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 […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — The sudden “resignation” last week of the Pines administrator “comes as a bit of a shock” to those who were “very pleased with the job Kim Landry has done.” Landry resigned effective Tuesday, Feb. 2, the same day as the health unit lifted its latest outbreak at the LTC […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — COVID case counts are back up locally and provincially Sunday the day before students return to indoor classes and Ontario moves to re-open more businesses. Simcoe-Muskoka reported 43 cases — an increase of 8 over Saturday — bringing the regional total to 5,770. Public Health Ontario did not differentiate […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSOKA — Monday schools will open. The following Monday more businesses will be able to open. That’s part of the province’s plan to be announced Monday by Premier Doug Ford as Ontario’s COVID case numbers dipped again Saturday. According to Public Health Ontario (PHO) today, 1,388 people still tested positive and […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — Local cases may be down more than 100 this week, but it’s too early to let down your guard with two men and a woman in Muskoka reported with COVID today. And three more variant finds in the North Bay Parry Sound, Sudbury and Porcupine health units. The trio […]
HUNTSVILLE — Two Huntsville residents charged Feb. 1 — and ordered not to associate — were arrested again Feb. 3 charged with their second drug offences after a police chase Wednesday. Police say that on Feb. 3 the OPP’s Muskoka Community Street Crime Unit (CSCU) spotted the pair travelling in a vehicle together contrary to […]
GRAVENHURST — Police arrested a Bracebridge man and are looking for a suspect who fled after a stolen car landed in the snowbank just after midnight Wednesday. At 12:30 p.m. officers were dispatched to a single vehicle collision on Hwy. 11 southbound, near Highway 118 in Gravenhurst. They say witnesses had observed the vehicle weaving […]