Mark Clairmont

Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com TORONTO — The Ontario Fire College in Gravenhurst is being “decommissioned” as the province moves to train firefighters closer to their homes. In a release this evening, the Ford government said it is strengthening fire safety training across the province by increasing access to on-site and online courses in communities where […]

ORILLIA — Police are looking for help in finding a missing First Nations teen here. Ontario Provincial Police are trying to locate, 17-year-old, Keira Keeshig, who was reported missing from the City of Orillia. She was last seen by her family on January 11, 2021, at 5 p.m., when she left her residence saying that […]

Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — Three more people in Muskoka are among 81 new COVID cases reported today — dating back almost a week now. The health unit says that as of yesterday, Jan. 12, the cases posted on its website will now be reported based on the date reported to the public health […]

Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE MUSKOKA — Call it home sweet home. The COVID-19 immunization of residents of long-term care (LTC) and retirement homes (RH) in Simcoe Muskoka is now underway. The immunization program began Monday in long-term care homes following the Jan. 6 decision by the province that the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine can be safely transported out […]

Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — As tougher new Ontario state of emergency measures kick at midnight tomorrow (for 28 days), a Bracebridge man in his 80s with an undetermined cause of COVID-19 is among 68 cases reported today by the health unit. The Muskoka resident tested positive Sunday Jan. 10 and was just reported […]

Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com BRACEBRIDGE — A boil water order here will last all week after a broken water main near its iconic Muskoka waterfalls late Saturday. The District of Muskoka says a boil water advisory (BWA) issued Sunday will remain in effect till late this week for municipal water customers until further notice, following […]

BRACEBRIDGE — Due to safe water problems in Bracebridge, essential visitations to the hospital here have been suspended until further notice. A release today, Monday Jan. 11, from Muskoka Algonquin Healthcare says essential visitation by a patient’s designated care partner continues to be suspended at the South Muskoka Memorial Hospital Site (SMMH). Essential visitation was […]

Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — Gravenhurst and Huntsville continue to be hot spots for COVID-19 in Muskoka as the province rejects overnight curfew. Four new cases — two in each town — are young people aged 18-34. They are among 226 cases reported this afternoon by the Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit for the […]

Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — By today 450 staff at Muskoka’s two hospitals will have received the first dose of the Pfizer vaccine — as “occupancy is high” with unrelated COVID-19 cases. Natalie Bubela, CEO of Muskoka Algonquin Healthcare (MAHC), said in an email Friday that as of the end of Sunday, Jan. 10, […]

Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Talk of a curfew amuses Irene Turney. While she — and everyone we asked about it in a streeter today — welcomed pending overnight street restrictions in Ontario, she said “people are always breaking the rules, aren’t they.” She knows. “I disobeyed myself the odd time during the war,” […]

MUSKOKA — Impaired driving is becoming a daily problem morning, noon and night in Muskoka. Beggars the question: are your roads safe to drive or walk? Every day it seems another drunk is pulled off thanks to police or citizens calling 911 to report them. Take yesterday, for example, OPP patrolling Gravenhurst and conducted a […]

Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — Four new cases in Muskoka are among a stunning record 4,249 cases province-wide today, which are in part thanks to some 450 added in a Toronto backlog this week. Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit had 78 — 11 of them with pending OHIP address. That leaves Simcoe with 67 […]

Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com HUNTSVILLE — The face of COVID is remote for most Muskokans who know few of the 156 residents who have tested positive so far for the coronavirus. Privacy prevents that. But the three local people who have died — in a relatively unaffected northern area of the region — bring the […]

Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — A Huntsville man is among a positive drop to 52 COVID cases today in Simcoe and Muskoka. After some confusion about reporting dates and times, the Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit (SMDHU) says in a note on its Health Stats page that as of Jan. 7 daily case counts […]

Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com WASHINGTON — Chilling images of what appears unarguably to be an “insurrection” at the seat of the American government is best crystallized in one dramatic photo this afternoon of masked armed guards aiming their handguns at a blockaded door at the U.S. Capitol chamber. Vice President-elect Joe Biden just called the […]

Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — While another Muskoka COVID case was moved to another jurisdiction, the local health unit says today that a record 87 corona cases were confirmed in Simcoe yesterday. A previously reported case in Gravenhurst was also among four re-assigned to different Public Health Units. And that the three deaths in […]

Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com BRACEBRIDGE — Residents today in a home area of The Pines LTC residence are all being tested for the coronavirus after another outbreak was declared yesterday following a confirmed COVID-19 case of a staff member Jan. 5. This as vaccinations of residents could begin as early as Friday. The staff member […]