SIMCOE MUSKOKA — The COVID story is an intensely personal experience we all share. And the health unit wants you to share the good, bad and ugly of the coronavirus. Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit wants to know more about the pandemic and is asking residents to complete an online survey to learn what issues need […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — Amid some rising countrywide COVID fears Muskoka has avoided another day of zero reported cases today. The same can’t be said for Simcoe, where 19 people have tested positive for the coronavirus. Yesterday the Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit reported 55 for the weekend in Simcoe and none in […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com BRACEBRIDGE — Climate change and the pandemic recovery clashed this afternoon as the town further considers a plan for a private Ontario and international board school on sensitive land in the middle of town. It’s a heated, emotional battle that has opposing sides alleging “misinformation,” “deliberate exaggerations,” accusations of “NIMBYism” and […]
Ed. note: The following two letters were sent to MPP Norm Miller, MPP Merrilee Fullerton, Ontario‘s Minister of Long-Term Care, MP Scott Aitchison and MuskokaTODAY.com. Dear Mr. Miller: It is time for less talk and more action to enforce LTC regulations and standards. Current and past governments, their applicable health departments and LTC inspection indifference […]
GRAVENHURST — A brazen would-be thief brandishing a firearm was turned away empty-handed minutes apart at two variety stores here last evening. After being turned away at one at the intersection of Police are investigating the robberies that happened about 6:30 p.m. Monday Oct. 26 at Winewood Variety and Lester Square on Muskoka Beach Road […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — After record weekend numbers provincewide, Simcoe reported today that 55 people tested positive in the local health unit count since Friday. Muskoka had no cases Monday, Oct. 26. Ontario dropped to 851 after 1,072 on Sunday. And Quebec reported 808. Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit reports an additional two […]
BRACEBRIDGE — Provincial police are investigating the “sudden death” of a woman Friday. They say the Muskoka Crime Unit and Community Street Crime Unit, under the direction of the Criminal Investigation Branch, are investigating the sudden death of 30-year-old Jodi-Lynne Turner, on Oct. 23, at a residence on Uffington Road. The OPP say they want […]
WORLD — Polio was the COVID-19 of its day decades before the pandemic. Children under age 5 were ravaged by the debilitating, life-threatening disease that sent panic through families in the 1950s. And thankfully today — World Polio Day — it is “this close …” to being eradicated, thanks to more than one million Rotarians […]