BRACEBRIDGE — Staying at home and staying safe appears to be a problem for an Orillia man who was charged with being drunk in public, in the middle of the night, early Saturday morning. Provinciel police say that on Saturday April 18, at 3:15 a.m. a Bracebridge Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) officer was conducting routine […]
GRAVENHURST — Officers walking a “foot patrol” along Bethune Drive Saturday night has led to drug and probation charges against a Bracebridge man. Provincial police said this morning that on April 18 at 8:30 p.m. the OPP were conducting “foot patrol” when they “became engaged in a drug investigation.” As a result of their probe […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com PORT SYDNEY — Last fall the province said it was assessing all Hwy. 11 at-grade road crossings between Bracebridge and Huntsville, of which there are about half a dozen. Last month they closed the most controversial one at South Mary Lake Road, the first northbound entrance to Port Sydney. On the […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — Concerns about cottagers coming north and eating towns out of their house and home — and crowding hospitals with COVID-19 cases — are being expressed locally on national TV and in letters to the editor. Should “seasonal residents” stay home and stay safe in the south? Yes say many […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — They’re bear necessities. Essential masks are ubiquitous — some even littering streets — and are more than a homemade fashion accessory. They’re a warning sign that shouts from a far — “steer clear of me.” They mask fears worn on faces. On the streets, in offices, at stores and […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com HUNSVILLE — An Easter food drive cancelled due to COVID-19 has left The Table food bank in Huntsville short of loaves and fishes. Churches are closed, so donations of food are down along with collection plate contributions. And with demand up just slightly due to more unemployed, normally generous providers are […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com HUNTSVILLE-LAKE OF BAYS — The gift that keeps on giving. Dani Reiss, president and CEO of Canada Goose, has just donated more than $1 million to the Huntsville Hospital Foundation (HHF). Katherine Craine, the foundation’s executive director, announced the gift today comes through thee Dani Reiss Family Foundation, which had made […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — What’s life like inside the Pines staff and residents where staying at home is the old norm? Muskoka’s oldest long-term care home has — so far — avoided the worst of COVID-19. That the official word today from the District of Muskoka, which manages the public residence — “a […]