Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — Call her COVID #19. A Muskoka Lakes girl who tested positive for the coronavirus is among 19 regional residents with the dreaded Delta variant. The health unit says the under-18 child is under investigation after being reported yesterday with a first episode Tuesday. She is among 510 cases the […]
GRAVENHURST — Forget vaccine passports, criminals are travelling in comfort and style this summer. Thieves here got away with a Passport travel trailer worth $40,000 and a boat trailer you’d have to sink $10,000 in to to launch with it. Provincial police are investigating a pair of un-petty crimes the past two weekends. Overnight Saturday […]
MUSKOKA — A push to get more Muskokans vaccinated continues. After months struggling to get more testing and vaccination sites, the health unit is pulling out all the stops as it increases walk-in traffic and puts on pop-up clinics in even remote community locations. The latest initiative started this past Monday in Gravenhurst and continued […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — Should unvaccinated Canadians be able go to the ballot box in a federal election? It’s too late for a plebiscite on that question. But with 15 to 25 COVID cases in Simcoe-Muskoka today, 513 in Ontario, Justin Trudeau expected to call for a national vote within days and more […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — GAP’s “dream” is alive. A future home to house all its social initiatives including its signature food program and a Young Adult Centre. “The stars have to align,” Gravenhurst Against Poverty chair Bonnie Dart said this morning at the official kick-off to a major fundraising campaign. Their public solicitation […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — A young Muskoka Lakes man is among 15 COVID cases the health unit is reporting in Simcoe-Muskoka today as the fourth wave is upon us all but officially declared. The 18-34-year-old is under investigation as to the cause, which was reported Aug. 5 with a first episode Aug. 2. […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — They say write what you know. Julia Tilson knows pain. “I had a lot of pain in my teenage years.” Not just the mental or emotional kind many kids suffer. But physical pain. The near-death experience kind. A brain bleed in public school left the then 10-year-old in a […]
GRAVENHURST — The body of a man found in Sparrow Lake Aug. 1 has been confirmed as a canoeist who was reported missing three days before. Ian Walker, 56, was a seasonal resident on the lake. And the ninth area water fatality this summer in just over a month. Provincial police today said that on […]