Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — As kids and parents prepare for indoor classes, 6 families are planning funerals today for loved ones who died of COVID. The number of dead rose to 164 in health unit reporting Thursday as a further 58 corona cases emerged — all in Simcoe. None were in Muskoka. But […]

Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — With news that Muskoka schools will re-open for classes Monday, Feb. 8, Simcoe-Muskoka is reporting 36 new COVID cases today. Two of them are men in Muskoka: One was said by the health unit earlier to be from an outbreak Jan. 22 at Muskoka Shores in Gravenhurst, and reported […]

Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — The health unit reports 36 new COVID cases Tuesday. And 51 people have now tested positive for the UK B.1.1.7 variant. That’s 32 more than reported yesterday. An additional 94 cases have screened positive and are awaiting confirmation. And 5 more people in Simcoe have died. None of the […]

Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — Waking up today is like the movie Groundhog Day. Instead of worrying about the daily dip in temperature — to decide whether to go outside — people hanging on the corona case numbers feel doomed to repeat at least six more weeks of the deadly virus. Confusing COVID counts […]

BRACEBRIDGE — A woman who claimed she was injured in a hospital parking lot altercation with police on Halloween has lost her bid to have her complaint investigated further by the SIU after they say she refused them access to her medical records. Special Investigations Unit director Joseph Martino ended the investigation into the “interaction” […]

Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — Barrie remains the hotbed of local COVID cases and epicentre of the UK variant in Ontario. With 129 regional cases reported since Friday — mostly in Barrie with none in Muskoka — two GTA retirement homes are banning visitors from Barrie where the UK variant is among the highest […]

HUNTSVILLE — Police charged three people Friday in an afternoon traffic stop. The OPP’s Muskoka Community Street Crime Unit (CSCU) was doing an investigation into drug trafficking. At 4:15 p.m. they say officers stopped a vehicle on Centre Street, with the assistance of the Huntsville OPP, arresting the three and finding a quantity of drugs: […]

Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com ORILLIA — Having a heart attack? If you’re in Orillia and you go to the hospital, you’ll be immediately shipped to Barrie’s RVH. Patients who present at Orillia Soldiers’ Memorial Hospital (OSMH) with heart attack symptoms will now be transported directly to Royal Victoria Regional Health Centre’s (RVH) Cardiac Intervention Unit […]