Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — It’s curtains up and new doors are open on the Opera House as the box office reopened today with tickets on sale for the first show in almost two years March 26. And 305 newly upholstered seats await you upstairs in the theatre, where extensive renovations the past 18 […]
HUNTSVILLE — A burning candle is being blamed for a fire that caused $50,000 damage to rural home here in Huntsville yesterday. “With working smoke alarms and the occupants closing the doors as they evacuated the home, fire damage was limited to the room of origin and spared the home from heavy damage,” said interim […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — Dr. Charles Gardner “feels for the people impacted” by trucker protests and says continuation of the vaccine passports while not generally providing that much protection to the public will still “help reduce transmission to those who are unvaccinated.” The region’s medical officer of health said today: “I do note […]
LOIS COOPER | MuskokaTODAY.com These are troubling times in the world, but the trouble in Canada is of grave concern to me. This wonderful country of ours seems to be in a winter of great discontent to a vocal segment of the country’s population. I ask myself over and over, what I can do to […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — Deaths and hospitalizations were down, ICU admissions remained the same, but confirmed COVID cases more than tripled today in the region. Simcoe-Muskoka’s COVID roller coaster continued Tuesday with 7 deaths (down 1), 45 in hospital (down 3), 11 in ICU and 124 positive cases (up from 45 yesterday), according […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — With a state of emergency in Ottawa and provincial capital buildings also on guard against protests led by truckers, 8 deaths in Simcoe and 45 cases yesterday highlight the weekend’s COVID by the health unit. They are among 324 virus cases on the Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit (SMDH) […]
Stephen Richards | Special to MuskokaTODAY.com | FICTION A Pavilion in Muskoka, Summer of 1943 Beatrice, ‘Trixie Orange’ to her friends, is twirling around in some form of a square dance in her orange tulip print dress. The letter ‘B’ is embroidered on the front over her heart. She is 5 in a strange land, […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Andrey Petrov knew it wouldn’t last — at least not all winter. His tower of power, which took a week to build, lasted exactly a week. A few more days would have been nice. But it wasn’t for lack of trying. He gave it the same level of TLC […]