Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — Three more people in Muskoka are among 81 new COVID cases reported today — dating back almost a week now. The health unit says that as of yesterday, Jan. 12, the cases posted on its website will now be reported based on the date reported to the public health […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE MUSKOKA — Call it home sweet home. The COVID-19 immunization of residents of long-term care (LTC) and retirement homes (RH) in Simcoe Muskoka is now underway. The immunization program began Monday in long-term care homes following the Jan. 6 decision by the province that the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine can be safely transported out […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — As tougher new Ontario state of emergency measures kick at midnight tomorrow (for 28 days), a Bracebridge man in his 80s with an undetermined cause of COVID-19 is among 68 cases reported today by the health unit. The Muskoka resident tested positive Sunday Jan. 10 and was just reported […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com BRACEBRIDGE — A boil water order here will last all week after a broken water main near its iconic Muskoka waterfalls late Saturday. The District of Muskoka says a boil water advisory (BWA) issued Sunday will remain in effect till late this week for municipal water customers until further notice, following […]
BRACEBRIDGE — Due to safe water problems in Bracebridge, essential visitations to the hospital here have been suspended until further notice. A release today, Monday Jan. 11, from Muskoka Algonquin Healthcare says essential visitation by a patient’s designated care partner continues to be suspended at the South Muskoka Memorial Hospital Site (SMMH). Essential visitation was […]
GRAVENHURST — The New Year brings joy to five students in Gravenhurst. The Rotary Club of Gravenhurst received a gift of $25,000 to help five hard working students continue their college studies. While in Florida four years ago, Tim Forwell read about the dilemma many children in Gravenhurst had trying to save for a college or […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — Gravenhurst and Huntsville continue to be hot spots for COVID-19 in Muskoka as the province rejects overnight curfew. Four new cases — two in each town — are young people aged 18-34. They are among 226 cases reported this afternoon by the Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit for the […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — By today 450 staff at Muskoka’s two hospitals will have received the first dose of the Pfizer vaccine — as “occupancy is high” with unrelated COVID-19 cases. Natalie Bubela, CEO of Muskoka Algonquin Healthcare (MAHC), said in an email Friday that as of the end of Sunday, Jan. 10, […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Talk of a curfew amuses Irene Turney. While she — and everyone we asked about it in a streeter today — welcomed pending overnight street restrictions in Ontario, she said “people are always breaking the rules, aren’t they.” She knows. “I disobeyed myself the odd time during the war,” […]
BRACEBRIDGE — Residents on the Muskoka water system in Bracebridge have been issued a boil water order this morning after the district says it is experiencing a problem with the water distribution system, which is affecting water services throughout the town. They say crews are investigating and more information will be available soon. The boil […]
MUSKOKA — Impaired driving is becoming a daily problem morning, noon and night in Muskoka. Beggars the question: are your roads safe to drive or walk? Every day it seems another drunk is pulled off thanks to police or citizens calling 911 to report them. Take yesterday, for example, OPP patrolling Gravenhurst and conducted a […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — Four new cases in Muskoka are among a stunning record 4,249 cases province-wide today, which are in part thanks to some 450 added in a Toronto backlog this week. Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit had 78 — 11 of them with pending OHIP address. That leaves Simcoe with 67 […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com HUNTSVILLE — The face of COVID is remote for most Muskokans who know few of the 156 residents who have tested positive so far for the coronavirus. Privacy prevents that. But the three local people who have died — in a relatively unaffected northern area of the region — bring the […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — A Huntsville man is among a positive drop to 52 COVID cases today in Simcoe and Muskoka. After some confusion about reporting dates and times, the Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit (SMDHU) says in a note on its Health Stats page that as of Jan. 7 daily case counts […]
GRAVENHURST — The new year is off to an ominous start on the roads. After the OPP’s annual Festive RIDE campaign wrapped up Jan. 3 with an increase in impaired drivers on Muskoka roads, three drivers in Gravenhurst the first week of 2021 were charged with being drunk on local roads. It started last Thursday […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com WASHINGTON — Chilling images of what appears unarguably to be an “insurrection” at the seat of the American government is best crystallized in one dramatic photo this afternoon of masked armed guards aiming their handguns at a blockaded door at the U.S. Capitol chamber. Vice President-elect Joe Biden just called the […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — While another Muskoka COVID case was moved to another jurisdiction, the local health unit says today that a record 87 corona cases were confirmed in Simcoe yesterday. A previously reported case in Gravenhurst was also among four re-assigned to different Public Health Units. And that the three deaths in […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com BRACEBRIDGE — Residents today in a home area of The Pines LTC residence are all being tested for the coronavirus after another outbreak was declared yesterday following a confirmed COVID-19 case of a staff member Jan. 5. This as vaccinations of residents could begin as early as Friday. The staff member […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — More than 3,000 local health-care workers in North Simcoe and Muskoka have received the first doses of the Pfizer COVID vaccine since Dec. 22. Almost 600 alone yesterday. The northern two thirds of the Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit (SMDHU) is the fourth-most active provider among 20 regions in […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — We’re four-for-four today in Muskoka if you’re COVID-19 counting. That’s four more northern cases among 70 reported on Jan. 5 — for Jan. 4 —by the Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit (SMDHU). Two women in Gravenhurst, aged 18-34 and 45-64 are under investigation as to the cause of their […]