HUNTSVILLE — Coping with increased costs and losses of COVID-19 is being met by the province with some off-setting funds here worth almost $700,000 to the town. The Ontario government announced Huntsville will receive $661, 600 priority pressures and a further $33,890 for transit. It’s part of $4 billion in emergency assistance under the Safe Restart Agreement […]
BRACEBRIDGE — A driver who is said to have ignored advice not to call a cab has been charged with being impaired behind the wheel. Police said they received a report from a member of the public that a person had been drinking alcohol at a local establishment and in spite of encouragement to use […]
BRACEBRIDGE — A pair of indecent acts and a driving while impaired charges have a local man in the courts. Police say that on Saturday Aug. 15 officers entered into two separate investigations involving the same person after receiving complaints from the public. They say that at 7:45 p.m. an employee from a Bracebridge restaurant […]
GRAVENHURT — A teen faces an auto theft charge after a vehicle reported stolen in Bracebridge yesterday morning was found in Gravenhurst. Police say that on Sunday Aug. 16, just before 6 a.m., the OPP received a complaint about the vehicle being stolen from an address on Wellington Court in Bracebridge. With the assistance of […]
GRAVENHURST — A local man kept police busy here Saturday. OPP who had been investigating theft from vehicles charged Randy Shanks at his home where they found stolen goods. Then later that day they got a report of the shoplifting of butane tanks Friday at the Canadian Tire, and they had to go back and […]
GRAVENHURST — A local man faces a theft charge after butane torches were stolen from the Canadian Tire here Friday. Police say that on Saturday they were called to the Talisman Drive business for the reported theft of butane torches worth $250, which had occurred the previous day, Aug. 14. Officers viewed surveillance footage and […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com BRACEBRIDGE — Provincial police here say they are again being investigated by the SIU. It’s the second time this month the province’s independent Special Investigations Unit has been called in to look at an interaction by the local constabulary service policing south Muskoka. But don’t expect any more clarity on this issue […]
HUNTSVILLE — Police are looking for a driver who eluded them at a RIDE check early this morning in which an officer was dragged inside the car before it crashed. The OPP say that on Saturday Aug. 15, just before 1 a.m. officers were conducting check on Hwy. 11 on the off ramp to Hwy. […]