UPDATE- Luke Pombiere was located earlier today and is in good health. Huntsville OPP would like to thank the public for their assistance. LAKE OF BAYS — The public is being asked to be on the lookout for a missing person here. Provincial police are asking for help in finding 38-year-old Lake of Bays resident […]
ORILLIA — A local contractor who took deposits then didn’t start work has been charged with fraud. Provincial police from the Orillia Crime Unit have arrested and charged the man with fraud in two separate investigations in Orillia. They say that on Aug. 28 and Sept. 28 the OPP undertook investigations in relation to alleged […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE — Another day another 17 cases of COVID in Simcoe. And none in Muskoka, reports Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit. They are among 987 people to test positive for the coronavirus Wednesday, Nov. 4. Quebec count was back in four digits at 1,029. Meanwhile, in Manitoba Health Minister Cameron Friesen […]
BRACEBRIDGE — A pick-up truck driver who collided with a larger truck carrying concrete this morning has died. Police say that just after 9 a.m., Wednesday Nov. 4, emergency crews responded to a motor vehicle collision involving the two trucks on Brackenrig Road, in Bracebridge. The 37-year-old male driver of the pick-up truck, who was alone […]
SIMCOE MUSKOKA — New public health restrictions on movements in and out of local long-term care homes have been issued by order of the region’s medical officer of health. As of yesterday, Tuesday Nov. 3, Dr. Charles Gardner says he will immediately restrict all indoor visits at long-term care homes to one essential visitor at […]
GRAVENHURST — Middle of the night drivers yesterday who spotted a truck bouncing off the Hwy. 11 median led police to stop and charge the vehicle operator with being impaired by drug. OPP say that on Nov. 3 at 2:30 a.m. police received multiple 911 complaints from northbound motorists in Gravenhurst, near Sparrow Lake Route […]
ROSSEAU — A Bracebridge man faces impaired driving charges in the death of the head of Rosseau Lake College who was struck while out for his morning run yesterday. Provincial police said today, Nov. 3, that Robert Carreau, 43, of of Rosseau died after being hit at 6:30 a.m. Monday, on Hwy. 141 in Seguin […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — A “rapidly” growing number of cases in Simcoe and Muskoka sees 29 new people with COVID-19. All mostly in south Simcoe. None were in Muskoka Tuesday, Nov. 3. This as the health unit today also issued an order for “long-term care” facilities only to restrict visitors to only two […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com America has voted. And to the victor today go the spoils of four years. Americans will either roll back the clock to Donald Trump or move forward with Joe Biden’s new years’ resolutions. The United States election is a world of concern. Ballots cast south of the border may be counted […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — COVID has now spread to a resident at the Granite Ridge LTC, one of 75 people in the region who tested positive over the weekend. After a staff member tested positive last week at the Bethune Drive retirement home, the health unit reports today a second institutional outbreak (respiratory) […]
GEORGIAN BAY — A motorcycle race up and down Hwy. 400 that topped out at more than 200 km/h has police playing catch-up. Provincial police from the Southern Georgian Bay OPP detachment are chasing them more than a month later and need help catching up with the drivers who were on sport bikes on Hwy. […]
GRAVENHURST — Police have released the name of the suspect they arrested last week in a number of robbery incidents, including two in Gravenhurst and one each in Orillia and Coboconk. They say that as a result of the Orillia OPP Crime Unit investigation, Sebastian Gaudino, 46, of Minden Hills Township, has been charged with: […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — The Salvation Army Thrift Shop is taking donations. Just not like this — a dump-and-run. They prefer food instead. Dozens of bags of clothing and furniture was dumped at the front door of the main street family services store on the weekend. Then came two days of rain — […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com I have a t-shirt that says ‘I played hockey with Bobby Orr….’ Though he is seven years older than me, our paths didn’t cross on the ice in Parry Sound or Muskoka. But my brother Paul did in a famous early 1960s exhibition game in Bracebridge between the Gravenhurst Braves Jr. […]
MUSKOKA LAKES — Emergency services had to mobilize vast resources and come to the rescue twice last Sunday night after hikers got lost on Hardy Lake trails. No one was injured but great efforts were made to find the people, say the OPP. This after an elderly couple were lost for days in north Muskoka […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com PARRY SOUND — Legendary Parry Sound NHL Hall of Famer Bobby Orr is stick-handling like never before after his scary endorsement of U.S. President Donald Trump. As has golf legend Jack Nicklaus. The Boston Bruins all-star took out a full page ad in today’s Friday Oct. 30 edition of the New Hampshire […]
GRAVENHURST — Thanksgiving may be over — and shelves may be pretty well stocked with many items — but if you’re providing food for the hungry there’s never enough of everything in the old pantry to go around. So the Salvation Army is stocking up for winter just like you — this Wednesday Nov. 4 […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — A suspect wanted in one robbery and three attempted robberies this week is being bars tonight. This morning, Friday Oct. 30, OPP Tactics and Rescue Unit (TRU) officers found and arrested the man who was wanted for an ATM robbery in Coboconk early Sunday, an attempted morning robbery at […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Traffic, property buffers and pedestrian safety were among a number of concerns raised in a public hearing Tuesday to deal with a proposed “local” gas bar on Bethune Drive. A small in-person town planning and development committee meeting at the Opera House late in the afternoon convened to consider […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — Good and bad news to end the week in Simcoe and Muskoka. Nine new COVID cases, but one new death since yesterday. Again their were none in Muskoka today. Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit reports today 2 people each in Barrie, Bradford-West Gwillimbury and New Tecumseth; and 1 each […]