Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Call it doctor’s orders. If outdoors is essential to your health and well-being — as provincial pandemic experts preach — then sunny rays aren’t wasted days, but the perfect antidote for seasonal affective disorders brought on by COVID. Or as your mom used to say: “Get outside and play […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — As Doug Ford waits on doctors to give him the go-ahead tomorrow afternoon to open schools, Simcoe-Muskoka’s health unit is reporting 29 COVID cases this afternoon. The province said that number this morning was 47. However, only one case was from Muskoka, a Huntsville man aged 14-34 whose contact […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — With 29 cases today in Simcoe — none in Muskoka — the region is “ready” for schools to re-open May 31 if the province agrees with the advice of its top health official. “I’d welcome it now,” Dr. Charles Gardner said this afternoon, adding that though it’d just be […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com PARRY SOUND-MUSKOKA — A riding town hall tonight to talk about issues of importance to local constituents will be hosted by the Green Party of Ontario. Leader Mike Schreiner, the MPP for Guelph, will be joined by Matt Richter the party’s nominee for Parry Sound-Muskoka MPP who has represented the Greens […]
GRAVENHURST — Join Judy Humphries tomorrow night, Wednesday May 26 at 7 p.m., for another in her great virtual presentations to learn more history behind ‘Camp 20,’ the former prisoner of war camp in the heart of Gravenhurst. The story of the Lake Muskoka landmark is hidden behind foliage now, but 80 years ago it […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — Case counts yesterday of 20 people locally with COVID-19 reflected the downward trajectory seen last week. But with 146 cases since Friday’s last reporting the average is 36.5 for those four days of the May 24 Victoria long weekend. And 2 more deaths, reports the Simcoe Muskoka District Health […]
MUSKOKA — COVID may have put a halt to live music, but The Muskoka Men of Song have continued their bursary program in 2021. They have awarded seven musically-gifted Muskoka students through their Sean Kelly Memorial Bursary Program, which was created in 1990 and named after the choir’s late founding member. This is the 37th […]
Photos by Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com With the first long weekend we’re catching up on a few photos from of late as the season changes — and COVID coverage takes a break. And we stop to see and smell the flowers as plant life changes along with our own lives. Like these? How about showing […]