BRACEBRIDGE — Three Pines staff members remain in isolation after one of them tested positive as of Saturday. It says the Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit (SMDHU) advised the District Nov. 14 that a staff member from the Pines Long-Term Care Home has tested positive for COVID-19. This positive result was not an outcome of […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — What a difference a few days makes. And not just in weather. Wednesday, Remembrance Day, the parade square around at the local cenotaph was virtually void — save for 14 legionnaires bravely cloistered inside, lest anyone forget. By order of the legion command — on the recommendation of public […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — COVID is “definitely going to get worse before it gets better.” And “a third wave always follows a second.” That’s the stark messages delivered this morning to Gravenhurst Probus members in a virtual briefing from one of the country’s top medical advisers. Dr. Andrew Morris, a Muldrew Lake cottager, […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — If you needed any more proof that the pandemic is going to make winter worse, latest local stats confirm everyone’s worst fears. Today the health unit reports 86 positive tests over the weekend. Two of them are women from Muskoka. One is aged 45-64 in Bracebridge. The other is […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — It was a dark and stormy night …. “It was a crazy day, all day and night,” said one person on social media. Yesterday’s winds whipped up a nasty night and day for residents across much of southern Ontario Sunday as wild gusts knocked down their usual trees and […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — Here are two key numbers worth thinking about today, as Ontario’s COVID numbers fell four cases short of 1,400 today. In Simcoe 46 people tested positive for the coronavirus Friday (none in Muskoka). That’s the same number reported yesterday for the previous two days — Wednesday and Thursday. And […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — As COVID numbers soar nationwide, a Huntsville woman over age 80 is under investigation after testing positive the past two days. The health unit reports today 46 cases in the region, most in Essa (11) and Bradford-West Gwillimbury (15). They are among 1,575 today in Ontario and 1,365 in […]
BRACEBRIDGE — Schools here were put in a “hold and secure” yesterday afternoon after a report that a youth had “made concerning comments about potentially committing an act of violence at a local high school.” Police say they received information Wednesday Nov. 11 at 1:20 p.m. And that the affected schools were quickly placed into […]
Photos by Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com As remembrances go, today’s service at the Gravenhurst legion wasn’t large. But it loomed larger than life and death in the minds of those 14 present, those few who couldn’t resist showing up in person and by those thinking of them at home. Here’s a snap shot of the […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Today was a day to remember. Sons and daughters lost to wars. Daughters and sons, moms and dads, friends lost to the coronavirus. Remembrance Day had more poignancy as Canadians paused for two minutes this morning. And rightlfully eerily fewer people in person. At the Harry Wray Branch #302 […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — Residents and visitors to Gravenhurst and Muskoka Lakes Township are being cautioned today about three confirmed blue-green algae blooms in local lakes. The health unit issued the warnings this morning, Nov. 11, for the west side of Kahshe Lake, in Gravenhurst; and the north end of Black Lake and […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MACTIER — There’s no last minute landscaping or army cadet vigil tonight, as two local legions ready for Remembrance Day this eve. Bruce Henn and Shirley Ruttan — presidents of their respective Royal Canadian Legions in MacTier and Bracebridge — may differ in their commemorations tomorrow, but their sentiments are the […]
BRACEBRIDGE — A missing man who lived in Bracebridge is being sought by concerned family members. Police are asking the public for their assistance in locating 40-year-old Corey Martin. A transient, he was last known to reside in Bracebridge, but is also known to frequent London, Ont. Martin is described as 6-foot-1, with brown hair, […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — An end to warm temperatures this week could see a spike in COVID cases says the local public health head. Dr. Charles Gardner said this afternoon the “pattern of transmission” is related to cooler Canadian seasonal climes as people congregate more indoors. And that could see Simcoe and Muskoka […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — With Remembrance Day services limited in size this year due to COVID, most small memorials will have limited musical accompaniment. Perhaps a piper and a bugler to play Last Post — but like mostly recorded music. Here in Muskoka some musicians who normally would have been part of some […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — Weekend weather may have been above average, but the COVID count was not. Since last Friday’s health unit report, 51 people regionally tested positive. None were in Muskoka. They are among 1,242 alone in Ontario today and 1,169 in Quebec. Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit’s daily stats show that […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com What a weekend. A day to celebrate like crazy and a day to heal and look forward to tomorrow. Americans woke up this morning turning a frown upside down. Joe Biden is the president-elect and President Donald Trump is — well — history. It couldn’t have been a more perfect ending […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — Thirteen new local COVID cases are part of more than 250,000 cases in Canada. Friday’s numbers in Simcoe bring to 1,497 the total in the health unit’s reporting region. Six people are in hospital. There were no cases in Musoka, Friday Nov. 6. Seven people today are from Barrie, […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — The coronavirus continues to get worse in Simcoe and Muskoka. Two Huntsville women are among 15 new cases today and 132 this week. The health unit says the four-day total is the highest weekly total since the start of the pandemic and the third straight week or record numbers. […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE — Another day another 17 cases of COVID in Simcoe. And none in Muskoka, reports Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit. They are among 987 people to test positive for the coronavirus Wednesday, Nov. 4. Quebec count was back in four digits at 1,029. Meanwhile, in Manitoba Health Minister Cameron Friesen […]