GRAVENHURST — Forget vaccine passports, criminals are travelling in comfort and style this summer. Thieves here got away with a Passport travel trailer worth $40,000 and a boat trailer you’d have to sink $10,000 in to to launch with it. Provincial police are investigating a pair of un-petty crimes the past two weekends. Overnight Saturday […]
MUSKOKA — A push to get more Muskokans vaccinated continues. After months struggling to get more testing and vaccination sites, the health unit is pulling out all the stops as it increases walk-in traffic and puts on pop-up clinics in even remote community locations. The latest initiative started this past Monday in Gravenhurst and continued […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — Should unvaccinated Canadians be able go to the ballot box in a federal election? It’s too late for a plebiscite on that question. But with 15 to 25 COVID cases in Simcoe-Muskoka today, 513 in Ontario, Justin Trudeau expected to call for a national vote within days and more […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — GAP’s “dream” is alive. A future home to house all its social initiatives including its signature food program and a Young Adult Centre. “The stars have to align,” Gravenhurst Against Poverty chair Bonnie Dart said this morning at the official kick-off to a major fundraising campaign. Their public solicitation […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — A young Muskoka Lakes man is among 15 COVID cases the health unit is reporting in Simcoe-Muskoka today as the fourth wave is upon us all but officially declared. The 18-34-year-old is under investigation as to the cause, which was reported Aug. 5 with a first episode Aug. 2. […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — A dozen more Simcoe COVID cases today keeps the pressure on regional residents to stay the course on staying apart. The province reported 15 cases locally Tuesday. With an American travel invasion underway Muskoka is a prime destination for an influx of visitors from a country still struggling to […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com Comedian John Cleese made a big splash — and headlines — last week when he claimed Airbnb left him high and dry for a film shoot by taking his money under Fawlty pretences. He Tweeted they left him homeless in Huntsville by taking his deposit, but giving the Muskoka towers to […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — A weekend with 28 new COVID cases reported in Simcoe follows a province-wide trend that has many local residents on edge. Including those in Muskoka — where while there were no cases today it’s almost triple the number in the region compared to this time last year. In the […]
GRAVENHURST — A local woman driving with an open container of liquor who refused to cooperate with police has been charged with impaired driving after a complaint from another driver last night. Provincial police say that at 9:35 p.m. Bracebridge OPP officers were dispatched to a traffic complaint of a motor vehicle that was “erratically […]
GEORGIAN BAY — A continuing rash of acts of vandalism here this summer has police on the hunt for culprits behind the damage to vehicles and property. They are investigating “mischiefs” they say continue to occur at Go Home Lake Road and Minors Bay Road in Georgian Bay Township. Since May 2021 there has been […]
TARA COLLUM | Contributing columnist A lot has changed in Gravenhurst since February 2020, but much remains the same. Coming back to town two weeks after my second vaccination, I was annoyed to see that the bus situation hasn’t improved. For those unfamiliar, the Ontario Northland drops passengers off in front of the Gravenhurst Bait […]
MUSKOKA — A couple of beaches have been freed from swim advisories in time for the weekend. The Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit (SMDHU) has lifted the swim advisory for Bowyer’s Beach (1019 Bowyer’s Beach Road) effective Aug. 6 from follow-up testing as a result of the initial swim advisory notice on July 30. And […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — While 5 more COVID cases today bring Simcoe-Muskoka’s weekly total to 20 (8 less than last week) provincial numbers jumped to 340 and 18 more deaths. One of the cases Friday was a young Gravenhurst man who had travelled and reported yesterday (Aug. 5) with a first episode Aug. […]
PARRY SOUND-MUSKOKA — Festival season may be cut short, but the province is still funding events at twice the amount of past years. Ontario says it is investing nearly $50 million to help festival and event organizers deliver innovative and safe experiences that allow people to safely reconnect with their communities. The government is providing $43 […]
10 CASES IN SIMCOE TODAY AS COVID Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — Ten new COVID cases in Simcoe Thursday come as the coronavirus numbers are creeping back up. Nothing like a year ago, but enough to see more people wearing masks ahead of what could be a delay in reopening plans. No cases today […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — A Gravenhurst woman in and out of court and jail and convicted of multiple drug offences was arrested again yesterday and charged with drug and weapon charges. Tammy Buker, 38, was among three Muskoka residents arrested here yesterday and held overnight in jail to appear in bail court today […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — A breath of fresh air for Ontario schools comes as Simcoe reports 4 new COVID cases. The province says it is investing $25 million for classroom air filters as students ready for a return to classes within weeks. That means all occupied classrooms, gyms, libraries and other instructional spaces […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — A COVID outbreak of 10 cases at Muskoka Woods Camp comes as the health unit reports 9 new cases over the long weekend. Campers at the Rosseau summer camp were informed that this week’s overnight camp was closed. This as today Ontario reported 332 cases and 2 deaths the […]
MUSKOKA – Anyone 12 and older in Muskoka is invited to this week’s free walk-in vaccination clinics by the health unit. They are in Bracebridge at the Sportsplex and Huntsville at the Summit Centre. This as the province reported 332 new cases today and 2 deaths. But no cases in Simcoe or Muskoka. See the […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com BRACEBRIDGE — Natalia Hawthorn knew anything could happen in the Olympic heats. But she didn’t expect to be caught up in dramatic pileup heading in to the home stretch of the 1,500 metres tonight in second heat in Tokyo. The Bracebridge mid-distance runner got tangled up as she “looked like she […]