HUNTSVILLE — Health care improvements over the next decade will see Muskoka hospital beds increase to 140 from 90. Premier Doug Ford and Health Minister Christine Elliott were here Sunday afternoon at Huntsville’s hospital to announce the province is “investing an additional $14 million to modernize and expand Muskoka Algonquin Healthcare (MAHC).” They say the […]
TARA COLLUM | Contributing columnist Is it a blessing or a curse to live in interesting times? The literal meaning of the phrase is thought to mean to live in times of upheaval and uncertainty. I always thought, “trust the Midas touch,” was a strange phrase. While indeed in the old story everything King Midas […]
BRACEBRIDGE — With COVID continuing to climb, Ontario Health has recently expanded eligibility for COVID-19 PCR testing for symptomatic and asymptomatic people with defined criteria that has been updated on the Bracebridge Assessment Centre webpage at www.mahc.ca/COVID-19testing/. Generally, the guidance is prioritizing for molecular testing those at the highest risk of COVID-19, by including, for example, […]
HUNTSVILLE — A Parry Sound driver faces impaired by alcohol driving charges after a head-on collision late yesterday afternoon. Police and emergency crews were called to Aspdin Road just before 6 p.m. Wednesday to for a report of serious collision in Huntsville. Two vehicles were involved in a head-on collision. A woman, 24, was transported […]
TARA COLLUM | Contributing columnist In a shopping mall in Sydney, Nova Scotia, I saw something I’ve never seen before. Kids lining up for pictures with the Easter Bunny. At least I don’t think I’ve seen that before? In a dollar store I found some buttermilk biscuit mix. Would a dollar store in Ontario sell […]
LAKE OF BAYS — An off-road vehicle (ORV) driver who fled police faces a number of charges after officers pursued him on a fire access road. OPP at Huntsville say that on April 11 an officer from the provincial police central region, Traffic Incident Management Enforcement (TIME) team was conducting traffic enforcement on South Ril […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — A rush to get second booster shots isn’t holding back COVID-19. A week of vaccinations for the 60+ still sees corona winning the virus war. Total numbers are up locally and provincially today. Simcoe-Muskoka almost doubled to 234 from 122 yesterday, according to Public Health Ontario. Across the province […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — Hundreds lined up for second booster shots today at the Sportsplex in Bracebridge as the sixth wave of COVID grows. As yellow school buses left the high school next door — at mid-afternoon — they circled the Green GO Vax bus in the sunny parking lot, which still had […]