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 […]
HUNTSVILLE — A police update on sex assault charges released yesterday adds another charge today. Officers from the Huntsville OPP detachment, Muskoka Crime Unit, Child Exploitation Unit and the Digital Forensic Unit of the Ontario Provincial Police conducted an investigation into a sexual assault involving a young person and an adult resulting in two charges […]
HUNTSVILLE — A local man faces three counts of Adult Luring a Person Under 18 years of age by means of Telecommunication. Provincial police say officers with the Huntsville detachment, the Muskoka Crime Unit, and Child Exploitation Unit and Digital Forensic Unit of the OPP have been investigating a sexual assault involving a young person […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — More than 3,000 local health-care workers in North Simcoe and Muskoka have received the first doses of the Pfizer COVID vaccine since Dec. 22. Almost 600 alone yesterday. The northern two thirds of the Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit (SMDHU) is the fourth-most active provider among 20 regions in […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — We’re four-for-four today in Muskoka if you’re COVID-19 counting. That’s four more northern cases among 70 reported on Jan. 5 — for Jan. 4 —by the Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit (SMDHU). Two women in Gravenhurst, aged 18-34 and 45-64 are under investigation as to the cause of their […]
MUSKOKA — A new beginning and new hope for two Muskoka moms and their growing families. Muskoka Algonquin Healthcare (MAHC) had their first babies of 2021 at hospitals in Bracebridge and Huntsville this week. At the South Muskoka Memorial Hospital, baby Jack was born at 11:02 a.m. on Sunday, January 3, 2021 to Adara Erickson […]
HUNTSVILLE — A five-week RIDE campaign here ended with an average of two people a week being charged with impaired driving over the run-up to Christmas and after New Year’s. Starting Nov. 26, the Festive RIDE (Reduce Impaired Driving Everywhere) Program started across Ontario and ended Jan 2. The provincial police detachment at Huntsville set […]
ORILLIA — A suspected impaired driver who fled police has been charged with a pair of break and enters. Police arrested the Bracebridge man with numerous offences after he refused to stop for them, then they say he unlawfully entered two houses. They say that on Saturday Jan. 2, just after 9 a.m., a 911 […]