Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Gordon Sloan would have loved Miranda Yang. She’s a chip off the old centre block. The chipper, glad-handing new owner (last year) of The Old Mill — town’s legendary Sloan’s Restaurant — is undergoing a facelift of the family’s iconic business building. “It’s still open” and she’s intent on […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.comMUSKOKA — Another long weekend … after a long, long winter.Don’t don those trunks just yet if you plan to be first into the lake for your annual spring ritual plunge as the weekend looks a little cool and damp with much the same the rest of the week. While a few […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Momentum is building fast with a third major partner joining a community fundraiser to create a new community “Health Hub” here. The Town of Gravenhurst unanimously committed $200,000 this week at council to the project to top up the vacant second floor of the Cottage Family Health Team’s offices […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — Call it Karaoke on steroids or shower power — times 80 voices. Rock on! Canada strong. Canada first. They are Canadians! A mighty new 80-voice choir that looms as large on stage as the audience their singing for hits the local boards next weekend for a really rockin’ good […]
HUNTSVILLE — A driver and passenger ran in to memorable police in the middle of the night last Monday. On May 5 at 3:26 a.m., officers were conducting a R.I.D.E. checkpoint on Main Street West in Huntsville. A vehicle drove up and he was recognized as being a suspended driver and a male passenger who […]
HUNTSVILLE — A mysterious blaze that lit up downtown Huntsville Friday night Hunter’s Bay and Avery Beach was not a grass fire as originally reported but railway ties on fire. Huntsville/Lake of Bays firefighters received the 911 call at 9 p.m., May 9, next to the tracks in the area of Avery Beach on Yonge […]
MUSKOKA — Summer is shaping up to be another busy season for police taking impaired drivers off the road that could total more than 100 charges this year alone by Labour Day. With six charges the first 11 days in May in south Muskoka they bring the number to 42 since January. If the trend […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — You know it’s a great hotel when the owner sits on the bed and declares it “very comfy, very nice.” Muhammad Akram — who wouldn’t dare put his feet up on the new pristine white duvet cover to not spoil it for a guest last night — gave the […]