GRAVENHURST — The retirement last week of former fire chief Larry Brassard has opened the door for Brad Bigrigg to assume the role of interim fire chief of the Gravenhurst Fire & Emergency Services. Bigrigg brings more than 38 years of fire service experience beginning his career as a firefighter. He has also held various […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — What were you doing this weekend as 19 more people died of COVID and 130 more tested positive? Public Health Ontario reports 41 of them in Simcoe and Muskoka. Two of them were Gravenhurst residents — and the only ones reported in Muskoka for the past three days. A […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Flags were at half staff here as McDonald’s staff mourned the loss of their beloved manager who died suddenly last Monday. Chris Lewis had just returned from hospital in Toronto where he’d begun radiation and chemotherapy care after learning weeks before that he had a rare form of thyroid […]
GRAVENHURST — A pair of snowmobilers out early yesterday were charged by police after one of them fled and crashed his sled. OPP say they spotted the two Jan 24 just before 4 a.m., and were able to safely stop one of the drivers before the other one fled on the snowmobile trail. The one […]
GRAVENHURST — Winter’s return — after a welcome holiday break — means making turning lemons in to lemonade. Or for a creative soul like 10-year-old Jessie Noble it’s creating a cool snowperson. With a great big jaunty black top hat with a sprig of red and green ivy — that lights up and blinks at […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — Another suspected case of the United Kingdom variant outside Barrie shows “the very real possibility it is circulating in community,” Dr. Charles Gardner said today. The Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit (SMDHU) was informed late yesterday by Public Health Ontario Laboratory of an additional individual with the United Kingdom […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE MUSKOKA — The health unit is “concerned” a COVID-19 variant “will spread into our community and into other long-term and retirement homes.” “Barrie has become ground zero for what is likely a COVID-19 variant of concern, which has spread rapidly throughout Roberta Place and we are concerned that it will […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — The devastating COVID outbreak at a Barrie LTC has driven cases to triple digits today. And no vaccines were distributed yesterday. The health unit reports 112 cases — all in the Simcoe and none in Muskoka. They date back a week to Jan. 14. The Roberta Place outbreak, which […]