Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — Make no mistake — COVID’s second wave slammed into Muskoka today with the might of Teddy. At 1 p.m., the same hour as Premier Doug Ford was in Huntsville at a Shopper’s Drug Mart to announce drug store testing for the coronavirus, at the other end of Simcoe Muskoka […]
HUNTSVILLE — Premier Doug Ford arrives in Huntsville today as word that a school there is the first to have a case of COVID-19 in the local public school board. In an “important letter from the school” sent last night, Spruce Glen Public School principal Kelly Picken said: “We have been notified by the Simcoe […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — Today it’s men in Muskoka Lakes and Huntsville. That’s the bad news about COVID-19 locally. First the good news: there were only 10 cases reported by Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit, Sept. 22. But, wait, more bad news for Ontario — where the public toll today is 478. Media […]
MUSKOKA — The District of Muskoka has finally gotten with the times, hiring its first female chief administrative officer. Julie Stevens has broken through the Pine Street glass ceiling by taking over from Michael Duben, who resigned in June to assume the same job in Oxford County after seven years. He left two weeks ago […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — Think those blooms of blue-green algae popping up in Muskoka lakes this summer are no big deal? Well, reports today out of Botswana may hint otherwise. The mysterious deaths of 330 elephants in the South African country this spring point to the algae as the cause, says its government. […]
BRACEBRIDGE — Call it double double, toil and trouble. Or coffee and cash go. The owners of Oliver’s Coffee here have grounds to complain after a thief stole a stash of cash overnight yesterday. Police are investigating a break and enter at the Manitoba Street restaurant sometime overnight Sunday, Sept. 20. They say an unknown […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — Two middle-aged women in Bracebridge are among the latest pandemic positive cases in Muskoka as fall begins and COVID-19 has become an almost daily crap shoot locally. And a woman from Gravenhurst, reported last Friday, has been removed from the virus toll. As Ontario hit another new high of […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Book signings aren’t a biggy for most authors. But for Rusty Draper they are. Not because he’s written an engaging, folksy memoir — a feat itself for a voice whose name and fame remain in Orillia radio — but because “I’m dyslexic.” Not too shabby for a Gravenhurst guy […]