Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOA — Red is the new local reality today as Ontario lifts stay-at-home orders for 27 regions outside the GTA and North Bay Parry Sound. Including Simcoe-Muskoka, which is doing it against the advice of its chief medical officer of health Dr. Charles Gardner. Students are also back in school today […]
RAMARA — A local man is in police custody awaiting a court appearance Tuesday on first degree murder and attempted murder charges after a woman was found dead late Saturday night in the home they shared. Police say residents in the area should expect to see an increased police presence in the coming days as […]
RAMARA — A man charged with impaired driving is accused of stealing a loader to pull his unlicensed truck — which ended up in flames — out of a ditch early Thursday. Provincial police from Orillia arrested and charged the 21-year-old with several other charges. They say that on Feb. 11 at 1:30 a.m. officers […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com BRACEBRIDGE — A cold, sunny afternoon on the picket line is no place to be on Valentines Day. But more than a dozen of the 60 employees of Fenner Dunlop, who were out again Sunday protesting a “lockout” by their employer, said they would sooner have been home with their families […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Consultants have their heads in the clouds if they think closing the only prevailing-winds runway at Muskoka Airport will bolster local economic prospects, says Earle Robinson, a local aviation expert. Flights of fancy, say he and other Muskoka small plane pilots and owners who are at cross-purposes with consultants […]
LETTER TO EDITOR: Ed. note: A report going to district council Tuesday calls for the east-west grass runway at the Muskoka Airport in Gravenhurst to be closed and replaced a little north as part of a plan for more buildings. Local pilots like Garth Elliot — who has flown for 60 years — think there […]
ORILLIA — A Gravenhurst man and a friend from Orillia face numerous drug-related charges after being stopped here Tuesday night. Police say that on Feb. 9, just before 10 p.m., officers observed a vehicle being driven on Wyandotte Street by an person suspected of having a suspended driver’s licence. The vehicle was stopped and the […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — Despite four new Muskoka COVID cases and dozens more variants Friday, it will be back to the lesser-restricted red zone here Tuesday when the province lifts its stay-at-home order and regulations for Simcoe-Muskoka. On the same day local public health reported 32 cases, (Public Health Ontario posted only 24), […]