PARRY SOUND-MUSKOKA — On an otherwise slow news day — and scouring for anything unrelated to COVID-19 — this email subject line jumped out today. “MP Scott Aitchison Fights for Rural Internet.” Wow! That’s great, eh? Except it’s not new — as least locally. Maybe the announcement got lost in an internet time warp. True […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — And another day is almost done. Tonight’s sunset will be tough to beat the gorgeous view last night. Nine p.m. and all was quiet on the boardwalk at the Muskoka Wharf, Tuesday, May 19. Loons and frogs were the only sounds to be heard as the sun went down […]
HUNTSVILLE — Two Sunday drivers here face impairment charges. The first case was May 17 at 11:07 a.m. The OPP received a traffic complaint from the public about a car being driven in a “dangerous manner.” Police located the car on Caroline Street East. As a result, Laurie Cruickshank, 49, of Huntsville was charged with […]
GRAVENHURST — A man and woman from Ottawa were arrested Friday charged after it was suspected someone was tossing contraband into the Beaver Creek prison here. Provincial police say that on May 15, at 9:45 p.m., officers responded to a concern regarding a vehicle parked near a correctional facility. Police located the vehicle and occupants […]
MUSKOKA — As business life slowly returns and the long weekend wasn’t busy as feared, the Victoria Day holiday kept police on the go mostly with impaired drug and alcohol charges — including two accidents. Five Muskoka men were charged all in separate incidents: SATURDAY At 11:30 a.m. Saturday, officers were conducting a RIDE check […]
BARRIE-MUSKOKA — Everyone knows health care changes inevitable in the midst of COVID-19 and post pandemic. So technological changes involving areas hospitals come as welcome — if not news — to patients and their families today. A release today, Friday May 15, from Muskoka’s two hospitals and the RVH in Barrie, says Muskoka Algonquin Healthcare […]
Gord Haugh, Guest column We have seen parades of first responders and supporters driving past hospitals to say thanks to the doctors, nurses and staff who daily go to work to take care of patients who are in critical condition. Many of these health care workers end up comforting some who reach the end of […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — “It’s all part of being part of a community.” Pam Rennie summed up her simple act of kindness yesterday, outside Trinity United Church, at the new weekly GAP giveaway. She and her daughter, Carley, were Sherpas helping cart almost 100 hampers of food up six stairs, outside to the […]