Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — As Canada today approved a Pfizer vaccine to begin distribution possibly next week, local cases jumped to 61. They include another man and woman from Gravenhurst and Muskoka Lakes, respectively. The man, aged 35-64, contracted it through close contact; and the woman, who is between ages of 45 and […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com DWIGHT — The party’s on Saturday … and Santa wins by a nose. His visit to Erika’s Bakery —10 a.m. to 1 p.m. — will have a happy ending thanks to the return of Rudolph, says Tanya Grainger who runs the store with her sister. She told MuskokaTODAY.com that “everyone is […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com A recent Rotary coat drive was an early Christmas gift for many. Muskoka service clubs collected and handed out hundreds of free winter covers through Fabricare, which cleaned and did the distribution at their cleaning centres in Gravenhurst, Bracebridge and Huntsville in late November. And while not all the adult parkas […]
MUSKOKA — It may be better to give than receive at this time of year. But when it comes to share and share-alike, local hospitals say thanks … but no thanks. Your “thoughtful gifts … also carry a level of risk to our staff and physicians that is not advisable,” says Muskoka Algonquin Healthcare CEO […]
BRACEBRIDGE — Two Muskoka men were airlifted to Toronto with life-altering injuries this afternoon after truck hit a tree on Manitoba Street near High Falls Road. A third local man remains in hospital. Police are investigating the factors that influenced this collision including impaired driving. They say that on Dec. 8, at 3:15 p.m., witnesses […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — Forget a green Christmas. We’re “likely” in for a red Christmas in two weeks, says the region’s top health official. And don’t count on RVH’s deep freeze to save residents by then — or any time soon after that. Dr. Charles Gardner said this afternoon that’s Simcoe and Muskoka […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — The vaccine can’t come fast enough. With 46 new COVID cases today — including two more in Huntsville — the region is already at 215 this week after 231 last week. And an unusual 44 of those cases are “under investigation” with no indication of their cause. The other […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com HUNTSVILLE — A man arrested here Friday on drug charges was a “violent and dangerous” suspect wanted in a September stabbing in Toronto. City police were still on the lookout for Cyrus Alaei, 22, late last week when on Friday Dec. 4 OPP on patrol in Huntsville say they noticed a […]
MUSKOKA — Tis the season to be caught impaired behind the wheel, police report. On Friday Dec. 4, at 5:24 a.m., police in central Muskoka responded to a report from motorists of a single vehicle collision on Ecclestone Drive, west of Muskoka Beach Road in Bracebridge. Officers arrived and after investigating charged 35-year-old Aaron Austin, […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — An explosion of cases today sees 1,925 people in Ontario with COVID, including five people in Muskoka. In Simcoe and Muskoka the health unit reports 171 for the past three days of Friday, Saturday and Sunday — an average of 51 per day. See the full list at https://www.simcoemuskokahealth.org/MicroSites/Media/Health%20Stats/Instant%20Atlas/COVIDlist/COVID_DownloadableData_20201207.html […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Celebrate the 12 days of Christmas with a dozen carols recently recorded recently in a informal concert at Trinity United Church. Danny McCoy, their multi-talented minister of music, got out his fake book and “improvised” on the Bechstein grand piano, using the sheet music in the video “just for […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Dap Thach has always had a love of trains and all things railway. Maybe it goes back to getting a train set for Christmas. So when he was thought about a festive way to spice up the corner unit of his new DTA accounting office in the Ing Building, […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — A Gravenhurst man, aged 65-79, is under investigation after testing positive for COVID in Friday’s health unit accounting. This after Taylor Chiropractic informed patients Thursday Dec. 3 that it had been advised by Public Health that it had been exposed to case of COVID. They say it was not […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — A Gravenhurst chiropractor is closed today for cleaning after a link to COVID-19. Taylor Chiropractic informed patients with appointments Thursday Dec. 3 that bookings will have to rescheduled. They said they had been informed that someone who had been at the clinic had been affected. It is not among […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — It’s going to be a “pandemic Christmas” no doubt. But how you deal with it and cope is up to you and how you will best survive until a vaccine soon hopefully arrives, says mental health experts. Dr. Christine Purdon, a University of Waterloo clinical psychologist, agrees wholeheartedly and […]
MUSKOKA — With winter looking like it’s here to stay now that it’s December, there are a lot of Muskokans wearing warmer jackets thanks to a heart-warming partnership between Rotary and Fabricare. Bracebridge Rotarian John de Koning says a three-day joint giveaway last week was a success that will be felt for months — and […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Getting a flu shot is harder than finding a needle in a hay stack. Shortages this fall at pharmacies and doctors’ offices that have had residents scrambling to get on multiple call-back lists are being blamed on a provincial back-log. “It’s a bloody mess,” says Tony Varney, a retired pharmacist […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Despite pandemic pressures, Sunday’s Rotary TV/Internet Auction wrapped up one of its best years in recent memory. Thanks to generous donors, sponsors and bidders in Gravenhurst and Bracebridge, more than $36,000 gross was raised. And after expenses, more than $30,000 was netted for the service club’s community and international […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — As talk — and hope — begins switching to a vaccine in the early new year, new cases of COVID continue on high. Simcoe posted 30 positive results today and Muskoka none. That’s 159 since Sunday. Two weeks ago there were 200. The running total is now 2,178, according […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — He’s just one man. One case. But a Gravenhurst resident, aged 18-34, with close contacts with someone who already has the coronavirus is the first Muskoka person this month to be reported with COVID-19 as cases continue to climb. Another 37 from Simcoe were also among the rising toll […]