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 […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com BRACEBRIDGE — Some changes are coming to The Pines today in the wake of the surprise “resignation” of its administrator Kim Landry last week. See her story here. Norm Barrette, District of Muskoka Health Services commissioner, tells MuskokaTODAY.com that they include rapid testing that began Monday, Feb. 8, and security staff […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — You’re under stay-at-home orders for at least another week — unless you went back to school today. So says the province, as only parts of eastern Ontario will ease up restrictions on Wednesday, and Toronto, Peel and York will have to wait until to Feb. 22. Simcoe and Muskoka […]