MUSKOKA — With winter looking like it’s here to stay now that it’s December, there are a lot of Muskokans wearing warmer jackets thanks to a heart-warming partnership between Rotary and Fabricare. Bracebridge Rotarian John de Koning says a three-day joint giveaway last week was a success that will be felt for months — and […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Getting a flu shot is harder than finding a needle in a hay stack. Shortages this fall at pharmacies and doctors’ offices that have had residents scrambling to get on multiple call-back lists are being blamed on a provincial back-log. “It’s a bloody mess,” says Tony Varney, a retired pharmacist […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Despite pandemic pressures, Sunday’s Rotary TV/Internet Auction wrapped up one of its best years in recent memory. Thanks to generous donors, sponsors and bidders in Gravenhurst and Bracebridge, more than $36,000 gross was raised. And after expenses, more than $30,000 was netted for the service club’s community and international […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — As talk — and hope — begins switching to a vaccine in the early new year, new cases of COVID continue on high. Simcoe posted 30 positive results today and Muskoka none. That’s 159 since Sunday. Two weeks ago there were 200. The running total is now 2,178, according […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — He’s just one man. One case. But a Gravenhurst resident, aged 18-34, with close contacts with someone who already has the coronavirus is the first Muskoka person this month to be reported with COVID-19 as cases continue to climb. Another 37 from Simcoe were also among the rising toll […]
ORILLIA — If you haven’t downloaded the COVID alert tracker app, here’s another one you may consider to save yourself. Today the OPP launched the internationally-recognized and used mobile application ‘what3words’ in its provincial communications centres (PCCs) — like the one at its Orillia headquarters. They say that in an emergency, if you call 911 […]
MUSKOKA — A couple of local drivers received medical attention after being impaired in separate weekend incidents, one involving a head-on collision while driving the wrong way on Hwy. 11 in Gavenhurst. Provincial police said today they are disappointed that their Festive RIDE campaign, which began last Thursday, has netted two impaired drivers over the […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com RAMARA — A shed fire back in September now has police revisiting the case after trail cam video came to light showing two suspects beside the building. And the OPP want to know if you can recognize them — because they can’t. Provincial police are investigating the cause of the blaze […]