Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — A biting wind was no match for the sun and shinny on Lake Muskoka this weekend for another annual hockey fest. This year’s winter lite didn’t stop hundreds of slap-happy puck purists who gathered under the sun for a glorious game of what makes us Canadian. The battle for […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — This week’s coldest nights of the year were capped with another “Coldest Day of the Year” walk yesterday. Hundreds of walkers and volunteers raised more than $173,000 in the annual Gravenhurst Against Poverty trek through town for food security. The 336 who registered gathered at the Lion’s Pavilion on […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — No final decision on the fate of Muskoka’s hospitals is forthcoming. Muskoka Algonquin Healthcare said today that talks continue widely and that its board of directors will not be approving a recommendation on a future model of care at its next scheduled meeting in March. This follows meetings this […]
MUSKOKA — Three x-ray sites at MAHC are open again as walk-in service centres — in Burk’s Falls, Huntsville and Bracebridge — after four years due to COVID. No appointment is necessary. MAHC will no longer schedule x-ray appointments Muskoka Algonquin Healthcare says today, Feb. 22, that it is resuming walk-in only service for outpatient […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — South Muskoka doctors aren’t waiting for a meeting tonight with Muskoka Algonquin Healthcare and have released a counter proposal that would see 90 inpatient beds at South Muskoka and 50 at Huntsville. As well as obstetrics at both sites and no Level 3 ICU beds at Huntsville. They’re calling […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com HUNTSVILLE — MPP Graydon Smith, under weeks of pressure in south Muskoka to help its hospital, gave more than $1.26 million to Family Health Teams (FHT) in Huntsville, Sundridge, Burk’s Falls and Wasauksing First Nation today. At two Ford government announcements he attended in the morning and afternoon on Friday in […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com HUNTSVILLE — A fatal accident two years ago that claimed the life of a 22-year-old Burk’s Falls customer has led to a proposed liquor licence suspension for a local roadhouse restaurant. Colton Orr, 22, of Burk’s Falls, died shortly after driving away from Kelsey’s Original Roadhouse on Howland Drive in Huntsville, […]
HUNTSVILLE — The Fire Marshal’s office has been called in to investigate a late morning fire here on Valentine’s Day in which a one person was taken to hospital. At 11:40 a.m. February 14, the Huntsville/Lake of Bays Fire Fighters responded to a structure fire on North Waseosa Lake Road in Huntsville. Crews from Station […]