Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com BRACEBRIDGE — A Muskoka man and woman are charged in an investigation involving a fatal opioid incident. One of the suspects suffered a “medical distress” while in custody a day after their Dec. 2, the OPP say. The province’s Special Investigations Unit (SIU) is looking into the circumstances surrounding the incident. […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com BRACEBRIDGE — The driver of a vehicle who eluded police three times — injuring a Huntsville officer in the first incident last August — was in bail court here this morning. He and another person, both Mississauga residents, were arrested yesterday, and held in custody, appearing today via video at the […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — Week one of red zone restrictions begins with five COVID cases in Muskoka and 116 in the Simcoes —as the a care giver in Toronto and an LTC resident in Quebec are the first to get the corona vaccine today. Figures for the past three days just posted this […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com BRACEBRIDGE — With no money, no partners and no players, Bracebridge continues to work on the development of a new multiuse community centre (MUCC). And be shovel-ready when provincial and federal pandemic infrastructure spending trickles down to municipalities. Back in September council approved the design by MacLennan Jaunkalns Miller Architects (MJMA). […]
SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — New red zone Public Health restrictions for Muskoka and Simcoe counties announced today aren’t a total lockdown like the grey one York, Toronto and Peel are moving into. But they will further limit your movements and interactions for at least the next 28 days. If the measures don’t flatten the curve — as even […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — Hospital visitors wandering around without masks has forced MAHC to clamp down on miscreants and threaten visiting privileges. The bad apples also mean new restrictions — effective immediately — to cope with COVID’s increasing local numbers. They have forced Muskoka Algonquin Healthcare to revise its visiting requirements “to keep […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com PARRY SOUND-MUSKOKA — COVID’s cost in lives lost and families affected is filtering down to governments and NGOs coping with extra expenses. To help, today MPP Norman Miller announced on behalf of the government $407,600 in additional social services relief funding for Parry Sound and Muskoka. The District of Muskoka will receive […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — An interesting fallout from today’s announcement about moving to a red zone is that it could help expedite the vaccine distribution locally to front-line health care workers — a day before its rollout in Toronto and Ottawa. That’s according to the province this afternoon. It says in a release […]