STEPHEN RICHARDS | Special to MuskokaTODAY.com FICTION Continued from Episode 4 Marley’s apartment in “The Grave” – 2012 Bart is seated in a burgundy jacquard-print wing chair. Marley is on a bench playing ‘Moonglow’ on the c.1900 Carl Bechstein grand piano. Desmond, Bart’s Maine Coon cat, is curled up on an ottoman. Bart asks Marley […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — COVID’s impact appears to finally be hitting local hospitals harder. With the provincial switch in reporting to hospitalizations from overall cases, Muskoka hospitals, too, have succumbed to their highest hospitalization rates in two years. This as the health unit reported late, this afternoon, 456 cases since Friday — and […]
TARA COLLUM | Contributing columnist You want to talk, Bell? Okay, let’s talk. About how despite a national campaign for mental health, your employees are so stressed out by the high-pressure sales tactics they are ordered to impose on us citizens for fear of reprisals and job loss that they whistle the blew to the […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — January is proving a deadly month for COVID with 27 people in the region dying the first three weeks of 2022. Another one was in Muskoka yesterday in a particularly fatal week with 9 deaths reported for an overall total of 17 now. They bring to 317 the number […]
MUSKOKA — Since the beginning of January shoppers have been boasting about what they found in Muskoka — and where they found it. Local chambers of commerce have been running a contest: “Tell us what you bought in Muskoka and where you found it – and win.” It’s a win-win for long-suffering business and their […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — The end of the month may be the latest beginning of the end for COVID. At least the province thinks so as it moves toward loosening its grip on business by allowing them to welcome back up to half their in-house customer base. This as confirmed local cases dropped […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — Muskoka has almost doubled it number of COVID deaths this past week. Six more Muskokans have died, including five in long-term care, Dr. Charles Gardner confirmed this afternoon. Among today’s lag in deaths reported were 5 who were 80+ (2 men and 3 women) and a man 65-79 who […]
STEPHEN RICHARDS | Special to MuskokaTODAY.com FICTION Bart’s Place, Basement of Musicians Friend The apartment is spartan. There is a door to a room containing a retrofitted combination toilet/shower, with a privacy curtain salvaged from an RV. Sundry cleaning supplies, hanging clothes and a pair of boots. The main room is demarcated into zones using […]