HUNTSVILLE — Police are continuing to help the family of Matthew Alford locate him. The missing Huntsville man was last seen Tuesday, Feb. 1. The OPP are searching for the 45-year-old and are asking for the public’s assistance. Alford was last seen walking alone on Shannon Hall Rd., in Huntsville, at about 4 p.m. He […]
WASHAGO – A Gravenhurst man is dead and woman is in hospital with minor injuries after a multi-vehicle accidents this morning. Police say that at 8:22 a.m. officers responded to a collision on Highway 11 at the Severn River Bridge. Emergency crews from the Gravenhurst Fire Department, Severn Fire Department, Muskoka Emergency Medical Services and Simcoe […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — Justin Trudeau said he disagreed with Erin O’Toole, but wished him and his family well. One thing they would have agreed on was not bringing the military in to clear truckers from Ottawa’s streets. The prime minister said “that’s not in the cards.” Doug Ford may say otherwise if […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — You may have had COVID and didn’t know it — even if you didn’t show symptoms. So agrees Dr. Charles Gardner, who says he himself hasn’t gotten COVID — “to my knowledge or had symptoms. “I’ve been extremely careful. I’ve taken every precaution that I advised.” He said: “Me […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — Saturday’s cold snap, which left more than 13,300 south Muskoka customers without hydro for much of the day and into Sunday was caused by a transformer switch failure at Hydro One’s Bracebridge Transmission Station at the end of Gray Road off Monica Lane. In addition, a broken cross arm […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — Stunning news today from the pandemic science table advising the province shows Ontarians who didn’t get COVID the past month were lucky. The medical panel claimed that based also on wastewater sampling — including in Barrie and Orillia — that an incredible 1.5 to 4 million people may “plausibly” […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — Stunning news today from the pandemic science table advising the province shows Ontarians who didn’t get COVID the past month were lucky. The medical panel claimed that based also on wastewater sampling — including in Barrie and Orillia — that an incredible 1.5 to 4 million people may “plausibly” […]
STEPHEN RICHARDS | Guest columnist FICTION Bart’s apartment, basement of Musician’s Friend, 2012 Bart is dreaming …. 1675 — The trade war with the Dutch had just ended. The British achieved maritime supremacy and exploration seeking out white pine for shipbuilding and beaver pelts for the latest fashions. Hutch Nielsen and Robert Jefferson, employed by […]