Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Hard-hit business owners have a sense of humour. They miss the walk-in Christmas customers they had last year as BIAs aren’t bustling with busy shoppers scurrying about with bundles of parcels under their arms. And Santa hasn’t been seen driving his reindeer down main drags greeting gaggles of giggling […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — The local cases are down locally, but have hit a record provincially today. While Simcoe had 36 new corona reports (none in Muskoka) Ontario saw 1,983 people test positive, with 35 people dying. That includes 515 in Peel, 496 in Toronto and 208 in York Region. Quebec says it […]
MUSKOKA LAKES — A fatal watercraft accident this summer has led to serious charges yesterday against a Muskoka Lakes Township man. Provincial police said Wednesday Dec. 9 that Charles McNair, 58, was charged with Dangerous Operation Causing Death CC 320.13(3). The OPP say that after a five-month investigation involving the Provincial Traffic Operations unit, they […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — Three paramedics are self-isolating after one of them tested positive for COVID-19. The District of Muskoka said in a release late this afternoon that the paramedic is recovering at home with symptoms and is self-isolating for a 14-day period. They say that at this time, the case is believed […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — As COVID cases look to skyrocket over Christmas, Muskoka’s top health official says there are “likely” more cases in the district than we know. Eighty-five per cent of the region’s coronavirus cases the past two days are under investigation by the health unit as to their cause. That’s 14 […]
GEORGIAN BAY — A driver in an early morning accident today survived without injury. Provincial police from Bracebridge say that on Dec. 9, at 12:35 a.m., officers responded to a public report of a single vehicle collision on Twelve Mile Bay Road in Georgian Bay Township. Police arrived and after a investigating charged 25-year-old Emma-Louise […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — As Canada today approved a Pfizer vaccine to begin distribution possibly next week, local cases jumped to 61. They include another man and woman from Gravenhurst and Muskoka Lakes, respectively. The man, aged 35-64, contracted it through close contact; and the woman, who is between ages of 45 and […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com DWIGHT — The party’s on Saturday … and Santa wins by a nose. His visit to Erika’s Bakery —10 a.m. to 1 p.m. — will have a happy ending thanks to the return of Rudolph, says Tanya Grainger who runs the store with her sister. She told MuskokaTODAY.com that “everyone is […]