Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — Three Muskoka pharmacies were ‘Inundated” with “hundreds of calls” today as the province announced they would be distributing the AstraZeneca vaccine to those aged 55 and older. By appointment only. But none of them have the vaccine. In Gravenhurst the province said it would be at the IDA, in […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com OPINION SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — Ontario’s failing COVID strategy is forcing the province back in to lockdown as of midnight Friday. This as Simcoe-Muskoka cases jumped to 73 today, according to Public Health Ontario, which reports more than 2,557 cases province-wide — up more than 200 since yesterday. Despite previous best advice of […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — As an Easter lockdown looms, a young Bracebridge man is among 46 regional COVID cases the health unit is reporting today. He is 18-34 and his cause is under investigation, after being first reported yesterday and detected the day before. His case is the most recent one in Muskoka […]
GRAVENHURST — An early morning home invasion downtown here today has police looking for a pair of suspects. Provincial police say that on March 30 at 4 a.m., officers responded to a 911 call on First Street near Violet Street at the south end of Gravenhurst near the old Anglican cemetery on the main street. […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — Even as regional cases dropped to 32 — all in Simcoe today — Dr. Charles Gardner agrees vaccines are losing out in the race against variants. “I believe we are, at this point.” He said “there may have been more of a reliance on the ability to vaccine people.” […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — While arms in the air over vaccines, the eyes of the storm are centred on noses at the Assessments Centres. The Bracebridge and Huntsville sites continue to do the brisk business of evaluating potential pandemic patients. Just as maybe millions Canadians have experienced the past year. It’s an important […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — With 59 regional cases today in Simcoe, the big news is a hold on AstraZeneca for those under age 55. Nearly 4,350 doses of AstraZeneca have been administered to adults 60-64 years by four Family Health Teams. No COVID cases over the weekend were in Muskoka. There were 308 […]
HUNTSVILLE — If you smell a man a mile away, he may be wanted for theft. Police are investigating a caper that stinks. They are looking for a shoplifting suspect who went to the Shoppers Drug Mart on King William Street yesterday, Sunday March 28, where $300 in men’s cologne was stolen. They say he […]