Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — Five more people today ends the year with 3,589 COVID cases in Simcoe and Muskoka. Can 2021 be any worse? Among the 74 cases the health unit is reporting are three confirmed in Gravenhurst and one each in Huntsville and Lake of Bays. All are under investigation by the […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — Muskoka is bucking the COVID trend again today, with just one of 56 reported cases in the region. A young Huntsville female under the age of 18 is under investigation as Simcoe ran up the total again with 55 cases. That brings the total to 322 since Christmas Eve, […]
ORILLIA — A Huntsville man faces sexual assault charges in a police human trafficking investigation. Provincial police say today that members of the new Provincial Human Trafficking Intelligence-led Joint Forces Investigations, with assistance from the Orillia Crime Unit and detachment members, arrested and charged a multi-jurisdictional offender. In May 2020, the investigation began with allegations made by a […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — The lockdown, a new variant and a slow rollout to prevent the pandemic’s spread are having little effect on local cases of COVID-19 as new numbers released late this afternoon show an explosion in cases. Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit reports 269 cases Tuesday, Dec. 29. But only 2 […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — If at first you don’t succeed …. That’s the success story of Climate Action Muskoka (CAM). The environmentalists who were miffed at being initially rebuffed late last fall by the District of Muskoka got the “best Christmas gift” they could ask for in the waning days before the holiday […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Murray Smith admits to being a bit of rogue growing up. And probably giving his mom, Melba Smith, 97, more than her share of grief. But the 64-year-old Orillia resident is making up for it by regularly visiting his mom at Gravenhurst Manor, and having a “thin slice of […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Andrey Petrov is taking the start today’s lockdown seriously by staying home — and staying busy. With February’s winter carnival in doubt, due to COVID, he is keeping his snow-building skills sharp. The perennial ice sculpture winner and winter snow artist has been busy at home the past two […]
BRACEBRIDGE — An intoxicated man armed with an imitation gun so alarmed staff at a business open Christmas Day afternoon that they called 911. The OPP say today that yesterday, Dec. 25 at 4:45 p.m., officers were dispatched after a man “alarmed staff” by entering with an imitation firearm. Police arrived quickly and arrested and […]