GRAVENHURST – A driver who got stuck early yesterday morning trying to drive on Gull Lake has been charged with impaired operation of a vehicle. Police say that on Sunday, Feb. 13, at 9:20 a.m. officers were dispatched to Gull Lake Park after a member of the public observed a car attempt to drive out […]
GRAVENHURST – Police were called out to a second snowmobile accident Sunday. They say at 4:45 p.m. yesterday, Feb. 13, the OPP got an 911 call to the Ontario Federation of Snowmobile Clubs (OFSC) trail Route D near Doe Lake Road in Gravenhurst. A single snow vehicle collision left a 38-year-old Gravenhurst man injured when […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — The end of vaccine passports March 1 in Ontario comes as 322 confirmed COVID cases were reported this weekend for Simcoe-Muskoka. And Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is close to enacting federal emergency powers to end national protests, following Premier Doug Ford’s similar announcement last week to end Windsor’s border […]
MUSKOKA LAKES — A snowmobiler who hit a tree about midnight Saturday, is in hospital in Toronto with life-threatening injuries. Police say the 31-year-old man was not wearing a mandatory helmet at the time of the collision. The OPP and Muskoka EMS responded to the single snowmobile collision Sunday Feb. 13 at 12:07 a.m. They […]
TARA COLLUM | Contributing columnist In China and Uzbekistan the government forces people into the back-breaking labour of cotton picking. That is what government repression looks like. Was the government overstepping when it banned indoor smoking? Remember when Tim Hortons in Gravenhurst had the glass walled-off smoking room? Guess how fun it was as a […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — Doug Ford declared a state of emergency today. For Muskoka’s most famous cottager it might as well have been about political damage control, after the publicly AWOL premier was spotted snowmobiling here Saturday as anti-vaxx protests rocked the province and country. Today in a firm, but politically calculated, message […]
GRAVENHURST — A traffic stop last night led police on a two-hour chase that ended just after midnight today with drug charges against two York Region men. Police also seized a loaded pistol. Both men are in custody and appeared in the Ontario Court of Justice in Bracebridge today for a bail hearing. This was […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — Muskoka has had 1,195 confirmed COVID cases since Dec. 12. Since the beginning of the fifth wave 7 per cent of Simcoe-Muskoka’s cases have been Omicron, says the health unit in new statistics requested yesterday by MuskokaTODAY.com and released to us today. They say the total for the latest […]