PARRY SOUND-MUSKOKA — Annual infrastructure funding from the province to the tune of almost $6 million will help shore up local roads, bridges, water and wastewater facilities as communities struggle with the economic and tax fallout from COVID-19. The province says it is making more investments in small, rural and northern communities through its Ontario […]

Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — Three more deaths as of today are part of a climb in COVID cases reported by the health unit. After an optimistic start in the week yesterday at 29, another 40 people in Simcoe as of Tuesday tested positive for the corona virus. Muskoka reported no new cases; and […]

Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com PARRY SOUND-MUSKOKA — Local LTCs and retirement homes struggling to contain COVID-19 outbreaks received an extra $4 million in funding last year for prevention and containment efforts from the province. Conservative MPP Norman Miller said today that the Ontario government is investing a further $1.4 million for long-term care homes in […]

Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — Is this the beginning of the end? Please let it be. A year after the first case of COVID, the health unit is reporting just 29 new cases Tuesday, Jan. 26. None in Muskoka. Though the Town of Gravenhurst is reporting today a case among its staff, who has […]

Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — The health unit say a third local location may now have the UK variant with testing to confirm underway. And as expected about 100 new variant COVID cases have now been confirmed at Barrie’s Roberta Place, bringing number to 127 residents, 82 staff, 3 health partners and 3 family/community caregivers […]

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 […]