Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKKOA — With 1,031 Ontario cases today (106 regionally) — and an Omicron variant in York — 8 more cases in Muskoka may pale by comparison. But as reported yesterday by MuskokaTODAY.com, by Christmas those numbers are on track to more than double. Especially with Omicron being more transmissible than Delta. […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Ontario’s latest flip-flop on electric vehicles indicates some real intent as to its return of the Northlander. A few days after seven northereastern Ontario mayors made tracks for Toronto early one morning last week to meet with transportation minister Caroline Mulroney at Union Station to continue their pressure for […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — Omicron is real. It’s scary. And it’s here to stay — long-term. So people age 50+ will be rushing Dec. 13 at 8 a.m. to begin booking appointments for booster shots. That’s the group of people taking COVID and vaccines most seriously. With Omicron spreading fast — including Durham […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com BALA — Residents here are always first to see Santa sailing over the Moon River each December on his motorized sleigh as the season of Christmas parades begins. But this year, the biggest elf is coming down from his sleigh for a drive-by unlike never before. Courtesy, of course, of COVID. […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — While there are “no” Omicron cases in Simcoe-Muskoka yet, will current vaccines stop them “if and when” they arrive? “We don’t know,” says Dr. Charles Gardner. “It’s still too early to tell,” he said when asked this afternoon. His “best advice” is to keep wearing masks inside and outside […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com BRACEBRIDGE — A manufacturing business with 25 employees is news enough. But an expansion of 12,000 square feet is bigger news amid the pandemic. Embertech Industrial, a metal fabricator here on Barron Drive, is adding to its existing 5,000 square feet. And a $363,000 Ontario regional growth program grant announced last […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — One’s a man of steel — the other’s a super man. Gordon Lightfoot and Fred Schulz share many things in common. Both are guitar players with deep roots in Orillia and neighbouring Kilworthy. And both were at Massey Hall last Thursday for the reopening of the legendary Toronto music […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — If one is too many. Two is twice as bad. That’s Muskoka today with two COVID cases among 53 in the region Monday. The boy and girl are among kids under age 18. This as the Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit (SMDHU) says as of today, 10% of children […]