STEPHEN RICHARDS, Special to MuskokaTODAY Bourbon Street Jazz Club, 180 Queen St. West, Toronto, October 1975: George’s Italian Café on the main floor is closed today. The Basin Street Club is on the second floor and Salome Bey’s ‘Indigo’ set has been prepped for performances. Bourbon Street Jazz Club is on the first floor of […]
BRACEBRIDGE — An early New Year’s stabbing has one Bracebridge man in hospital and another charged in his stabbing yesterday. Police say that at 4:40 a.m., Jan. 1, the OPP and Muskoka EMS responded to a report of a stabbing at an address on Manitoba Street in Bracebridge. They say a 27-year-old Bracebridge man was […]
TARA COLLUM | Contributing columnist It’s time to put Auld Lang Syne on the Victrola, it’s the start of another new year. Does it feel to anyone else like it’s been 2020 for about two years now? Some sayings don’t truly hit home without lived life experience, like we never know what the future brings, […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com BRACEBRIDGE — Five staff at The Pines LTC have tested positive for COVID-19, and the Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit has placed the home under outbreak status. They say all staff who tested positive are symptomatic and are isolating at home. The Pines staff is working with the health unit and […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — Another day, another year, another “record.” As the calendar turns on a second devastating year, it’s not the end of the pandemic predicted. Or anywhere near it with Omicron setting daily records. How bad was 2021? The health unit reported 715 cases today — including 50 Muskoka. Last year […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com BRACEBRIDGE — With soaring Omicron cases threatening Muskoka hospitals, a COVID outbreak at South Muskoka Memorial Hospital (SMMH) has the health unit placing it in outbreak status and two impacted staff are in quarantine. That’s in addition to four other staff. There were 60 new COVID cases in Muskoka today, reports […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — With school’s return delayed two days next week, Simcoe-Muskoka is dealing with 637 COVID cases today, says the health unit. Public Health Ontario makes it 441 cases. Included in those are 60 cases in Muskoka, with more than half of them — 31 — in Huntsville, says the Simcoe-Muskoka […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — With 73 Muskoka COVID cases since Friday, the health unit says the self-isolation period starts when the person’s symptoms began or the day they were tested, whichever is earlier. And workers can return to the workplace after their self-isolation period if they have no fever and their symptoms have […]