BRACEBRIDGE — A pick-up truck driver who collided with a larger truck carrying concrete this morning has died. Police say that just after 9 a.m., Wednesday Nov. 4, emergency crews responded to a motor vehicle collision involving the two trucks on Brackenrig Road, in Bracebridge. The 37-year-old male driver of the pick-up truck, who was alone […]
SIMCOE MUSKOKA — New public health restrictions on movements in and out of local long-term care homes have been issued by order of the region’s medical officer of health. As of yesterday, Tuesday Nov. 3, Dr. Charles Gardner says he will immediately restrict all indoor visits at long-term care homes to one essential visitor at […]
GRAVENHURST — Middle of the night drivers yesterday who spotted a truck bouncing off the Hwy. 11 median led police to stop and charge the vehicle operator with being impaired by drug. OPP say that on Nov. 3 at 2:30 a.m. police received multiple 911 complaints from northbound motorists in Gravenhurst, near Sparrow Lake Route […]
ROSSEAU — A Bracebridge man faces impaired driving charges in the death of the head of Rosseau Lake College who was struck while out for his morning run yesterday. Provincial police said today, Nov. 3, that Robert Carreau, 43, of of Rosseau died after being hit at 6:30 a.m. Monday, on Hwy. 141 in Seguin […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — A “rapidly” growing number of cases in Simcoe and Muskoka sees 29 new people with COVID-19. All mostly in south Simcoe. None were in Muskoka Tuesday, Nov. 3. This as the health unit today also issued an order for “long-term care” facilities only to restrict visitors to only two […]
In Loving Memory Mark Joseph Prindiville Passed away peacefully in his sleep at home in Haliburton on Sunday, November 1, 2020, at the age of 58. Faithful husband of Carol Ann (nee Milne). Dear father of Dustin (Kayla), Jasmine, Tara-Lyn (Scott) Theakston, grandfather of Declan, Dexter, and a granddaughter due in the spring of 2021. […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com America has voted. And to the victor today go the spoils of four years. Americans will either roll back the clock to Donald Trump or move forward with Joe Biden’s new years’ resolutions. The United States election is a world of concern. Ballots cast south of the border may be counted […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — COVID has now spread to a resident at the Granite Ridge LTC, one of 75 people in the region who tested positive over the weekend. After a staff member tested positive last week at the Bethune Drive retirement home, the health unit reports today a second institutional outbreak (respiratory) […]