Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — What do you do when cutbacks go too far? Invade your space and take away your privacy. You fight back. That’s what Laurie Dixon and Ray Evans are doing after public works staff “butchered” a hedge on Bethune Drive. “Some people don’t have appreciation for 100-year-old trees … and […]
BRACEBRIDGE — A 34-year-old driver faces a charge this morning of impaired by drug after ditching his vehicle on Hwy. 11. Police were dispatched to the single vehicle collision northbound just north of Cedar Lane in Bracebridge on Thursday Aug. 20 at 8:20 a.m. They say the vehicle left the roadway, collided with a guardrail […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE MUSKOKA — The COVID learning curve is about to spike. “There is no risk-free option with COVID-19 and it would be unrealistic to think that we can get through the next few months without some risk of exposure to COVID-19 in the school classroom,” says Dr. Gardner, the region’s top […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com BRACEBRIDGE — In Toronto and Ottawa we may be known as Parry Sound-Muskoka, but in the rest of the province we will hence be known now as Muskoka-Parry Sound. That’s after Bracebridge Mayor Graydon Smith was elevated to president of the Association of Municipalities of Ontario — the municipal voice outside […]
MUSKOKA — Swimmers are best advised to use caution at popular public beaches this summer. While all waterfronts should be places of safety, a couple of troublesome stretches are particularly vulnerable to bacteria counts in 2020. Port Sydney Beach is just one. The health unit has placed another swim advisory on it. The Town of Huntsville […]
HUNTSVILLE — COVID drive-through testing continues here today and tomorrow at the hospital campus and Summit Centre here. Janine van den Heuvel, executive director of the Algonquin Family Health Team that runs the permanent testing cites in Bracebridge and Huntsville, reminds people that on Aug. 18 and 19 that Muskoka Community Paramedics will be doing […]
GRAVENHURST — A 14-year-old ATV rider is home after sustaining serious injuries that landed him in Sick Kids Hospital. Police say they are still investigating the circumstances surrounding an all-terrain vehicle (ATV) collision last week at the KOA. Police were called to the campground Aug. 9 after the youth had taken the ATV for a […]
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 […]