Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Traffic, property buffers and pedestrian safety were among a number of concerns raised in a public hearing Tuesday to deal with a proposed “local” gas bar on Bethune Drive. A small in-person town planning and development committee meeting at the Opera House late in the afternoon convened to consider […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — Good and bad news to end the week in Simcoe and Muskoka. Nine new COVID cases, but one new death since yesterday. Again their were none in Muskoka today. Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit reports today 2 people each in Barrie, Bradford-West Gwillimbury and New Tecumseth; and 1 each […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Test results are already coming back negative for some staff and residents at the Granite Ridge after a staff member learned through contact tracing that she had been exposed to COVID-19 through another person. And that’s a positive for the the private LTC home on Bethune Drive. Jackie Payne, […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — COVID testing began today on residents and staff at the Granite Ridge retirement home where a lockdown is underway after a staff member was reported to have tested positive two days ago, says the health unit. It’s expected that a quarantine of a least two weeks will be imposed […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — Twenty-six new COVID cases today in Simcoe more than mirrored a similar province-wide jump. There were none in Muskoka — with just one staff member at the Granite Ridge retirement home in Gravenhurst Oct. 27 this week. This as the health unit says one person in Simcoe Muskoka was […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Two robbery attempts here Monday are linked to a suspect who used a Taser-like weapon in two other bank ATM incidents in Coboconk and Orillia Sunday and Monday, say police. Central Region OPP are hunting the suspect in the four incidents who got away. In the first two cases the […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com BRACEBRIDGE — An application to amend the town’s official plan and rezone lands for a private school was deferred last night. After an almost five-hour planning and development committee meeting that wrapped up about 7 p.m., council members sent the matter of the Muskoka Royale College back to staff. Town senior […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — Among 22 new COVID cases today in Simcoe Muskoka is a Gravenhurst woman aged 35-44, due to an institutional outbreak. The health unit says there was an outbreak of a staff member yesterday, Oct. 27, at the retirement home and LTC on Bethune Drive. It is deemed a “respiratory […]