Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — High school homework is history — but not this fall when students (and teachers) can take home COVID rapid test kids. That’s on the provincial books next month for most school boards including Simcoe-Muskoka. This as Simcoe-Muskoka District Health Unit (SMDHU) reports 21 cases Tuesday in Simcoe after 19 […]
HUNTSVILLE — Police here were busy this weekend with three collisions and four impaired driving investigations. Last evening, Sunday Aug. 23, at 6:44 p.m., officers responded to a motor vehicle collision on Balsam Chutes Road in Port Sydney. Police say a witness reported the vehicle left the roadway and hit a tree. Officers located the […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — A young Gravenhurst man, 18-35, is under investigation after testing positive for COVID-19 Friday. He is one of 61 cases reported since then by the Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit (SMDHU). He was reported Aug. 21 the same day as was his first episode. His is one of 183 […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com PARRY SOUND-MUSKOKA — A Toronto Catholic school French teacher — who has just been recruited by the Liberals to run as their candidate in the next month’s federal election — will be in the riding Monday campaigning to be MP. Jovanie Nicoyishakiye, who sought the Don Valley East nomination two weeks […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — A few passings of late worth note. Bill Monk was not only the go-to surgeon whose knife most south Muskokans went under for decades. But he was also the founder of the Cellar Singers, who began by rehearsing in his basement. Hence its name. The choir has gone on […]
MUSKOKA — Skate Muskoka says it is “thrilled” to announce that preparations are underway for the 2021-22 skating season with two new coaches, wife and husband team Violetta Afanasieva and Pete Dack. Growing up in Russia and Canada Afanasieva and Dack competed at the national level in singles and pairs events, “wowing audiences with their […]
MUSKOKA LAKES — A Bracebridge driver faces four charges including fleeing the scene of an accident after an occupant was airlifted to Toronto with serious injuries late Friday. Police say officers, along with Muskoka EMS and Muskoka Lakes Fire Department, responded to a single vehicle crash after 911 calls from people in the area of […]
TARA COLLUM | Contributing columnist Why didn’t we learn more about the 1918 Great Influenza pandemic that killed 50 million people? We hoped, somehow, it wouldn’t happen again. We collectively blocked out the trauma or were ashamed by what we had done or hadn’t done. While the joy of reunions with loved ones is tempered […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com PARRY SOUND-MUSKOKA — It’ll take a week after the election call for the slate of local federal candidates to be sorted out. But by at Monday we’ll know who MP Scott Aichison will face in his re-election bid Monday, Sept. 20. He’ll be up against a new line-up of party challengers […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — An overnight death in Simcoe today comes as the county sees 21 new COVID cases. The man, aged 45-64, was 1 of 2 people in the province reported to have died, as Ontario reported a surging 650 COVID cases. Public Health Ontario only counted 15 people with the virus […]
UTTERSON — Health and Ministry of Environment officials today are monitoring an algae outbreak here in Three Mile Lake. Residents and visitors to the Utterson area in Muskoka Lakes Township are being cautioned about a confirmed blue-green algae bloom impacting the north end of Hammell’s Bay. The Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit (SMDHU) urges everyone […]
GRAVENHURST — A “very early” morning theft yesterday netted a thief a very large haul. Provincial police say they are investigating the theft of a 2020 Miska galvanized tri-axle dump trailer valued at more than $20,000. It bears the Ontario licence plate number S5927X. The trailer was stolen from a construction business located on Muskoka […]
GRAVENHURST — Two GTA men were in bail court today charged with trafficking in stolen goods after a complaint here late yesterday afternoon about people trying to sell generators from their car. Provincial police say a suspicious member of the public called them just before 5 p.m., Wednesday Aug. 18, and said two people in […]
MUSKOKA LAKES — Police charged two people here yesterday with impaired driving, after a Corvette hit a utility pole mid-afternoon and a Muskoka Lakes man was stopped in a RIDE check last night. Provincial police charged a Toronto woman after they say her Corvette hit a telephone pole. Officers responded to the collision on Peninsula […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — Put in context the fourth wave is far worse than the first three — with almost three quarters of Canadians fully vaccinated. That’s as Simcoe-Muskoka reported 28 new cases today and 17 on Wednesday. Thursday’s cases were: Huntsville woman, 65-79, who had travelled and reported Aug. 18 after first […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — Stuck on Step 3. That’s Ontario with 99 per cent of rising COVID cases Delta variants. And Simcoe-Muskoka marred in flagging vaccinations among young residents. This as Dr. Kieran Moore still predicts a “difficult” fourth wave fall, says Ontario’s chief medical officer of health. Dr. Charles Gardner, his regional […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — Vaccines won’t be mandatory for all Ontarians — but in a step in the right direction health and education workers will have to be vaccinated by Sept. 7 or else …. This as the health unit reports 14 cases in Simcoe and 1 in Muskoka — a Georgian Bay […]
MUSKOKA — A local labour dispute threatens health services for children with rehabilitative needs including occupational therapy, speech and language therapy, physiotherapy and autism. A strike mandate for the 73 professional workers represented by OPSEU/SEFPO at One Kids Place (OKP) has been issued by members to its bargaining team. In all 97 per cent voted […]
MUSKOKA LAKES — A Bracebridge man was airlifted to hospital in Toronto late this morning after a head-on collision. Provincial police says officers along with Muskoka EMS and Muskoka Lakes Fire Department responded to a two-vehicle collision on Muskoka Road 118 near Milford Bay just before 11:00 a.m. The head-on collision left one driver trapped […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — Three of the 44 cases reported today by the health unit were in Muskoka — and they continue a local trend that last week saw a 165 per cent jump in cases since the first week of August. The new cases are the latest weekend update since Friday by […]