Rivercove rallies after unprecedented flood

Council scraps Waterloo centre business plan

HUNTSVILLE - Huntsville councillors will not be dishing out cash for a business plan for the Waterloo Summit Centre for the Environment.
The business plan would have been the third phase of a...

Help kids play organized sports through annual Jumpstart event

HUNTSVILLE - On May 25, the fifth annual Jumpstart Day will take place at the Huntsville Canadian Tire.  
The daylong fundraising event is the celebration of Jumpstart’s May Red Ball...

Huntsville resident receives top internship from New Brunswick university

HUNTSVILLE – International relations students Margaret Kromminga and Sarah McNeil, a Huntsville resident, have been selected as this year’s Mansbridge Interns at Mount Allison University. Valued at...

News | May 23 |  

Cocks stirring up trouble in Lake of Bays

LAKE OF BAYS – For years Marcy Hill and her family have raised free-range chickens on their Lake of Bays property with no issues. But a couple of roosters changed that this spring.

Nelson’s star rising with third straight MMA pro win

HUNTSVILLE - When ex-UFC heavyweight champion Brock Lesnar was plying his trade in the rings of the WWE, he was known as “The Next Big Thing,” a moniker that followed him as he moved from...

Hawks reflect on good year after crushing defeat at provincials

HUNTSVILLE - Muskoka field lacrosse players are reminiscing on a fun year while limping back after being eliminated in the Eastern finals in the Ontario Minor Field Lacrosse League.
With one win...

Minor baseball groups announce merger

HUNTSVILLE - This past weekend, the boards of the Muskoka Hornets and the Huntsville Minor Baseball Association voted unanimously to merge.
The merger allows the Hornets to gain closer ties...

Dance studio reaps awards at competition

HUNTSVILLE - Members of the JJ Dance Performing Arts Studio in Huntsville competed at the Dancefest competition held at Deerhurst Resort on May 5 to 6.
Even though it was our very first...

Nature’s chaotic beauty captured in art show

HUNTSVILLE – An area artist well known for his work with Group of Seven murals will present a show of his landscape and expressionism work this weekend.

Annual concert kicks-off mental health awareness month

HUNTSVILLE – It is time to raise a fork and a fiddle bow for mental health awareness.

Team Canada hero calls Game 7 goal “greatest of my life”

HUNTSVILLE - Paul Henderson and his wife Eleanor will speak at the 11th annual Mayors of Muskoka Prayer Breakfast on April 6.

Trajectories traces the artistic paths of bursary winners

BRACEBRIDGE – Trajectories, an exhibition featuring the work of 16 past recipients of the Jean E. MacDonald Student Bursary, opened at the Chapel Gallery in Bracebridge on Saturday, March 30.

A place we can call home

It’s hard to say just what makes home feel like home. It’s not like you can just pull out a spray bottle and throw some scent in the air and the feeling will begin to wash over you...

Proud of the hard work nurses do

To the Editor:

As Canadians celebrate national Nursing Week (May 6-12), I thought I...

Doing us all proud

It is an empty, sinking feeling to hold a party and nobody shows up. You look around the empty space and wonder what went wrong, and what will you do with all that food.

Fortunately, that’s...

Letters | May 02 |  (2)

Attack ads are waste of taxpayer dollars

Editor’s Note: The following was requested to appear as a Letter to the Editor.

To Tony Clement:

Mr. Clement, I want you to know that am totally appalled by the news both...