GRAVENHURST — As COVID-19 scares ramp up in the wake of 10 new positive tests in Muskoka any closures or signs of cleaners converging on businesses is turning heads. At the Canadian Tire Gas Bar here today the pumps were taped off and men in white haz-mad suits were seen going in and out of […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com HUNTSVILLE — Long line-ups for COVID tests could get shorter as the province partners with pharmacies to provide free testing starting Friday. At the Shopper’s Drug Mart in Huntsville today, Premier Doug Ford said Ontario will begin offering testing by appointment only, at 60 pharmacies with further locations coming online in […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — Make no mistake — COVID’s second wave slammed into Muskoka today with the might of Teddy. At 1 p.m., the same hour as Premier Doug Ford was in Huntsville at a Shopper’s Drug Mart to announce drug store testing for the coronavirus, at the other end of Simcoe Muskoka […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — Think those blooms of blue-green algae popping up in Muskoka lakes this summer are no big deal? Well, reports today out of Botswana may hint otherwise. The mysterious deaths of 330 elephants in the South African country this spring point to the algae as the cause, says its government. […]
BRACEBRIDGE — Call it double double, toil and trouble. Or coffee and cash go. The owners of Oliver’s Coffee here have grounds to complain after a thief stole a stash of cash overnight yesterday. Police are investigating a break and enter at the Manitoba Street restaurant sometime overnight Sunday, Sept. 20. They say an unknown […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — Two middle-aged women in Bracebridge are among the latest pandemic positive cases in Muskoka as fall begins and COVID-19 has become an almost daily crap shoot locally. And a woman from Gravenhurst, reported last Friday, has been removed from the virus toll. As Ontario hit another new high of […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Book signings aren’t a biggy for most authors. But for Rusty Draper they are. Not because he’s written an engaging, folksy memoir — a feat itself for a voice whose name and fame remain in Orillia radio — but because “I’m dyslexic.” Not too shabby for a Gravenhurst guy […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com BRACEBRIDGE — Add another Pines health care worker to the growing list of COVID-19 cases ramping up across the country as public restrictions tighten. This just as this week the District of Muskoka’s retirement and LTC home was cleared after 14 days since its last institutional outbreak involving a worker and […]
GRAVENHURST — A June boating accident has led to impaired charges after the boat hit shore on Kahshe Lake. Police say that on June 27 at 2 a.m. they were called to the collision in south Gravenhurst. The operator of the vessel and his passenger were transported to hospital with serious, non-life-threatening injuries. A search […]
GRAVENHURST — An Oakville man headed north in a hurry was clocked at 98 km/h over the speed limit Wednesday. Police say that at 11 p.m., Sept. 16, an officer was on radar patrol on Hwy. 11 north, just south of Gravenhurst’s core, and spotted vehicle travelling at a very high rate of speed. The […]
HUNTSVILLE — Police here need your help solving a pair of crimes. One that saw four tires slashed on a car dropping it to the ground. And the other, unrelated, is a generator that was stolen. They received a mischief complaint in which sometime between 11:30 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 16 and 9 a.m. the next […]
HUNTSVILLE — A tri-level government project that will see the town get another new transit bus and one to help wheelchair passengers commute is part of a $413,000 Ridership Growth Plan for Huntsville. MPP Norman Miller said Friday that Ontario is investing more than $122,000 in the plan by nominating it under the Public Transit […]
MUSKOKA — As Ontario experienced a huge spike in COVID-19 cases reported today at 401, two Muskoka residents have also tested positive, says the local health unit. The man and woman are both under investigation as the origins of their diagnosis. A woman from Gravenhurst is listed as aged 18-34. And a man from Huntsville […]
MOOSE DEER POINT — A man accused of unlawfully being in a woman’s house faces sexual assault charges. Provincial police say that on Aug. 30 officers from the Bracebride OPP detachment were dispatched to Moose Deer Point First Nation regarding an allegation of a man entering her home and assaulting her. After an OPP investigation, […]
BRACEBRIDGE — A man who crashed a stolen auto into a tree on the main street here early yesterday has been charged with impaired driving. Police say they were dispatched on Sept. 16, at 6:30 a.m., to the collision on Manitoba Street. The driver was transported to hospital with minor injuries and an investigation revealed he […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com BRACEBRIDGE — Here’s a switch for you. While many aging seniors leave small towns to be closer to big city hospitals, a Gravenhurst couple has done the opposite. And to show their love and appreciation of local health care, Bary and Brenda Gray have donated $2 million to the South Muskoka […]
HUNTSVILLE — As demand for COVID testing ramps up across the country, Huntsville’s political efforts to keep at least part-time testing in town has paid off. The District’s Muskoka Paramedic Services, Huntsville physicians and the Town of Huntsville have united together to keep the Assessment Centre, which closed a permanent site at the hospital two […]
BALA — Twenty-six years after they first gathered in large numbers to be shephered through the darkened streets here, Bala’s Trek to Bethlehem is forced to take a sick day. “It is with deep disappointment that we announce that Bala’s Trek to Bethlehem has been cancelled for 2020,” says a release today. “This event, with […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Family, friends and members of the business community are “shocked” and mourning the sudden passing yesterday of Audrey Van Petegem. The busy and active Gravenhurst and Muskoka community leader died of a heart attack Sept. 15. She had just turned 58 in June, her husband Scott Harkness said this […]