Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — A dozen unvaccinated people in the region yesterday tested positive for COVID-19. Two more residents with the vaccine also tested positive. All of them live in Simcoe. None of them were from Muskoka. This as the province tested 36,404 Ontarians yesterday with a positivity rate of 1.7 per cent. […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — LTC residents are back in line for booster shots not long after they and most of the staff who care for them have been vaccinated. Canada’s National Advisory Committee on Immunization said today third shots are being recommended. This as a dozen new COVID cases Tuesday in Simcoe-Muskoka include […]
SEVERN TOWNSHIP — The woman who died in train accident yesterday afternoon has been identified. Police say Barbara Kitchen, 67, of Severn was killed after officers and emergency crews responded to the crash involving a train in the CP Rail line and a car at 2:18 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 26, on Upper Big Chute Road, […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — Three of the 43 COVID cases this weekend in the region were in Muskoka. The other 40 cases — along with 1 death — were in Simcoe, says the health unit in an update today. The Muskoka cases all under investigation were: Gravenhurst girl, 0-17, reported yesterday, with a […]
TARA COLLUM | Contributing columnist After a costly $600 million election that has widely been decried by some as a total waste of money, we are no better off, and nothing has changed. Two years ago, there was a federal election; but in the times of COVID and quarantine, it seems so much longer ago […]
RUSTY DRAPER | Contributing columnist When I entered the Draper family 75 years ago, I came out of the birthing canal expecting some great and wonderful things that would accompany me through the pages of life. Talent and skill describe related properties, but they’re not exactly the same. Talent comes naturally, while skill is something […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — New Ontario capacity limits on large gatherings indoors and outdoors won’t affect Muskoka where 3 new COVID cases today are among 21 in the region. They numbers end the week at 79 total cases in Simcoe and Muskoka after 141 last week and 197 the week before. The 3 […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — How do you describe Muskoka’s cavalcade of colours? That’s Alex Smyth’s job for AMI TV. A host of Postcards From …, he’s in Muskoka this week putting in to words the iconic beauty of the Canadian landscape best captured by the Group of Seven. While tens of thousands of […]