Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — As Ontario prepares to move to Stage 3 of its recovery next Friday, Simcoe and Muskoka are each reporting just one COVID case today. The province is making the move five days ahead of the originally scheduled opening July 21. That’s 16 days after the Stage 2 opening on […]
BRAECBRIDGE — Thank god for Fridays. Climate Action Muskoka (CAM) is rallying the troops here at noon tomorrow for one of its weekly Fridays for Future Climate Strikes. In response to the obvious effects of climate change in Muskoka and beyond, the local chapter of the retired teachers of Ontario (RTO/ERO) says they are joining […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — It wasn’t exactly Music on the Barge. Even if was how the famed — yet pandemic-postponed — concert series began at Gull Lake Rotary Park seven decades ago. On a floating dock. But still it was “amazing” all the same. An impromptu mini concert — for a couple of […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — For a second straight day Muskoka has surpassed Simcoe in COVID cases — 6 to 5. Yesterday it was 4 to 2. This as Delta cases continue on the rise with 73 today, 70 yesterday, 59 Tuesday and 57 Monday. Five young people in Bracebridge — 2 girls and […]
SEVERN TOWNSHIP — A Toronto man is the latest drowning victim in the region. Roland Jonker, 76, of Toronto died Tuesday afternoon after a swimming accident in Deep Bay in Sparrow Lake. Provincial police say that just after 3 p.m. July 6 emergency services responded to an urgent call reporting a male who had failed […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — Two thirds of today’s COVID cases are in Muskoka. After months of being behind in the counting — and amid renewed talk of separation from Simcoe — “we the north” top the south half of the health unit with four of six cases Wednesday. It’s a first in pandemic […]
LETTER TO EDITOR: I have taken the time today to write to the University of Windsor after hearing/seeing a professor there on CTV speaking about the appointment of a new governor general for Canada. I am very distressed to hear or read the words “mass grave” or “mass graves” used in reference to unmarked graves […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — It’s OK for grandparents to give their grandkids a hug, say federal health officials. But just be careful says the local medical officer of health. Dr. Charles Gardner says even with most adults and teens vaccinated it’s still possible to spread COVID-19. But federal health guidelines supersede provincial regulations, […]