Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — Yesterday’s surprise announcement that talks between doctors and the MAHC board tomorrow will be virtual has caught a lot of people off guard. Oh, to have been a fly on that wall had it remained at the Utterson Town Hall as planned until Monday. Alas the fate of hospitals […]
MUSKOKA — If your phone blares at you this Friday morning don’t be alarmed. It’s only a test. The Muskoka Emergency Response Committee (MERC) has scheduled a test of the #AlertMuskoka system, powered by Voyent Alert!, at 10 a.m. This test is taking place during Emergency Preparedness Week to support the community’s readiness for actual […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — An anticipated face-off between MAHC and south Muskoka MDs Wednesday has been cancelled and instead will be held via zoom. The third meeting to work out differences between the physicians’ ‘Care Close to Home’ model and Muskoka Algonquin Healthcare’s ‘Made in Muskoka’ health care plan was to be held […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com BRACEBRIDGE — In a public square the people’s voice was heard loud and cheer. “54 and Care Close to Home!” “54 and Care Close to Home!” Organizers of Saturday’s “support for doctors” couldn’t be more clear, as Dan Waters and Phyllis Winngton-Ingram led hundreds in the repeated chants — which may […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — A family feud fast devolving in to a Muskoka health crisis witnesses the critical divide both sides sneer at in U.S. And increasingly around the world and now on campuses closer to home. Muskoka hospitals are about healing, not hurting. This is a family break-up that has parents, children, […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Seniors wanting a rewarding brain experience should attend the Bifocals concert Sunday afternoon here at Trinity United Church, 2 p.m. That’s because a Canadian study finds the brains of older adults feel a sense reward when listening to music — even if it’s a song they don’t particularly like. […]
HUNTSVILLE — A local man accused of a sexual assault here Wednesday was held for a bail hearing and remanded in custody. Police say that after a report and investigation they arrested Isiah Hamilton, 24, of Huntsville, charging him with sexual assault. At 11:20 a.m., police received a report from a victim of a sexual […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com BRACEBRIDGE — May the 4th be with them. That’s what south Muskoka doctors and their patients wish each other tomorrow morning as they unite at Memorial Park in Bracebridge at 10 a.m. Bring a smile and a cookie May 4 to show your support for physicians lobbying to keep the more […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — There’s good and bad news for residents and drivers here. James Street is soon going to get some paving; but it’s also going to have more traffic as Bay Street and beyond is going to be closed most of this summer and fall from Muldrew Lake Road heading east […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Rotary is getting closer every day to rocking your musical world. Construction on their new Rotary Rocks the Barge amphitheatre seating project and waterfront reconstruction — in conjunction with the Town of Gravenhurst — is halfway complete on the banks of Gull Lake Rotary Park as tons of slabs […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — Two public rallies to show support for South Muskoka Memorial Hospital are planned this weekend and next Wednesday. Save South Muskoka Hospital (SSMH) members are calling for another huge turnout Saturday, May 4 at 10 a.m., at Memorial Park in downtown Bracebridge; and on Wednesday, May 8 at 5:30 […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — If you love music even a transistor radio would have rocked your socks. When stereophonic sound replaced LPs you were over the moon. It’s like listening in Carnegie Hall. Hearing the Elmer Iseler Singers at the Opera House Sunday night was all of the above — and beyond. An […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — The first casualty of war is truth. And the war over Muskoka health care is a prime example — or be it said a primary care example. Every story has two sides and until the victor writes this hospitals history (MAHC has already begun with its own journey website […]
GRAVENHURST — A 31-year-old Toronto man has drown Sunday in Lake Muskoka just before noon. Police say the visitor to the area took a kayak out onto Lake Muskoka, near Taylor Island, and encountered difficulties causing him to enter the water. OPP along with their Underwater Search and Recovery Unit (USRU) conducted a thorough search […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com BARRIE — Winning gets “easier” as Cameron Bird and Om Patel get better and better. The Gravenhurst High School badminton players return to Georgian College next weekend a second time after defending their Georgian Bay Secondary School Athletic Association (GBSSA) title this week in Barrie. The Grade 10 students won the […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — The latest tit for tat war being waged by the two sides in the hospital debate doesn’t bode well for negotiations in public and next month in private. Muskoka Algonquin Healthcare refutes claims by doctors relying on statistical population data released this week. It said today in its weekly […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — South Muskoka doctors are all calling for “at least 54” acute care beds in south Muskoka and 62 in Huntsville, which could bring local hospitals closer to the “equal” status many call for. “Gains” “headway” and “negotiated” improvements are fine, but MAHC’s 40 per cent cut in beds in […]
MUSKOKA — A close call Friday night has a Port Carling man charged with impaired driving. He’s one of two alcohol-related incidents the past three days. On April 19 at 10 p.m. police were called to a commercial parking lot on Wellington Street near Monck Road in Bracebridge after a vehicle was seen scraping along […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — Three new international doctors could be practising in south Muskoka late this summer or early fall. The three women who live in Canada — two are from India and one from Egypt — are part of a provincial program called Practice Ready Ontario (PRO) intended to recruit foreign-trained Canadian […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Scouting is the “whole package” when it comes to helping boys and girls grow and learn outside of school. “We like to think it offers a bit of everything,” says Craig Armstrong 1st Gravenhurst assistant group commissioner. “Fun, education, sports, outdoors, camping and good citizenship. “Other groups have their […]