Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE MUSKOKA — If businesses want to stay open and safe they’d best behave better. That’s the warning from the health unit. Dr. Charles Gardner, medical officer of health, has “instructed businesses and organizations” operating in Simcoe Muskoka that they must employ additional precautions to reduce the risk of COVID-19 transmission in work settings. “We are […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — A Muskoka Lakes woman, aged 18-34, with close contact is among 19 new cases in Simcoe and Muskoka today. The health unit reports that there are no new cases in hospital since yesterday, when there were 12. As of Wednesday Nov. 25 there 203 active cases among 1,954 confirmed […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — The ball is now in the municipal court to protect Muskoka residents from people visiting here from locked down red zones like Toronto. Dr. Charles Gardner, medical officer for health for Simcoe and Muskoka, said this afternoon he is writing to towns and cities “urging” them to restrict their […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Jim Reynolds’ 50-year drive to serve the community was recognized yesterday with dozens of surprise messages in stay-at-home celebration. Complete with honking horns. Instead of their weekly noon Zoom meeting, Rotarians delivered their longest serving member a drive-by salute. Rotary has been doing its good deeds in Gravenhurst for […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — As Simcoe and Muskoka enter the “restricted” orange zone today 77 people tested COVID positive the past three days. Including a Gravenhurst youth under age 18, who had close contact with someone who had the coronavirus. And woman aged 65-79 from Lake of Bays whose case is under investigation. […]
GRAVENHURST — An overnight speed enforcement today led police to a large drug haul and the arrest of three people who now face more than two dozen charges. The OPP said this afternoon that in the early hours of Nov. 22 officers with the Bracebridge detachment stopped a vehicle on Hwy. 11 in Gravenhurst. They say […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com ORILLIA — One of the region’s largest manufacturing facilities — where several people from Muskoka are employed — is reporting a case of COVID. A worker at Kubota Materials tested positive the past few days and the company says in an internal memo, obtained by Orillia Matters, that the employee contracted […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — As Simcoe and Muskoka enter the orange zone Monday — with tighter health restrictions — is it time for Muskoka to sever health ties with Simcoe? MPP Norm Miller “thinks that makes sense” — and has told Premier Doug Ford. With just 5 per cent of the 1,837 local […]