Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com Photos Lois Cooper | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Wars are hell — remembering them can be hellish. COVID is over, crowds swelled, the band was back while veterans were in short supply, but a Legion Remembrance Day salute to fallen comrades Saturday went off solemnly and almost seamlessly. At the 11th hour, […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — A crime wave sweeping through Gravenhurst this summer has come to a halt. More than 100 thefts and break-ins that have “frustrated” merchants robbing them of their livelihoods are the work of just two suspects, say police. And one of those officers behind the apprehension of one of those […]
GRAVENHURST — Let the bidding begin — to help your Rotary Club help our community. With an exceeding 200 items ringing up a retail value of more than $30,000, every bid you make will go to assist someone or a charity organization you probably know in town. This of course thanks in large part, also, […]
Story and photos Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — The chalet where generations of golfers and skiers picked up their first clubs and skis is but a memory today. The gorgeous little green, twin-peaked cedar clubhouse came down on an icy November day — between the two seasons at the Taboo Resort’s old nine-hole golf […]
GRAVENHURST — “Frustrated” shop owners are happy to see a suspect charged with multiple thefts here appeared in court this morning. Police say they charged a Gravenhurst man accused of multiple thefts at local stores. They say that between June 2023 and November officers responded to 99 separate incidents of theft and shoplifting from the […]
LAKE OF BAYS — In what the fire department is calling a complete loss, a home in east Muskoka was destroyed early this morning. There was no one home at the time of the blaze. Just before 1 a.m. Wednesday, November 8, the Huntsville/Lake of Bays Fire Department responded to a structure fire on 1005 […]
GRAVENHURST — Northland’s bid to return passenger rail service to the north in 2016 rolls into Gravenhurst today from noon to 4 p.m. An open house information centre at the Centennial Centre will update the public on its news that the province has bought three trains to carry residents between Toronto and Cochrane. Sixteen of […]
Photos and story Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Traffic was snarled through town here again this afternoon after another transport spilled its load of prime two-by-four lumber on Hwy. 11 under the south-end bypass and entrance to Gravenhurst. It’s the second similar roll-over in the past year at the same location where over the […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Marlyn Goodwin turned 90 today. And she had three of her sons in town for the weekend celebration, including Tom who returned today to his Nova Scotia whale-watching business, while brothers Greg and Bill headed home to the Ottawa Valley (after an AC/DC concert at the OP). Brother Randy, […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Ten months in to the year — with snow on the ground — keeping up with economic activity here is a daunting task. One that keeps the town’s economic development manager, Amy Taylor, busy on top of far-reaching happenings from one end of the municipality to more than another. […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — War never ends. The people fighting them do. Each year the Muskoka Concert Band honours them with a “We Remember” concert. This year it’s Saturday, Nov. 4, 2 p.m. at Trinity United Church in Gravenhurst on Muskoka Road North. Admission is by free-will offering. It recognizes the men and […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — Hunters woke up today to weather more suited for tracking. The first two full weeks of November (starting next week) is deer-hunting season in Muskoka. “But you don’t need snow to track a moose,” said hunter Paul Cook, whose camp got a calf recently with their licence this year […]
WASHAGO — A search yesterday for a boater who was overdue has ended tragically. Police divers located the unidentified man in the Green River near Washago. On October 31, at about 4:30 p.m., OPP from Orillia were dispatched to the Green River after a vessel was found abandoned. Officers, along with residents, Ramara Fire Department […]
Photos, story Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Scary weather almost put a damper on last night’s Howl-o-ween fest. The best costumes went to the kids who wore snowsuits under their Barbie and Spider Man outfits. Luckily in Gravenhurst hundreds of them got off to a great start at the now annual dusky 6 p.m. […]
WASHAGO — Police are investigating after two incidents of “anti-Semitic” and “threatening” messages were spray-painted at a residence in Washago Saturday and again yesterday. The Orillia detachment of the OPP) is seeking the public’s assistance to identify the suspect(s) in relation to graffiti and threatening messages they say were left on a residence in the Village […]
Photos and story Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — On the eve of Remembrance Day — 106 years after his death — Private Thomas Phililp Reddicen can finally rest in peace. If only his family knew. Saturday morning the Governor General’s Horse Guards righted a wrongat the grave of an unknown soldier here. Commanding officer […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — The school community is mourning the passing of a popular retired kindergarten teacher. Doug Kamachi, 59, who taught his entire career at Beechgrove Public School in Gravenhurst died of a cardiac arrest last week — after “his heart just stopped,” said his wife who with his family was at […]
HUNTSVILLE — Following a “serious assault” investigation here early yesterday, police have a suspect in mind. Provincial police say this afternoon that an arrest warrant has been issued for following the incident in Huntsville. On October 24, at about, 3:15 a.m., they say officers from the OPP detachment in Huntsville responded to a call from […]
LAKE OF BAYS — A man who was helped by firefighters from a burning garage yesterday afternoon and was airlifted to hospital in Toronto is in stable condition. Huntsville/Lake of Bays Fire Department says that just after 3:08 p.m. on October 23 they responded to the fire on Point Ideal Road in Lake of Bays. […]
HUNTSVILLE — A man was taken to hospital here early this morning and police have launched an assault investigation. Officers from the OPP’s Huntsville detachment and the Muskoka Crime Unit are following up a call just after 3 a.m., October 24, in Huntsville. A call from the 32-year-old male victim said he was assaulted on […]