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 […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSOKA — March Break is now April Break as Ontario has postponed the annual school holiday by a month. Students here — who just returned to classes this week — will be off again in just more than eight more weeks for their mid-winter respite April 12-16. The government says it’s […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — An ice rescue yesterday morning was “not a hiker” lost in the woods. But a prison drug mule, claims the owner of the property where a Keswick woman became entangled in a backwoods “bog” (not Paul’s Lake) — full of Tag Alders — and had to be airlifted to […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — A scary ice rescue this morning near the Muskoka Airport saw a female hiker pulled from a lake and airlifted to hospital along with a couple of OPP officers who suffered water-related injuries. The OPP say that at 9:15 a.m. police responded after the woman fell through the ice […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — A new outbreak in Gravenhurst has a middle-aged woman among just more than two dozen COVID cases the health unit is reporting today. The female, aged 45-64, had her first episode yesterday, Feb. 9, when it was reported by the Simcoe-Muskoka District Health Unit (SMDH). The health unit reports […]
GRAVENHURST — Mike Schreiner, Leader of the Green Party of Ontario and Matt Richter, Green Party candidate for Parry Sound Muskoka, released the following statement regarding the planned permanent closure of the Ontario Fire College in Gravenhurst: “Eliminating the Ontario Fire College is a blow to Gravenhurst and small municipalities across the province who will […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — With the health unit reporting 36 COVID cases this afternoon (one in Muskoka Lakes), Dr. Charles Gardner says the variant spread in March looms large in the region. That’s why he’s doesn’t support looser provincial restrictions. But he’s still on board with schools opening this week as children are […]