GRAVENHURST — A report of a suspicious person and a possible rifle in a snowbank has police looking for the person involved here last Thursday. Police say that on December 12, at 10 p.m., officers were dispatched to a report of a suspicious person who had been standing in front of a residence on Pinegrove […]
GRAVENHURST – The snow remains heaped high, but the Gravenhurst lifted it emergency declaration as of 11 a.m. Monday. Regular winter maintenance operations will continue throughout the municipality, they said this morning. This includes snow removal along roads and sidewalks in addition to the placement of sand and salt as required. However, a significant weather […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — All this snow and nowhere to go? That’s the fear of snowmobilers today as Muskoka District Council is debating about possible trail restrictions this evening involving property rights, insurance and district roads liability. It’s gotten serious enough that MPP Graydon Smith has shown his support for keeping them fully […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com TORONTO — Gravenhurst’s mayor is supporting a new volunteer provincial emergency group announced today to help in natural disasters like the one Gravenhurst is currently dealing with. Today Premier Doug Ford announced the creation of Ontario Corps, a group of skilled professionals and volunteers that the province can deploy to help communities respond […]
HUNTSVILLE — A shoplifting spree in Huntsville has police flummoxed. And they need your help. Officers from the Huntsville Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) are currently investigating a series of shoplifting incidents and are requesting the public’s assistance to identify the suspect. Yesterday, Dec. 12, the suspect who appears to be a female […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com COLLINGWOOD — As Muskoka grapples with a hospitals divide, the province said today it is investing up to $95.5 million to build a new replacement Collingwood General and Marine Hospital to serve Collingwood and South Georgian Bay with “care close to home.” It will include up to 132 new beds with […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — Know a woman with a pair of work boots who’s not making a fashion statement? Has the rough hands of man and a rock grip to go with it? Or she knows which end of a gear stick to run a grader or back hoe? Perhaps she sits in […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com BRACEBRIDGE — Bold, brazen and part naïve, Muskoka police are reporting a new trend where fraudsters show up in person to collect cash or bank cards in an apparent attempt to increase their believability. And it happened here last night. At 7:30 p.m., Dec. 11, police received a call from the […]