HUNTSVILLE — Premier Doug Ford arrives in Huntsville today as word that a school there is the first to have a case of COVID-19 in the local public school board. In an “important letter from the school” sent last night, Spruce Glen Public School principal Kelly Picken said: “We have been notified by the Simcoe […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — Today it’s men in Muskoka Lakes and Huntsville. That’s the bad news about COVID-19 locally. First the good news: there were only 10 cases reported by Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit, Sept. 22. But, wait, more bad news for Ontario — where the public toll today is 478. Media […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — Think those blooms of blue-green algae popping up in Muskoka lakes this summer are no big deal? Well, reports today out of Botswana may hint otherwise. The mysterious deaths of 330 elephants in the South African country this spring point to the algae as the cause, says its government. […]
BRACEBRIDGE — Call it double double, toil and trouble. Or coffee and cash go. The owners of Oliver’s Coffee here have grounds to complain after a thief stole a stash of cash overnight yesterday. Police are investigating a break and enter at the Manitoba Street restaurant sometime overnight Sunday, Sept. 20. They say an unknown […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — Two middle-aged women in Bracebridge are among the latest pandemic positive cases in Muskoka as fall begins and COVID-19 has become an almost daily crap shoot locally. And a woman from Gravenhurst, reported last Friday, has been removed from the virus toll. As Ontario hit another new high of […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com BRACEBRIDGE — Add another Pines health care worker to the growing list of COVID-19 cases ramping up across the country as public restrictions tighten. This just as this week the District of Muskoka’s retirement and LTC home was cleared after 14 days since its last institutional outbreak involving a worker and […]
GRAVENHURST — A June boating accident has led to impaired charges after the boat hit shore on Kahshe Lake. Police say that on June 27 at 2 a.m. they were called to the collision in south Gravenhurst. The operator of the vessel and his passenger were transported to hospital with serious, non-life-threatening injuries. A search […]
GRAVENHURST — An Oakville man headed north in a hurry was clocked at 98 km/h over the speed limit Wednesday. Police say that at 11 p.m., Sept. 16, an officer was on radar patrol on Hwy. 11 north, just south of Gravenhurst’s core, and spotted vehicle travelling at a very high rate of speed. The […]
HUNTSVILLE — Police here need your help solving a pair of crimes. One that saw four tires slashed on a car dropping it to the ground. And the other, unrelated, is a generator that was stolen. They received a mischief complaint in which sometime between 11:30 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 16 and 9 a.m. the next […]
HUNTSVILLE — A tri-level government project that will see the town get another new transit bus and one to help wheelchair passengers commute is part of a $413,000 Ridership Growth Plan for Huntsville. MPP Norman Miller said Friday that Ontario is investing more than $122,000 in the plan by nominating it under the Public Transit […]
MUSKOKA — As Ontario experienced a huge spike in COVID-19 cases reported today at 401, two Muskoka residents have also tested positive, says the local health unit. The man and woman are both under investigation as the origins of their diagnosis. A woman from Gravenhurst is listed as aged 18-34. And a man from Huntsville […]
MOOSE DEER POINT — A man accused of unlawfully being in a woman’s house faces sexual assault charges. Provincial police say that on Aug. 30 officers from the Bracebride OPP detachment were dispatched to Moose Deer Point First Nation regarding an allegation of a man entering her home and assaulting her. After an OPP investigation, […]
SIMCOE MUSKOKA — The health unit is calling for social circles to shrink at home an in public. They say today that a “worrisome” spike of COVID-19 is a rallying cry for smaller cohorts. They say in a release Sept. 18 that as coronavirus caes “sharply rise to numbers not seen since the spring,” the Simcoe […]
BRACEBRIDGE — A man who crashed a stolen auto into a tree on the main street here early yesterday has been charged with impaired driving. Police say they were dispatched on Sept. 16, at 6:30 a.m., to the collision on Manitoba Street. The driver was transported to hospital with minor injuries and an investigation revealed he […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com BRACEBRIDGE — Here’s a switch for you. While many aging seniors leave small towns to be closer to big city hospitals, a Gravenhurst couple has done the opposite. And to show their love and appreciation of local health care, Bary and Brenda Gray have donated $2 million to the South Muskoka […]
PARRY SOUND-MUSKOKA — Local hospitals are getting $2 million from the province to help deal with COVID-19. In Parry Sound-Muskoka, Muskoka Algonquin Healthcare will receive $1,119,642 and West Parry Sound Health Centre will receive $ 1,006,394 for 2020/21 through the Health Infrastructure Renewal Fund. Ontario is investing $175 million this year to address critical upgrades, repairs […]
HUNTSVILLE — As demand for COVID testing ramps up across the country, Huntsville’s political efforts to keep at least part-time testing in town has paid off. The District’s Muskoka Paramedic Services, Huntsville physicians and the Town of Huntsville have united together to keep the Assessment Centre, which closed a permanent site at the hospital two […]
GRAVENHURST — Janet O’Connell has a big job ahead of her. The Muskoka Tourism Marketing Agency’s new executive director will have to navigate rough waters as businesses struggle with the pandemic’s second wave. “My fellow board members and I have great confidence that Janet is the right person to lead Muskoka Tourism during our recovery […]
BALA — Twenty-six years after they first gathered in large numbers to be shephered through the darkened streets here, Bala’s Trek to Bethlehem is forced to take a sick day. “It is with deep disappointment that we announce that Bala’s Trek to Bethlehem has been cancelled for 2020,” says a release today. “This event, with […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com BARRIE — A complex Ponzi investment scheme involving point of sale debit terminal — originating here in 2012 — that duped 515 people out of $56 million has led to fraud charges against a local man. Charles Debono was in court in Barrie today after being deported from the Dominican Republic. […]