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 […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com BRACEBRIDGE — Add another Pines health care worker to the growing list of COVID-19 cases ramping up across the country as public restrictions tighten. This just as this week the District of Muskoka’s retirement and LTC home was cleared after 14 days since its last institutional outbreak involving a worker and […]
GRAVENHURST — A June boating accident has led to impaired charges after the boat hit shore on Kahshe Lake. Police say that on June 27 at 2 a.m. they were called to the collision in south Gravenhurst. The operator of the vessel and his passenger were transported to hospital with serious, non-life-threatening injuries. A search […]