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 […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Scouting is the “whole package” when it comes to helping boys and girls grow and learn outside of school. “We like to think it offers a bit of everything,” says Craig Armstrong 1st Gravenhurst assistant group commissioner. “Fun, education, sports, outdoors, camping and good citizenship. “Other groups have their […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — A new dedicated MAHC website puts its case to the public for two distinctly different hospitals and includes its latest spring offering. The site created by Algonquin Digital, which operated the IT portion of their recent community meetings, provides all of the information shown on screens in those often […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Mary Jane Reid has grown up with hundreds of Cubs, Beavers, Scouts and Venturers who are today leading productive lives and in many cases now are leading members of this community. In more than half a century of scouting, the Group Commissioner has learned as much about life and […]