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), […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Long-term living is a huge challenge with COVID. John Orchard knows that all too well. But he’s doing fine at Gravenhurst Manor. A little mobility problem and “I feel tired,” but otherwise he’s “doing OK.” Not bad for an 83-year-old who cheated death before Christmas by moving out of […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — With LTC deaths dominating COVID coverage, Ontario is investing $3.25 million to expand the Community Paramedicine for Long-Term Care program in Muskoka. Even as the province’s Health Minister Christine Elliott admitted today that not all long-term care residents have received the vaccine as they recently claimed. It hopes this […]