MUSKOKA — Boat and motor vehicle charges were laid by police Sunday in two First Nations communities Sunday. Police said Monday that on Sept. 22 just before 1 a.m., OPP along with Muskoka EMS, responded to a crash of a vehicle on Kanien’kehá:ka Iohatátie (formerly Muskoka Road 38) on Wahta Mohawk First Nation. They have […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com BRACEBRIDGE — It was a win the Bears and Otters desperately wanted after an uneven 0-3 start to the Provincial Junior Hockey League season. A penalty shot goal by Muskoka’s Jacob Budney at 8:05 of the second period — which left the score tied at 2-2 for almost the next half […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA LAKES TWP. — A Port Carling man and a Barrie woman were in bail court today charged with more than two dozen counts after a police stop near Acton Island Road just after midnight early Saturday morning. Most of the charges were firearms and drug related as well as Highway […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Christie Buckley is a savvy business woman. She’s created a “co-working centre” offering “business support services.” The new “Savvy Community” is an “office building” that caters to daily, weekly and monthly rental spaces for small independent business owners. She has in mind private contractors or cottagers on the go […]
BRACEBRIDGE — What’s eight letters for winning a quarter-million dollars? “Shocking,” says Janet Dawson. And Instant, says the 54-year-old regular lottery player with OLG, whose go-to game is INSTANT CROSSWORD who is now celebrating a recent big win, courtesy of the classic word game. “While playing my ticket, I was checking how many words I […]
HUNTSVILLE — CCTV cameras caught vandals running amuck downtown Sunday as full moons began arising this week. And police are looking for images and identities to capture the pot planter punks gone wild. On Sept. 15, about midnight, five individuals damaged flowers and planters outside a local business on Main Street East, throwing them onto […]
LETTER TO EDITOR: A Barrie doctor recently shared her colleague’s experience in a Winnipeg hospital, of the fallout from the attempted consolidation of hospital services among Winnipeg hospitals in 2017. The Winnipeg Free Press headlines read: “Tories’ ER consolidation a catastrophic gift that keeps on giving; Streamlined’ system’s disastrous, blundered rollout chased away critically needed […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Three people — including two from Gravenhurst — face weapons charges, including possession of a loaded prohibited or restricted gun after a police executed a search warrant yesterday on home at the south end of Gravenhurst. A North York man was in bail court today facing the same charges. […]