Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST (Feb. 3) — A $29 million drug bust that netted police almost 300 kilos of cocaine included a search warrant in Gravenhurst last month. Police say five people face a dozen charges after search warrants in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) and Gravenhurst. One of the accused is a Mexican […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com Where to begin this week …. Canada and the U.S. are at odds worse than groundhogs are over the start of spring. A provincial election will come sooner than voters want. And Justin Trudeau will be gone before Donald Trump. “This is crazy,” to quote the bogeyman Nov. 5. Well it […]
ORILLIA (Feb. 2) — It may be happy trails for snowmobilers glad to find sledding conditions more conducive across Central Ontario thanks to early snowfalls. But their trails aren’t designed for cars and trucks. They say a pair of instances lately ended with no injuries, but could have turned out differently when vehicles tried out […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com BRACEBRIDGE — Down just a goal in each of the first two periods, the Muskoka Bears gave up three more in the third for a 5-2 loss here last night at home. It was the same outcome as Friday when they visited Huntsville for the first of back-to-back weekend games. Down […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com BRACEBRIDGE — The Muskoka Bears enter the home stretch of their first season tonight home to Stayner. After their busiest stretch of the season so far — with 10 games in January — they left last month with a pair of wins against the division-leading Alliston Hornets (handing them their lone […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com BRACEBRIDGE — Last weekend’s Fire & Ice Festival was more about ice than fire, but it didn’t deter thousands who flocked onto Manitoba Street for lots of fun if not sun. Saturday was more about slipin’ and slidin’. Or more prec-ice-ly You-Tubing as hundreds of them lined up down Taylor Road […]
GRAVENHURST (Jan. 31) — A driver who police say appeared to avoid a RIDE cheque has been charged with impaired operation. Last night, Thursday Jan. 30, police were on Muskoka Road South at 11 p.m. checking vehicles, when a vehicle veered off the road within site of them. Officers followed the driver and stopped her […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com ORILLIA (January 21) — A man police charged with arson for allegedly starting a devastating downtown fire here last week has been arrested again and now faces further related charges as a result of bail conditions. On Tuesday, January 28, at 5:30 p.m. OPP were dispatched to an unwanted person at […]