MUSKOKA — A millimetre or two of rain today hasn’t put a damper on Muskoka fire chiefs who issued an extreme fire rating. They say that with a lack of sufficient rainfall and extremely dry conditions, they have issued a total Fire Ban for Muskoka and the Fire Danger Rating is now set at extreme. The total ban on […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — Tomorrow isn’t a get out of jail free card, says the region’s medical officer of health. Dr. Charles Gardner says even with 16 local COVID cases today, Christmas shoppers could conceivably still have to wear masks indoors. With a 32 per cent drop in local cases the past week […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — As it looks like schools won’t open after all, Simcoe-Muskoka is reporting 18 COVID cases this afternoon. None in Muskoka. This as Ontario dropped to 699 with 9 deaths. (Yesterday there were 916 cases and 13 deaths.) Cases dropped across the board in the GTA Tuesday, with Toronto 207 […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — It’s here, it’s fun and it’s uplifting in these troubling times. A video from the folks at Trinity United Church offers a message of hope we can all use. Minister of music The Real Dan McCoy released the tribute today to volunteers — the lesser heralded of the essential […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — While Ontario fell below 1,000 COVID cases today, on Friday, Saturday and Sunday one person each day in Muskoka tested positive for the virus. The three men were from Gravenhurst, Bracebridge and Huntsville. And they were among 88 weekend cases the health unit reported this afternoon. The Huntsville man […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — A local man has been charged in the investigation involving the death Justin Evans, whose body was found May 19. The OPP said Monday that last Friday May 28, the OPP charged 70-year-old Kenneth McKinney, of Gravenhurst, with Obstruct Justice under section 139(2) of the Criminal Code. McKinney was […]
GRAVENHURST — “It takes a community to raise a child.” That’s the philosophy behind the Gravenhurst Rotary Club’s Bursary Endowment fund, which is now accepting applications till the end of June for this fall’s post-secondary studies, says a release. To qualify for a bursary, the applicant must be either, going to school in Gravenhurst, or […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — A 47-year-old Gravenhurst man was taken to hospital in Toronto last night with life-threatening injuries after falling from a transport truck in what police call a confrontation with the driver who fled the scene. Provincial police say they responded to the incident on Bethune Drive near Violet Street in […]