Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com HUNTSVILLE — A day after Toronto passed a $16-billion budget and a 5.5 per cent tax increase, Muskoka’s largest municipality is proposing a 5.29 per cent hike. That includes a special “local share” of $230,000 for the future Huntsville District Memorial Hospital.” But local councillors didn’t do it as dramatically as […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — It’s intimidating enough to be moving up to high school from public school. But when Grade 8 Muskoka Beechgrove goalie Sara Gonneau got the call-up for the GHS girl’s hockey team yesterday, she knew she’d face stiff competition from her more experienced Huntsville opponents — some of whom she […]
BRACEBRIDGE — The grand Rotary tradition of an annual Broadway musical showcasing local talent is back. The service club has been mounting the “Rotary Show” since 1978, interrupted only by the pandemic. Its 43rd production closed at the beginning of March, 2020, just days before the world began to shut down. Even then, Rotary managed […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — What services and models of care will go in to the two new hospitals being built in Muskoka? Following January’s public consultations on the hospital site selection for south Muskoka, a survey seeking more public input includes an opportunity “for people to volunteer to participate in a user group,” […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — The streets and highways you travel to work and for fun are the workplaces of first responders. South Muskoka’s main street from the Gateway to Muskoka through the Heart of Muskoka is where you’ll find police, paramedics and firefighters answering 911 calls 24/7. This afternoon Rotarians recognized their “service […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com OPINION HUNTSVILLE — Mike Schreiner is Ontario’s most popular opposition leader. “I like Mike” is a common refrain. A tiny, perfect MPP. With the Liberals and NDP hard-pressed to find anyone to lead them — let alone ones as likeable as Mike — the left of Doug Ford is as wide […]
HUNTSVILLE — Joe’s down in the dumps. His 2022 International HV613 has been stolen. It’s got his name and everything on it. Both doors say ‘Joe’s Haulage.’ And now police are involved, investigating the theft overnight on Saturday, Feb. 4, at about 10 p.m. They say it was driven off from a commercial yard. And […]
MILFORD BAY — A snowmobiler injured late Saturday morning in Muskoka Lakes Township is in stable condition in a Toronto hospital. Police says that with assistance from the OPP Central Region Traffic Incident Management and Enforcement team, including collision re-constructionists, they are investigating a collision Feb. 4. They say that shortly after 11 a.m. the […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com OPINION HUNTSVILLE — The tug of war for Mike Schreiner takes centre stage here tomorrow. The Ontario Green leader will be at the Active Living Centre Tuesday morning, where more than 150 party members have signed up to attend the event scheduled long before the Liberals tried to recruit him. And […]
GRAVENHURST — Budget season begins with cold reminders of the cost of running towns and townships. At Wednesday’s special council meeting, Gravenhurst town councillors approved the 2023 Budget, which will result in a 2.9% increase to the town share of the tax rate. It’s the first budget since they were elected last fall. A town release says after publication of the budget materials Jan. […]
GRAVENHURST — A weekend police call in which several people were assaulted in a south end home here has led to two people being charged. OPP say that on Jan. 28, at 9:15 p.m., officers responded to an emergency call from a resident on First Street South. They say the caller fled after a person […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — It’s hard enough for adults and families to find homes. Try being a young person couch surfing. Now the YMCA of Muskoka and Simcoe is offering CAS kids helping hands. As part of $4 million in funding from Canada’s Support for Students Learning program (SSLP), the Y has announced […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com BRACEBRIDGE — Months of protests and requests for a sit-down with MPP Graydon Smith finally paid off for climate activists in Parry Sound-Muskoka last week. After more than a year of public protests and demonstrations across the district — including outside his constituency office in Bracebridge, Climate Action Muskoka (CAM) members […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — MAHC officials say they can live with any of the three recommended new hospital sites proposed in Bracebridge. All of which they say meet the province’s basic requirement for a 40-acre health-care campus in the next decade. South Muskoka Memorial Hospital currently sits on 11 acres. Hospitals CEO and […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Family and friends today are mourning the passing of former town and district councillor and real estate agent Terry Pilger this morning. The 67-year-old native of the old Ryde Township in Gravenhurst died Tuesday of a heart attack after a having the flu, His wife, Wendy, posted his passing […]
Lois Cooper | MuskokaTODAY.com OPINION MUSKOKA — Today I joined the Zoom presentation on choosing a new site for the new hospital in Bracebridge. I was unable to make a comment and so I write it here. First, let me say to the residents of Gravenhurst, you must speak up. Don’t be complacent. I never heard […]
GRAVENHURST — Last week had to be some kind of record for the number of impaired driving charges in south Muskoka. A sixth case was reported Friday — the second that day, Jan 20. Police say that just before 11 p.m. another concerned citizen called 911 when they saw a vehicle hit a parked car […]
MUSKOKA — Three more people face impaired driving charges in what police are calling an unsettling week, after police tracked them down today, Monday and Tuesday. The OPP are calling it an “unsettling trend” as officers arrested and charged their fifth driver with Impaired Driving in as many days just after 10 a.m. today, Jan. […]
GRAVENHURST — Two drivers here were arrested within an hour late last night charged with separate drug and impaired driving offences. Police say that on Thursday Jan. 19, at 11 p.m., an officer was on patrol along Hwy. 11 in Gravenhurst when a driver lost control of their vehicle ahead of him and came to […]
MUSKOKA LAKES — Police arrested a driver who fled officers late yesterday morning, charging him with impaired operation of a vehicle. They say officers attempted to stop David Grand, 63, at 11:30 p.m., when his driving behaviour appeared of concern to them. Officers were on general patrol, Jan. 18, on Muskoka Road 169 in Muskoka […]