Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — At least three dozen new COVID cases today include 4 more from Muskoka. The health unit reports 36 cases (province says 44) bringing their total to 6,362 with 522 active cases. Among them are: Bracebridge man, 35-44, under investigation first reported Feb. 24 and first episode Feb. 23 Muskoka […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com TORONTO — Parry Sound and Muskoka were once part of the same health unit. Now it’s up to its MPP to speak up for the riding on two separate fronts after separation sent one half of residents north, the other half south. This morning in the provincial legislature Norman Miller urged […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — A Gravenhurst man who contracted the COVID virus the past few days through travel is the only Muskoka resident to test positive in today’s local public health reporting. Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit (SMDHU) reports 42 other cases in Simcoe. The Gravenhurst man, who is between the ages of […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — A two-year joint investigation between the province and the district has led to 9 charges against a water works worker who has been fired. The District of Muskoka began investigating March 2019 in to the “conduct of an employee,” says a release today. They say the employee was immediately […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — The province has announced the ages and dates when you can get a vaccination. General (Ret.) Rick Hillier, chair of Ontario’s COVID-19 Vaccine Distribution Task Force, explained the roll-out this morning on booking an appointment online and by phone. The local health unit will announce its own details tomorrow […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — Rising variant cases — including 9 now in Muskoka — are creating “worrisome” trend that could lead to a return to lockdown in Simcoe-Muskoka. Dr. Charles Gardner said this afternoon that he is “seriously thinking” of recommending a return to stay-at-home orders to provincial health officials who have the […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — You’ll know by Thursday where two Muskoka vaccinations clinics will open next week for those aged 85 and older. They are part of a dozen sites local public health is setting up Monday, March 1, to inoculate residents and high-risk workers. Medical officer of health Dr. Charles Gardner said […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — With a vaccine message from doctors who say: “Don’t call us we’ll call you,” 29 regional variant reports emerged today. This as Muskoka COVID cases also mounted with 3 more women testing COVID positive — two in Huntsville and one in Muskoka Lakes. Simcoe accounted for 58 of today’s […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Bob Jocque’s “OK” and doing fine — thank you very much for asking. Not bad for a guy who tested positive for COVID a month ago. And who is just two weeks out of quarantine. The 57-year-old fast-food worker is out and about again after the lockdown and happy […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — A half dozen COVID cases in Muskoka are among 144 reported for the past three days by the Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit (SMDHU). Four more in Huntsville, where it leads the district with 64 cases, and on each in Gravenhurst and Bracebridge. North Bay-Parry Sound, which is under […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Today is National Human Trafficking Awareness Day. And if you’re driving north or south on Hwy. 11 around Gravenhurst you’ll see new electronic roadside signs reminding you. Police say traffickers use major highways to transport their victims throughout Ontario. And they want their billboard campaign to spread awareness of […]
GRAVENHURST — A man accused of shoplifting at three stores here within a week has been arrested and charged. Police say that on Friday Feb. 19, at 3 p.m.. they responded to a shoplifting call from the Pet Value in Gravenhurst. A man was located within minutes by police in the parking lot pushing a […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — It wasn’t the coldest day of the year yesterday. More like the warmest day of the year so far as hundreds of walkers, joggers, kids, parents, grandparents and their pets trekked the streets here from morning to evening. They weren’t just out for a stroll on a gorgeous, sunny […]
MUSKOKA — Three snowmobilers ended up in hospital with serious non-life-threatening injuries the past two days after separate accidents. Police say they along with Muskoka EMS responded to three separate single vehicle collisions Friday and Saturday. The first collision occurred at an address on Beaumont Drive in Bracebridge Friday afternoon at 3 p.m. when the […]
MUSKOKA — Two drivers who ditched their vehicles within an hour in separate accidents Thursday night face impaired driving charges. The first, on Feb. 18, was at 7:15 p.m. Police responded to a public 911 call about a driver on Muskoka Beach Road in Gravenhurst. Officers located the vehicle in the ditch and as a […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSOKA — A Huntsville woman is among today’s 32 reported cases of COVID in Simcoe-Muskoka. She is aged 45-64, says the health unit, and had close contact with someone else with the virus. She discovered symptoms Feb. 13 and her case was first reported to the Simcoe-Muskoka District Health Unit (SMDHU) […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com PARRY SOUND — News this afternoon that Parry Sound will be locked down a further two weeks isn’t sitting well with many residents and businesses here. Even as the health minister said the local health system may not be able to cope with variants already within the health unit there. They […]
GRAVENHURST — A joint drug investigation underway since July, which included a rural search warrant here last week, has led to multiple charges against two people from Midland and one each from Essa and Wasaga Beach. Provincial police say Community Street Crime Unit (CSCU) members from their Southern Georgian Bay, Orillia, Bracebridge and Huntsville detachments […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com PARRY SOUND — Proactive or reactive? Panacea or placebo? What happened to home care you may have wondered. Well, after doctors sheltered in place decades ago and a flawed public health practitioner program was left to pick up the pieces, community support for stay-at-homers fell mostly to private for-profit retirement and […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — Two Muskoka cases top the COVID numbers today in Simcoe-Muskoka where 45 people are reported to have tested positive since yesterday. One is a man aged 45-64 who got it through the community with a first episode of Feb. 11 and reported Feb. 16. The other is a woman, […]