HUNTSVILLE — A local man faces three counts of Adult Luring a Person Under 18 years of age by means of Telecommunication. Provincial police say officers with the Huntsville detachment, the Muskoka Crime Unit, and Child Exploitation Unit and Digital Forensic Unit of the OPP have been investigating a sexual assault involving a young person […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — More than 3,000 local health-care workers in North Simcoe and Muskoka have received the first doses of the Pfizer COVID vaccine since Dec. 22. Almost 600 alone yesterday. The northern two thirds of the Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit (SMDHU) is the fourth-most active provider among 20 regions in […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — We’re four-for-four today in Muskoka if you’re COVID-19 counting. That’s four more northern cases among 70 reported on Jan. 5 — for Jan. 4 —by the Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit (SMDHU). Two women in Gravenhurst, aged 18-34 and 45-64 are under investigation as to the cause of their […]
MUSKOKA — A new beginning and new hope for two Muskoka moms and their growing families. Muskoka Algonquin Healthcare (MAHC) had their first babies of 2021 at hospitals in Bracebridge and Huntsville this week. At the South Muskoka Memorial Hospital, baby Jack was born at 11:02 a.m. on Sunday, January 3, 2021 to Adara Erickson […]
HUNTSVILLE — A five-week RIDE campaign here ended with an average of two people a week being charged with impaired driving over the run-up to Christmas and after New Year’s. Starting Nov. 26, the Festive RIDE (Reduce Impaired Driving Everywhere) Program started across Ontario and ended Jan 2. The provincial police detachment at Huntsville set […]
ORILLIA — A suspected impaired driver who fled police has been charged with a pair of break and enters. Police arrested the Bracebridge man with numerous offences after he refused to stop for them, then they say he unlawfully entered two houses. They say that on Saturday Jan. 2, just after 9 a.m., a 911 […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — It’s a double-digit day for Muskoka as the health unit reports 248 cases for Friday, Saturday and Sunday. That’s an average of 82.66666666666667 over the past three days to start 2021. Ten of them ranging in age from under 18 to up to 79 were in the northern half […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com TORONTO — A couple of former premiers — including a one-time Parry Sound-Muskoka MPP — are among appointees to the Order of Ontario today. Lt-Gov. Elizabeth Dowdeswell, chancellor of the Order of Canada, announced 47 appointees for 2019 and 2020 on Friday. Among them are Ernie Eves and his predecessor Mike […]
GRAVENHURST – The king of the castle-making is Andrey Petrov. The ice sculptor we told you about on Boxing Day has crafted his annual winter masterpiece in his front yard. Using a blue box, some help from his son Nikolas and lots of talent and sweat equity, he carved out a couple of castles on […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com BRACEBRIDGE — A new year, new start and plans for the future of downtown are on the books for 2021 in Bracebridge. A master plan to guide core political actions the next decade will be up for virtual discussion Jan. 7. The town wants to know what you want and offers […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — Five more people today ends the year with 3,589 COVID cases in Simcoe and Muskoka. Can 2021 be any worse? Among the 74 cases the health unit is reporting are three confirmed in Gravenhurst and one each in Huntsville and Lake of Bays. All are under investigation by the […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — Muskoka is bucking the COVID trend again today, with just one of 56 reported cases in the region. A young Huntsville female under the age of 18 is under investigation as Simcoe ran up the total again with 55 cases. That brings the total to 322 since Christmas Eve, […]
ORILLIA — A Huntsville man faces sexual assault charges in a police human trafficking investigation. Provincial police say today that members of the new Provincial Human Trafficking Intelligence-led Joint Forces Investigations, with assistance from the Orillia Crime Unit and detachment members, arrested and charged a multi-jurisdictional offender. In May 2020, the investigation began with allegations made by a […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — The lockdown, a new variant and a slow rollout to prevent the pandemic’s spread are having little effect on local cases of COVID-19 as new numbers released late this afternoon show an explosion in cases. Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit reports 269 cases Tuesday, Dec. 29. But only 2 […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — If at first you don’t succeed …. That’s the success story of Climate Action Muskoka (CAM). The environmentalists who were miffed at being initially rebuffed late last fall by the District of Muskoka got the “best Christmas gift” they could ask for in the waning days before the holiday […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Murray Smith admits to being a bit of rogue growing up. And probably giving his mom, Melba Smith, 97, more than her share of grief. But the 64-year-old Orillia resident is making up for it by regularly visiting his mom at Gravenhurst Manor, and having a “thin slice of […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Andrey Petrov is taking the start today’s lockdown seriously by staying home — and staying busy. With February’s winter carnival in doubt, due to COVID, he is keeping his snow-building skills sharp. The perennial ice sculpture winner and winter snow artist has been busy at home the past two […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — As the world gathers today for to its most memorable Christmas — together and apart — celebrants will take time off to reflect on an annus horribilis while putting hope and faith in 2021. The 12 days of Christmas, which begin today, will culminate in the midst of a […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — Five new Muskoka COVID cases today compare to 44 reported in Simcoe. And they are aged from under 18 to up to 79. After Gravenhurst and Huntsville have experienced the most cases in December since the pandemic outbreak, Bracebridge is gaining cases after being to a lesser extend affected. […]
HUNTSVILLE — A driver police say was swerving on the road last night has been charged with impaired driving. The OPP says that on Wednesday Dec. 23, at 8:30 p.m., an officer observed a car swerving while being driven on Centre St north. A police stop determined that the driver was under the influence of […]