MUSKOKA — Impaired driving is becoming a daily problem morning, noon and night in Muskoka. Beggars the question: are your roads safe to drive or walk? Every day it seems another drunk is pulled off thanks to police or citizens calling 911 to report them. Take yesterday, for example, OPP patrolling Gravenhurst and conducted a […]

Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — Four new cases in Muskoka are among a stunning record 4,249 cases province-wide today, which are in part thanks to some 450 added in a Toronto backlog this week. Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit had 78 — 11 of them with pending OHIP address. That leaves Simcoe with 67 […]

Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com HUNTSVILLE — The face of COVID is remote for most Muskokans who know few of the 156 residents who have tested positive so far for the coronavirus. Privacy prevents that. But the three local people who have died — in a relatively unaffected northern area of the region — bring the […]

Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — A Huntsville man is among a positive drop to 52 COVID cases today in Simcoe and Muskoka. After some confusion about reporting dates and times, the Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit (SMDHU) says in a note on its Health Stats page that as of Jan. 7 daily case counts […]

GRAVENHURST —  The new year is off to an ominous start on the roads. After the OPP’s annual Festive RIDE campaign wrapped up Jan. 3 with an increase in impaired drivers on Muskoka roads, three drivers in Gravenhurst the first week of 2021 were charged with being drunk on local roads. It started last Thursday […]

Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com WASHINGTON — Chilling images of what appears unarguably to be an “insurrection” at the seat of the American government is best crystallized in one dramatic photo this afternoon of masked armed guards aiming their handguns at a blockaded door at the U.S. Capitol chamber. Vice President-elect Joe Biden just called the […]

Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — While another Muskoka COVID case was moved to another jurisdiction, the local health unit says today that a record 87 corona cases were confirmed in Simcoe yesterday. A previously reported case in Gravenhurst was also among four re-assigned to different Public Health Units. And that the three deaths in […]

Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com BRACEBRIDGE — Residents today in a home area of The Pines LTC residence are all being tested for the coronavirus after another outbreak was declared yesterday following a confirmed COVID-19 case of a staff member Jan. 5. This as vaccinations of residents could begin as early as Friday. The staff member […]