Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Bob Jocque’s “OK” and doing fine — thank you very much for asking. Not bad for a guy who tested positive for COVID a month ago. And who is just two weeks out of quarantine. The 57-year-old fast-food worker is out and about again after the lockdown and happy […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — A half dozen COVID cases in Muskoka are among 144 reported for the past three days by the Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit (SMDHU). Four more in Huntsville, where it leads the district with 64 cases, and on each in Gravenhurst and Bracebridge. North Bay-Parry Sound, which is under […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Today is National Human Trafficking Awareness Day. And if you’re driving north or south on Hwy. 11 around Gravenhurst you’ll see new electronic roadside signs reminding you. Police say traffickers use major highways to transport their victims throughout Ontario. And they want their billboard campaign to spread awareness of […]
GRAVENHURST — A man accused of shoplifting at three stores here within a week has been arrested and charged. Police say that on Friday Feb. 19, at 3 p.m.. they responded to a shoplifting call from the Pet Value in Gravenhurst. A man was located within minutes by police in the parking lot pushing a […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — It wasn’t the coldest day of the year yesterday. More like the warmest day of the year so far as hundreds of walkers, joggers, kids, parents, grandparents and their pets trekked the streets here from morning to evening. They weren’t just out for a stroll on a gorgeous, sunny […]
MUSKOKA — Three snowmobilers ended up in hospital with serious non-life-threatening injuries the past two days after separate accidents. Police say they along with Muskoka EMS responded to three separate single vehicle collisions Friday and Saturday. The first collision occurred at an address on Beaumont Drive in Bracebridge Friday afternoon at 3 p.m. when the […]
MUSKOKA — Two drivers who ditched their vehicles within an hour in separate accidents Thursday night face impaired driving charges. The first, on Feb. 18, was at 7:15 p.m. Police responded to a public 911 call about a driver on Muskoka Beach Road in Gravenhurst. Officers located the vehicle in the ditch and as a […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSOKA — A Huntsville woman is among today’s 32 reported cases of COVID in Simcoe-Muskoka. She is aged 45-64, says the health unit, and had close contact with someone else with the virus. She discovered symptoms Feb. 13 and her case was first reported to the Simcoe-Muskoka District Health Unit (SMDHU) […]