Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — Gravenhurst firefighters rushed to brush and grass fires Sunday and Monday highlighting the ‘high’ forest fire rating that local fire chiefs announced this week. They say in a joint release that due to drying conditions in the district and little rain in the forecast, the Muskoka Association of Fire […]

Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — If getting back to normal means no cases in Muskoka and 51 in Simcoe, then we’re there today. By all accounts that’s where the Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit (SMDHU) is at as of Wednesday, May 19 — as these are the kinds of numbers we reported a year […]

GRAVENHURST — As hopes are up for a healthier summer, so too are flags flying at full mast thanks to local Lions. The club’s annual Canadian flag program is under way and the maple leafs fluttering in the breeze are a welcome return and brightening the main street. This signature project of the service organization […]

Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — Gravenhurst had Muskoka’s only 2 COVID cases today. They were among 42 reported by the health unit this afternoon, which also 10 active cases remain at Muskoka Shores LTC in Gravenhurst: 5 residents and 5 staff as of an outbreak declared April 23. The latest cases were: Gravenhurst man, […]

Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — After going outside to hire a new fire chief, the Town of Gravenhurst has stayed in-house with the hiring of a popular new CAO. Scott Lucas, director of community growth and development, will return to the job Nov. 1 after a previously brief stint as acting CAO. The town […]

Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — If life’s a beach — it’s not this weekend. Not even with 50 per cent of local adults 18+ now vaccinated, says Simcoe-Muskoka’s medical officer of health. And a regional goal of 75 per cent by July 1. Dr. Charles Gardner warned sun- and water-worshippers today not to let […]

MUSKOKA — Police were busy with six drug- and alcohol-driving charges over the weekend. Yesterday afternoon, May 16 at 1:30 p.m., police got a tip from a member of the public about the driver of a vehicle at a fast food restaurant on Muskoka Road 118 in Bracebridge. The driver and passenger were reportedly intermittently […]

MUSKOKA — A months-long drug investigation has ended with a Bracebridge woman and three other people charged after raids at homes in Gravenhurst, Bracebridge, Toronto and Mississauga that netted police cocaine, heroin and $40,000 in cash. Provincial police say that in early 2021 the Muskoka Community Street Crime Unit (CSCU) began investigating suspected drug trafficking […]