GRAVENHURST — An Oakville man headed north in a hurry was clocked at 98 km/h over the speed limit Wednesday. Police say that at 11 p.m., Sept. 16, an officer was on radar patrol on Hwy. 11 north, just south of Gravenhurst’s core, and spotted vehicle travelling at a very high rate of speed. The […]
HUNTSVILLE — Police here need your help solving a pair of crimes. One that saw four tires slashed on a car dropping it to the ground. And the other, unrelated, is a generator that was stolen. They received a mischief complaint in which sometime between 11:30 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 16 and 9 a.m. the next […]
HUNTSVILLE — A tri-level government project that will see the town get another new transit bus and one to help wheelchair passengers commute is part of a $413,000 Ridership Growth Plan for Huntsville. MPP Norman Miller said Friday that Ontario is investing more than $122,000 in the plan by nominating it under the Public Transit […]
MUSKOKA — As Ontario experienced a huge spike in COVID-19 cases reported today at 401, two Muskoka residents have also tested positive, says the local health unit. The man and woman are both under investigation as the origins of their diagnosis. A woman from Gravenhurst is listed as aged 18-34. And a man from Huntsville […]
MOOSE DEER POINT — A man accused of unlawfully being in a woman’s house faces sexual assault charges. Provincial police say that on Aug. 30 officers from the Bracebride OPP detachment were dispatched to Moose Deer Point First Nation regarding an allegation of a man entering her home and assaulting her. After an OPP investigation, […]
SIMCOE MUSKOKA — The health unit is calling for social circles to shrink at home an in public. They say today that a “worrisome” spike of COVID-19 is a rallying cry for smaller cohorts. They say in a release Sept. 18 that as coronavirus caes “sharply rise to numbers not seen since the spring,” the Simcoe […]
BRACEBRIDGE — A man who crashed a stolen auto into a tree on the main street here early yesterday has been charged with impaired driving. Police say they were dispatched on Sept. 16, at 6:30 a.m., to the collision on Manitoba Street. The driver was transported to hospital with minor injuries and an investigation revealed he […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com BRACEBRIDGE — Here’s a switch for you. While many aging seniors leave small towns to be closer to big city hospitals, a Gravenhurst couple has done the opposite. And to show their love and appreciation of local health care, Bary and Brenda Gray have donated $2 million to the South Muskoka […]