Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — If you love music even a transistor radio would have rocked your socks. When stereophonic sound replaced LPs you were over the moon. It’s like listening in Carnegie Hall. Hearing the Elmer Iseler Singers at the Opera House Sunday night was all of the above — and beyond. An […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — The first casualty of war is truth. And the war over Muskoka health care is a prime example — or be it said a primary care example. Every story has two sides and until the victor writes this hospitals history (MAHC has already begun with its own journey website […]
GRAVENHURST — A 31-year-old Toronto man has drown Sunday in Lake Muskoka just before noon. Police say the visitor to the area took a kayak out onto Lake Muskoka, near Taylor Island, and encountered difficulties causing him to enter the water. OPP along with their Underwater Search and Recovery Unit (USRU) conducted a thorough search […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com BARRIE — Winning gets “easier” as Cameron Bird and Om Patel get better and better. The Gravenhurst High School badminton players return to Georgian College next weekend a second time after defending their Georgian Bay Secondary School Athletic Association (GBSSA) title this week in Barrie. The Grade 10 students won the […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — The latest tit for tat war being waged by the two sides in the hospital debate doesn’t bode well for negotiations in public and next month in private. Muskoka Algonquin Healthcare refutes claims by doctors relying on statistical population data released this week. It said today in its weekly […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — South Muskoka doctors are all calling for “at least 54” acute care beds in south Muskoka and 62 in Huntsville, which could bring local hospitals closer to the “equal” status many call for. “Gains” “headway” and “negotiated” improvements are fine, but MAHC’s 40 per cent cut in beds in […]
MUSKOKA — A close call Friday night has a Port Carling man charged with impaired driving. He’s one of two alcohol-related incidents the past three days. On April 19 at 10 p.m. police were called to a commercial parking lot on Wellington Street near Monck Road in Bracebridge after a vehicle was seen scraping along […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — Three new international doctors could be practising in south Muskoka late this summer or early fall. The three women who live in Canada — two are from India and one from Egypt — are part of a provincial program called Practice Ready Ontario (PRO) intended to recruit foreign-trained Canadian […]