Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA —  Deaths and hospitalizations were down, ICU admissions remained the same, but confirmed COVID cases more than tripled today in the region. Simcoe-Muskoka’s COVID roller coaster continued Tuesday with 7 deaths (down 1), 45 in hospital (down 3), 11 in ICU and 124 positive cases (up from 45 yesterday), according […]

Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — With a state of emergency in Ottawa and provincial capital buildings also on guard against protests led by truckers, 8 deaths in Simcoe and 45 cases yesterday highlight the weekend’s COVID by the health unit. They are among 324 virus cases on the Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit (SMDH) […]

Stephen Richards | Special to MuskokaTODAY.com | FICTION A Pavilion in Muskoka, Summer of 1943 Beatrice, ‘Trixie Orange’ to her friends, is twirling around in some form of a square dance in her orange tulip print dress.  The letter ‘B’ is embroidered on the front over her heart.  She is 5 in a strange land, […]

Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Andrey Petrov knew it wouldn’t last — at least not all winter. His tower of power, which took a week to build, lasted exactly a week. A few more days would have been nice. But it wasn’t for lack of trying. He gave it the same level of TLC […]

TARA COLLUM | Contributing columnist The people who have not gotten a vaccine until now aren’t playing. From what I understand they don’t want to be vaccinated for two reasons: They don’t trust the vaccine, and they don’t think COVID is that bad. This does not at all include people that can’t get a vaccine […]

Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — Five more people in region over 80 have died in accounting today by the health unit. One of them is a man from Muskoka who died in the community. The other four were in Simcoe and were outbreak related: Male, 80+, Simcoe, outbreak, DOD – Feb 3 Male, 80+, Muskoka, community, DOD – […]