GRAVENHURST — Another senior member of town staff is retiring in the new year. Fire Chief Larry Brassard leaves the department Jan. 15 after eight years. Deputy Fire Chief Todd Clapp will assume departmental lead upon Chief Brassard’s departure. CAO Glen Davies also earlier handed in his resignation for near the end of 2021. Brassard […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — It’s a province-wide shutdown effective Boxing Day. Muskokans who complained about not being in Ontario’s “north” will return to the most severe restrictions of the pandemic. Premier Doug Ford says just now that businesses will be back to the most limited services of last spring. And schools won’t go […]
LETTER TO EDITOR: How truly disgusting this situation is. To offer assistance to the people who need it the most, and then pull the carpet out from under them. Those who are responsible have debased themselves to their core. How truly unhumanitarian. How uncaring the mind that conceives and implements this kind of horror on […]
It is with great sadness that Cynthia Anne Clairmont, of Gravenhurst, passed away peacefully last night, Dec. 19, 2020 — three days after her 69th birthday. She was surrounded by loving family, at Andy’s Place hospice in Port Carling, after a short time with cancer. The daughter of the late Hugh and Maisie (MacDonald) Clairmont, Cyndy was born […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE MUSKOKA — The long-awaited Pfizer COVID vaccine is within days of reaching those vulnerable residents and front-line health care workers. See the full list below of who will get it first. RVH says today that an immunization clinic there is expected to open in Barrie “imminently” to begin immunizing prioritized […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — Muskoka and Simcoe may be included in massive “Southern Ontario” lockdown measures Boxing Day as the region was hit with 62 cases Friday. Two of them are a man and woman from Huntsville. Premier Doug Ford said today’s 2,290 COVID cases are “very, very concerning” and that an emergency […]
HUNTSVILLE – More than two months after going missing, police are now asking the public for assistance in finding a man whose family is concerned for him. The OPP at Huntsville say 63-year-old Anthony Versteegen was last seen in the Huntsville area Saturday Oct. 3. They don’t believe he is driving as he doesn’t own […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com BARRIE — Overwhelmed, exhausted, fatigued and frustrated are but four adjectives to describe what’s going on in hospitals these days. So says Janice Skot, the long-time president and CEO of RVH, Simcoe and Muskoka’s largest health care facility. In a “message to the community” this afternoon, she says “now more than […]