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) […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com PARRY SOUND — News this afternoon that Parry Sound will be locked down a further two weeks isn’t sitting well with many residents and businesses here. Even as the health minister said the local health system may not be able to cope with variants already within the health unit there. They […]
LETTER TO EDITOR: Family Day in Ontario has recently past. According to the Ontario Heritage Trust: “Since 1974, the third Monday every February has been identified as Heritage Day in Canada. In 1985, the Ontario Government designated the third week in February as Ontario Heritage Week with the federal Heritage Day kicking off the week.” […]
GRAVENHURST — A joint drug investigation underway since July, which included a rural search warrant here last week, has led to multiple charges against two people from Midland and one each from Essa and Wasaga Beach. Provincial police say Community Street Crime Unit (CSCU) members from their Southern Georgian Bay, Orillia, Bracebridge and Huntsville detachments […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com PARRY SOUND — Proactive or reactive? Panacea or placebo? What happened to home care you may have wondered. Well, after doctors sheltered in place decades ago and a flawed public health practitioner program was left to pick up the pieces, community support for stay-at-homers fell mostly to private for-profit retirement and […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — Two Muskoka cases top the COVID numbers today in Simcoe-Muskoka where 45 people are reported to have tested positive since yesterday. One is a man aged 45-64 who got it through the community with a first episode of Feb. 11 and reported Feb. 16. The other is a woman, […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Going for a walk is not illegal — if you’re six feet apart. In fact it’s encouraged by the government for your mental and physical health. And if it’s for a good cause all the better. So get out of your house Saturday morning for a stroll around town […]