Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — A “rapidly” growing number of cases in Simcoe and Muskoka sees 29 new people with COVID-19. All mostly in south Simcoe. None were in Muskoka Tuesday, Nov. 3. This as the health unit today also issued an order for “long-term care” facilities only to restrict visitors to only two […]
In Loving Memory Mark Joseph Prindiville Passed away peacefully in his sleep at home in Haliburton on Sunday, November 1, 2020, at the age of 58. Faithful husband of Carol Ann (nee Milne). Dear father of Dustin (Kayla), Jasmine, Tara-Lyn (Scott) Theakston, grandfather of Declan, Dexter, and a granddaughter due in the spring of 2021. […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com America has voted. And to the victor today go the spoils of four years. Americans will either roll back the clock to Donald Trump or move forward with Joe Biden’s new years’ resolutions. The United States election is a world of concern. Ballots cast south of the border may be counted […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — COVID has now spread to a resident at the Granite Ridge LTC, one of 75 people in the region who tested positive over the weekend. After a staff member tested positive last week at the Bethune Drive retirement home, the health unit reports today a second institutional outbreak (respiratory) […]
GEORGIAN BAY — A motorcycle race up and down Hwy. 400 that topped out at more than 200 km/h has police playing catch-up. Provincial police from the Southern Georgian Bay OPP detachment are chasing them more than a month later and need help catching up with the drivers who were on sport bikes on Hwy. […]
GRAVENHURST — Police have released the name of the suspect they arrested last week in a number of robbery incidents, including two in Gravenhurst and one each in Orillia and Coboconk. They say that as a result of the Orillia OPP Crime Unit investigation, Sebastian Gaudino, 46, of Minden Hills Township, has been charged with: […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — The Salvation Army Thrift Shop is taking donations. Just not like this — a dump-and-run. They prefer food instead. Dozens of bags of clothing and furniture was dumped at the front door of the main street family services store on the weekend. Then came two days of rain — […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com I have a t-shirt that says ‘I played hockey with Bobby Orr….’ Though he is seven years older than me, our paths didn’t cross on the ice in Parry Sound or Muskoka. But my brother Paul did in a famous early 1960s exhibition game in Bracebridge between the Gravenhurst Braves Jr. […]