed on Jan. 6 […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com ORILLIA — Could AI have completed Mozart’s unfinished deathbed Requiem? Will we ever know? When Wolfgang Amadeus died in 1791 he was about half the average — or median — age of the Cellar Singers and their devoted audience who heard the renowned local choir perform them both beautifully yesterday afternoon […]
GRAVENHURST — A Midland driver stopped for travelling the wrong direction on Highway 11 early yesterday has been charged with impaired driving. On Monday Oct. 26, at 2:15 a.m., police conducting patrols on the highway located a vehicle travelling southbound in the northbound lanes. Officers were able to conduct a traffic stop, arresting and charging […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com BRACEBRIDGE — The closest Cheryl Cooper has come to perils at sea is white caps on Lake Muskoka and a stabilizing Atlantic cruise ship. But, Arrh! Make no mistake — the swashbuckling Bracebridge author is a “pirate at heart.” “Absolutely,” she said Sunday at the launch of Beyond the Pale Horizon […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com BRACEBRIDGE — While Blue Jays fans were celebrating last night Rotarians were doing as they usually do ‘Making Waves’ and doing good while gathering, socializing and preparing for another weekend of making life good for everyone. A two-day mini District 7010 conference at the Rotary Centre here saw 70 club executive […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Who’s gotta ticket? Who’s got single? Not Ken Little. But you never know tonight. The Muskoka Real Estate Services Inc. Broker told Rotarians a humourous story yesterday about how he scalped two Jays tickets when they won their first World Series in 1992 against Atlanta. On a whim he […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Picking strawberries for 25 cents an hour was a dream job for thousands of teenage girls intent on skipping exams early in the Second World War. However those first, long summer days of sunburns and back-braking harvesting were unexpected hard work that sent a few packing home — at […]