Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — What do you do when it’s 2 a.m., the window on your snow plow is broken and the wind and snow are blowing a blizzard into your cab? Well if you’re Charlie, who drives for Coon Bros. — and you’re facing several feet of snow on the ground and […]
RUNNING STORY … WATCH FOR STORM WATCH UPDATES HERE THROUGHOUT THE NIGHT Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — It’s white and it’s light. That’s the most you can say about the worst storm of the year whipping across Muskoka yesterday, today, tomorrow and the day after. It’s been a doozy with winds whipping up to […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com BRACEBRIDGE — Call it cold comfort — or the calm before the storm. A Christmas Carol sing-along last night — out at the Rotary Club of Bracebridge Centennial Garden was a cool yule — enough to warm your heart and melt any back of minds thoughts of the snow blowing in […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — A first-degree murder charge has been laid against a Beaver Creek federal prison inmate here after a fellow convict died Sunday. The OPP have since charged Devon Saunders, 54, with First Degree Murder contrary to the Criminal Code of Canada (CC) sec. 235(1). Saunders was to appear before the […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Police can’t — or won’t — release the name of a woman who crashed her vehicle here last night while “having five times the legal limit in her of alcohol in her blood.” They say it’s because they chose to identify the amount of her breathalyser test rather than […]
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BRACEBRIDGE — Fa, la, la, la, la …! A fun night of Christmas carolling returns tomorrow night to the Bracebridge Rotary Centennial Gardens. Thursday night’s annual Rotary Club of Bracebridge sing-along — complete with hot Christmas cheer — will be led by the Salvation Army band. Join them around the gazebo and enjoy sounds of […]
GRAVENHURST — A Beaver Creek inmate who suffered “significant injuries” at the federal prisons here Sunday has died. Provincial police say they are investigating the death at the correctional facility in Gravenhurst Dec. 18. They say that at about 9:50 p.m., OPP officers from the Bracebridge OPP detachment responded to a report from the prison […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — Doug Ford’s off-the-cuff remark about $1 billion to build two new hospitals in Muskoka stunned many — including local health-care providers. But it’s nothing compared to today’s breath-taking announcement that pretty much confirms that number. Muskoka Algonquin Healthcare says he premier may not be far off the mark when […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com HUNTSVILLE — A Muskoka MRI is just over a year away. And this morning MPP Graydon Smith announced $800,000 in funding for staffing when it does arrive at Huntsville District Memorial Hospital sometime in 2024. That’s after the hospital’s foundation raises the $5 million needed to buy and install it. Muskoka […]
HUNTSVILLE — A driver who ditched a stolen car during a snow storm early Friday was charged with drug possession and having a loaded Glock in his vehicle. Police charged the Ottawa man and seized the loaded handgun and drugs after the vehicle lost control and ended up in a ditch. On Dec. 16, at […]
BRACEBRIDGE — A snowmobiler is in a Toronto hospital trauma centre after colliding with a parked car Friday at noon. Local provincial police and the OPP Central Region Traffic Incident Management and Enforcement (TIME) team are investigating the collision that left the male driver with serious injuries Dec. 17 at 12 p.m. Bracebridge Fire Department and […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com BRACEBRIDGE — The best thing about school concerts — though the singing and dancing are great, too — is the kids and parents waving at each other. Take last night’s primary seasonal celebration at Macaulay Public School. It’s hard to tell who enjoyed it the most — the beaming kids searching […]
ORILLIA — Band lovers are in for a real treat Sunday. With several excellent concert and brass bands in the region, particularly the Orillia Silver Band, which have featured many fine soloists, one of the more distinguished performers takes the stage at the Orillia Opera House. By special arrangement, the Silver Band will host the […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVEHURST — The on-again-off-again Northlander could make a stop in Gravenhurst in a few years if the province follows through on a promise yesterday to start the engines again on a new train and service. Ontario will spend $140 million to buy three new “trainsets,” announced Associate Transportation Minister Stan Cho […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — It was a Joyeux Noel! for concert-goers Sunday as the Muskoka Advent Choir made its fifth stop of the carolling season at St. Paul’s Catholic Church. Those who came out on a snowy eve were treated to another joyful rendition of the traditional region-wide cantata. For 28 years — […]
GRAVENHURST — A worker at the new apartment buildings complex at the south end of Gravenhurst is the latest victim of crime in town this week. Police are investigating the theft of multiple tools from the construction site on Talisman Drive. It occurred sometime between late Wednesday, Dec. 7, and early Thursday, Dec. 8. They […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com After two years at home Christmas calendars are filling up and refrigerators are stuck with enough sticky notes to keep you and your family busy with fun events, lunches and craft sales scheduled morning, noon and night. Often too many to keep up with. There’ve been four Santa sightings in parades […]
MUSKOKA — There’s nothing like the stirring sound of dozens of trumpets, trombones, clarinets, flutes, timpani drums and sleigh bells ringing in your ears the sounds of the season. Carols, hymns, Handel, Mozart, Crosby and other holiday favourites including some exciting music of Hanukah. It’s all yours to behold in two Muskoka Concert Band performance […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — Experience won out over local knowledge tonight, as Muskoka councillors voted in former Barrie mayor Jeff Lehman as the district’s new chair. At their first meeting the 2022-2026 term Lehman beat out five other applicants in a secret vote of the 22 town and township mayors and council representatives. […]