STEPHEN RICHARDS | Special to MuskokaTODAY.com FICTION 101 Entrance Drive, North Falls: March 10, 1912 Over the past nine years, scrutchers, weavers, warpers, menders and finishing experts arrived via the Sagamo steamer, departing from places such as Ulster, Lisburn and Belfast. Each seeking opportunities free from famine and hoping for improved working conditions. And, if […]
GRAVENHURST — Police are looking for a suspect in a gas bar cash and dash earlier this month on Hwy. 11. They say that on Jan. 3 officers were dispatched to a report of a break and enter at the Shell Gas Station located northbound on Hwy. 11 south of Gravenhurst at the Kahshe Lake […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — Almost 60 more regional COVID cases are being reported today than yesterday — but where they are and when they were remains a closely guarded secret by the province through its local public health unit. All it’s safe to assume it that Omicron is omnipresent in everyday life. As […]
Letter to Editor: Continuing to publish only raw data regarding the number of daily vaccinated infections compared with infections in unvaccinated people paints a false picture of the efficacy of COVID vaccines, and seems to support the dangerous myth that vaccines are ineffective. A quick look at the Ontario Science Table’s online data reveals that, […]
PARRY SOUND-MUSKOKA — Four community centres will receive more than $1,272,000 from the province for facility upgrades. The funding is a part of the Community Building Fund’s Capital stream, administered by the Ontario Trillium Foundation. In Parry Sound-Muskoka, the local recipients are as follows: The Township of Lake of Bays is receiving $500,000 over 12 […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — There are more COVID cases than the government, health units and public know, but you’ll never know who are where and in what communities they live. As of today the municipal locations of cases will no longer be disclosed by the health unit and province. The reason, claims Dr. […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — As Ontario families ready to return to kids to school Monday amid ever-increasing COVID cases, Quebec has taken the first bold step in proposing a health care contributing tax on those unvaccinated without medical exemptions. Today Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit (SMDHU) reports 364 cases — including 26 in […]
GRAVENHURST — Police are looking for a man wearing a balaclava in a home invasion here Sunday night. Police say officers responded to a 911 call from an address on the Gravenhurst Parkway January 9 at 11:45 p.m. They say the caller reported an unknown man entered their residence with a weapon and demanded cash. The […]