Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — It’s a double-digit day for Muskoka as the health unit reports 248 cases for Friday, Saturday and Sunday. That’s an average of 82.66666666666667 over the past three days to start 2021. Ten of them ranging in age from under 18 to up to 79 were in the northern half […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com TORONTO — A couple of former premiers — including a one-time Parry Sound-Muskoka MPP — are among appointees to the Order of Ontario today. Lt-Gov. Elizabeth Dowdeswell, chancellor of the Order of Canada, announced 47 appointees for 2019 and 2020 on Friday. Among them are Ernie Eves and his predecessor Mike […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com BRACEBRIDGE — A new year, new start and plans for the future of downtown are on the books for 2021 in Bracebridge. A master plan to guide core political actions the next decade will be up for virtual discussion Jan. 7. The town wants to know what you want and offers […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — Five more people today ends the year with 3,589 COVID cases in Simcoe and Muskoka. Can 2021 be any worse? Among the 74 cases the health unit is reporting are three confirmed in Gravenhurst and one each in Huntsville and Lake of Bays. All are under investigation by the […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — Muskoka is bucking the COVID trend again today, with just one of 56 reported cases in the region. A young Huntsville female under the age of 18 is under investigation as Simcoe ran up the total again with 55 cases. That brings the total to 322 since Christmas Eve, […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — The lockdown, a new variant and a slow rollout to prevent the pandemic’s spread are having little effect on local cases of COVID-19 as new numbers released late this afternoon show an explosion in cases. Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit reports 269 cases Tuesday, Dec. 29. But only 2 […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — If at first you don’t succeed …. That’s the success story of Climate Action Muskoka (CAM). The environmentalists who were miffed at being initially rebuffed late last fall by the District of Muskoka got the “best Christmas gift” they could ask for in the waning days before the holiday […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Murray Smith admits to being a bit of rogue growing up. And probably giving his mom, Melba Smith, 97, more than her share of grief. But the 64-year-old Orillia resident is making up for it by regularly visiting his mom at Gravenhurst Manor, and having a “thin slice of […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — Five new Muskoka COVID cases today compare to 44 reported in Simcoe. And they are aged from under 18 to up to 79. After Gravenhurst and Huntsville have experienced the most cases in December since the pandemic outbreak, Bracebridge is gaining cases after being to a lesser extend affected. […]
GRAVENHURST — Was a Santa impersonator caught with his pants down? Police said today they are investigating a bizarre indecent act complaint from Canadian Tire customer. They say a man with white hair and a white beard — and wearing a red sweater — was seen with his pants down. By the time officers arrived […]
GRAVENHURST — A business B&E here at the north end of downtown on the weekend netted the thief or thieves cash. Provincial police out of Bracebridge are investigating the break and enter on Muskoka Road North near George Street in Gravenhurst that occurred sometime between Friday, Dec. 18 and Sunday Dec 20. Police are asking […]
HUNTSVILLE — A 32-year-old “novice” driver who’s not allowed to drink and drive has been charged with impaired driving by drugs and alcohol after an accident last Thursday. Police here today say that on Dec. 17, at 4:20 p.m., the OPP responded to a single motor vehicle collision on Hwy. 141 in Huntsville. Officers located […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — Muskoka gets a clean bill of health today with all 49 COVID cases in Simcoe — as Health Canada approves Modern vaccine. And as the clock is ticking to Saturday’s province-wide lockdown and is now at three days and counting. The number is good news as it’s a bit […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — As the first LTC worker got the vaccine today in Barrie, 2 more people in Muskoka tested positive yesterday and 42 in Simcoe according to Tuesday reports. A Bracebridge woman aged 18-34 and a Huntsville woman aged 45-64. Both received it through close contact. So says Simcoe Muskoka District […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — Today’s Ontario COVID lockdown announcement comes ahead of word that in Simcoe and Muskoka over the past three days there were 188 cases. The health unit — which keeps delaying by hours each day the reporting of new cases (3:30 p.m. today) — says four of the cases were […]
GRAVENHURST — Another senior member of town staff is retiring in the new year. Fire Chief Larry Brassard leaves the department Jan. 15 after eight years. Deputy Fire Chief Todd Clapp will assume departmental lead upon Chief Brassard’s departure. CAO Glen Davies also earlier handed in his resignation for near the end of 2021. Brassard […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — It’s a province-wide shutdown effective Boxing Day. Muskokans who complained about not being in Ontario’s “north” will return to the most severe restrictions of the pandemic. Premier Doug Ford says just now that businesses will be back to the most limited services of last spring. And schools won’t go […]
LETTER TO EDITOR: How truly disgusting this situation is. To offer assistance to the people who need it the most, and then pull the carpet out from under them. Those who are responsible have debased themselves to their core. How truly unhumanitarian. How uncaring the mind that conceives and implements this kind of horror on […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE MUSKOKA — The long-awaited Pfizer COVID vaccine is within days of reaching those vulnerable residents and front-line health care workers. See the full list below of who will get it first. RVH says today that an immunization clinic there is expected to open in Barrie “imminently” to begin immunizing prioritized […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — Muskoka and Simcoe may be included in massive “Southern Ontario” lockdown measures Boxing Day as the region was hit with 62 cases Friday. Two of them are a man and woman from Huntsville. Premier Doug Ford said today’s 2,290 COVID cases are “very, very concerning” and that an emergency […]