BRACEBRIDGE — Two Muskoka men were airlifted to Toronto with life-altering injuries this afternoon after truck hit a tree on Manitoba Street near High Falls Road. A third local man remains in hospital. Police are investigating the factors that influenced this collision including impaired driving. They say that on Dec. 8, at 3:15 p.m., witnesses […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — Forget a green Christmas. We’re “likely” in for a red Christmas in two weeks, says the region’s top health official. And don’t count on RVH’s deep freeze to save residents by then — or any time soon after that. Dr. Charles Gardner said this afternoon that’s Simcoe and Muskoka […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — The vaccine can’t come fast enough. With 46 new COVID cases today — including two more in Huntsville — the region is already at 215 this week after 231 last week. And an unusual 44 of those cases are “under investigation” with no indication of their cause. The other […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com HUNTSVILLE — A man arrested here Friday on drug charges was a “violent and dangerous” suspect wanted in a September stabbing in Toronto. City police were still on the lookout for Cyrus Alaei, 22, late last week when on Friday Dec. 4 OPP on patrol in Huntsville say they noticed a […]
MUSKOKA — Tis the season to be caught impaired behind the wheel, police report. On Friday Dec. 4, at 5:24 a.m., police in central Muskoka responded to a report from motorists of a single vehicle collision on Ecclestone Drive, west of Muskoka Beach Road in Bracebridge. Officers arrived and after investigating charged 35-year-old Aaron Austin, […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — An explosion of cases today sees 1,925 people in Ontario with COVID, including five people in Muskoka. In Simcoe and Muskoka the health unit reports 171 for the past three days of Friday, Saturday and Sunday — an average of 51 per day. See the full list at https://www.simcoemuskokahealth.org/MicroSites/Media/Health%20Stats/Instant%20Atlas/COVIDlist/COVID_DownloadableData_20201207.html […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Celebrate the 12 days of Christmas with a dozen carols recently recorded recently in a informal concert at Trinity United Church. Danny McCoy, their multi-talented minister of music, got out his fake book and “improvised” on the Bechstein grand piano, using the sheet music in the video “just for […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Dap Thach has always had a love of trains and all things railway. Maybe it goes back to getting a train set for Christmas. So when he was thought about a festive way to spice up the corner unit of his new DTA accounting office in the Ing Building, […]