Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com BALA — Business may not have been great the past 20 months, but it’s great businesses that know how to survive if not thrive. And celebrate. More than 80 business people and community members from around the lakes were able to finally gather last night for the first in-person Muskoka Lakes […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — With 30 more local cases today — including 1 in Huntsville — the region’s medical officer of health says “it would be prudent for the province to consider and further investigate the potential for” a vaccine certification or verification approach. Dr. Charles Gardner said in statement released today through […]
BALA — Missed milestones are being marked here tonight at Trinity All Saints Church. Lost in the past 20 months have not only been celebrations of life, but opportunities to mark significant other timely events. The church, itself, is 100 years old. And as part of the special Muskoka Lakes Chamber of Commerce after hours […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — A pop-up vaccine clinic in Gravenhurst today was cancelled due to heat and threat of rain. Officials at the Farmers’ Market at the Muskoka Wharf, where “thousands” were on hand for the weekly sale, were expecting the health unit to be on hand from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. […]
BRACEBRIDGE — Forget the fourth wave. A crime wave is sweeping across town here. Right here in Muskoka River city. In the heart of town right where the new nearby MUCC community centre, library, rink and sports fields are planned in a year’s time. And the culprits? A band of people on bicycles and ATVs, […]
BRACEBRIDGE — Memo to wannabe cottagers: Please see related story about John Cleese on MuskokaTODAY.com. And be advised: If the on golden pond price seems too good to be true … it probably is. Local coppers have received several complaints from people who have been victimized by online cottage rental scams. They say scammers are […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]