SIMCOE MUSKOKA — New public health restrictions on movements in and out of local long-term care homes have been issued by order of the region’s medical officer of health. As of yesterday, Tuesday Nov. 3, Dr. Charles Gardner says he will immediately restrict all indoor visits at long-term care homes to one essential visitor at […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — A “rapidly” growing number of cases in Simcoe and Muskoka sees 29 new people with COVID-19. All mostly in south Simcoe. None were in Muskoka Tuesday, Nov. 3. This as the health unit today also issued an order for “long-term care” facilities only to restrict visitors to only two […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com America has voted. And to the victor today go the spoils of four years. Americans will either roll back the clock to Donald Trump or move forward with Joe Biden’s new years’ resolutions. The United States election is a world of concern. Ballots cast south of the border may be counted […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — COVID has now spread to a resident at the Granite Ridge LTC, one of 75 people in the region who tested positive over the weekend. After a staff member tested positive last week at the Bethune Drive retirement home, the health unit reports today a second institutional outbreak (respiratory) […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com I have a t-shirt that says ‘I played hockey with Bobby Orr….’ Though he is seven years older than me, our paths didn’t cross on the ice in Parry Sound or Muskoka. But my brother Paul did in a famous early 1960s exhibition game in Bracebridge between the Gravenhurst Braves Jr. […]
MUSKOKA LAKES — Emergency services had to mobilize vast resources and come to the rescue twice last Sunday night after hikers got lost on Hardy Lake trails. No one was injured but great efforts were made to find the people, say the OPP. This after an elderly couple were lost for days in north Muskoka […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com PARRY SOUND — Legendary Parry Sound NHL Hall of Famer Bobby Orr is stick-handling like never before after his scary endorsement of U.S. President Donald Trump. As has golf legend Jack Nicklaus. The Boston Bruins all-star took out a full page ad in today’s Friday Oct. 30 edition of the New Hampshire […]
GRAVENHURST — Thanksgiving may be over — and shelves may be pretty well stocked with many items — but if you’re providing food for the hungry there’s never enough of everything in the old pantry to go around. So the Salvation Army is stocking up for winter just like you — this Wednesday Nov. 4 […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Traffic, property buffers and pedestrian safety were among a number of concerns raised in a public hearing Tuesday to deal with a proposed “local” gas bar on Bethune Drive. A small in-person town planning and development committee meeting at the Opera House late in the afternoon convened to consider […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — Good and bad news to end the week in Simcoe and Muskoka. Nine new COVID cases, but one new death since yesterday. Again their were none in Muskoka today. Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit reports today 2 people each in Barrie, Bradford-West Gwillimbury and New Tecumseth; and 1 each […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Test results are already coming back negative for some staff and residents at the Granite Ridge after a staff member learned through contact tracing that she had been exposed to COVID-19 through another person. And that’s a positive for the the private LTC home on Bethune Drive. Jackie Payne, […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — Twenty-six new COVID cases today in Simcoe more than mirrored a similar province-wide jump. There were none in Muskoka — with just one staff member at the Granite Ridge retirement home in Gravenhurst Oct. 27 this week. This as the health unit says one person in Simcoe Muskoka was […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com BRACEBRIDGE — An application to amend the town’s official plan and rezone lands for a private school was deferred last night. After an almost five-hour planning and development committee meeting that wrapped up about 7 p.m., council members sent the matter of the Muskoka Royale College back to staff. Town senior […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — Among 22 new COVID cases today in Simcoe Muskoka is a Gravenhurst woman aged 35-44, due to an institutional outbreak. The health unit says there was an outbreak of a staff member yesterday, Oct. 27, at the retirement home and LTC on Bethune Drive. It is deemed a “respiratory […]
ORILLIA — Orillians who popped a top or two over the summer months and donated their empties to The Beer Store’s local bottle drive helped raise an incredible $42,133 to support Orillia Soldiers’ Memorial Hospital. This fundraising campaign was part of The Beer Store’s company-wide initiative to raise funds for local hospitals and food banks […]
SIMCOE MUSKOKA — The COVID story is an intensely personal experience we all share. And the health unit wants you to share the good, bad and ugly of the coronavirus. Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit wants to know more about the pandemic and is asking residents to complete an online survey to learn what issues need […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — Amid some rising countrywide COVID fears Muskoka has avoided another day of zero reported cases today. The same can’t be said for Simcoe, where 19 people have tested positive for the coronavirus. Yesterday the Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit reported 55 for the weekend in Simcoe and none in […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com BRACEBRIDGE — Climate change and the pandemic recovery clashed this afternoon as the town further considers a plan for a private Ontario and international board school on sensitive land in the middle of town. It’s a heated, emotional battle that has opposing sides alleging “misinformation,” “deliberate exaggerations,” accusations of “NIMBYism” and […]
Ed. note: The following two letters were sent to MPP Norm Miller, MPP Merrilee Fullerton, Ontario‘s Minister of Long-Term Care, MP Scott Aitchison and MuskokaTODAY.com. Dear Mr. Miller: It is time for less talk and more action to enforce LTC regulations and standards. Current and past governments, their applicable health departments and LTC inspection indifference […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — After record weekend numbers provincewide, Simcoe reported today that 55 people tested positive in the local health unit count since Friday. Muskoka had no cases Monday, Oct. 26. Ontario dropped to 851 after 1,072 on Sunday. And Quebec reported 808. Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit reports an additional two […]