Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — New national reproductive numbers offer hope today, but closer to home a rise in weekly COVID cases was helped by 5 more cases in Muskoka to end the week. That’s half the increase the local health unit saw Friday with 107 cases since Sunday. Last week there were 97. […]
MUSKOKA — Keep an eye on the road and another on your rear-view mirror the next four days. Because the police will be watching you drivers the next four days. As Ontario is back on the move this holiday, the OPP is bracing for some of the heaviest traffic volumes of the year this Thanksgiving weekend. […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — A week in to October and there’s only been 1 COVID case in Muskoka. A man in Bracebridge, aged 45-64, with close contact was the only northern resident in Simcoe-Muskoka to test positive. His case was reported last Friday on the first day of this month, with a first […]
GRAVENHURST — A man accused in a stabbing at a home here last night is being sought by police who advise the public not to approach him. Provincial police says officers responded to a 911 call from an address on First Street South Wednesday, Oct. 6, at 9:40 p.m. They say the caller claimed a […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — Almost a third of local COVID cases the past week have been among school-aged children under 12. Thirty-one per cent were aged 4 to 11, said Dr. Charles Gardner. Six alone today were ineligible for the vaccine due to their age. And a recent death of a youth in […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — Another day without a reported COVID case in Muskoka comes with 19 more in Simcoe. And 52 cases the first three days this week. The familiar pattern throughout the pandemic comes as Ontario remained under and Quebec over 500 cases Wednesday. Ontario had 476 cases and 10 deaths and […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — With no cases in Muskoka — and 14 in Simcoe — COVID may no exactly be on the run locally. But it’s nice to see a bit of a reprieve — if not least for a day. As well, with no new hospitalizations today — and only 7 in […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — Forty regional COVID cases over the weekend — half of them yesterday — come as Ontario Premier Doug Ford promises about $9 billion for LTCs, nurses and PSWs the next decade. A man in Bracebridge, aged 45-64, with close contact was the only Muskoka person to test positive. He […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — Half of this week’s 78 COVID cases were in the past two days. And 3 of them were in Muskoka, reports the health unit Friday after a day off reporting due to the new National Day of Truth and Reconciliations yesterday. The Muskoka cases, none of which reported the […]
HONEY HARBOUR — What’s the buzz here this weekend? Jennifer Schnier, director of sustainability for the Township of Georgian Bay, says it’s their annual Honey Bee Virtual and Hybrid Festival all day Saturday, Oct. 2. An outdoor and online celebration of the sweet life in Georgian Bay Township. Events | Honeybeefestival It’s a chance to […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Students here paused at 2:15 p.m. this afternoon to mark the 215 Indigenous children whose graves were found in Kamloops this spring. Many wore orange as part of ‘Orange Shirt Day’ on the first Truth and Reconciliation day — a new national federal holiday. The learning experience was part […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — Expect a wave of orange tomorrow as Canadians coast to coast to coast will be donning shirts for a new federal statutory holiday. Sept. 30 is already Orange Shirt Day, but this year it will be recognized as the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. Schools especially will be […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — A dozen unvaccinated people in the region yesterday tested positive for COVID-19. Two more residents with the vaccine also tested positive. All of them live in Simcoe. None of them were from Muskoka. This as the province tested 36,404 Ontarians yesterday with a positivity rate of 1.7 per cent. […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — LTC residents are back in line for booster shots not long after they and most of the staff who care for them have been vaccinated. Canada’s National Advisory Committee on Immunization said today third shots are being recommended. This as a dozen new COVID cases Tuesday in Simcoe-Muskoka include […]
SEVERN TOWNSHIP — The woman who died in train accident yesterday afternoon has been identified. Police say Barbara Kitchen, 67, of Severn was killed after officers and emergency crews responded to the crash involving a train in the CP Rail line and a car at 2:18 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 26, on Upper Big Chute Road, […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — Three of the 43 COVID cases this weekend in the region were in Muskoka. The other 40 cases — along with 1 death — were in Simcoe, says the health unit in an update today. The Muskoka cases all under investigation were: Gravenhurst girl, 0-17, reported yesterday, with a […]
TARA COLLUM | Contributing columnist After a costly $600 million election that has widely been decried by some as a total waste of money, we are no better off, and nothing has changed. Two years ago, there was a federal election; but in the times of COVID and quarantine, it seems so much longer ago […]
RUSTY DRAPER | Contributing columnist When I entered the Draper family 75 years ago, I came out of the birthing canal expecting some great and wonderful things that would accompany me through the pages of life. Talent and skill describe related properties, but they’re not exactly the same. Talent comes naturally, while skill is something […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — New Ontario capacity limits on large gatherings indoors and outdoors won’t affect Muskoka where 3 new COVID cases today are among 21 in the region. They numbers end the week at 79 total cases in Simcoe and Muskoka after 141 last week and 197 the week before. The 3 […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — How do you describe Muskoka’s cavalcade of colours? That’s Alex Smyth’s job for AMI TV. A host of Postcards From …, he’s in Muskoka this week putting in to words the iconic beauty of the Canadian landscape best captured by the Group of Seven. While tens of thousands of […]