TARA COLLUM | Special to MuskokaTODAY.com How long does Pride need to be celebrated? How about forever. Once things reach parade status, they are a pretty permanent tradition. Times are changing and progressing; but things aren’t always as far along as we’d like to think they are. With education, empathy and more representation, I hope […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — With 19 new local COVID cases, Simcoe is in and Muskoka is out again in a new cabinet shuffle this afternoon. Only one of today’s positive coronavirus tests comes from Huntsville, where a woman 45-64 with close contact was reported June 17 with a first exposure June 10. The […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Wasabi won’t be there. So the best in show is wide open in the Gravenhurst Chamber of Commerce Virtual Car show voting now underway. The shaggy little Pekingese — named top dog Sunday in the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show — has enough trophies. But there are almost 200 […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com BRACEBRIDGE — The longest day of the year will begin here downtown with a sunrise commemoration to begin Indigenous Awareness Week and to honour the 215 First Nations child victims found in an unmarked grave at the former Kamloops Indian Residential School in B.C. Parry Sound-Muskoka MP Scott Aitchison and Trisha […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — May 13 was the first day a case of the Delta variant showed up in local health unit reporting. Today there are 18 cases (all in Simcoe) as the province added Simcoe-Muskoka to the list of seven regions designated as hot spots for the variant of concern (VOC) first […]
MUSKOKA — A break in the weather has brought the fire danger rating down to “moderate.” That’s as of Tuesday June 15. Muskoka fire chiefs say they have lowered the rating from “extreme” total fire ban. This means small fires are permitted in most rural areas of Muskoka, keeping in mind that there is still […]
GLEN ORCHARD — When kids safely return to school in September a cohort at the Glen Orchard Public School should soon be learning in a renovated child care centre. The province says as part of efforts to create more child care spaces in schools, it has given Trillium Lakelands District School Board approval to tender […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — Moderna and Pfizer vaccines are now safely interchangeable. So don’t turn your back on the former if you’ve had the latter, says Dr. Charles Gardner who has heard of people doing that. He said next week Simcoe-Muskoka is getting 20,000 more Moderna and 30,000 more Pfizer doses that will […]