Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Test results are already coming back negative for some staff and residents at the Granite Ridge after a staff member learned through contact tracing that she had been exposed to COVID-19 through another person. And that’s a positive for the the private LTC home on Bethune Drive. Jackie Payne, […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — COVID testing began today on residents and staff at the Granite Ridge retirement home where a lockdown is underway after a staff member was reported to have tested positive two days ago, says the health unit. It’s expected that a quarantine of a least two weeks will be imposed […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — Twenty-six new COVID cases today in Simcoe more than mirrored a similar province-wide jump. There were none in Muskoka — with just one staff member at the Granite Ridge retirement home in Gravenhurst Oct. 27 this week. This as the health unit says one person in Simcoe Muskoka was […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Two robbery attempts here Monday are linked to a suspect who used a Taser-like weapon in two other bank ATM incidents in Coboconk and Orillia Sunday and Monday, say police. Central Region OPP are hunting the suspect in the four incidents who got away. In the first two cases the […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com BRACEBRIDGE — An application to amend the town’s official plan and rezone lands for a private school was deferred last night. After an almost five-hour planning and development committee meeting that wrapped up about 7 p.m., council members sent the matter of the Muskoka Royale College back to staff. Town senior […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — Among 22 new COVID cases today in Simcoe Muskoka is a Gravenhurst woman aged 35-44, due to an institutional outbreak. The health unit says there was an outbreak of a staff member yesterday, Oct. 27, at the retirement home and LTC on Bethune Drive. It is deemed a “respiratory […]
ORILLIA — Orillians who popped a top or two over the summer months and donated their empties to The Beer Store’s local bottle drive helped raise an incredible $42,133 to support Orillia Soldiers’ Memorial Hospital. This fundraising campaign was part of The Beer Store’s company-wide initiative to raise funds for local hospitals and food banks […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com DETROIT — Kim Barlow is “passionate” about the U.S. election next week. Not unlike most Americans — and it seems most of the world. The Utterson resident and her husband Neil are dual citizens of Canada and the United States, where they were born. And while the two musicians are extremely […]
SIMCOE MUSKOKA — The COVID story is an intensely personal experience we all share. And the health unit wants you to share the good, bad and ugly of the coronavirus. Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit wants to know more about the pandemic and is asking residents to complete an online survey to learn what issues need […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — Amid some rising countrywide COVID fears Muskoka has avoided another day of zero reported cases today. The same can’t be said for Simcoe, where 19 people have tested positive for the coronavirus. Yesterday the Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit reported 55 for the weekend in Simcoe and none in […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com BRACEBRIDGE — Climate change and the pandemic recovery clashed this afternoon as the town further considers a plan for a private Ontario and international board school on sensitive land in the middle of town. It’s a heated, emotional battle that has opposing sides alleging “misinformation,” “deliberate exaggerations,” accusations of “NIMBYism” and […]
Ed. note: The following two letters were sent to MPP Norm Miller, MPP Merrilee Fullerton, Ontario‘s Minister of Long-Term Care, MP Scott Aitchison and MuskokaTODAY.com. Dear Mr. Miller: It is time for less talk and more action to enforce LTC regulations and standards. Current and past governments, their applicable health departments and LTC inspection indifference […]
GRAVENHURST — A brazen would-be thief brandishing a firearm was turned away empty-handed minutes apart at two variety stores here last evening. After being turned away at one at the intersection of Police are investigating the robberies that happened about 6:30 p.m. Monday Oct. 26 at Winewood Variety and Lester Square on Muskoka Beach Road […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — After record weekend numbers provincewide, Simcoe reported today that 55 people tested positive in the local health unit count since Friday. Muskoka had no cases Monday, Oct. 26. Ontario dropped to 851 after 1,072 on Sunday. And Quebec reported 808. Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit reports an additional two […]
BRACEBRIDGE — Provincial police are investigating the “sudden death” of a woman Friday. They say the Muskoka Crime Unit and Community Street Crime Unit, under the direction of the Criminal Investigation Branch, are investigating the sudden death of 30-year-old Jodi-Lynne Turner, on Oct. 23, at a residence on Uffington Road. The OPP say they want […]
WORLD — Polio was the COVID-19 of its day decades before the pandemic. Children under age 5 were ravaged by the debilitating, life-threatening disease that sent panic through families in the 1950s. And thankfully today — World Polio Day — it is “this close …” to being eradicated, thanks to more than one million Rotarians […]
BRACEBRIDGE — A Bracebridge woman and an Orillia man who fled police have been charged. The woman turned herself in and the man is still on the run. Provincial police say that on Oct. 13 members of the Muskoka Community Street Crime (CSCU) of the Bracebridge detachment of the OPP observed two individuals in a […]
HUNTSVILLE — A Huntsville man faces seven drug charges after large quantity of cocaine and cannaibis were seized by police, along with more than $8,500 cash. Provincial police say that 10 days ago, on Oct. 13, OPP officers became suspicious of a vehicle in the Selkirk Drive area of Huntsville. They found the vehicle parked […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — We now know the answer to yesterday’s COVID question. 22. That’s the new number of people with the coronavirus Friday after small hope a day ago. It’s increase of 8 from Thursday — and again all in Simcoe. There was nobody in Muskoka who tested positive, says the Simcoe […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — Is this a blip or a harbinger of hope? Simcoe and Muskoka reported today their lowest one-day COVID count in weeks. Eight cases — all in Simcoe — were posted by the health unit Thursday, Oct. 22. None were in Muskoka. Eight were women and two men. An Oro-Medonte […]