Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — An ice rescue yesterday morning was “not a hiker” lost in the woods. But a prison drug mule, claims the owner of the property where a Keswick woman became entangled in a backwoods “bog” (not Paul’s Lake) — full of Tag Alders — and had to be airlifted to […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — A scary ice rescue this morning near the Muskoka Airport saw a female hiker pulled from a lake and airlifted to hospital along with a couple of OPP officers who suffered water-related injuries. The OPP say that at 9:15 a.m. police responded after the woman fell through the ice […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — A new outbreak in Gravenhurst has a middle-aged woman among just more than two dozen COVID cases the health unit is reporting today. The female, aged 45-64, had her first episode yesterday, Feb. 9, when it was reported by the Simcoe-Muskoka District Health Unit (SMDH). The health unit reports […]
GRAVENHURST — Mike Schreiner, Leader of the Green Party of Ontario and Matt Richter, Green Party candidate for Parry Sound Muskoka, released the following statement regarding the planned permanent closure of the Ontario Fire College in Gravenhurst: “Eliminating the Ontario Fire College is a blow to Gravenhurst and small municipalities across the province who will […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — With the health unit reporting 36 COVID cases this afternoon (one in Muskoka Lakes), Dr. Charles Gardner says the variant spread in March looms large in the region. That’s why he’s doesn’t support looser provincial restrictions. But he’s still on board with schools opening this week as children are […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com BRACEBRIDGE — Some changes are coming to The Pines today in the wake of the surprise “resignation” of its administrator Kim Landry last week. See her story here. Norm Barrette, District of Muskoka Health Services commissioner, tells MuskokaTODAY.com that they include rapid testing that began Monday, Feb. 8, and security staff […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — You’re under stay-at-home orders for at least another week — unless you went back to school today. So says the province, as only parts of eastern Ontario will ease up restrictions on Wednesday, and Toronto, Peel and York will have to wait until to Feb. 22. Simcoe and Muskoka […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — The sudden “resignation” last week of the Pines administrator “comes as a bit of a shock” to those who were “very pleased with the job Kim Landry has done.” Landry resigned effective Tuesday, Feb. 2, the same day as the health unit lifted its latest outbreak at the LTC […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — COVID case counts are back up locally and provincially Sunday the day before students return to indoor classes and Ontario moves to re-open more businesses. Simcoe-Muskoka reported 43 cases — an increase of 8 over Saturday — bringing the regional total to 5,770. Public Health Ontario did not differentiate […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSOKA — Monday schools will open. The following Monday more businesses will be able to open. That’s part of the province’s plan to be announced Monday by Premier Doug Ford as Ontario’s COVID case numbers dipped again Saturday. According to Public Health Ontario (PHO) today, 1,388 people still tested positive and […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — Local cases may be down more than 100 this week, but it’s too early to let down your guard with two men and a woman in Muskoka reported with COVID today. And three more variant finds in the North Bay Parry Sound, Sudbury and Porcupine health units. The trio […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — As kids and parents prepare for indoor classes, 6 families are planning funerals today for loved ones who died of COVID. The number of dead rose to 164 in health unit reporting Thursday as a further 58 corona cases emerged — all in Simcoe. None were in Muskoka. But […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — With news that Muskoka schools will re-open for classes Monday, Feb. 8, Simcoe-Muskoka is reporting 36 new COVID cases today. Two of them are men in Muskoka: One was said by the health unit earlier to be from an outbreak Jan. 22 at Muskoka Shores in Gravenhurst, and reported […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — The health unit reports 36 new COVID cases Tuesday. And 51 people have now tested positive for the UK B.1.1.7 variant. That’s 32 more than reported yesterday. An additional 94 cases have screened positive and are awaiting confirmation. And 5 more people in Simcoe have died. None of the […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — Waking up today is like the movie Groundhog Day. Instead of worrying about the daily dip in temperature — to decide whether to go outside — people hanging on the corona case numbers feel doomed to repeat at least six more weeks of the deadly virus. Confusing COVID counts […]
BRACEBRIDGE — A woman who claimed she was injured in a hospital parking lot altercation with police on Halloween has lost her bid to have her complaint investigated further by the SIU after they say she refused them access to her medical records. Special Investigations Unit director Joseph Martino ended the investigation into the “interaction” […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — Barrie remains the hotbed of local COVID cases and epicentre of the UK variant in Ontario. With 129 regional cases reported since Friday — mostly in Barrie with none in Muskoka — two GTA retirement homes are banning visitors from Barrie where the UK variant is among the highest […]
HUNTSVILLE — Police charged three people Friday in an afternoon traffic stop. The OPP’s Muskoka Community Street Crime Unit (CSCU) was doing an investigation into drug trafficking. At 4:15 p.m. they say officers stopped a vehicle on Centre Street, with the assistance of the Huntsville OPP, arresting the three and finding a quantity of drugs: […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com ORILLIA — Having a heart attack? If you’re in Orillia and you go to the hospital, you’ll be immediately shipped to Barrie’s RVH. Patients who present at Orillia Soldiers’ Memorial Hospital (OSMH) with heart attack symptoms will now be transported directly to Royal Victoria Regional Health Centre’s (RVH) Cardiac Intervention Unit […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — The residents of Muskoka are being “very vigilant” in keeping COVID and its variant at bay. “And we hope they keep it that way,” Dr. Colin Lee, Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit’s (SMDHU) associate medical officer of health, said today. In a Friday afternoon news briefing on the UK […]