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 […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com A recent Rotary coat drive was an early Christmas gift for many. Muskoka service clubs collected and handed out hundreds of free winter covers through Fabricare, which cleaned and did the distribution at their cleaning centres in Gravenhurst, Bracebridge and Huntsville in late November. And while not all the adult parkas […]
MUSKOKA — It may be better to give than receive at this time of year. But when it comes to share and share-alike, local hospitals say thanks … but no thanks. Your “thoughtful gifts … also carry a level of risk to our staff and physicians that is not advisable,” says Muskoka Algonquin Healthcare CEO […]
BRACEBRIDGE — Two Muskoka men were airlifted to Toronto with life-altering injuries this afternoon after truck hit a tree on Manitoba Street near High Falls Road. A third local man remains in hospital. Police are investigating the factors that influenced this collision including impaired driving. They say that on Dec. 8, at 3:15 p.m., witnesses […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — Forget a green Christmas. We’re “likely” in for a red Christmas in two weeks, says the region’s top health official. And don’t count on RVH’s deep freeze to save residents by then — or any time soon after that. Dr. Charles Gardner said this afternoon that’s Simcoe and Muskoka […]